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JP Lyninger is a proud JCPS graduate of duPont Manual High School, as well as the University of Louisville. After graduation from UofL, JP became a long-time activist and organizer, fighting for a better Louisville at protests against police violence, anti-war rallies, direct actions, and standing in solidarity with workers on picket lines. In 2022, he served as campaign manager for Shelby Park resident Robert LeVertis Bell’s campaign for State Representative. Later, JP managed Access For All KY’s “No On 2” campaign, helping defeat Amendment 2’s permanent ban on abortion access in Kentucky. He also served three terms as co-chair of Louisville DSA. J.P. Lyninger is the newly elected Louisville Metro Council member representing Jefferson County's district 6.

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, puts down his shovel to catch up with the Urban Ag Coalition (https://foodinneighborhoods.org/grow/), one of Forward Radio’s proud Community Partners! Listen in as we get our hands dirty and get down in the weeds with some amazing urban growers here in Louisville: 


1. Sara Beth Sammons is Supervisor for the Jefferson Co. Soil & Water Conservation District, and a landscape architect & urban homesteader;

2. Mark Robbins is a Farmer with Sacred Earth Community Garden; a member of the Louisville Urban League Farm Cohort; and maker of delicious juices;

3. Tevon Terry is also a Farmer with Sacred Earth Community Garden; but he also works for Change Today, Change Tomorrow; and a member of the Rural-Urban Exchange; and

4. Bethany Pratt is an urban farmer; a Local Food System Specialist with UK Extension; and a berry and chicken enthusiast

We ask this amazing panel of growers what it takes to be an “urban farmer” and what are some of the challenges facing urban farming in Louisville? We also discuss FSA services & getting a farm number for your property; what are some of your favorite things to grow?; and what are some resources in town to support urban agriculture.

Tune in, also, for a quick peek at the The People’s Summit on Food Systems and Urban Agriculture: Food Vision 2030, coming up on Friday & Saturday, August 16-17 and Friday, September 13th, hosted by Food in Neighborhoods. The program includes local food justice tours on Friday (8/16) and Saturday (8/17), each of which involve a volunteer agricultural work component in the morning, a group lunch, and an additional site visit in the afternoon. The tours will raise awareness about local success stories with building grassroots solutions to food insecurity and food apartheid, opening space for inspiration, networking, popular education, and skill sharing among participants. The People’s Summit culminates in a full day of participatory conference proceedings on Friday, September 13, which will include general plenary sessions, a variety of thematic workshops, and informal spaces for art and dialogue with sponsors. Learn more and register now at https://foodinneighborhoods.org/peoples-summit/

We also learn about the new West End Farmers Market, hosted by Change Today, Change Tomorrow. It is biweekly on Sundays from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM, May 19th through September 8th, in Parkland at 25th and Date Street, and the next one is coming up this Sunday, July14th!

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

A talk about the economic pros and cons as well as the benefits and costs of AI.

K.A. Owens interviews Professor Pete Fosl of Transylvania University in Kentucky. Professor Fosl is the Director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economic unit at Transylvania University.

He is the former Director of the KY Labor Institute and former Editor of Forsooth. Topics: the economy, inflation and labor.

Recorded Friday July 5, 2024, 1PM.

Chris Poche returns for a discussion of On Truth with Brian and Patty.

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you more highlights from the second hour of our live broadcast from the 5th Annual Bluegrass VegFest held on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Forward Radio was a proud media sponsor of this year’s VegFest, providing wall-to-wall live coverage. Tune in for a sample of Kentuckiana’s Largest Vegan Food Festival - a free public event produced by Bluegrass Veg, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, featuring 30,000 sq ft of marketplace halls at the Mellwood Art Center. Learn more at http://bluegrassvegfest.com

In this second hour of our broadcast, we caught up with some Forward Radio volunteers staffing our booth at VegFest and we spoke with a representative from Second Chances Wildlife Rehab Center. We also bring you the incredible insights of keynote speaker and Holistic Nutritionist, Dr. Ruby Lathon. Ruby is an engineer who turned holistic nutritionist after healing herself of thyroid cancer by drastically changing her lifestyle through a plant-based diet. She was featured in the hit documentary, What the Health and the newly released documentary, They’re Trying to Kill Us. Dr. Lathon now teaches others how to re-engineer their health and live disease free.

Dr. Lathon is an inspirational and sought-after speaker on motivation and natural healing. She teaches other about the benefits and power of plant-based nutrition through health conferences, workshops, vegan cooking classes, consultations and coaching programs. Dr. Lathon served as Nutrition Policy Manager at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, where she developed and led a national grassroots campaign to advocate legislation for more healthful, plant-based meal options in the National School Lunch Program. She is the host of "The Veggie Chest," plant-based cooking show aired on Washington’s DCTV.

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 forwardradio.org

***We are on summer hiatus but will be back with an all new episode next week! Happy Reading!

This week we are talking all about journeys. Whether they be physical or mental, we whisk you away in a good book. Choose from 10 book recommendations from Carrie and Amy for when you're ready to be on the move.

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.

We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and

FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.

Books Mentioned in this Episode

1- How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas Foster

2- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

3- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

4- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

5- The Lion of Lark-Hayes Manor by Aubrey Hartman

6- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (The Surgeon of Crowthorne)

7- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

8- Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool by Lauren Artress

9- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

10- Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

11- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

12- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

13- What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait by Eden Collinsworth

14- News of the World by Paulette Jilles

15- Enemy Women by Paulette Jilles

16- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

17- The Road Towards Home by Corinne Demas

18- A Pearl in a Storm: How I Found my Heart in the Middle of the Atlantic Ocean by Tori Murden McClure

19- The Gran Tour: Travels with My Elders by Ben Aitken

20- Cutting Teeth by Chandler Baker

21- Cosmic Cats and Fantastic Furballs by Mary Turzillo

22- Your Cat and Other Space Aliens by Mary Turzillo

23- Mars is No Place for Children by Mary Turzillo

5 Star Book Recommendation by a Book Lover

1- Empire Of A Vampire by Jay Christoff recommended by Tiffany K., Omaha, NE. Instagram @chaiteaandbooksareallineed

Shows/Movies watched—

1- American Born Chinese (Disney+, 2023)

2- Annihilation (Netflix, 2018)

3- The Professor and the Madman (2019)

Labirynth Locator

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Bookish News

Article about Henrietta Lacks

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Host Paul Hoppe and cohosts Drs. Mike Flynn and Gene Shively, with their guest Dr. Don Henderson continue the series on Private Equity in healthcare.

Victoria Strange joins host, Ruth Newman, to take a peak into elaborate plans for a 2025 Trump White House. Entitled "Project 2025" and produced by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, with contributions from former Trump appointees, this is a Presidential Transition blueprint that reconfigures the Executive Branch of government to place it under direct presidential control. What this means for our democracy is discussed and lamented. Later on in the program a talk, originally broadcast in January of 2024, by Election Connection host Ruth Newman, gives an encouraging perspective on where global cities are headed as they increasingly join forces to battle anti-democratic authoritarianism and to implement measures for greening their cityscapes.

This week on the Access Hour, we bring you the third edition of a new program by Stretch that we are piloting called "Sacrifice Zones." This week's program features a conversation with Khalid Awad, a native of Beit Ommer, in the West Bank, Palestine. Khalid has organized peace dialogues between students from Palestine and Israeli universities. He has a Masters in Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.