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Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare Members and Guest, Lexington Ky Vice-Mayor Dan Wu discuss the City deciding to relieve 100 million dollars of local resident's medical debt.

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You can find Sharon Short at her website, www.sharonshort.com and on Instagram at @sharongshortauthor.

This week we have a Remix episode and catch up with Sharon Short, who we initially interviewed about her historical mystery novels which she wrote under the pen name Jess Montgomery. She has a new stand alone mystery suspense out titled Trouble Island that was inspired by a very interesting family story. You will first hear our most recent chat with her just a few weeks ago and then we will replay our original conversation with her back in the Spring of 2022 talking about her Kinship series.

Just a note that next week we will have another REMIX episode, this time with award winning mystery writer Tracy Clark whose most recent in the Detective Harriet Foster series came out Dec 3 titled Echo. The Washington Post has just named it one of their top mysteries of 2024.

Books Mentioned In this Episode:

1- Trouble Island by Jess Montgomery

2- The Widows by Jess Montgomery (Kinship series)

3- The Echoes by Jess Montgomery (Kinship series)

4- Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen Kirby

5- Deer Season by Erin Flanagan

6- How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, sits down with Alex Otte, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Regional Executive Director and former National President. Alex is a Kentucky resident, who was hit by a boat driven by a drunk driver while sitting on a jet ski when she was 13 years old. Despite sustaining severe injuries — including a traumatic brain injury, broken neck, shattered femurs, and the loss of her right leg below the knee — Alex survived and has dedicated her life to ending drunk driving. Learn Alex's personal story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN7vEoTkeOE

December is Impaired Driving Prevention Month - and December is also a month where we see an increase in impaired driving due to the holiday celebrations and increased travel. Tune in as Alex shares some valuable safety tips during this high-risk period. You’ll also learn what MADD is doing to end drunk driving year-round, and how anti-drunk driving technology, required by the bipartisan, federal HALT Act which was passed into law in 2021, will ultimately end drunk driving.

Drunk driving is an escalating public health crisis. Drunk driving deaths have increased by 33% since 2019, claiming more than 13,000 lives in 2022 alone — impacting families nationwide. Every 78 seconds, someone is killed or injured in a drunk driving crash. Anti-drunk driving technology in cars offers a lifeline, yet regulatory delays mean 37 more lives lost each day.

MADD believes we can end drunk driving with lifesaving anti-drunk driving technology. The HALT Drunk Driving Act, passed in November 2021, requires a new national safety standard for anti-drunk driving technology in all new cars. The law then requires car manufacturers to integrate the technology in new vehicles. This technology will save more than 10,000 lives per year and prevent hundreds of thousands of injuries, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

The HALT Act directs the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to complete a rulemaking process to determine what technology solution is ultimately chosen. The law directed USDOT to establish regulations for this technology by November 15, 2024. The rulemaking process involves gathering insights from a broad range of stakeholders including auto manufacturers, safety experts, engineers, and the public, ensuring that the solutions developed are both effective and practical. This is similar to the regulatory process that brought us seatbelts, airbags and backup cameras, which are all standard in new vehicles.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is directed to complete a rulemaking process within three years of the November 2021 enactment of the IIJA. Automakers will then have two to three years to implement the new standard. The auto industry has the resources and expertise to make safety advancements like drunk driving prevention a reality, much the same way it has used its R&D prowess for self-driving vehicles, electrification and many safety innovations.

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

On this week's program, we dive into the issue of the health impacts of burning coal with UofL professor of Geographic & Environmental Sciences, Dr. Charlie Zhang, who presented at the University of Louisville's monthly Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Seminar Series back on August 1, 2024. Dr. Zhang's presentation was entitled "Examining Health Impacts of Proximity to Coal Ash Storage Facilities in the United States: A National Geospatial Study." This seminar series is presented by UofL's Center for Integrative Environmental Health Science and the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology and is free and open to the public virtually or in person.

You can watch the full presentation and see the slides at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9B_AJ8ClDY

Learn more about the full seminar series and find recordings of other talks at https://louisville.edu/ciehs/seminars/2024-2025-ehs-seminars

On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else!

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https://forwardradio.org

Bridget Moix is the fifth General Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). She also leads two other Quaker organizations, affiliated with FCNL: Friends Place on Capitol Hill and FCNL Education Fund. She is a passionate Quaker peace advocate, activist, and mother.

Bridget rejoined FCNL as General Secretary in January 2022. Early in her career, she had interned at FCNL. She actually started her career at FCNL 1996. She brings with her 25 years of work on international peace and conflict issues, with a focus on US foreign policy. Prior to joining FCNL, she served as US Executive Director of Peace Direct (2015-2021).

As a teacher, she has taught courses in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and Quaker studies at several institutions, including Haverford College, Columbia University, George Washington University, American University, and Eastern Mennonite University.

Bridget holds a Ph.D. from George Mason University’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. She focused her dissertation on understanding the motivations of local peacebuilders and how the international community can better support them.

She is author of “Choosing Peace: Agency and Action in the Midst of War” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), and a contributing author to “Building Peace in America” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) as well as “The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice” (Josey-Bass; 2006; 2014).

Show Notes: This show contains descriptions of violence, having to do with sexual assault and may not be appropriate for all audiences.

Pamela Brown’s Substack post:

https://pamelaannbrown.substack.com/p/why-as-a-black-woman-i-will-not-be?r=mvq9h&triedRedirect=true

Gisele Pelicot: France: Rape culture on trial in Pelicot case:

https://theweek.com/crime/the-pelicot-case-a-horror-exposed

Pamela Brown of SOS with Pam Brown on Substack wrote the essay I share in late October, 2024. I absorbed it like a sponge and resonated with it as it hits all of the flavor centers of my podcast and way of thinking. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

Gisele Pelicot has done something profound in her fight for justice against those who abused her. She is like a 30-ton weight suspended from the tip of that arc of justice and she is bending it toward justice for all of us. What happened to her could very well have been hidden by the protective norms of France’s justice system. But somehow, she found a way to fight that makes a hideous mockery of normalizing such an act, by anyone, much less by a gang.

Sacrifice Zones airs Sundays at 11am, Mondays at 2pm, and Tuesdays at 8am on Forward Radio, WFMP-LP Louisville, 106.5fm and https://forwardradio.org, and is in the public domain.

In this interview, Dr. Cynthia Ganote, Founder and CEO of Ganote Consulting, offers tips on small steps we can all take to bring more kindness and inclusion into our personal and work lives, especially as it relates to the troubled times we are living in.

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, gets his hands dirty with Jane Evans & Mateo Barnett, from Common Earth Gardens, a program of Catholic Charities of Louisville (https://cclou.org/common-earth-gardens/). Like Forward Radio, Catholic Charities of Louisville is participating in Giving Tuesday on December 3rd and we hope you’ll consider chipping in to support the good work of non-profits in your community!

Common Earth Gardens collaborates within the diverse and multicultural community of Kentucky to increase land access to grow food, develop new farm businesses, and build healthy community networks. We envision the day when people have equitable access to cultivate, own, and enjoy our common earth and to share fresh, healing, and culturally valued food. We seek healing in culturally responsive, linguistically appropriate, and trauma-informed relationships and experiences guided by a model called Healing Encounters. We facilitate community ownership and management of agricultural spaces because we believe people know what is best for themselves and their communities. We celebrate the different ways that people cultivate the earth. We foster an environment where farmers share knowledge from diverse traditions and connect with resources as they adapt to Kentucky’s ecology and local food economy. We advocate for the strengthening of communities through access to greenspaces because we understand their importance for physical, mental, and social wellbeing.

Common Earth Gardens, formerly the Refugee Agriculture Partnership Program (RAPP) was started in 2007 by Lauren Goldberg and Stephen Bartlett within the Kentucky Office for Refugees (KOR). The first sites established for refugee agriculture were the 7th Street Community Garden and the Southside Community Garden. In 2014, the RAPP program moved to be a program of Catholic Charities of Louisville and supported the establishment of Maplewood Apartments Garden, Francis Center Garden, St. Ignatius Community Garden and Bethany United Garden. Currently, Common Earth Gardens supports 13 sites.

Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/commonearthgardens or https://www.instagram.com/commonearth/.

And get in touch with Jane Evans at [email protected], Mateo Barnett at [email protected], or Amelia Baylon at [email protected]

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

The Union of Concerned Scientists (https://www.ucsusa.org/) is a non-profit, science-advocacy organization founded at MIT in 1969. Today, we feature a portion of their November 27th interview with Dr. Christopher Williams (political scientist) called 'Science Will Not Be Silent'. Its about how science policy might be affected by the upcoming Trump administration. Following that, Scott Miller tells us how to spot the stars, planets, constellations, and meteor showers we can see in the night sky in the month of December.

Thanks to the UCS for permission to rebroadcast parts of their podcast 'This is Science with Jess Phoenix': https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/science-will-not-be-silent

‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly radio program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am.

Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal

Sacrifice Zones airs on Sundays at 11am, Mondays at 8am, and Tuesdays at 2pm.

This show was a hodge podge, but careful listeners will see a trend or through-line in all of my shows. They are a protest against the weaponization of capitalism launched by the United States of America in its play for empire. I read 2 essays that I feel captured the moment we are in better than anything I could have come up with to say. They are by Australian journalist Caitlin Johnstone, for the first piece and the second essay is from Timothy Snyder.

SHOW NOTES:

Lockheed Martin 2023 budget:

https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2024-01-23-Lockheed-Martin-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2023-Financial-Results

How they vote and where they get their money:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/118-2024/h458

AIPAC money and where it went:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/13/progressives-aipac-elections-threat-00173709

Open Secrets and AIPAC:

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?code=Q05&cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=H

NATO: What you need to know:

https://orbooks.com/catalog/nato-what-you-need-to-know/

Intercept article on tracking money spent by AIPAC:

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/

H.R. 9495 Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/118-2024/h458

Caitlin Johnstone: They Lied About Gaza and They Are Lying About Syria:

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/they-lied-about-gaza-and-theyre-lying?publication_id=82124&post_id=152382730&isFreemail=false&r=mvq9h&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozODQzMTkyNSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTUyMzgyNzMwLCJpYXQiOjE3MzMwMTg5OTAsImV4cCI6MTczNTYxMDk5MCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTgyMTI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.bO3HoRIaROY9VOddyNqPDbrA1DkE54gzOcBnepyRKCQ

Timothy Snyder’s Substack:

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy-updated-1124?publication_id=310897&post_id=152202118&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozODQzMTkyNSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTUyMjAyMTE4LCJpYXQiOjE3MzI2NDMxOTksImV4cCI6MTczNTIzNTE5OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTMxMDg5NyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.iDO0D6qiqVK9rHJQVXZwgvg7ngXlqr6CRrm1eyiN000&r=mvq9h&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

A little tidbit about AUKUS, Australia and hey, thanks for making it to the show notes end, amore mucho amigas:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/20/2024-18043/international-traffic-in-arms-regulations-exemption-for-defense-trade-and-cooperation-among

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