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On this week's Truth To Power, we bring you the next installment of a new program on Forward Radio called "Sacrifice Zones" hosted by Stretch. On this week's show, Stretch is in conversation with Pony Morris from VOCAL Kentucky (https://vocal-ky.org/). Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL) is a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people. 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. We fight for systemic change rooted in justice, compassion, and love. We 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.

This week's conversation focuses on Harm Reduction at SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) (https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/harm-reduction). Harm reduction is a practical and transformative approach that incorporates community-driven public health strategies — including prevention, risk reduction, and health promotion — to empower people who use drugs (and their families) with the choice to live healthy, self-directed, and purpose-filled lives. Harm reduction centers the lived and living experience of people who use drugs, especially those in under-served communities, in these strategies and the practices that flow from them.

Harm reduction emphasizes engaging directly with people who use drugs to prevent overdose and infectious disease transmission; improve physical, mental, and social wellbeing; and offer low barrier options for accessing health care services, including substance use and mental health disorder treatment.

Harm reduction is an important part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s comprehensive approach to addressing substance use disorders through prevention, treatment, and recovery — and empowering people to reach their own goals, through incremental change.

Organizations who practice harm reduction incorporate a spectrum of strategies that meet people where they are ― on their own terms and may serve as a pathway to additional health and social services, including additional prevention, treatment, and recovery services.

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

Contact VOCAL KY at [email protected]

See also:

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

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/you-dont-get-to-vote-on-any-of-your

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 http://forwardradio.org

James Moore, Victoria Strange and host, Ruth Newman scramble up a variety of topics, all related to elections and specifically the 2024 General Election. James and Ruth present proposals they've come up with intended to improve our election process. Ranked Choice Voting is discussed, as several states have measures on the ballot for either repealing or enacting RCV. Victoria Strange joins the conversation to add her perspective to the upcoming November election. And lots of handy links to voting information are given.

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For a lot of people, Labor Day, which this year fell on September 2, marks the end of summer, although astronomical summer doesn’t end until September 22 (and meteorological fall actually begins on September 1). And according to Carrie, summer ends on the first day of school, which was Aug 8 here in Louisville KY. And what was a common assignment when you returned back to schook? That's right. Write about what you did this summer. So this episode is a recap of what the two of us did this summer told in the form of books!

Books mentioned--

1- Bad Monkey by Carl Hiassen

2- Hoot by Carl Hiassen

3- Flush by Carl Hiassen

4- Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway by Emma Fick

5- Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

6- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Amanda Pavlov @pavlovsbooks - A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch

7- The Kindred Spirits Supper Club by Amy E. Reichert

8- Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal

9- Hum If You Don't Know the Words by Bianca Marais

10- Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

11- Death’s Door: True Tales of Tragedy, Mystery, and Bravery from the Great Lakes’ Most Dangerous Waters by Barbara M. Joosse

12- The Elephants of Thula Thula by Francois Malby-Anthony

13- A Death in Door County (Monster Hunter Mystery) by Annelise Ryan

14- The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso

15- I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

16- The Deepest Lake by Andromeda Romano-Lax

17- Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke, audiobook narrated by Brendan Fraser

18- Death Stalks Door County (Dave Cubiak #1) by Patricia Skalka

Media mentioned--

1- Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father (Netflix, 2017)

2- Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood with my Father (2024)

3- The Tourist (Netflix, 2022)

4- Bad Monkey (Apple+, 2024)

5- Strong Sense of Place Podcast - https://strongsenseofplace.com/podcasts/

6-Lawsuit Against Florida Book Bans - https://people.com/publishers-authors-students-and-teachers-file-lawsuit-against-florida-book-bans-8704020

How we will pay for single payer health care.

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, takes a stroll along the Ohio River with Kristin Faurest, the new President and CEO of River Fields (https://riverfields.org/). For over 65 years, River Fields has worked to protect, preserve and enhance the natural and cultural resources, including agricultural and scenic resources, on both sides of the Ohio River between Westport and West Point, Kentucky, for the benefit of the public.

Read the Courier-Journal's interview with Kristen Faurest at https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2024/07/25/river-fields-leader-kristin-faurest-takes-helm-of-ohio-river-group/74270962007/

River Fields does several things: advocacy, conservation, and education – all around the river, its lands, and the people who depend upon them. The organization has gained national respect for its effective, professionally maintained program of advocacy, which works hand-in-hand with a land conservation program. For decades, they have advocated for the protection of land and water resources in balance with responsible growth in the region. River Fields supports planned development, growth management, greater public access, environmental and historic preservation, the enhancement of scenic views, urban design, and transportation reform.

One of River Fields’ primary goals is to provide education on the importance of the river, the cultural and natural resources of the river corridor, public access needs, and open space protection as well as growth issues that might jeopardize these resources. To accomplish this goal, they provide vital information to, and work closely with, local citizen’s organizations, decision makers, and the news media.

One of the organization’s recent advocacy issues was to stop a planned barge repair facility at the foot of six mile island that would have jeopardized a nesting area for bald eagles and also potentially endanger our water supply. They have also educated members of the legal community about conservation easements, the National Historic Preservation Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act through continuing education seminars at the Louisville Bar Association.

River Fields has worked successfully with landowners and supporters to preserve thousands of acres of beautiful open space, productive farms, diverse woodlands and unique wetlands along the Ohio River Corridor and Watershed. They own 13 river corridor properties outright, totaling over 65 acres. Their largest property, Garvin Brown Preserve in Prospect, is open to the public every day from dawn to dusk. In addition, they hold conservation easements that restrict the development rights to 17 additional properties in Jefferson and surrounding counties. These easements protect more than 2,172 acres of land that is important to the public, including sensitive wetlands and watersheds, beautiful scenic vistas, wildlife habitats, historical properties and landscapes, and working farms. In total, River Fields has protected over 2,200 acres of land forever.

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

Paul Hoppe and Drs Tom Flynn, Gene Shively, and Pat Murphy on Pain Management and Drug Addiction Treatment

On this week's Truth To Power, we bring you the next installment of a new program on Forward Radio called "Sacrifice Zones" hosted by Stretch. The program features an interview that Stretch conducted in a community room at a climate conference back in 2019. Activists repelled from the Houston shipping channel bridge and stopped all traffic for 18 hours. The event was timed to coincide with the Democratic National Convention and the story that Mary relates here is about what happened once they were inside the jail they were taken to. Five years later, things seem to have taken the turn that Mary warns of and her clarion call rings true as a warning of how far in the wrong direction we have gone.

Below are some helpful references related to the program:

The Shell Cracker plant in PA

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05052024/todays-climate-plastic-pennsylvania-ethane-cracker-plant/

Project 2025 pdf

https://archive.org/details/project-2025-mandate-for-leadership-full_202309-manifesto/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL/

Brittanica article on Katrina

https://www.britannica.com/event/Hurricane-Katrina

Bus fire in Wilmer

https://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/23/bus.fire/

Brittanica article on Ian

https://www.britannica.com/event/Hurricane-Ian-2022

Houston shipping channel daily output 2023

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/record-us-crude-exports-rising-shale-output-boosts-oil-flow-houston-2023-05-12/

The Black Cat Riots

https://hornet.com/stories/black-cat-raid-history/

Houston ship channel action 2019

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/environment/greenpeace-members-face-federal-state-charges-in-houston-protest-idUSKCN1VY1EV/

The Reluctant Radical

https://www.collectiveeye.org/products/the-reluctant-radical

Pictures and the story of the Greenpeace activists, updated

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/grand-jury-refuses-felonies-for-greenpeace-activists-and-others-charged-in-houston-oil-industry-protest/

Update on the activists

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/grand-jury-refuses-felonies-for-greenpeace-activists-and-others-charged-in-houston-oil-industry-protest/

Meet the activists

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/meet-the-brave-activists-who-shut-down-the-largest-fossil-fuel-ship-channel-in-the-us-for-18-hours/

Catlettsburg refinery in Kentucky

https://www.marathonpetroleum.com/Operations/Refining/Catlettsburg-Refinery/

There is a Financial Times article on Gaza2035 that is available when you sign up by email.

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 http://forwardradio.org

Bob Cline drops by to talk song lyrics with Patty and Brian! We listen to some cool, classic music and talk about Bob's career in radio!

How is artificial intelligence already impacting our society? How do programmers train AI computers to mimic human thought? How accurate is ChatGPT? Then, hear what planets, stars, and constellations we can see in the night sky during September.

‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly 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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This week we chat with Britton Perelman, a unique artist and craftsperson who creates miniature bookshelves. We saw her at the Columbus OH Book Festival in 2023, which was the first festival she attended selling her amazing creations, and we were delighted when she agreed to be a guest.

We chat with her about how she sort of fell into designing and crafting miniature bookshelves during COVID and how the business has been booming, which leaves Britton, who has a BA in journalism and an MFA in screenwriting, with little time to compose written work. Britton has had to get all hands on deck, including her mom and sister, which means Books by Britton is a female-owned, family business.

Books Mentioned In this Episode:

1- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

2- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

3- Tiny Treasures: Amazing Miniatures You Can Make by Nancy Holyoke

4- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

5- The Guest List by Lucy Foley

6- Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

7- Truly, Devious series by Maureen Johnson

8- A Five-Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Steve Elliot @stevereadthatbook - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

9- Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy

10- The Measure by Nikki Erlick

11- A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston

12- The Hundred Loves of Juliet by Evelyn Skye

13- One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

Shows mentioned--

The Decameron (Netflix, 2024)

Links:

1- Pandora Productions - Little Shop of Horrors - https://www.pandoraprods.org/

2- Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest-- https://www.bulwer-lytton.com

3- Louisville Book Festival - https://www.louisvillebookfestival.com/