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This week on Truth to Power, we bring you highlights from The People's Summit on Food Systems and Urban Agriculture: Food Vision 2030, which took place on September 13th, 2024 at Louisville Central Community Center. It was hosted by Forward Radio’s proud Community Partner, the Urban Agriculture Coalition and the Food In Neighborhoods community collective, more broadly.

Today we’ll listen in to the Workshop: We Need Land, Money & Control, which featured three amazing panelists:

1. Mariel Gardner, West Louisville Women's Collective in the Chickasaw neighborhood

2. Rita Lewis Simms, Kentucky Agriculture Advocacy

3. Elmer Zavala, La Minga Farm

Moderators: Kelsey Voit, farmer; Theresa Zawacki, Greater Louisville Food Council

Learn more at https://foodinneighborhoods.org/peoples-summit/

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

The Louisville League of Women Voters' Monthly Democracy in Action Forum featured a panel discussion followed by Q&A from the audience on the subject of "Why Your Vote Matters" and how both local and state government, along with local and state media, are gearing up for the 2024 General Election. Participants were Secretary of State Michael Adams, Election Center Co-Director Maryellen Allen, Director of Media, Public Relations & Communication Ashley Tinius, Kentucky Capitol Reporter for Louisville Public Media Sylvia Goodman and Metro Government Reporter for the Courier-Journal Eleanor McCrary.

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You can find info about Midge and John at their website https://midgeandjohn.com/ or at https://ashlandcreekpress.com/. They are on IG @midge_and_john and @ashlandcreekpress.

Ashland Creek Press, an eco-fiction publisher, first came on our radar in the pre-COVID era when we interviewed Katy Yocom, author of Three Ways to Disappear, a novel set partly in India that focuses on animal conservation and a relationship between two sisters. But one of our other former guests, Jennifer Caloyeras, host of the Books Are My People podcast, also had a book published by Ashland Creek: her 2015 novel Strays. We’re always interested in small presses, so we were excited to talk to Midge Raymond and John Yunker about their work running one.

But Midge and John are also writers who have collaborated on a recently published novel titled Devils Island, which is set in Tasmania amongst the endangered and much-maligned Tasmanian devil. While this is a conservation-leaning novel, it is also a suspense story about a naturalist tour that goes very wrong, involving a disappearance and a death.

Books Mentioned In This Episode:

1- Three Ways to Disappear by Katy Yocom

2- Strays by Jennifer Caloyeras

3- Devils Island by Midge Raymond and John Yunker

4- My Last Continent by Midge Raymond

5- The Tourist Trail by John Yunker

6- A Five Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Susan Cook @bookbookbagawk - Another Country by James Baldwin

7- The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu

8- The Spare Room by Helen Garner

9- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

10- Pines by Blake Crouch

11- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Media mentioned—

1- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

2- True Detective—Night Country (Max)

3- The Bear (Hulu)

4- Eco-lit books —https://ecolitbooks.com/

5- Maria Island Walk - https://www.mariaislandwalk.com/

6- What do Tasmanian devils sound like? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW27vpK4ALQ

Alden Jones carries a PhD in Educational Leadership. Dr. Jones’s academic interests center around how gender, race and class inflect the educational environment.

Their scholarship has centered on transgender individuals and their collegiate experiences, as well as how “life on the Internet” takes shape for marginalized groups.

Drs Ernest Marshall, Alecia Fields and Ona Marshall join Drs Mike Flynn, Gene Shively and Paul Hoppe discuss the state of Women's Reproductive Rights in Kentucky

Let's take a look back at some recent science stories: armed-autonomous drones, the Mars helicopter, pigs as a source of kidneys for transplants, the Internet of Things (IoT), a new fecal transplant medicine for treating 'C diff' infection, online education, and mRNA vaccines. We also examine the recent shifts in how people look at gender identity.

‘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

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

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, sits down with one of Forward Radio’s nearest neighbors, Linette Lowe, Executive Director of Central Louisville Community Ministries, and President of the Association of Community Ministries. Community ministries have been around for more than 50 years, each working in their own neighborhoods to assist neighbors meet basic needs of food, clothing, emergency rent assistance, utilities, and hygiene products. Louisville has a unique history in terms of Community Ministries and they are needed now more than ever in the post-pandemic world!

Tune in to learn more about them on the heels of the recent Together Fest with Dawne Gee and A Recipe to End Hunger held to benefit the Association of Community Ministries; and the recent celebration of Community Ministries Day! Discover what Community Ministries do, how to access services, and how to support their work. Upcoming events include:

Coat Drive now until Oct 17 (Giveaway Oct. 22)

Community Meeting Oct. 16, 1pm Calvary Episcopal

Spooky Trivia Oct. 25 7-9 pm First Unitarian

Thanksgiving Turkey/ham adoptions and gift card drive Oct. 28-Nov. 18

Turkey/ham registrations Oct 28-Nov. 18 or when limit reached

Ongoing food drive

Ongoing clothing donations accepted

Ongoing funding donations accepted for utilities, housing, transportation, other needs

Learn more:
Central Louisville Community Ministries: http://CentralLouisvilleCM.org

Find your neighborhood Community Ministry in Louisville at http://LouisvilleMinistries.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

Today’s show is the first in a series of follow-up programming that Sacrifice Zones will be teaming up with VOCAL Kentucky for. VOCAL stands for Voices of Community Activists and Leaders and is a program brought to our great city by Shameka Parrish-Wright and Jeremy Saunders. VOCAL-KY is building a movement of low-income people dedicated to ending the AIDS epidemic, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, and homelessness across the country. They fight for systemic change rooted in justice, compassion, and love. They approach this work with a firm belief in reducing harm and ending stigma, and the knowledge that the issues impacting our communities are driven by institutional oppression, not personal failings.

Pony Morris is a community activist and leader representing VOCAL Kentucky and Pony came to the studio to introduce the concept of harm reduction for my audience. This show will feature some sound from that show.

Harm reduction works by addressing broader health and social issues through improved policies, programs, and practices.

Resources:

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

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

Email VOCAL-KY: [email protected]

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

Sacrifice Zones is hosted by Stretch and airs weekly on Sundays at 11am, Mondays at 8am, and Tuesdays at 2pm on Forward Radio WFMP-LP Louisville 106.5fm and livestreaming at https://forwardradio.org.

Patty and Brian discuss various points of view on when to use and when not to use artificial intelligence.

Host Ruth Newman runs down those candidates running in districts 1, 2, 4 and 7 for Jefferson County Board of Education in the 2024 General election. Next, guest Victoria Strange discusses candidates running in the District 7 Kentucky state Senate race, also on the 2024 ballot. Election information is given as well.