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Winners and Losers: Time to Sober Up, Folks.

 
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Winners and Losers: Say It Aint So, Joe
Time to Sober Up, Folks.
If Jaime Dimon steps in, we can stop debating whether finance capital zillionaires are running the country.
 
 
Broadcasting LIVE Fridays at 7:30 AM Eastern: http://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
Karen and John mourn the Biden Trump debate. Could be the end for Biden. Whoever pushed him over the edge may be guilty of elder abuse.
This Episode Recorded June 28, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: Belief

 
 
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What Does It Mean 'To Believe'?
 
 
Themes of "belief" are the mosaic of poems displayed this week: from Bob Kaufman, William Blake, DH Lawrence, Mark Gibbons and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded June 26, 2024
I Believe I Remember Love
by Mark Gibbons
My mother was transforming another tough pot roast into meat loaf, grinding up chunks of gristly beef, bovine scraps she’d boned off a shoulder blade. As she bore down on the stiff crank handle & fed the iron gullet of the meat grinder, the auger hole, I stood beside her, a shadow, not yet two, held onto the counter & cutting board, listened to the squish & roar of meat pushing through spaghetti sized holes. I was mesmerized by those oozing red hamburger strings. In a flash I reached up & plugged a hole with my finger to stop the flow, didn’t know about the slashing, windmilling knives turning industriously, cleaving all meat. My mother & I screamed, cried hysterically, held hands & a dish towel full of blood while my dad drove the thirty miles of curvy road, a two lane along the river, cussing, full throttle. They hustled me through the lobby of the clinic, brick & glass. I saw wheel chairs, white gowns running about, watched an overhead light fade. Finally, at home I remember sitting on the floor in overalls, a lemon sucker in one hand & plaster cast on the other, people laughing, smiling at me: the fabled "Little Dutch Boy" who survived the flood. I was the talk of the neighborhood, the focus of the family. My first memory, that trauma, was perfect drama. An audience brings us joy. Our greatest happiness is the belief we are loved. It’s what we live for, what we desire most. We learn to tolerate any pain, risk blood or breath, anything, if we believe we are loved, right now, forever.
 
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Labor Beat Radio: Teamsters Take on Amazon, and Headline RNC

 
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Labor Beat Radio: Teamsters Take on Amazon, and Headline RNC
Trump Woos Teamsters
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
Description: The Teamster merger with the Amazon Labor Union, its invite to headline the Republican National Convention, The Mercedes Co foregoes raises promised if union defeated.
This Episode Recorded June 25, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: June 24: Mighty Onion and Her Kin

The Turd Sandwich Café: Say Hey, Willie Mays

 
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The Turd Sandwich Café: Say Hey, Willie Mays
Willie is gone. And a world with him.
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case
A tribute to Willie Mays. The Baseball Movie About A Peg Leg Slugger, The Commanders look good to Mike. A sandwich special where you get to eat your enemy, after stabbing it.
This Episode Recorded June 24, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Recovery Radio: Donny 99

 
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Recovery Radio: Donny 99
Recovery of the Country from Poverty and Racism and War -- in Doubt
 
 
Fridays, 2PM
Hosts: James Boyd, John Case
Back on the radio, James and John talk about the mess the country is in, and yet there is beauty in unexpected places. Also, James returns to work!
This Episode Recorded June 21, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Winners and Losers: Lucia Valentine For Delegate

 
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Winners and Losers: Lucia Valentine For Delegate
Clean Air, Clean Water and Higher Pay
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
 
Lucia Valentine is the Democratic candidate for the WV House of Delegates 97th district. Endorsed by numerous local groups, including the AFL-CIO, she joins other young progressive voices claiming a voice in West Virginia's future.
This Episode Recorded June 21, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: Celebrating Juneteenth, 2024

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Remember the Pullman Porters
 
 
Nikki Giovanni's "Rosa Parks" headlines this celebration of Juneteenth. Lucille Clifton, Margaret Walker, Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, Dudley Randall, and Langston Hughes.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded June 19, 2024
won’t you celebrate with me
by Lucille Clifton
1936 - 2010
 
Won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.
 
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