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About The People Speak Radio

The People Speak is an internet radio broadcast with a listening audience in the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, Middle East, South America and even some parts of Africa. We broadcast from a station in Paradise California - the BBS Radio network run by General Manager Don Newsom. Our shows air from 8-9PM Eastern on Tuesday evenings.

We also broadast over a venue called Paltalk - the world’s largest internet chat community with over 4 million active users.

Our international audience is given a chance to talk to our guests via our toll free call in numbers and the virtual auditorium we have on Paltalk community chat.

The Team

Mission Statement

Snapshot of Past Guests

Snapshot of UpComing Guests

Team Bios

Host: Basima Farhat

Basima Farhat is a writer, a poet and as a master healer in the art of Reiki. She teaches meditative practice in the area as a spiritual counselor. Her Corporate workshop S.O.S., Stop Ongoing Stress deals with creative change in high-pressure work areas and she is currently working on a number of projects in the field of human potential development. Basima has recently completed a screenplay call the Tatesville Casket Company whose subject matter deals with the death and dying process.

A well know poet and peace activist in the Michigan area, Basima has been invited by numerous organizations for poetry readings within the cultural community, most recently reading in the same venue as Tony Award winning poet Suhair Hamad, sponsored by the Palestine Office a grassroots peace organization that has hosted many political leaders, such as Dr Mustafa Barghouti, Micheal Tarazi, Allison Weir.

Host: David Swanson

David Swanson is the Washington Director of Democrats.com and of ImpeachPAC.org. He is co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org and CensureBush.org coalition, creator of MeetWithCindy.org and KatrinaMarch.org, and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America.

He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich’s 2004 presidential campaign, Media Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as Communications Coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Swanson serves on the Executive Council of the Washington Baltimore Newspaper Guild. He obtained a Master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1997.

Webmaster: Lindsey Deters

Lindsey is a web designer for Mid-Iowa Computers. She created the site for and donates her time to update The People Speak Radio website. She has an intense interest in politics and world affairs as well as a deep desire to bring humanity together in the 21st century. Her passion for politics has driven her to utilize her skills in web design, sound editing, and graphic design in working to enact change. Taking her skill set to the next level is the current challenge on her plate, as well as raising her daughter to be the best person she can be. Through local economies, tight nit communities, promoting true human equality, and through the knowledge that we can ALL individually make a difference, she believes that we can make this world a better place.

Righteous Babe Records

A very special thanks to Righteous Babe Records for allowing us the permission to use Ani DiFranco’s “This Land Is Your Land” as our theme song!

Our Mission Statement

Journey
And as I travel along this path
Whose end I do not know,
I walk with joy and offer help
To all I meet - regardless friend or foe.

For if this journey has any meaning
It is that we are passing through,
And depends not so much on what we say
As much upon - what we do.

The People Speak Radio is concerned with a passion for guests from the realms of entertainment, the arts, literature, philosophy, politics, activism, healing, and environmentalism. All of the guests are united by a desire to share their experiences, work, organizations and talents with others. Through a live, hour-long format featuring host/guest interviews and a segment of audience questions for the guest, the goal is to entertain, involve, inform, perhaps, even inspire.

It gives me hope that there are so many people who are setting fine examples through leadership, sharing, activism, education, and courage.

I would be remiss not to mention the Paltalk chat program in all of this. Believe it or not, my introduction to radio production came on this chat program. I would rush home to my computer to listen to wonderful social issues topics on various shows covering everything from education to politics and environment, to the arts and alternative healing and even the paranormal and spiritual. I’ll never forget one lazy summer afternoon when I listened and talked to NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and heard him confirm that UFO’s and ET were real. Or the afternoon that Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Helen Caldicott answered my question about the gravely serious state our planet and its environment.

You might say, it changed my life forever, in the sense, it gave me a direction and purpose on what I would like to try to do to help improve the Human Condition. At the core of these shows is an acknowledgment of how bad things can be, a desire to be a part of that which can make it as good as it can be, and a willingness to believe that in the end, all will turn out for the better - that there is always hope, always a way of facing whatever may come, with compassion, honesty, hard work, determination and hopefully a sense of joy in the process.

I envision The People Speak as a way of self-empowerment for not only myself, but many others and I hope that anyone who may stumble across our shows, may find a few moments worthy of their attention.

In the end, perhaps what these shows most represent — the heartfelt efforts of those that tried.
Peace Always,
Mike
Producer, The People Speak

Past Guests Include:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu - Nobel Peace Laureate
Danny Schechter - News Producer
Willie Nelson
Cindy Sheehan
Tyler Mane - Actor/Wrestler/Stuntman
Congressman John Conyers
Chevy Chase
Jordan Dey - Director UN World Food Program
Pete Seeger - folksinger

Dr. Edgar Mitchell - NASA astronaut
Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Rev. Lennox Yearwood
Ward Churchill
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Father Brian Kolodiejchuk -Confidant Mother Teresa
Greg Palast - journalist
Arun Gandhi - Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
Denis Halliday
Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Senator Bob Graham
David Swanson - AfterDowningStreet.org
Lt. Ehren Watada
George Galloway
Howard Zinn - Author
Noam Chomsky - MIT Author
Ray McGovern - CIA Analyst
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Tommy Chong
William Rodriguez - Medal of Freedom winner