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Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare Members and Guest, Lexington Ky Vice-Mayor Dan Wu discuss the City deciding to relieve 100 million dollars of local resident's medical debt.

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Sharon Short at her website, www.sharonshort.com and on Instagram at @sharongshortauthor. This week we have a Remix episode and catch up with Sharon Short, who we initially interviewed about he...

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, sits down with Alex Otte, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Regional Executive Director and former National President. Alex is a Kentucky resident, who was hit by a boat driven by a drunk driver while sitting on a jet ski when she was 13 years old. Despite sustaining severe injuries — including a traumatic brain injury, broken neck, shattered femur...

On this week's program, we dive into the issue of the health impacts of burning coal with UofL professor of Geographic & Environmental Sciences, Dr. Charlie Zhang, who presented at the University of Louisville's monthly Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Seminar Series back on August 1, 2024. Dr. Zhang's presentation was entitled "Examining Health Impacts of Proximity to Coal Ash Storage Faciliti...

Bridget Moix is the fifth General Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). She also leads two other Quaker organizations, affiliated with FCNL: Friends Place on Capitol Hill and FCNL Education Fund. She is a passionate Quaker peace advocate, activist, and mother. Bridget rejoined FCNL as General Secretary in January 2022. Early in her career, she had interned at FCNL. She...

Show Notes: This show contains descriptions of violence, having to do with sexual assault and may not be appropriate for all audiences. Pamela Brown’s Substack post: https://pamelaannbrown.substack.com/p/why-as-a-black-woman-i-will-not-be?r=mvq9h&triedRedirect=true Gisele Pelicot: France: Rape culture on trial in Pelicot case: https://theweek.com/crime/the-pelicot-case-a-horror-exposed Pamela Brow...

In this interview, Dr. Cynthia Ganote, Founder and CEO of Ganote Consulting, offers tips on small steps we can all take to bring more kindness and inclusion into our personal and work lives, especially as it relates to the troubled times we are living in.

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, gets his hands dirty with Jane Evans & Mateo Barnett, from Common Earth Gardens, a program of Catholic Charities of Louisville (https://cclou.org/common-earth-gardens/). Like Forward Radio, Catholic Charities of Louisville is participating in Giving Tuesday on December 3rd and we hope you’ll consider chipping in to support the good work of non-profits...

The Union of Concerned Scientists (https://www.ucsusa.org/) is a non-profit, science-advocacy organization founded at MIT in 1969. Today, we feature a portion of their November 27th interview with Dr. Christopher Williams (political scientist) called 'Science Will Not Be Silent'. Its about how science policy might be affected by the upcoming Trump administration. Following that, Scott Miller tells...

Sacrifice Zones airs on Sundays at 11am, Mondays at 8am, and Tuesdays at 2pm. This show was a hodge podge, but careful listeners will see a trend or through-line in all of my shows. They are a protest against the weaponization of capitalism launched by the United States of America in its play for empire. I read 2 essays that I feel captured the moment we are in better than anything I could have co...

This is a REPLAY episode from our Holiday gift buying guide from 2023. We will be back next week with a REMIX episode with former guest Tracy Clark who has a new mystery you won't want to miss. This week we chat with our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller, from Carmichael’s Bookstore. Each November we let her do the heavy lifting and share books that have come out and might be good choices for your h...

K.A. Owens interviews writer, actor, activist, and radio host Michael Tee about the role of Community Radio in the age of Trump. Recorded Tuesday November 26, 2024, 12 Noon.

Member of Veterans For Peace, John Wilborn, discusses the book "On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century" (by Andrew J. Bacevich, November 2022), in the context of the state of the country and the political parties after the 2024 elections. VFP Radio Hour is a monthly one-hour program hosted by veteran members of Veterans For Peace Chapter 168, Louisville. We present...

Our guest today is Lionel Derenoncourt. Lionel Derenoncourt grew up in Haiti and now lives in Louisville. Lionel Derenoncourt was the keynote speaker at the November 21st Third Thursday Lunch sponsored by the Louisville Fellowship Reconciliation. Lionel Derenoncourt grew up in Haiti watching his parents deliver goods and services to working class people all over Haiti. Lionel Derenoncourt's native...

This panel discussion, titled "The Impact of Immigrants and Refugees in Louisville KY" took place November 18, 2024 at the Louisville League of Women Voters as part of their Democracy in Action monthly forum series. Providers in various aspects of immigrant and refugee support services (as well as a state legislator, herself an immigrant) presented candid reports on the current situation and futur...

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, talks bourbon (for perhaps the first time on the program!) with Barbara Hurt, Executive Director of Dendrifund (https://www.dendrifund.org) and Sustainability Innovation Leader at Brown-Forman. Dendrifund is a non-profit seed fund created in partnership with the Brown family and Brown-Forman back in 2012 that is cultivating common ground to renew our...

Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare members discuss the Affordable Care Act from the beginning.

If you would like to check out Carmichael’s Bookstore Holiday Book Gift Guide, you can find it online at www.carmichaelsbookstore.com/ Website- www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a BookLover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. The delightful Sam Miller, store manager at Carmichael’s Book Store, comes t...

Do you schedule a "pow wow" before you need to "hold down the fort" and make a plan to 'circle the wagons"? This show recognizes we are in Native American Heritage Month and focuses on problematic use of words and terms that in many cases have their origins in Native American traditions, tropes, or stereotypes. These terms--divorced from their origins-- have been normalized for many of us, but as...

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, takes a hike with Terrell Holder, Vice-Chair of the Greater Louisville Sierra Club and Chair of the Kentucky Chapter. Terrell is part of a group that will be lobbying the mayor to appoint a sustainable development expert to the board of the nascent Louisville Economic Development Alliance (LEDA). As it stands, the LEDA board has no one of that descrip...

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. November is Native American Heritage month so in this episode, we’re sharing some books written by Native American authors. There are so many great texts to choose from if you’re interested in broadening yo...

A conversation with Dr. RonSonlyn Clark, President of the Kentucky Council on Problem Gambling, on Kentucky's sports gambling problems and the lack of resources to address them. It has only been since 2023 that Kentucky has had tax revenues going toward addressing problem gambling although horse racing gambling has been legal since the 1930s; the Kentucky Lottery has been legal since 1989; and His...

Dr. Makie holds a bachelor of science degree in public administration, a master’s degree and a doctorate in social work, all from the University of Southern California. He served as acting provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at Cal State University, and acting dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Cal State University, Los Angeles. He was also an assistant professor in the...

On this week's show, we tackle vital issues of rural healthcare.

Did you know that 232,000 Americans may have not died from COVID19 if they had been fully vaccinated? We review Robert F. Kennedy Jr's track record on vaccines. This is important as he is slated to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. Then, we discuss the declines we see nationally in IQ, fertility, and drug overdoses. Conversely, we speak of increases in...