This week roving reporter Zack Thomas travels to Fort Benning, Georgia and the home of the School of the Americas Watch Protests.

This report features Zack Thomas's Audio Diary and Interviews with:

1.     Father Roy Bourgeois founder of the SOA Watch Protests

2.     Clay Claiborne, The Director/Producer of the Film 'Vietnam: American Holocaust'

3.     Mr. Loren Hart who was with the Pro-Veganism table

4.     Father John Grothwell with Veterans for Peace

5.     Amy Wilson with the Energy Justice Network

Also featured is a preview of next week’s program SOAW Part 2 - Funeral March' and Music by Joe Jenks, I Want Whiskey, and Los Vicios de Papa.

Produced and Edited by Zack Thomas

 

This week's Third Planet Report features:

1. An interview with Douglas Stevenson about WUTZ, the local Summertown/The Farm radio station.
2. An interview with Railroad Earth violinist Tim Carbone about music, politics and 'The Forecast', RRE's New environmental blog.
3. An Interview with Pamela Hunt about midwifery
4. Music by Railroad Earth, including songs from their live album 'Elko' and their latest album 'Amen Corner'

Produced and Edited (and almost every thing else) by Zack Thomas

Alan's Note: This is one fabulous show as Billy Crystal would say.  I am so proud of Zack, a student at the Farm school who has put this show together all on his own.  The dharma can be passed on, Yeh!  -Ag.

Savor the Honeymoon then Push for Real Change

Third Planet Report features

1.  Many many voices of the Farm on how they feel about the election of Barack Obama to the office of President of the United States

2.  Commentary by hippielawyer

3.  Music by hippielawyer

Steal This Election-- Third Planet Report

Features

1.  Full length interview with Greg Palast on how your vote may have been stolen in advance

2. Music from the Florida Gulf Coast by Alan Graf

Moderator Zack Thomas student/intern and Alan Graf

with intro by Zack Thomas

Voices of the Guild--Third Planet Report travels to the National Lawyers Guild Convention in Detroit and speaks with key members of the Guild.

The Report features the following:

1.  Interview with Congressman John Conyers

2.  Interview with attorney Lynne Stewart about her wrongful conviction and appeal for simply representing her clients

3.  Interview with Jordan Kushner and Bruce Nestor, guild lawyers representing activists who were arrested at the Republican National Convention

4.  Interview with Guild elder stateswoman, Ann Fagan Ginger on the coming Great Depression and what we can do to soften it

5.  Interview with Sahibzada Anwar Hamid, Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and his experiences in getting arrested because of his protest of General Musharraf's ousting of the Supreme Court justices.

6. Music by Alan Graf

Edited and produced by student intern from the Farm School, Zack Thomas (formerly Thomas Anderson)

Special Ed. of the Third Planet Report from the National Lawyers Guild
Convention in Detroit

Muslim, Arab and Middle Eastern Americans:  Canaries in the Civil Liberties Coal Mine

Panelists include:

Shahid Buttar-- Counsel for Program Combating Racial and Religious Profiling --of the group Muslim Advocates

Nabih Ayad-attorney in Dearborn and chair of the Michigan Advisory Board of the ADC

Mosabi Hamed, former legal services attorney, now in private practice in Dearborn, Michigan

Special Third Planet Report from the National Lawyers Guild Convention
in Detroit with Alan Graf

Featuring:

 AWorkshop on the Protecting the Gains Made in Low Power Radio

Net Neutrality  and

the Fight for White Space

Guest speakers

Sascha Meinrath,  Research Director of the Wirelss Future Progam

Parul Desai,  attorney and associate director of the Media Access Project

and

Peter Franck, founding member of the CDC.

Butterfly Blues--Third Planet Report

This week's Report is produced and edited by Farm School intern/student Thomas Anderson (aka for guess who)

The report features

1. music by Thomas Anderson;

2.  interview with Julia Butterfly by Jennifer English (when Julia was visiting the Farm);

3. Interview with Chris Lugo--Green Party candidate for US Senate seat in TN;

and

 

4.  Inteview with Tom Neilson--folk singer and political satirist extraordinare.

Exit music by that ole "has been"--hippielawyer

The People Speak Third Planet Report
This weeks report features:

1. Panel Discussion with Albert Bates, Founder and Director of the Ecovillage Training Center on The Farm, Ann Kindfield, Educator, and Farm member, and Peter Schweitzer, Executive Director of Plenty International. Moderated by Alan Graf.

2. Chicago Panel of Activists, Featuring Rae Abileah of Code Pink, and Judy Albert.

3. A Short article about Kids to the Country, including an interview with Mary Ellen Bowen, Project Director for Kids to the Country, By Thomas Anderson.

4. Music and Intro by Alan Graf and Thomas Anderson (Student/Intern)

Editing and Production by Thomas Anderson.

Voices of the Farm--Third Planet Report

This week's Report features:

1.  Presentation by Alan Graf at his earth shelter to the Farm Experience Group

2.  Post Election Debate Analysis by Farm Community Members

3.  Interview with activist and Code Pink member Liz Barger

 Music by Sonny Landreth--live from 3rd and Lindsley from his new CD

Editing and production by student/intern Thomas Anderson of the Farm School

The Financial Coup--Third Planet Report 9/23/08

This Week's Report Includes:

1. Music by intern/student Thomas Anderson

2.  Intro by hippielawyer and Thomas Anderson

3. Interview with Professor Howard Zinn on how history keeps repeating;

4. Interview with Catherine Austin Fitts, former Under-Secretary of Housing and Financial Advisor on why the financial crisis is really a financial coup;

5.  Interview with Albert Bates, Founder of the Eco Village Training Center, on how the financial coup, peak oil and global warming are all part of the greater unraveling;

6.  Banjo music by hippielawyer

We Can Make it Happen--Obama for President

Third Planet Report lays out the case for why we need to put our best energy into electing Obama in the next fifty days.

Music from Mexico Beach

hippielawyer

Beach Bum Hippies Unite

Third Planet Reports is on the beach at Mexico Beach

Yep,  its the old folks in Florida.  Who would have thought it possible?

TPR presents

  commentary by hippielawyer

and

music played and recorded here on the beach:

Caravan
Bossa Boss
Dreamy
Tehanu

Third Planet Report with Alan Graf, Thomas Anderson, Elvis Ramone and Peace bring you the following:

1. Interview with Elaine Langley in New Orleans Hospital

2. Interview with Dr. Lupen in NO Hospital

3.  Thomas Anderson interviews Farm School students and principal

4.  Music by (the other) Elvis Ramone

5.  Voices from the DNC by Code Pink Activist Rae Abileah

6.  Interview from the RNC with Jeff Keating who reports on the police state

7.  Advertising on the Farm Store

8.  A word from Peace

Music Gitmo and Tasers  Third Planet Report 6/25/08

This week's Report features the following:

1) Interview with Professor Marjorie Cohen, President of the National Lawyers Guild on the latest Supreme Court decision regarding habeas corpus and Guantanamo

2) Interview with John Burton on his victory over Taser International

3) Music by Maria and Surya, from Lesoto and South Africa, recorded live on The Farm in Summertown TN

4) Music by Rob Diamond, recorded on The Farm

5) Music from Zimbabwe by Marian Grebanier and her daugther Mellani, recorded on The Farm

Comments by hippielawyer (who recently shaved his head)

Hope and Audacity--Third Planet Report 6/10/08

This week's Report features;

1) moderated discussion with Peter Schweitzer, exec dir. of Plenty and Albert Bates, author of "Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook:  Recipes for Changing Times."  The discussion covers the radical crisis and how working together with hope and audacity may get us through the night;

2) Excerpts from the Green Bioregional Conference on The Farm

3) Music from Caught in Motion

Fuels and Fools--Third Planet Report with hippielawyer Alan Graf
June 3, 2008

This week's Report features:

1.  On the Edge of a Dream off the CD with the same name by the Band
"Caught in Motion"--

2. Interview with David Blume on Alcohol is a Gas--Why we should be converting our fuel sources and uses to alcohol;

3.  Interview with Katherine Austin Fitts on investing your money ethically and wisely

Music is Love--Third Planet Report

This week's Report features the music of

Caught in Motion with the new CD "On the Edge of a Dream"

with artists Banah Graf and Sam Krulewitch

TPR un-objectively rates this CD as the best most original CD of the year.

Caught in Motion captures your attention with hypnotic melodies that constantly change and take you on a trip to somewhere deep within your soul.

TPR is taking orders for this CD.  You can send a $12.00 check with your return address to PO Box 98, Summertown, TN 38483.  The CD is expected to be officially released in three weeks time.

Also featuring live music from the Farm in Summertown TN
with Joe Harris,  Alan Graf, Doug Stevenson and Banah G. on drums

Music is love

Revival--Third Planet Report with hippielawyer Alan Graf

comes roaring back from a month hiatus with the following:

1) commentary by hippielawyer on dealing with depression;

2) in depth interview with Phil Schweitzer on the sustainability of Utopian communities including the Farm and its progress or lack thereof.  As true hippies Phil and Alan connnect everything up regarding community to the future of the world;

3. Music from a outdoor community party at Central Park with a transgenerational rock band-  Alan Graf, Banah Graf, Joe Harris, Doug Stevenson, Peter Kindfield and RJ Jefferson.

The Farm vs. Mirabilis--Third Planet Report April 15 2008

Third Planet Report features the following;

1)  Music by hippielawyer

2) the story about how The Farm bested a large mega private military contractor/corporation intent on putting a paramilitary training facility next to the Farm in Summertown, TN

3) Interview with Iowan peace activists

I Got Attitude, We Got Gratitude--Third Planet Report

This week hippielawyer Alan Graf shreiks with delight at the advent of Spring

and plays a talk by John Sigenthaler, former publisher and editor of the Nashville Tennessean about the civil rights movement and his involvement with it

and how the brave men and women during those times did whatever it took
to make things right despite personal threats to their safety and reputations.

We can make it happen.

music by hippielawyer

Shut Up and Play Guitar

Invoking the Immortal Woids of Frank Zappa

hippielawyer plays one hour of home grown music from

The Farm in Summertown, TN

Revolutionary Journey by Douglas Stevenson

Love for You by Alan Graf

all other materials by hippeielawyer and co-conspirators

Freedom of the Spirit-Third Planet Report in the Spring time 3/26/08

Third Planet Report presents music from the Farm, under the protection  of COPYLEFT--the right of all peoples to use freely.

During the program hippielawyer reads the vow of poverty which all former Farm residents signed and makes a standing offer to all Farm members present and past to defend for free their legal right to use the photos, music and videos produced during the collective years of the Farm

Music from the Farm included the following artists:

Jude Osodolla
James Kohn
Alan Graf
Susan Wallace
Lauren Brady
Candace Seward (Corrigan)
Sylvia Tepper
Joe Rhodes
Richard Martin
Elk Zion
Peter Rockwell
Carey Demars
Peter Grey
Craig Bialick
Mwana
Karani
Candida
Jean Proviance
David Chalmers
Jerermy Sherman
Cliff Figallo
Gary Rhine (we love you)


My regrets for not mentioning everyone.  I am interested in finding out who played what on this program if I didn't get the credits right.

hippielawyer

Third Planet Report 3/20/08

This week's TPR has the following interviews:

1) Greg Palast on the connection between the firing of Elliott Spitzer and the 20 billion dollar transfer of funds from the Fed to the Banks that defrauded the home owners investors in the subprime mortgage meltdown

2)  Richard Gage, architect on why he thinks 911 was a controlled demolition.

Intro and interviews by hippielawyer.

music by hippielawyer and Marian Grebanier

Third Planet Report 3/12/08  presents the following

Interview with

1) Janice Howard, Executive Director of the NY Ethics Commissioner on the Unified Court System.  Ms. Howard gives her perspective on the current ethical dilemma of Governor Spitizer;

2)  Lauren Regan attorney for the Civil Liberties Defense Center in Eugene, Oregon on the Green Scare and the Court's decision to drastically reduce Jeff Luer's sentence in a environmental arson case;  and

3) Chris Lugo, progressive democratic candidate for the Tennessee United States Senator position.  Jeff talks about how the current democratic Tennessee Governor tried to pave the way for the current Republican Senator to have no opposition from the Dems until Chris came along and spoiled everything.

Music from Will D and the Rock Docs (aka William Devoursney)

commentary by hippielawyer

Third Planet Report broadcasts from Mexico Beach  at the panhandle of Florida

TPR includes

1) Musings about The Farm  as a model community and activism

2)  Remembrances of fallen friends

3) Music from the beach including "Rapturous", "The Beach" ,  "Morning Experiment" and "Monday Morning"

Election Fever--Third Planet Report 2/27/08

This week's Report features interviews with

1) Howard Zinn on election fever

2)  Rae Abileah and Liz Barger of Code Pink on election fever

3)  the song "election fever" by hippielawyer

4)  music by Marian Grebanier from Zimbabwe

Will D and the Roc Docs--Third Planet Report 2/18/08

This week's Third Planet Report features

Music and an exclusive in depth interview with

Farm musician and long-time community member

William DeVoursney about his new CD "You Got to Have Touch."

Will D talks extensively with TPR about his music, his life, his loves and his dreams and visions along with what inspired him to write such beautiful music. 

Songs include  You Got to Have Touch; She Was a Beautiful Woman; Tribal;  Cajun Cookin; Loco en Acapulco; Why Must We Fight and Still a Wild Thing

Enjoy this life long work of a very cool human being

hippielawyer

Hate Crime in Columbia TN

Third Planet Report with Alan Graf

Featuring:

1) Commentary and interviews with Daoud Abudiab of the Islamic Center of Columbia TN about the arson and firebombing of the Mosque in Columbia

2) Interview with Chief Barry Crotzer of the Columbia Police Force about the apprehension of three suspects linked to the fire

3) Interview with Pastor Bill Williamson of the First Presbyterian Church on how that church is being a good neighbor to the Moslems at the Center

4) Music from Biko's birthday party with Equinox after hours featuring Jude Osodolo,  Rick Diamond, Lee Skinner,  Lapo Casini, Biko Casini and Alan Graf

Introspection--Third Planet Report 2/6/08

Features:

Music from the wilds of East Tennessee National Forests

Radiohead

Seed and Soil

Introspection

Third Planet Report 1/15/08

This week's report features the following:

1) Medea Benjamin and Code Pink from Miami-Medea and crew takes on Luis Posada Carriles, a known terrorist who walks the streets of Miami free with the permission of the US government.  Medea describes how she and other Code Pinkers were attacked by violent anti-Castro groups in the streets of Miami while the Miami police looked on;

2)  Stephen Gaskin, hippie philospher and founder of the Farm muses about  the primaries and presidential politics;

3)  Introduction and commentary by hippielawyer

4)  Music from the Farm's New Year's Eve bash with Equinox--Joe Harris, Biko Casini, Jude Osodolo, Rick Diamond and Alan Graf

Hippy New Year to Y'all

We are back again in the saddle.  I am looking forward to a much better year than last year.

This first of the year's show features the following:

1) Political Commentary by hippielawyer

2)  Interview with David Blume, ethanol advocate

3) Live music of Equinox,  New Year's Eve on The Farm in Summertown, TN with Alan, Rick, Joe,  Jude and Biko

More music to come in the next few weeks