Privatization in the 20^th century

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

The transfer of  a nonprofit organizationor a profit business, enterprise, agency, public service, or public property from the public sector(a government) to the private sector has consequences on many levels.  Privatization also means government outsourcing of services or functions to private firms for services such as revenue collection, education, law enforcement, and prison management.

November 2, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm      

Streaming* live globally from http://KGGV.FM   KGGV 95.1 FM Guerneville “The Bridge” is a community, non-commercial radio station based in Guerneville, Russian River valley, Sonoma County, northern California USA

San Francisco’s Chinatown

Established in 1848, San Francisco’s Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in North America and has the largest, concentrated Chinese community outside of Asia.  San Francisco’s Chinatown’s history and culture reveal a significant aspect of immigration to North America from the East.

October 26, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

Streaming* live globally from http://KGGV.FM   KGGV 95.1 FM Guerneville “The Bridge” is a community, non-commercial radio station based in Guerneville, Russian River valley, Sonoma County, northern California USA

The Controversy of the Sacco and Venzetti trial

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

During the early 1900s turmoil between labor and capital the guilty verdict of the infamous Boston Sacco and Venzetti murder case triggered riots and cries of innocence.  The climate of opinion, influenced by their foreignness as Italian immigrants and their anarchist political beliefs, was said to condemn them without a fair trial.  The actual truth of their role in the murders, however, may never be known.

October 19, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM  archives    

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Walt Disney his theme park vision

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

Walt Disney, a commercial illustrator at the age of 18, moved to Hollywood, California in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio.  The character of Mickey Mouse was created in 1928. Disney later introduced synchronized sound, full-color three-strip Technicolor, feature-length cartoons and technical developments in cameras. 

October 12, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM  archives    

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The Rise of the Mellon family Dynasty

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

The Gilded Age “rags to riches” story of the influential American Mellon family is often overlooked in discussions of wealthy American dynasties. The Mellons have been principal investors and majority owners of Gult Oil (Cheveron-Texaco), Alcoa, Westinghouse, H.J. Heinz, Newsweek, U.S. Steel, General Motors,s and many other corporations.  

October 5, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM  archives    

Streaming* live globally from http://KGGV.FM   KGGV 95.1 FM Guerneville “The Bridge” is a community, non-commercial radio station based in Guerneville, Russian River valley, Sonoma County, northern California US

The German American Bund c. 1930s

Beneath the Waves history/music series host Gerry Takano

The German American Bund, an American Nazi organization established in 1936, consisted only of American citizens of German descent.  Its main goal was to promote a favorable view of Nazi Germany.

September 28, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM  archives    

Streaming* live globally from http://KGGV.FM   KGGV 95.1 FM Guerneville “The Bridge” is a community, non-commercial radio station based in Guerneville, Russian River valley, Sonoma County, northern California USA.

Brave New World

Brave New World, a 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley, is set in London around six hundred years in the future.  Human life has been entirely industrialized and controlled by a few people at the top of a World State.

September 21, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM  archives 

Beneath the Waves history/music  host Gerry Takano

Streaming* live globally from http://KGGV.FM 

KGGV 95.1 FM Guerneville “The Bridge” is a community, non-commercial radio station based in Guerneville, Russian River valley, Sonoma County, northern California USA.

Failures and Successes of 20^th c US PUBLIC HOUSING

20th century public housing was an altruistic government concept to help people, priced out of market rate housing, remain in urban locations rather than move away from the city.

September 14, 2016, Wednesday 12noon – 2pm PT, rebroadcast next Friday 2-4pm and in KGGV.FM archives 

Beneath the Waves history/music  host Gerry Takano

Streaming* live globally from http://KGGV.FM 

KGGV 95.1 FM Guerneville “The Bridge” is a community, non-commercial radio station based in Guerneville, Russian River valley, Sonoma County, northern California US

The Mechanics of Color  

Wednesday, 12noon – 2pm PT   February 24-, 2016

(re-broadcasted on the next Friday, 2 - 4pm PT <KGGV.FM>)

Beneath the Waves host Gerry Takano

In 1982 American author Alice Walker (Color Purple), coined the term “colorism” and discussed how color is not synonymous to racism.  Skin color is only one mechanism used to assign, repress and limit individuals to a racial category.  Colorism is the dependence of social status on skin color alone. In order to understand discrimination based on colorism, differential treatment must not result from racial categorization, but from the social values associated with skin color.

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KGGV 95.1 FM Guerneville “The Bridge” is a community, non-commercial  radio station based in Guerneville, Russian River valley, Sonoma County, northern California USA.

Militarism in early 20^th century Japan

Wednesday, 12noon – 2pm PT    February 17, 2016    

Beneath the Waves host Gerry Takano

After the Russo-Japanese War (1905), Japan determined not be subjugated and humiliated by European powers and proceeded to establish greater political and economic control of Asia.  During the 1920s Japan’s Imperial army and navy established military veto power over in the country’s Parliament.  In addition, a coup d'état ended with the killing of government’s leading members -- the incident strengthened military rule, chaos and instability in early 20th century Japan.

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KGGV 95.1 FM Guerneville “The Bridge” is a community, non-commercial  radio station based in Guerneville, Russian River valley, Sonoma County, northern California USA.

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the Warhol Experience

Wednesday, 12noon – 2pm PT    February 10, 2016    

Beneath the Waves     host Gerry Takano

"15 minutes of fame".. American pop artist Andy Warhol was a prominent figure in the 1960s avant garde art movement originating in New York City, NY USA. Warhol founded the magazine Interview, managed the rock group The Velvet Underground; Warhol was one of the first to use Amiga computers to generate art.  His NYC studio, The Factory, was a gathering place for intellectuals, openly gay men and lesbians, drag queens, playwrights, NYC street people, Hollywood celebrities, artists, and wealthy patrons.

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KGGV 95.1 FM Guerneville “The Bridge” is a community, non-commercial  radio station based in Guerneville, Russian River valley, Sonoma County, northern California USA.

Prison Recidivism:  A Conversation with Padma Catell

Wednesday, 12noon – 2pm PT    -February 3, 2016    

Beneath the Waves host Gerry Takano

KGGV deejay Padma Catell talks about her experiences with parole system prisoners and staff while working previously as a volunteer psychologist at San Quentin Prison, Marin County, California US. She shares her observations, dilemmas and options in her effort to help prisoners break the patterns of return incarceration.

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(see < http://kggvbeneaththewaves@blogspot.com >  for series archives)

note:  check out my Facebook site for additional posts on each subject

KGGV 95.1 FM Guerneville “The Bridge” is a community, non-commercial  radio station based in Guerneville, Russian River valley, Sonoma County, northern California USA.

*for those unfamiliar with online streaming:  access our website <http://kggv.fm> and press the "stream" button.  Your computer will connect live to the radio station for free and you'll receive an ongoing audio feed (or stream) with the radio station's programming.