This Week in History – August 14 2009

A quick rundown of this week in history!

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More Pesticide Residues to Be Allowed on Food in Canada

As heard on the June 15, 2007 Friday Morning After

Regulators in the U.S. and Canada have been pushing to harmonize regulations for pesticides for over 10 years. Now it looks like they’re going to succeed due to the Security and Prosperity Partnership. Lisa Gue is with the David Suzuki Foundation. [Lisa Gue interviewed by Lorraine Chisholm of Vancouver's Coop Radio]

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Arctic Monkeys – “Teddy Picker” (live at Later… )

The Noisettes – “Scratch Your Name”

Patrick Wolf – “The Magic Position”

The Beatles – “Money (That’s What I Want)”

Good Shoes – “Never Meant To Hurt You”

Beirut – “Elephant Gun”

Martin Luther King, Jr. – ‘Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence”

By 1967, King had become the country’s most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his “Beyond Vietnam” speech delivered at New York’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 — a year to the day before he was murdered — King called the United States “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”

Time magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi,” and the Washington Post declared that King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.”

Link to mp3 and Transcript 

Elk City – “Cherries in the Snow”

The Ladyfingers – “The Fever”

Maxime Robin In-Studio Interview

Montreal-based hip-hop artist Maxime Robin joined the FMA gang for an in-studio interview and worked his magic creating some music.

Upcoming show:

April 26th:
Divan Orange
4234 Saint-Laurent, Montreal/$8

April 28th:

Divan Orange
4234 Saint-Laurent, Montreal/ FREE

mp3 of interview is HERE

Maxime Robin’s MySpace page is HERE

The Western States Motel – “Powerlines”

Money Mark – “Pick Up The Pieces”

The Zimmers – “My Generation”

Son Volt – “The Picture”

The Boy Flood – “LSD Army”

De La Soul – “Me, Myself and I”

Nina Simone – “Mississippi Goddam”

The High Llamas – “Sun Beats Down”