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Bar Crawl Radio

Alan Winson & Rebecca McKean

Did you ever have a really interesting conversation at a bar -- sharing ideas over a couple of martinis -- and wish you could"ve bottled it? That"s Bar Crawl Radio. Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson invite amazing people to bars all over the word -- make a toast -- and then talk about about whatever inspires them -- makes their lives worth living. We talk to all sorts of interesting people doing important work for their community at a neighborhood bar -- composers -- actors -- musicians -- medical

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1:04:56

Kumara @the West Side Community Garden Concert

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/05/29

Kumara is a uniquely global trio of musicians who create a synthesis of sound that is unique and beautifully inspiring across and within cultures and communities.I spoke with Samite who plays African Harps and the Kalimba and Shem Guibbory, a classical violinist the day before the WSCG concert. Guitarist Sean Harkness couldn’t make it; he was in a recording studio.This program presents the entire Kumara performance at the West Side Community Garden Concert on Sunday, May 26, 2024.Alan WinsonCONTACT:

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45:01

Stop the Chop & Kumara @ WSCG

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/05/29

It was another post COVID, pre climate catastrophe Sunday on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.Rebecca McKean and I – Alan Winson – co-hosts of BCR podcast – had erected our sound studio in the southwest corner of the West Side Community Garden and waited for our guests. Stop the Chop has worked to rid our city of those pesky, rotor-whirling metal blobs that spew noise and GHG pollution for no positive reason. We spoke with Melissa Elstein and Ken Couglin, leaders of Stop the Chop. and we were oined

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46:23

"The Keeper": Film about suicide in the U.S. military

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/05/27

This BCR conversation talks about suicide in the U.S military.A growing statistic: Women and men who had dedicated their lives and minds to the most destructive military ever – are killing themselves at increasing rates.I spoke with Angus Benfield – an Australian actor – now working in the U,S, -- about his newest feature film – "The Keeper" which he stars in, produced, and co-directed. “The Keeper” is a true story about George Eshleman an artillery officer who participated in Desert Storm. Years

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1:06:16

Kaoru Watanabe @ West Side Community Garden

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/05/23

An unedited recording of Karou Watanabe's performance at the West Side Community Garden's 2024 Summer Concert Series -- May 19th. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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45:59

Jody Sperling & Kaoru Watanabe @ WSCG

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/05/23

Kaoru Watanabe was the featured music artist of the first summer concert in the West Side Community of 2024. Rebecca and I got to the Garden early and set up our portable studio in a corner alcove to talk with Jody Sperling -- dancer and choreographer -- and the Artistic Director ofTime Lapse Dance which explores environmental performance forms. Also, Jody is the Eco-Artist in Residence at the New York Society of Ethical Culture. We talked about her artistic work to raise emotions about the

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49:17

Ellen Jovin: "Rebel with a Clause"

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/05/20

This is the first "Park Bench Chat" of the 2024 Summer Season – a production of Bar Crawl Radio.During the warming days of spring and summer, Rebecca and I sit at our favorite park bench in the “You’ve Got Mail” garden in Riverside Park on the Upper West Side and talk with our neighbors.Today’s topic--“grammar.” Ellen Jovin is a self-proclaimed “grammar nerd.”She has degrees from Harvard and UCLA in language-related subjects and has studied bunches of languages because she lives in NYC -- a

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47:33

Love Your Street Tree Day -- Spring, 2024

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/05/14

The majestic trees in front of Goddard Riverside on the Upper West Side of Manhattan were blushing brightly as the community gathered to learn about and spruce up the beds of our leafy neighbors for the seventh annual “Love Your Street Tree Day” – May 7th 2024.Rebecca and I learned a lot about our urban forest and how to take care of our barked friends – not ourbarking friends.Which reminds me -- "Don’t piss on our street tree" signs were passed out to our UWS neighbors -- along with buckets of

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44:12

"I Am Gitmo": A conversation with film director...

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/05/05

PHILIPPE DIAZ is a film director – producer – and promoter of “intelligent films.”Born in Paris France, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne.Since 1980 he has produced and distributed international films by auteur directors for world audiences.Diaz has directed both documentary and feature narrative films on political, economic and social issues.In 2003, Diaz and his team created Cinema Libre Studios -- producing and distributing socially relevant independent narrative and documentary films.The

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1:07:05

Voices of the "Sacred Peace Walk" 2024

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/04/12

Rebecca McKean and I walked during Easter week 2024 in the desert north of Las Vegas to the Nevada Nuclear Bomb Test Site– with a community of people who know about the imminent danger of a targeted and ready-to-go American nuclear arsenal.This BCR podcast will not counter the insanity of the deterrence argument – rather here are a few of the people who walked to the white line at the entrance to the most bombed place in the world – run by the U.S. Department of Energy and protected by the U.S

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34:36

We Are Guantánamo: U.S. Courts are Surreal w/Gabor Rona

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/03/15

This is a must listen conversation with Gabor Rona -- Law Professor at Cardozo Law School – and in the past served as the International Legal Director of Human Rights First.For over 20 years our government has imprisoned 100s of innocent Muslim men in the Guantanamo Prison and tortured them repeatedly for no good reason – and now cannot try them because they were tortured and cannot release them because they are not allowed on US soil, and it is not clear what other countries would do to them – and

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42:37

We Are Guantánamo: 7 Voices

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/03/08

“We Are Guantanamo” – in other words – you and I -- all of us identifying as "American" are complicit – and insofar as the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp remains an active US military and illegal entity – it belongs to us.Since 2002, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp has held 779 Muslim men accused of attacking the US on September 11 2001. Nearly all were innocent. 740 have been transferred someplace – 30 remain – 9 died there.I have been speaking with seven people who have tried to close Guantánamo

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53:46

Libraries/Radically Open Spaces: Emily Drabinski &...

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/03/01

For this BCR program, we talked about that age-old American tradition – book burning – or more precisely – thought control.Our guests were two brave librarians – practicing a profession that is at the core of any effective democracy. Emily Drabinski heads-up the American Library Association [ALA] and Lauren Comito leads Urban Librarians Unite [ULU]. According to ALA findings efforts to ban books in this country are growing at a high rate and the groups engaged in this activity probably do not

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1:05:05

Two Jewish Israelis

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/02/16

For this BCR program, we spoke with two Jewish Israeli's.Nahum Schnitzer is my cousin.Ariella Dubrowin is my cousin once removed. Both have raised their families in Israel, Nahum -- 40 years – Ariella – 20.The conflict in Gaza has encased their world in ways that neither I – nor most of you listening to this podcast – can fully get.Ariella wrote me about a month ago. She was troubled about a recent program I posted – "I want to say Kaddish" – which presented both the intense protests in the US

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1:04:10

Poverty & American Justice

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/02/09

In 1963, when the Supreme Court overturned Gideon v Wainwright, Justice Hugo Black wrote: “Even the intelligent and educated layman requires the guiding hand of counsel at every step in the proceedings against him. Without it, though he be not guilty, he faces the danger of conviction because he does not know how to establish his innocence.”The public defender is that legal bulwark that works for a balance in our justice system. For this BCR conversation we heard from two public defenders from

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51:22

UWSers Helping Prisoners of Conscience

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2024/01/26

May 1961 -- Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International, wrote that he was sickened by governments imprisoning citizens for speaking or singing in protest.The work of Amnesty International continues around the world and on the Upper West Side with members of Group 11.Since the early 1970s members of Group 11 have helped to free prisoners of conscience in Iran, Chile, China, Indonesia, Libya, Myanmar, Poland, Rhodesia, South Africa, Vietnam and the former USSR.And, currently, AI-USA’s Group 11

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19:44

I want to say Kaddish.

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2023/12/31

Sharing the joyful and angry sounds of our city at the end of a year of retching violence. Let the human-made turbulence of 2023 pass quickly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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57:15

Human Rights Reloaded

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2023/12/29

In 1948, all nations signed onto a document stating that the way a government treats its citizens can be judged by the rest of the world.This December, 2023, is the 75th Anniversary of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [UDHR].Joining us for this conversation on the Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar porch are three women who explained the significance of the UDHR.Jackie Dugard studies how laws impact social change and justice, focusing on power and exclusion.She is a Senior

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59:59

AI & Human Health

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2023/12/23

This BCR conversation may seem complex but its also simple – and – will possibly end human existence.If your physician can access all of your medical records, she will do a better job. And if generative AI knows all about the health of every human -- what then?We talked with two experts developing the power of Artificial Intelligence to keep us healthy. Dr. Mark Braunstein is the guru of FHIR -- not a misspelling -- an acronym for Fast Healthcare interoperability Resources – a technology helping

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1:00:01

Anti-Nuclear Gadflies: Martha Hennessy & Brian Terrell

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2023/12/15

Late November, 2023 -- John C. Wester -- Archbishop of Sante Fe -- spoke at the Church of Our Savior at E. 38th Street and Park Avenue.About 200 were gathered to honor the 43rd anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day – and – to consider the abolition of nuclear weapons.At the United Nations that week the countries that signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons were meeting. The United States was not one of them.The day after Archbishop Wester spoke – I met with two people who have

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38:54

Sustainable Banking: Amalgamated Bank & Ivan Frishberg

Bar Crawl Radio ·

2023/12/08

What is a bank?What is a bank for?Can a bank fight evil and right wrongs?Or is a bank no more than a profit-seeking shark working for its investors?Or - both?For this BCR program we had a conversation about a little bank that could … that is, could make our lives better through responsible investments. We invitedIvan Frishberg -- Senior Vice President Chief Sustainability Officer of Amalgamated Bank – to 5Napkin Burger Bar and Restaurant to talk about how he is leading his bank and our world to a

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