It’s Tuesday, March 11th – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation
“An Environmental History of Terrorism”: Dr. Brett L. Walker
It’s a struggle as old as humanity: whose control is more powerful - human’s or Nature’s? But that’s not the only question Brett Walker is trying to answer. The University of Montana history professor looks at how nature and humans alter each other. He’s in Hawaii to talk tonight about “An Environmental History of Terrorism -but first he joined us for The Conversation.
Intro Music: Funky Fire by The Aggrolites
Outro Music: Sunbeams by Moonlit Sailor
Mike Lilly: Missouri Memorial Association’s 20th Anniversary
It’s one of the most powerful images in twentieth-century history: representatives of the Japanese Empire signing the instrument of surrender aboard the USS Missouri, as General of the Army Douglas MacArthur stands over them – September 2nd, 1942. The Missouri’s “surrender deck” is hallowed ground for all who remember that conflict, and a visit to it today, at rest next to the U.S.S. Arizona, sunk in the Pearl Harbor attack, is an overpowering experience. It seems fitting that ships that mark the beginning and end of the war should be together. It has been twenty years since The USS Missouri Memorial Association was incorporated for the express purpose of keeping those memories alive. Mike Lilly, one of the original board members of the Association, joined in to talk about it.
Intro Music: Coffee Break by Christopher J. Hanke & Mary Faber & Office Workers
Outro Music: Anchors Aweigh by US Navy Band
GMO Farms/Agricultural Bills: Richard Ha
It might be an understatement to call the battle over GMOs contentious. Given the vitriol from both sides and now the Kauai lawsuit to defend the ordinance calling for disclosure of pesticide use and genetically modified crops ...plus the ongoing question about what consumers have a right to know about their food...well....the conversation often gets ugly and sometimes, violent…. Which is why non GMO farmer Richard Ha says he’s glad a judge temporarily stopped GMO crop registration in Hawaii County last Friday Richard Ha joined the show from his farm on the Big Island.
Intro Music: Montego Sunset by Menahan Street Band
Outro Music: Last Goodbyes by Unwed Sailor
Kennedy Theatre’s “Very Still and Hard to See”: Alex Munro
Theater allows you to skew it any way you want; you create a world within that space called the stage, and within it, anything goes. What if characters react to bizarre events as if they were perfectly normal… what if those events were normal in their world? Are we the ones who are a little out of whack? Director Alex Munro is taking his cast, and his audience, to some strange places in “Very Still and Hard to See,” a new show at the Earle Ernst Lab Theater. It‘s a play that has the shadow of Hawaii resident “obake” ghost stories hanging over it, and Alex is with joined us on the show this morning.
Intro Sounds: 16 Years by Phantogram
Outro Music: Plutonian Nights by Sun Ra
