WEDNESDAY WITH WIT

Program Summary: Originally started during Summer 2013 with Thomas Witt, executive director, Equality Kansas the largest premier statewide organization for the LGBT communities. See: http://eqks.org/

KKFI fm 90.5 Kansas City’s community FCC radio station broadcasts “This Way Out” every Saturday 2pm (Central).  It is live streamed at their website for out of range listeners. See: http://www.kkfi.org/on-air-guide/

Segment Summary:  1st 30 min. - “This Way Out” the international gay and lesbian radio magazine. See: http://thiswayout.org/

60 min. - Radio Ecoshock "Climate Wars" Humans pumping more carbon, faster, than in last 66 million years. Lead author Dr. Richard Zeebe from U of Queensland. From The Center for Climate and Security, Shiloh Fetzak on origins of Syrian conflict; Ret. Brigadier General Gerald Galloway, on what the Pentagon knows about climate threats.

30 min. - Maria Gilardin's TUC Radio, Edward Snowden, Glen Greenwald, and Noam Chomsky: "Conversation on Privacy".  Excerpt from the March 25, 2016, event at the University of Arizona. Greenwald was a columnist for the British Guardian and is now founding editor of the Intercept and a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC and Democracy Now. 
This program deals with the resurgence of a Free Speech movement, constitutional rights in the age of surveillance, the right and even responsibility to alert the public about wrongdoing, the expansion of powers and privileges the government is claiming; and the point of view that rights to privacy exist to protect the minority against the majority.