Basima
Farhat Email: 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
