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Pacifica Network's Egberto Willies Discusses His New Book It’s Worth It: How to Talk To Your Right-Wing Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors.
Oct 5 2023
Pacifica Network's Egberto Willies Discusses His New Book It’s Worth It: How to Talk To Your Right-Wing Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors.
In today's Podcast Radio Free Galisteo's John Shannon returns from a summer hiatus recovering from back surgery to interview  Egberto Willies about his new book: It’s Worth It: How to Talk To Your Right-Wing Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors.  The book is as necessary as a cup of coffee in the morning to today’s absolutist audience. Willies says that in these distressing times, it is worth engaging. After all, he says that asserting our worth is the fuel for growing out of our current dismal state.About Egberto:  He is a badass political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. Further,  Egberto is an ardent Progressive that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship.” He is the host of Politics Done Right on Pacifica Network’s KPFT 90.1 FM and streamingVisit His Website: https://politicsdoneright.com/Buy his book: https://egbertowillies.com/my-books/Support the showFollow Radio Free Galisteo on Instagram at: @radiofreegalisteo. We're on twitter here: https://twitter.com/FreeGalisteo or @FreeGalisteo. We're now on BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/radiofreegalisteo.bsky.social Support the show by going to https://www.RadioFreeGalisteo.com and clicking on our Red DONATE button to select a method of financial encouragement - Patreon, Paypal, Stripe or just Buy Us a Coffee!
Documentary Producer Peter Bahlawanian Discusses His Award Winning Film About the Nagorno-Karabakh Region - The Desire to Live
Feb 20 2023
Documentary Producer Peter Bahlawanian Discusses His Award Winning Film About the Nagorno-Karabakh Region - The Desire to Live
Peter Bahlawanian is the Producer of The Desire to Live a devastating documentary film of an unprovoked attack in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). With brutal honesty the film - directed by Mariam Avetisyan, captures the beginning of the final stage of the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Christian  Armenian population . The Desire to Live is the recipient of 136 awards from 72 film festivals worldwide.Peter discusses the film and the issues surrounding it with RFG's John Shannon. He  also speaks about the award winning "The Desire to Live" web series which has 3 seasons and 40 episodes in short documentary film format. It is available to watch on YouTube free of charge, with season 4  being released this month - February 2023.Here's a Link to the film website: https://thedesiretolivedoc.com/Here's the trailer to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai0c96b_ozEHere's the link to an episode  of The Desire to Live Web Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWaGbFQNRjESupport the showFollow Radio Free Galisteo on Instagram at: @radiofreegalisteo. We're on twitter here: https://twitter.com/FreeGalisteo or @FreeGalisteo. We're now on BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/radiofreegalisteo.bsky.social Support the show by going to https://www.RadioFreeGalisteo.com and clicking on our Red DONATE button to select a method of financial encouragement - Patreon, Paypal, Stripe or just Buy Us a Coffee!