UUs and Allies: Nationwide Community Radio Network has recently been established in order to take full advantage of the approaching historic opportunity for establishing a network of progressive Low Power FM (LPFM) radio stations owned by non-profits such as unions, food banks, liberal churches, free clinics, and social justice groups. In January, the Low Power Community Radio Act was signed into law. UUs and Allies has been established to get the word out and to assist non-profit organizations with the legal and technical aspects of successfully launching an LPFM station.

The Blue Door’s Third Annual Tribute to Bob Childers will be held on Tuesday, July 12th. Show starts at 8pm. Admission is $20 for the Benefit of Voices of Oklahoma. The Blue Door stage will be filled with an All-Star line-up of Okie musical talent including the Red Dirt Rangers, John Fullbright, Mary Reynolds and Louise Goldberg, Susan Herndon, Monica Taylor, The Damn Quails, the Burns Sisters, and many more…

by Randall Atkins, special correspondent for VoicesofOK.org

Cairo – Drunk on the victories of the recent revolution and ousting of their hated president Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s youthful opposition may have just sobered up to the realities of their newly democratic state. The March 19th referendum on constitutional amendments, which they say did not go far enough, was not the change they envisioned when they took to the streets in January. Newly formed political parties, some of which have yet to even pick a name for themselves, fought to get the amendments voted down.

By Stephen A. Martin

The most truly sobering thing about the current nuclear crisis in Japan is not the amount of damage and death it has the potential to bring, but how common such disasters are.

News that Friday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami centered in the area of Sendai, Japan, caused the cooling systems at the Fukushima nuclear plant to fail, exposing the fuel rods and leading to the possibility of a meltdown, have conjured up images in both the media and the public imagination of Chernobyl in 1986 and Three Mile Island in 1979.

For most who pass through Egypt, it is a tourist destination; a place to see first hand the remnants of an ancient civilization. During the winter months resort towns along the red and white seas serve as a sunny getaway for middle class westerners, but what is lost on most of these visitors is the vast inequities and contradictions that exist in the country.

by Skip Largent

Thoughts floating through my mind in the beginning were about rallies I had attended in the Sixties, Canterbury Tales, nine years of national fear-driven behavior… and fun. Secondary thoughts included the affordability of the trip, and a loud ” WTF are you thinking ” from my body parts below the neck ( this was a trip in a crowded bus that meant 27 hours on the bus, seven hours in D.C., and then 27 more hours back on the bus ).