Enlighten Radio Presents
Labor Beat Radio: Workers Memorial Day 2025
 
 
Mother Jones: Honor the Dead. Fight Like Hell for the Living
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays at 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
Description: John, JB and Scott focus on Workers Memorial Day, honoring workers who lost their lives on the job in 2024. JB and John got to hear a moving, memorable and timely tribute from UMWA (retiring) president, Cecil Roberts, at the memorial in Wheeling, WV.
This Episode Recorded April 29, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
Paris on the Potomac: Crash Landing in WV
Recession, Repression Loom. Time to Get Moving. Or Doom.
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: John Case, Karen Valentine
John and Karen confront the growing uncertainty feeding doom, and the points of Light.
This Episode Recorded April 25, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Labor Beat Radio: The Larry Shultz Interview
Medicaid Cuts Threaten WV Hospitals
Will Mary, Joseph and the Baby God be turned away?
 
 
 
Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
 
Guests: Larry Schultz
Description: Attorney and radio host Larry Schultz reviews, in detail, the serious jeopardy proposed Administration cuts to expanded Medicaid and other health services to rural hospitals across the nation, and especially in West Virginnia.
This Episode Recorded April 22, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?
 
 
The Myth of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades: Do not be troubled if you do not like any of the characters. They are not people. They are aspects of a dilemma or conflict. No?
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This Episode Recorded April 23, 2025
Persephone the Wanderer
by Louise Gluck
In the first version, Persephone is taken from her mother and the goddess of the earth punishes the earth—this is consistent with what we know of human behavior, that human beings take profound satisfaction in doing harm, particularly unconscious harm: we may call this negative creation. Persephone's initial sojourn in hell continues to be pawed over by scholars who dispute the sensations of the virgin: did she cooperate in her rape, or was she drugged, violated against her will, as happens so often now to modern girls. As is well known, the return of the beloved does not correct the loss of the beloved: Persephone returns home stained with red juice like a character in HawthorneI am not certain I will keep this word: is earth "home" to Persephone? Is she at home, conceivably, in the bed of the god? Is she at home nowhere? Is she a born wanderer, in other words an existential replica of her own mother, less hamstrung by ideas of causality? You are allowed to like no one, you know. The characters are not people. They are aspects of a dilemma or conflict. Three parts: just as the soul is divided, ego, superego, id. Likewise the three levels of the known world, a kind of diagram that separates heaven from earth from hell. You must ask yourself: where is it snowing? White of forgetfulness, of desecration— It is snowing on earth; the cold wind says Persephone is having sex in hell. Unlike the rest of us, she doesn't know what winter is, only that she is what causes it. She is lying in the bed of Hades. What is in her mind? Is she afraid? Has something blotted out the idea of mind? She does know the earth is run by mothers, this much is certain. She also knows she is not what is called a girl any longer. Regarding incarceration, she believes she has been a prisoner since she has been a daughter. The terrible reunions in store for her will take up the rest of her life. When the passion for expiation is chronic, fierce, you do not choose the way you live. You do not live; you are not allowed to die. You drift between earth and death which seem, finally, strangely alike. Scholars tell us that there is no point in knowing what you want when the forces contending over you could kill you. White of forgetfulness, white of safety— They say there is a rift in the human soul which was not constructed to belong entirely to life. Earth asks us to deny this rift, a threat disguised as suggestionas we have seen in the tale of Persephone which should be read as an argument between the mother and the loverthe daughter is just meat. When death confronts her, she has never seen the meadow without the daisies. Suddenly she is no longer singing her maidenly songs about her mother's beauty and fecundity. Where the rift is, the break is. Song of the earth, song of the mythic vision of eternal life— My soul shattered with the strain of trying to belong to earth— What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
 
The Movie was a Poem
 
 
Ishmael Reed's Mirrors, MIchael Palmer's silent star, the Wicked Errol Flynn, "Come, let’s go in."
Wednesday's 10 AM Eastern, http://player.enlighenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded April 16, 2025
My Wicked, Wicked Ways
by Sandra Cisneros
 
This is my father. See? He is young. He looks like Errol Flynn. He is wearing a hat that tips over one eye, a suit that fits him good, and baggy pants. He is also wearing those awful shoes, the two-toned ones my mother hates. Here is my mother. She is not crying. She cannot look into the lens because the sun is bright. The woman, the one my father knows, is not here. She does not come till later. My mother will get very mad. Her face will turn red and she will throw one shoe. My father will say nothing. After a while everyone will forget it. Years and years will pass. My mother will stop mentioning it. This is me she is carrying. I am a baby. She does not know I will turn out bad.
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
The Last Stop Cafe: Sports and Failed States
Its Spring Training -- Baseball will fix everything.
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case
The Cucch takes apart the baseball spring spirits, and the collapse of our Giant Redwood Nation into a pile of tinder.
This Episode Recorded April 7, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
Labor Beat Radio: Bluejay Rising
Zach Shrewsbury -- Bluejay Rising
 
 
Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
 
Guests: Zach Shrewsbury
Description: Zach Shrewsbury joins usto discuss Bluejay Rising, a grass roots, community action based political movement within the Democratic party in southern West Virginia. Bluejay Rising has been focusing on flood relief. Zach's historic grass roots Senate campaign argues strongly for a grass roots path for the Democratic party to return to relevance, and winning.Here is Zach's speech at the Charleston, WV Hand Off rally.
This Episode Recorded April 8, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Shepherdstown, WV Poet Sue Silver Shines
 
Image: a MS Copilot interpretation of a verse in Catness
 
Sue Silver -- a longtime Shepherdstown poet, shares some poignant and powerful poems. Her friends join in the studio to listen to her reading. In the poem below, Sekhmet was a powerful and multifaceted ancient Egyptian goddess, often depicted with a lioness head, representing both the destructive force of war and sun's healing power.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded April 9, 2025
Catness
by Sue Silver
One night with the wind blowing wildly my cat climbs down from the porch chair. She rolls around on the ground. I wait, hold the door open ‘til she, in her own time, makes her way inside. The wind, all this while, works to wrest the door from my grasp. I run my hand over her black fur. Her yellow eyes gaze at me steadily. She purrs, her claws extend and retract on the cushion that protects my legs as she sits in my lap. I see the Egyptian Goddess, Sekhmet, who did Ra’s bidding annihilating evil hordes, after which she became the Great Healer, they say. Ancient one - She who lives with the wind, her eyes and paws reaching to me. Her body, an echo of all cats - tiger, panther, bobcat. Her stride, her stance that stillness in her strength. The stalk, the pounce.
 
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