Devvy’s website is www.devvy.com so check it out if you have the chance. She has a lot of her articles posted there and makes for some great reading.

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Because of this, I now have 35 shows from the archives converted and ready to be uploaded. I now know how to do this conversion process in about one third of the time and with almost no errors which would make me have to do the conversion all over again.

I was able to convert some recent shows from the last year or two and shows going back to more than 10 years ago.

Look for these over the next few weeks.

— Kevin

By Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority
Posted on March 25, 2008, Printed on March 29, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://www.jwharrison.com/blog//80527/

America has a history of mistreating the locals fighting on their side. Our giant clusterfuck in Iraq has little to do with not understanding the cultures in the region, and everything to do with simply not respecting them as fellow human beings. You don’t need a master’s degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies to know that Iraqis don’t like to be raided at gunpoint, detained and tortured, or withheld pay for risking their lives. Meanwhile, the myth of a successful “surge” continues to work to the political advantage of American imperialists as it paves over any critical analysis of the conflict.

An investigation carried out by GuardianFilms for Channel 4 uncovers how thousands of Iraqis employed at $10 a day by the US to take on al-Qaida are threatening to go on strike because they say they have been used by the ‘Americans to do their dirty work’ and haven’t been paid.

h/t Steve from COA News

Manila Ryce is a regular blooger for The Largest Minority

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I thought it was a very good show and covers the issues facing Bethel right now. I hope you will watch it and I hope you’ll think the same way I do about it.

Once again, Time Out was on the cutting edge providing the much needed coverage of this important issue. However, back then, I was also the Vice Chairman of the Pro Bethel Party and the party was the only political party in town which had intervener status. Because of the efforts of these people, many others and Pro Bethel, these high voltage lines were buried through Bethel’s Educational Park.

On the program that evening was long time political activist Geraldine Mills and former Board of Education Chairman Francis Infurchia.

As it turned out the townspeople ultimately rejected the proposed golf course and the Bethel Golf Authority from taking over total control of the 160 acres of land in the Clark Industrial Park.

I picked up on it then and it is even more evident to me now, the level of shall we say smugness of the members of the Bethel Golf Authority, in believing that their proposal would pass. Thankfully, it did not and I say especially so because The events of 9-11 took place just seven months after this video was shot of one of their meetings.

New York based classical guitarist and pedagogue Kevin R. Gallagher began playing rock guitar in his formative years but his musical appetite quickly led him to study jazz and ultimately, classical guitar. His renowned gift for the classical guitar won him numerous scholarships and awards while studying with Benjamin Verdery at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and at the Julliard School under the tutelage of Sharon Isbin.

As one of the world’s leading classical guitarists, he was the first-prize winner in the 1993 Guitar Foundation of America, the 1994 American String Teachers Association, and the 1993 Artists International Competition. Most notably, Mr. Gallagher also earned the distinct honor of being the only American classical guitarist ever to win first prize in the prestigious Francisco Tárrega Guitar Competition in Spain (1997).

Following his studies at Julliard, Mr. Gallagher gave many classical guitar performances and masterclasses throughout the world, including those in Spain, Germany, Sweden, Greece, Turkey, Brazil, and England. He has recorded four classical guitar CDs. His recording for Naxos Records Guitar Recital- Music from the Renaissance and Baroque was hailed as “…one of the very best NAXOS guitar recordings” by Classical Guitar Magazine (London) in 2000.

Kevin is also the leader and founder of the chamber rock quartet, Electric Kompany

Show number one:

For more information about Kevin, please go to his website: www.guitar69.com.

Show number two: