This show is about guns, and was pre-recorded in northeastern Bolivia in a palm-frond hut where some community members of a small group of villages have set up a tiny radio station.  They are part of coalition of social movements fighting the regional landlords and business leaders over environmental degradation and political autonomy.

I'm here doing a story for a Mexican news magazine called Mas Importante. It is hot and muggy and the air is thick with insects and smoke from fires in the fields near by. The people are burning grass so the thugs from the city can't find their way and can be ambushed more easily. At first, they thought my long microphones that I use for making field recordings were rifles of some kind. Luckily I was able to explain their real purpose before a dangerous misunderstanding escalated.

This program this week is about more than just guns, of course, but also about force, and cops, and colonialism, and violence.

Here is the playlist:
The Beatles - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
iTunes Signature Maker - Sep 25 2008 run on my music library
William S. Burroughs - Origins and Theory of The Cutup
Beth Dunn - short list
Chris Burden - Atomic Alphabet
Hakim Bey - Boycott Cop Culture
Chris Burden - Atomic Alphabet
Laurie Anderson - It's Not The Bullet It's The Hole
Built To Spill - Cortez The Killer
F.T. Marinetti - Battaglia
Negativland - The Gun and the Bible
Chumbawamba - British Colonization & The BBC
Sarah Peters - Short List
Focus On The Family - Letter From 2012 (Barack To The Future)
William S. Burroughs - Words of Advice For Young People
Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Kit Carson Collage (Columbia Workshop Radio & William S. Burroughs)
The Coup - 20,000 Gun Salute
Negativland - Guns (Then)
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Ladykiller
Negativland - Guns (Now)
The Clash - Guns of Brixton
Wig - Bullet
Pixies - There Goes My Gun
Tim Hecker - Pluie 4 Montreal