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He has facilitated workshops on subjects ranging from addiction and the War on Drugs to U.S. foreign policy and "The Bay of Pigs 50 Years Later." Gatos has visited Cuba six times since 2000 and has had exclusive interviews with then National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon and many others. Pedro hosts Bringing Light into Darkness Mondays at 6 p.m. on KOOP-FM in Austin. *Val Liveoak* is the volunteer Coordinator of Friends Peace Teams Peacebuilding *en las Américas* program. An activist since 1971, she founded the Friends Peace Teams in 1993, and has been involved with many community organizations and nonviolent struggles. For 21 years, she has been a facilitator with the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), working in Mexico, Canada, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, St. Croix, St. Kitts, Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras, and El Salvador. As an RN, she worked as a volunteer in a project training health promoters in El Salvador from 1986-90. She lives in San Antonio, but spends most of the year in Suchitoto, El Salvador, and travels throughout the region. She has been named a Woman of Peace by Womens Peacepower Foundation (2009) and Peacemaker of the Year by the Austin Peace and Justice Center (1986). * ------------------------------ * * ------------------------------ * - *NEXT FRIDAY, May 3, 2013: Free-form radio pioneer Bob Fass of WBAI in New York, with filmmaker Paul Lovelace (Radio Unnameable).* - *Friday, May 17, 2013: Political economist and author Gar Alperovitz.* - *RESCHEDULED! Friday, May 24: Amsterdam-based poet John Sinclair, founder of the White Panther Party and manager of the MC5.* - *Listen to Thorne Dreyer's April 13, 2013, Rag Radio interview with Sixties activists and original Yippies Judy Gumbo Albert and Nancy Kurshan<http://e2ma.net/go/13058322624/214296205/240555469/32516/b64/aHR0cDovL2FyY2hpdmUub3JnL2RldGFpbHMvUmFnUmFkaW8yMDEzLTA0LTEzLUp1ZHlHdW1ib0FsYmVydE5hbmN5S3Vyc2hhbg==> .* - *Find podcasts of earlier Rag Radio shows<http://e2ma.net/go/13058322624/214296205/240555470/32516/b64/aHR0cDovL2FyY2hpdmUub3JnL3NlYXJjaC5waHA/cXVlcnk9Y3JlYXRvciUzQSUyMlJhZyUyMFJhZGlvJTIyJnNvcnQ9LWRhdGU=>at the Internet Archive. * ------------------------------ RAG RADIO<http://e2ma.net/go/13058322624/214296205/240555471/32516/b64/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5rb29wLm9yZy9zY2hlZHVsZS9kZXRhaWwucGhwP2V4dD1pbmZvJm9hX2lkPTMz> *driving in the left lane* <http://e2ma.net/go/13058322624/214296205/240555433/32516/b64/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5ibG9nZ2VyLmNvbS9wcm9maWxlLzE2Mjc0MzkwNDc0Mzg4NjY4OTEz> *Thorne Dreyer. Photo by Alan Pogue.* * *Host and producer: *Thorne Dreyer* Co-producer and engineer: *Tracey Schulz** * * * *RAG RADIO* features hour-long in-depth interviews and discussion about issues of progressive politics, culture, and history. Our guests include newsmakers, artists, leading thinkers, and public figures from Austin, Texas, and around the world. Host Thorne Dreyer<http://e2ma.net/go/13058322624/214296205/240555472/32516/b64/aHR0cDovL2VuLndpa2lwZWRpYS5vcmcvd2lraS9UaG9ybmVfV2ViYl9EcmV5ZXI=>was a founding editor of Austins historic Sixties underground newspaper * The Rag<http://e2ma.net/go/13058322624/214296205/240555473/32516/b64/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udWV2b2FuZGVuLmNvbS9yYWcv>, *a founding editor of *Space City!* in Houston, an editor at LNS in New York, and a former station manager of KPFT-FM (Pacifica) in Houston. He now edits *The Rag Blog*<http://e2ma.net/go/13058322624/214296205/240555474/32516/b64/aHR0cDovL3RoZXJhZ2Jsb2cuYmxvZ3Nwb3QuY29tLw==>, a nonprofit progressive internet newsmagazine based in Austin, and is on the board of the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. With roots in the Sixties, RAG RADIO often features content about the history of Austins unique counterculture and its political and literary traditions. *Rag Radio* is produced in the studios of *KOOP 91.7-FM* in Austin, Texas. KOOP is a cooperatively-run all-volunteer community radio station. 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