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Forward Radio was thrilled to participate in the 2023 Louisville Maker Faire, held at the University of Louisville on September 16th from 10am-6pm. We were so excited to bring the voices of so many makers here in our community! Learn more at http://louisville.makerfaire.com/

This week we are featuring books by Latino authors in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Molly's Tuxedo by Vicki Johnson

2- Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (short story)

3- Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

4- Fever by Mary Beth Keane

5- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

6- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

7- Why Didn’t You Tell Me by Carmen Rita Wong

8- Ghetto Klown by John Leguizamo

9- The Last Cuentista by Barbara Donna Higuera

10- The Murmur of Bees by Sophía Segovia

11- The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernandez

12- The Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña

13- Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt de la Peña

14- In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

15- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

16- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

17- Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen

18- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

19- I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

20- Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

21- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

22- Leech by Hiron Ennes

5 Star Book Recommendation by a Fellow Book Lover - Ciera Oldham @Disappearherebookblog

- Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Movies mentioned--

1- Arrival (2016)

2- The Afterparty (Apple + TV, 2022 - present)

Article about Cuban community in Louisville:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/us/cubans-louisville-kentucky.html

Article about wasps and figs:

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/figs-and-wasps

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.

A discussion of the various forms of discrimination in the workplace, especially regarding age and disabilities, with Ms. Janice Baldon-Gutter. She is currently with the the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University as the Program Coordinator of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion of the Southeast ADA Center.

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, opens the tap for a much-needed conversation with Dr. Daniel Jaffee, author of the brand new book, "Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice," released by University of California Press, September 2023 (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306622/unbottled). Dan Jaffee is an environmental and rural sociologist, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Portland State University. He is the author of “Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival” (revised edition, UC Press 2014), which received the C. Wright Mills Book Award. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on water commodification and on social conflicts around bottled water. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006.

Unbottled is an exploration of bottled water's impact on social justice and sustainability, and how diverse movements are fighting back. In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market dominated by global corporations. It sits at the convergence of a mounting ecological crisis of single-use plastic waste and climate change, a social crisis of affordable access to safe drinking water, and a struggle over the fate of public water systems.

Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water and challenge its growth in North America and worldwide. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, residents, public officials, and other participants in controversies ranging from bottled water's role in unsafe tap water crises to groundwater extraction for bottling in rural communities, Dan Jaffee asks what this commodity's meteoric growth means for social inequality, sustainability, and the human right to water. Unbottled profiles campaigns to reclaim the tap and addresses the challenges of ending dependence on packaged water in places where safe water is not widely accessible. Clear and compelling, it assesses the prospects for the movements fighting plastic water and working to ensure water justice for all.

Learn more at http://danieljaffee.net

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

Forward Radio has been thrilled to participate in the 2023 Louisville Maker Faire, held at the University of Louisville September 16th from 10am-6pm. We are so excited to bring the voices of so many makers here in our community! Learn more at https://louisville.makerfaire.com/

K.A. Owens interviews Dr. Judi Jennings, former Director of the KY Foundation for Women, former Director of the Women's Center at the University of Louisville. Topic- Update on the jail crisis at Louisville Metro Department of Corrections.

Recorded Friday September 15, 2023, 1PM.

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you an important conversation about policies to support food justice in Louisville from the inaugural People’s Summit on Food Systems and Urban Agriculture that was held on September 9th at 100 Witherspoon Conference Center and organized by the Food in Neighborhoods (FIN) community coalition and the Cooperative Extension Program of Kentucky State University. In this Workshop on New Food and Land Laws to Weave Food Justice Into our City, you will hear from panelists:

- Abby Rudolph, Food in Neighborhoods

- Amanda Fuller, Lots of Food

- Yu Emily Liu & Jay Luckett, Louisville Metro Office of Planning

- Jody Dahmer & Mariah Corso, Beargrass Thunder

- Tia Bowman, Metro Office of Community Development

- Tay G, Change Today, Change Tomorrow.

Weaving the Food Web: The People’s Summit on Food Systems and Urban Agriculture was held in downtown Louisville September 8–9th, 2023. Food in Neighborhoods (FIN) and the Cooperative Extension Program of Kentucky State University (KYSU) have partnered to organize this public event that included caravan tours in the city to raise awareness about local food apartheid and grassroots efforts to increase healthy food access as well as spotlight the work of urban growers. The Summit also featured workshop-style events involving popular education and in-depth political strategy discussions, addressing topics such as: food apartheid and environmental racism; youth leadership training; how to grow your own food; cooperative economics and Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs); urban and rural land access; New American success stories; and local food policy advocacy.

Weaving the Food Web is a transformative act of healing, solidarity, and collective action toward realizing food justice, human rights and dignified livelihoods for all. Exciting food justice initiatives were featured and the input of participants - through dialogue, art and celebration - was gathered during the day. Hot breakfast and lunch, ASL and language interpretation were offered, along with childcare, and Grow Appalachia offered free registration for beginning farmers. Learn more at http://foodinneighborhoods.org

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

It's a special live broadcast of Critical Thinking for Everyone to encourage you to Give For Good, Louisville! Thanks to everyone who has helped us make steady progress towards our goal of raising $4000 before midnight! Please take a moment to support the station today at https://www.giveforgoodlouisville.org/organizations/wfmp-low-power-radio-inc

Join Forward Radio volunteers Tom Lambert, Tory Strange, Goliath & Yanielle, and Justin Mog for a special live broadcast to encourage you to Give For Good, Louisville! Thanks to everyone who has helped us inch towards our goal of raising $4000 before midnight! Please take a moment to support the station today at https://www.giveforgoodlouisville.org/organizations/wfmp-low-power-radio-inc

In this lead-up to Louisville's annual GiveForGood 24-hr fundraiser for local 501(c)3 nonprofits, Ruth interviews Dee Pregliasco, President of the League of Women Voters Louisville on the League's mission, its activities, events and services. Included are election resources for citizens to access as the fall November 2023 election approaches. Interspersed throughout are plugs for giving to the League and to WFMP 106.5 FM on Sept. 14, the GiveForGood day of giving.