Gila Mimbres Community Radio

03/10/2025

TUESDAY MORNING BEAT SPECIAL!! Protest songs of the '60's and '70's with Ted Whitemore. Wow!
We are still singing 'em today! 9 am to 11 am. KURU DJ host Maree McHugh 3-11-2025 GMCR.org

03/08/2025

Tomorrow, Sunday, March 9 the Social, Aide, and Pleasure Society Meet-UP between 2 & 4 on GMCR.org or KURU, 89.1 FM will again feature special & frequent guest, Siri Dharma... and perhaps a surprise Guest as well! We'll continue our conversation about aging with grace, which we call "The Organ Recital." Hope you'll want to join us. Musically, we'll be juke-boxin' at the honkey-tonk!

Your Invisible Friend,
PaOla

03/07/2025

This week on Friendly Fire - Friday March 7 at 10:00 am and Sunday March 9 at 6:00 pm, Don Kimball will interview the following Veterans for Peace members.
Calling from Calif. Ian Mooney - newly elected president of VFP chapter 91 in San Diego, CA. he is earning his PHD at the University of Kentucky studying Marxist Political Philosophy. He was a chaplain’s assistant in the Army from 2007 t0 2011. He was deployed to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010.
And calling from Hawaii - Adam Toothmaker - The newly elected president of VFP Chapter 1 in Maine. He was born in Hartswell, Maine. He joined the Marines in 1992 and retired in 2012. He was deployed to Afghanistan from 2002 to 2011 and Iraq in 2004 and is part of the 22nd Marine Expitionary Unit from 1994 to 1995.
They will be talking about the Trump/Musk attack on the military and veterans, LGBTQ+ and trans people and Americans in general as well as the well established war machine in this country. Deadly weapons are one of the USA’s biggest money money makers and it influences both sides of the aisle in Congress.

03/03/2025

I am so sorry the audio was so atrocious on my show this Sunday, 3-2-2025 with Siri Dharma!!! Please listen again to The Organ Recital next week on The Social Aide and Pleasure Society Meet UP!

02/28/2025

Siri Dharma and I will be having a conversation about how to "Age with Grace" this Sunday, March 2 starting around 2:30 on the Social Aide and Pleasure Society meet-UP. I'll also play a lot of Louisiana music since Mardi Gras is nearly here. Southerners really know how to pass a good time!

Hope you'll want to join us.

Your Invisible Friend,
Paula

02/17/2025

Tuesday Morning Beat 2-18-2025 - 9am to 11 a.m.
Tribute to Woody Guthrie. Guests Twana Sparks and Bart Roselli bring music and discussion into the KURU studio to give us an entertaining glimpse of the upcoming local performance of "Woody Guthrie's American Song".
photo credit: Eric Schaal 1943 Time and Life Pictures/ Shutterstock.

02/06/2025

Friendly Fire - Friday, Feb. 7 at 10:00 am and Sunday, Feb. 9 at 6.00 pm.
Don KImball will be joined by Angie Mencarelli, Navy Vet, 1979 hired as a air traffic controller, ending up in the world’s biggest radar facility, SoCal Trecon in San Diego and retired in 2003 and then worked five years as a ramp controller. Also joining them will be Pat Elder, who is director of Military Poisons, working on PFAS and other poisons on bases in the US and around the world. He has written over 400 articles on these problems, many of which can be found at

Military Poisons and WILPF US Earth Democracy have united to expose the military's role in PFAS contamination; to bring together health, peace, environmental, social, and economic justice groups; and to advocate for action, legislation, and cleanup.

02/03/2025

The Equity Hour: Where the Political is Personal is a monthly show that airs on the first Monday of the month at 10 am and the following Sunday at 4 pm and is part of the Kindred Continuum series. For part III of their Immigration series, Co-hosts Cindy "Renee" Provencio and Kit West interviewed GiGi, a woman who worked in immigration detention centers in New Mexico 20 years ago. Many migrants shared their stories with GiGi, stories that stayed with her all these years. The stories shared in this episode are reminiscent of current migration stories and reveal the conditions that drive migration to the United States. Most importantly, this episode reminds us of the fact that migrants are worthy of human dignity, respect, safety and wellbeing.

01/28/2025

In Tilantongo – Conversations from Indigenous Mexico; Conversaciones desde el México indigena, Phil and Kathy Dahl-Bredine bring perspectives and insights from Oaxaca, where they have lived with and learned from indigenous Mixtec people since 2001. This bilingual program features interviews with villagers, educators, environmental advocates, historians, and more.
This program features Miguel Angel Velazquez from the non-profit Services for an Alternative Education EDUCA. Miguel and EDUCA work to strengthen community government in indigenous villages across the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. We open the year with a discussion of what the indigenous communities can expect from new US and Mexican administrations in 2025. How will returned migrants under the Trump administration affect community life? Will changes in strategies for the control of organized crime create more violence there? Have trade treaties created more poverty in indigenous communities and more migration?

01/24/2025

This week on Friendly Fire with Don Kimball - on GMCR.org and live on KURU 89.1 FM Silver City, NM
Tune in Friday, Jan. 24th at 10:00 am and Sunday at 6:00 pm to hear the griping stories of two witnesses to the LA fires. Both guests, Vinnie DeStefano lives just down the road from the Eaton Cañon Fire and Kathleen Hernandez from Topanga Cañon have extensive knowledge of the area, and have been actively involved with the fire fighting community for decades. The conflagration killed at least 28 people, displaced 50,000 from their homes and caused billions of dollars in damages. What went wrong and why, and how can we prevent a similar disaster in the future?
This is a really interesting interview, don’t miss it!

01/21/2025

Tuesday Morning Beat 1-21-2025 Interview with Carol Wingo of Samaritanos Sans Fronteras at 10:00 a.m.

01/21/2025

Tuesday Morning Beat 1-21-2025. The lowdown: Continuing tribute to MLK; Interview with Carol Wingo of Samaritanos Sins Fronteras - what's happening now at the border? Tune in . 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. GMCR.org KURU 89.1 FM

12/23/2024

Tuesday Morning Beat 12-24-2024 . 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. This week will feature "Beyond the Border" with co-host Scott Plate. Guest Sally Tilton. Our monthly discussion is an opportunity to broaden our understanding about death and dying and in reflection how we live our lives each day. We bring you a view of death with dignity as a social justice issue. Curious? Tune in.

12/14/2024

Come celebrate community radio on Saturday 12/21 from 10-4 with Gila Mimbres Community Radio’s open house. We’ll have light refreshments, and friendly volunteers & Board members will be there to greet visitors & listeners. Donations to GMCR will be matched through challenge grants, and that money will be matched by the NM Local News Fund up to $7,500. Thank you for supporting community radio!! See you Saturday 12/21!

12/09/2024

Gila Mimbres Community Radio welcomes Dan Bern back to the studio this Thursday, December 12, an honor of our December fundraiser. And this month your donations to GMCR will be matched dollar for dollar by the NM Local News Fund, and on Thursday, the addition of challenge grants from generous listeners will help bring in two dollars for every dollar you give!! Join us at 519 B N Bullard this Thursday between 10 and 4 PM to meet radio folk, share warm drinks and snacks, and support community radio. You can also donate at gmcr.org. Thank you for supporting GMCR and KURU 89.1 FM!

12/06/2024

Tune into Friendly Fire, a Voice FOR Veterans This Friday, December 6th at 10:00 am mountain time and on Sunday, December 8th at 6:00 pm on GMCR.org or live on KURU 89.1 FM to hear retired USAF officers Don Christenson and Rachel VanLandingham. These legal experts are alarmed about the nomination of former Fox News cohost Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. These former prosecutors will examin the many troubling questions about his ability to direct the government’s largest department and employer. You can also hear the show in the archive at archive.gmcr.org.

12/03/2024

Join me this morning 9 to 11 a.m. on GMCR -KURU. Special re-play of Gila River Celebration Keynote presentation by Dr. Wendsler Noise of Apache Stong Hold. And its Gving Tuesday. Tune in to Tuesday Morning Beat. GMCR.org Maree McHugh DJ/host.

12/02/2024

Gila Mimbres Community Radio is participating in the annual worldwide day of giving, generosity and doing good known as Giving Tuesday. It is celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, this year December 3.

If your GMCR membership is up for renewal, or if you simply would like to support our local community radio, please consider going to https://gmcr.org and click on the donate button.

All donations made during the entire month of December - including Giving Tuesday - will be double matched by both the New Mexico Local News Fund and some special local benefactors. That means for every dollar you donate, GMCR will receive three dollars!

We will also be hosting an open house on Giving Tuesday from 10 am to 4 pm. Stop by and meet some of our on-air hosts, volunteers and Board members. Free coffee and donuts - coffee all day, donuts while they last!

Thank you.

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