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This week's guest: Alan Gross, archivist for the Firesign Theatre. Alan lives in Queens and suffers from a rare blood disorder, Polycythemia Vera, which seems to be 10x as clustered in Queens as one would normally expect.
Alan discusses his illness in relation to former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani's massive pesticide bombardment of NYC in 1999-2002, and to the expansion of the NY Times printing plant in College Point, Queens. This printing plant sits on top of a system of ancient glacial aquifers that contain water that is potable should an emergency suply be needed, an underground river and surrounding wetlands, which are being illegally destroyed.
Alan is extremely concerned with the VOC inks being used by the NY Times at the plant. The NY Times admits that the plant emits 10 tons of VOC particulates annually, and has turned his neighborhood into a toxic soup of industrial wastes, vehicle emissions, aircraft pollution and pesticides.
You can visit Alan at his website <http://www.newyorkskywatch.com>www.newyorkskywatch.com
ALSO: Mitchel Cohen discusses the following:
- CHINA SENTENCES TO DEATH THE HEAD OF ITS "FDA": the decision by the government of China to execute the former director of the State Food and Drug Administration for taking bribes that enabled companies to get around drug approval standards, resulting in a number of deaths. If only the FDA would act similarly here, Mitchel says, quoting from a report by Vera Hassner Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP). See www.ahrp.org and www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4843205.html
- CELLPHONES & CANCER: a report written by Leonore Gordon on "Cellphones and Cancer" in which an international team of researchers reports finding new evidence that long-term use of a mobile phone may lead to the development of a brain tumor on the side of the head the phone is used. In a study which will appear in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Cancer, epidemiologists from five European countries report a nearly 40% increase in gliomas, a type of brain tumor, among those who had used a cell phone for ten or more years. See www.SafeAntenna.org or www.microwavenews.com
- THE BODY ELECTRIC: On this, the birthday of America's great poet -- Walt Whitman, multisexual author of "I sing the Body Electric" (born 1819) -- we begin reading from Robert O. Becker's and Gary Selden's stunning book: "The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life." (1985)
MUSIC:
Opening theme: Mario Savio, speaking in Berkeley, 1964 Theme Song: Dave Rovics, "Jenin"
- Magpie, singing Phil Ochs' "Power and Glory" - Raindogs, "This is the Place" from their debut ATCO album, "Lost Souls". (sent in by Cathryn Swan)
Please send MP3s of your own music and items for the show to mitchelcohen at mindspring.com
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