Sankofa of Torture in the USA

Tune in tomorrow August 27th, 2009, and listen to “Voices With Vision”, a news magazine heard every Thursday, at 11am on 89.3FM radio in metro DC or on WPFW.org on the internet.

Tomorrow's edition is a commemoration special of Black August 2009: “Sankofa of Torture in the USA”, looking at the past & understanding the present to better manage the future in the wake of Obama’s administrations handling of the issue, with:

· Prof. Benjamin Davis-Professor of Law at the University of Toledo College of Law; (by phone)
· Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry;
· Maybe-Rep. Cynthia Mc Kinney (by phone);
· Prof. & Attorney Zachary Wolfe- Deputy Director of First-Year Writing at George Washington University and co-founder of Peoples Law Blog at http://www.peopleslawblog.com (live in the studio).

Ryme Katkhouda

Founding Director--Peoples MEDIA Center, Inc.

202-538-1331
wbixclass@yahoo.com
Executive Producer of "Voices With Vision", Th 11am on WPFW.org 89.3FM in DC 
co-founder of the dcradiocoop.org and wbix.org
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VOICES WITH VISION a radio news magazine produced by Ryme Katkhouda (executive producer) and members of the dcradiocoop.org *, the Latino Media Collective, and the independent media movement worldwide, is hosted by Ryme Katkhouda and members of the dcradiocoop.org (*a radio news training and production program which started at WPFW as a partnership between WBIX.Org, Free Speech Radio News and dc.indymedia.org-DC Independent Media Center; committed to covering the world from the grassroots perspective, celebrating, serving and training the disenfranchised communities in the metro area and the world. Mostly coming from the Washington, DC metro region, young and older reporters, artists and activists, techies as well as city and federal employees, professionals, students, the unemployed, and the homeless, training members of the community and college students and faculty in sound gathering, news reporting, proper use of equipment, computer literacy, and digital audio production. Such training serves as a tool for people to cover the world from their experiences and their communities, which would otherwise be overlooked by mainstream media). It is housed today at Peoples MEDIA Center, 4132 Georgia Avenue, NW WDC 20011.



PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Voices With Vision is a progressive experimental mix of voices, news, music and spoken word intending to allow the listener and the participants to Rethink the News. The listener and producers will be taken on an audio journey where they experience for themselves the subject matter handled, linking the local to the global and vice versa, and helping all realize their power through grassroots media coverage of the world. Done in a non-linear story telling, it plays on the MTV era attention span without loosing track of the subject at hand, coming at it cognitively and artistically, activating the conscience and the sub-conscience, digging deeper at every turn. This is done through the content and the process of the show, juxtaposing experiences, sounds and points of view rarely heard together in a quilt format.



PROGRAM GOALS: The Voices With Vision process aims at exposing new radio producers to pre-produced or live radio production, to provide outlets for messages, issues and the creative skills and energies of the DC metro community as well as to expose these producers to working within a diverse collective in a new audio format where the boundaries between music and words and experts and listeners melts. The content of Voices With Vision aims at sampling events and issues to fully distribute excerpts of public information and promoting the study of political and economic problems and of the causes of religious, philosophical and racial antagonisms locally and globally. We strive at engaging and intellectually stimulating the audience and producers. Through our content and easy access we hope to awaken the listeners interest and activate them to step out and effect positive change in the community and the world, and celebrate the accomplishment and struggles of those who are already working for this positive change, The content quilt format intends to show an alternative to unintelligent media. This sets a dialog rarely experienced by the participants and the audience that provokes reflection and challenge the status-quo for a greater understanding among people, underlining the sources of conflict and incoherence of a system which is no longer educating all involved. The national distribution of the show strives at bringing a heightened national sensitivity and awareness to the metro issues and talents.

PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION: Aired on WPFW 89.3FM in metro DC Thursday 11am-noon, published on dc.indymedia.org



SHOW LENGTH: 1 hour.



WPFW MISSION SUPPORT: Both the format and content of Voices With Vision fulfill the mission of WPFW to provide outlets for the creative skills and energies of the community, to contribute to a lasting understanding between individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors, and to promote the full distribution of public information. The show is a collage of music (Jazz and other genres), news and public affairs, accessible to African Americans, Hispanics, Arabs, Asians and other cultural groups, women, seniors, youth and other ethnic and non-traditional groups like trans-genders and GLBTQI (gay lesbian bi-sexual trans queer intersexed). Voices With Vision Universalist programming make the concept of community radio real by providing the local majority population with important and relevant education, information and entertainment. Through its live programming and outreach, the show acts as a networking agent for the community at large working at being engaging and intellectually stimulating which is pretty much the mission of WPFW!



PROGRAM CONTACTS: Ryme Katkhouda 202-538-1331 or wbixclass@yahoo.com or voiceswithvision@gmail.com. To keep in touch with the DC Radio Coop, please see http://dcradiocoop.org.