John Schaaf is a retired attorney and co-author of the book Hidden History of Kentucky Political Scandals. His op-ed “Church schools restrict choice, yet want public funds" appeared in the Louisville Courier September 16th, 2024. John Schaaf explains that when taxpayer's money is used to fund private schools it drains money from public school system and private schools often prevent students of color from attending private schools.

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You can find Daniel at his website www.danielolivas.com

This week we speak with Daniel Olivas, a lawyer with the California Department of Justice, who is also a novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel, Chicano Frankenstein, which published in March of this year, was an obvious book pick for Carrie because she loves Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The novel has been optioned by Universal Television, so fingers crossed on that.

Olivas’ reimagining of Shelley’s 1818 novel has an unnamed man as the narrator. He is a paralegal who has been reanimated from the corpse of a Mexican-American man, one of many such reanimated people (derogatively called “stitchers”) who are part of an effort to deal with the US’ labor crisis, but he struggles with his identity. How can a person have an identity if all knowledge of their family, their interests, their feelings, their thoughts have been stripped away? In addition to the idea of selfhood, the novel also explores the cruelty of politicians who pander to fear and racism, harming the people of their communities that one would expect them to protect.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Chicano Frankenstein by Daniel Olivas

2- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

3- The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande

4- Artificial Life After Frankenstein by Eileen M. Hunt

5- A 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover The Biblioholic @thebiblioholic_ - Dorothy Must Die series by Danielle Page

6- Leech by Hiron Ennes

7- Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Brook Tsai

8- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

9- Deathless Divide (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland

Movies mentioned in this episode:

1- Frankenstien (1931)

2- The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

It’s a special Tree Week edition of the show! On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, grabs his shovel for a chance to catch up with the staff at Louisville Grows: Ellie Davenport, Community Engagement Manager & Colin Meadows, Urban Forestry Manager. Tune in to learn about all the ways to get involved in helping expand our urban tree canopy this fall! In addition to reviewing some of the wide-variety of tree themed activities taking place around town for Louisville Tree Week (Oct. 12-20), you’ll learn about:

Louisville Grows Jeffersonville Tree Planting

Saturday, Nov 2nd, 9:00 am - 1:30 pm, Lansden Park, 201 E 15th St, Jeffersonville, IN

Learn more and sign-up to volunteer at https://tinyurl.com/PlantingJeff24

The Louisville Grow Tree Planting in the Portland neighborhood on Saturday, December 7th!

We also take a minute to mark the 15 year anniversary of Louisville Grows, which was celebrated back in September. 15 years in, there are many achievements to celebrate and numerous volunteers to be thankful for. As of 2024, LG has planted 7,717 trees throughout low-canopy neighborhoods in Louisville and southern Indiana. This feat is thanks to the hundreds of community members who have volunteered throughout the years.

Louisville Grows is an environmental, nonprofit organization whose mission is to grow greener, healthier neighborhoods. Louisville Grows works in solidarity with community residents to create a more just and sustainable community through urban agriculture, urban forestry, and environmental education.

Learn more at https://louisvillegrows.org

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

Ruth and co-host Victoria Strange discuss candidates running in the 2024 General Election for Louisville Metro Council District 12, Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor, and Kentucky House Districts 36 and 29.

Sacrifice Zones airs on WFMP 106.5FM/lp and ForwardRadio.org on Sundays at 11am, Mondays at 8am and Tuesdays at 2pm. We are doing a series of conversations with people at Voices of Community Activists and Leaders-Kentucky (VOCAL-KY). This is the first show in that series that follows the introduction we did with Pony Morris. This podcast contains no music.

Show Notes:

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/harm-reduction

Voices of Community Activists and Leaders

[email protected]

Vera Institute study on the criminalization of poverty in Kentucky

https://www.vera.org/publications/the-criminalization-of-poverty-in-kentucky

Flock cameras in southeast Louisville

https://www.wdrb.com/news/plan-to-install-17-new-flock-cameras-in-southeast-louisville-area-brings-mixed-reaction/article_068be7d2-85dd-11ef-9af0-1f4e86df2604.html

Kay Tillow, Harriette Seiler, Hamza Jamal, Evan Hawthorn, and Paul Hoppe of Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare discuss the poor ranking of our healthcare in this country based on a Commonwealth Fund report comparing industrialized nations.

This week on the Access Hour, we bring you Part 1 of a Conference held on September 27, 2024 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The conference was organized by Dr. Bandy Lee and the World Mental Health Coalition entitled "The More Dangerous State of the World and the Need for Fit Leadership." In this first panel of the day, top national security experts discuss the importance of mental fitness in the U.S. presidency. Watch a summary video of the full conference at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AhXXeCcZss

We are at an extremely critical time right now. That is why we convened this major, unique, impacting conference in the Ballroom of the National Press Club on September 27, 2024. It was organized by the World Mental Health Coalition and led by Dr. Bandy Lee, just a few weeks before the impending presidential election.

At no time has mental fitness in leadership been more important. Yet, at no time have we had a presidential campaign where mental fitness has been a more precarious issue.

This is why top national security experts convened with leading mental health experts to discuss the importance of mental fitness in the U.S. presidency, and how mental unfitness escalates dangers in an already dangerous world.

Find out more about this unprecedented conference:

https://dangerouscase.org/

Help us to reach millions with the vital conference message:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/dangerouscase

Visit Dr. Bandy Lee, organizer of the conference:

https://bandylee.com

A new book has been released with the conference:

https://www.amazon.com/More-Dangerous-Case-Donald-Trump-ebook/dp/B0DJBY3DNR/ref=sr_1_1

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List of Panelists:

Dr. Robert Jay Lifton

Distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and author of ‘Nazi Doctors’

Dr. Judith Herman

Distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and author of ‘Trauma and Recovery’

Dr. James Gilligan

Former director of the Harvard Institute of Law and Psychiatry and former chair of President Clinton’s National Campaign Against Youth Violence

Dr. Stephen Soldz

Past president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility and leading anti-torture activist

Dr. Henry Friedman

Psychoanalyst and associate professor of psychiatry at Tufts and Harvard Medical Schools

Matthew Bywater

Scholar of authoritarian societies and human rights activist

Dr. Steven Hassan

Undue influence expert and author of ‘The Cult of Trump’

Dr. Drew Westen

Professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University and author of ‘The Political Brain’

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

This week on the Access Hour, we bring you Part 1 of a Conference held on September 27, 2024 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The conference was organized by Dr. Bandy Lee and the World Mental Health Coalition entitled "The More Dangerous State of the World and the Need for Fit Leadership." In this first panel of the day, top national security experts discuss the importance of mental fitness in the U.S. presidency.

Listen to the 2nd Panel of psychiatric experts on Truth to Power: https://soundcloud.com/wfmp-forward-radio/truth-to-power-trumps-mental-health-conference-panel-2-10-11-24

Watch a summary video of the full conference at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AhXXeCcZss

We are at an extremely critical time right now. That is why we convened this major, unique, impacting conference in the Ballroom of the National Press Club on September 27, 2024. It was organized by the World Mental Health Coalition and led by Dr. Bandy Lee, just a few weeks before the impending presidential election.

At no time has mental fitness in leadership been more important. Yet, at no time have we had a presidential campaign where mental fitness has been a more precarious issue.

This is why top national security experts convened with leading mental health experts to discuss the importance of mental fitness in the U.S. presidency, and how mental unfitness escalates dangers in an already dangerous world.

Find out more about this unprecedented conference:

https://dangerouscase.org/

Help us to reach millions with the vital conference message:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/dangerouscase

Visit Dr. Bandy Lee, organizer of the conference:

https://bandylee.com

A new book has been released with the conference:

https://www.amazon.com/More-Dangerous-Case-Donald-Trump-ebook/dp/B0DJBY3DNR/ref=sr_1_1

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List of Panelists:

Atty. Ralph Nader

Lawyer, political activist, and former presidential candidate

Prof. Richard Painter

Former chief White House ethics counsel of the George W. Bush administration

Prof. Claire Finkelstein

Director of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School

Hon. Claudine Schneider

Former five-term Republican congresswoman from Rhode Island

Prof. Peter Kuznick

Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University

Dr. Joseph Romm

Former acting assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy

Adm. Michael Smith

Rear admiral and founder of the National Securities Leaders for America

Gen. & Dr. Stephen Xenakis

Retired brigadier general and Medical Corps officer for the U.S. Army

Ray McGovern

Former CIA officer and chair of National Intelligence Estimates

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Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- A Good Girls Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

2- Horribly Haunted in Hillbilly Hollow by Blythe Baker

3- Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

4- A 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Lan Nguyen-Colgate - A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I Lin

5- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

6- "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin (Short Story)

7- The Seven 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

8- House of Cotton by Monica Brashears

9- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

10- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs and Other Questions About Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty

11- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

12- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

13- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

14- Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

15- The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff

16- The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

17- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

18- The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

19- Heavenly Bodies by Amani Erriu

20- Fallen Stars by Amani Erriu

Media mentioned--

1- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (Netflix, 2024)

2- The Lovely Bones (Max, 2009)

Have you heard of Oscillococcinum, a purported homeopathic treatment for the flu? Guest contributor Mark Alsip tells us the theory behind it, how it is synthesized, and about it's effectiveness. Other stories cover the new over-the-counter birth-control pill now available to all ages, and about how you can see Starlink satellites in our night sky. Plus, news on the coming comet and mini-moon. Scott Miller tells us what other planets, constellations and meteor showers we can see in the night sky this October.

‘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.

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Music (Piano Sonata No. 8, 2nd movement, 'Pathetique' by Ludwig van Beethoven) provided via public domain by Paul Pitman, 2023.