In a humorous and satiric monologue, KD reflects on several current & past events, all connected to Easter-time in America. Plus a song by David Rovics.
Topics include secularization and commercialization of holidays, Notre Dame Cathedral, Russia's involvement in US elections, Abolitionist John Brown, the supermarket strike, and how (on Easter, 1929) Edward Bernays got American women hooked on cigarettes.
"John Brown" is from David Rovics "Big Red Sessions" album.
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "spreading chestnut tree") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
This is a replay (with minor emendations) of NWN #581, from April 2019. Some of the current events mentioned are now two years old. Because the discussion goes beyond the events to the larger issues the events illustrate, the show holds up well (IMHO).
You can download this installment of New World Notes--in MP3 and other formats--also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/nwn-682-easter-season-21-192k
More details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: https://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
SERIES OVERVIEW -- Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for. "Date recorded," below, = date of first scheduled broadcast.
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