THE PEOPLE SPEAK
Tuesdays 5-6pm PT
with
Basima Farhat |
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THE PEOPLE SPEAK
Talk Radio
Every Tuesday
5:00 - 6:00 pm PT
Hosted by
Basima Farhat |
Basima Farhat
basima@thepeoplespeakradio.org
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.
ABOUT THE PEOPLE SPEAK RADIO
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.
--Producer, The People Speak
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.
Past guests booked on previous productions: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Helen Caldicott, author and Gold Star Families For Peace founder Cindy Sheehan, stateswoman Ann Wright, lawyer/activist turned socially conscious record label president Jim Musselman, NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, author/journalist and community activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, actor Tommy Chong, Dr. Michio Kaku, British MP George Galloway, film director and producer Frank Cavestani, Vietnam Veteran poet/artist and author of "Born on the Fourth of July" Ron Kovic, State Senator Becky Lourey, Congressman John Conyers, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, award winning author and poet Sam Hamill, historian and author Marvin Gettleman, researcher and congressional candidate Dr. Les Roberts, former Congressman now activist Tom Andrews, Code Pink co-founder and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jodie Evans, radio host and depleted uranium expert Joyce Riley.
Many more guests of these ilk are to come on future shows. It gives me hope that there are so many 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
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