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Labor Beat Radio Show -- US Labor’s ”Big Stick” Summer

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Summer National Strike Wave?
 
 
 
 
Hosts JB, John and Scott discuss strike preparations directly affecting 3/4 of a million frontline workers, and indirectly millions more. UPS, Auto, Southern California Hotels, Nurses -- just to name a few -- are seeking economic justice for years of sacrifices in the face of both the pandemic, and killer inflation.
 
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: June 26: Works in progress

Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: June 19: The intersection of race, culture and music

The Sports and Comedy Attack: Juneteenth Edition

Enlighten Radio Presents:
The Sports and Comedy Attack Podcast:
Broadcast LIVE June 19, 2023, 7:AM -- every Monday
Host: Mike Diesel Cuccherini
Theme. Shohei Ohtani Rules
 
 
 
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The Winners and Losers Podcast: Finding the Middle Way

Enlighten Radio Presents:
The Winners and Losers Radio podcast --- broadcast live Friday, June 16, 2003, 7 AM 
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Hosts: Karen Valentine and John Case
 
 
Themes: Spirits of Shepherdstown
Finding the Middle Way, Contentment, Balance, Detachment, Kindness and Love
Special Guests: Bhante Sujatha and Michael Fronczak 
 
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Recovery Radio: Finding how to tell the truth

Enlighten Radio Presents
 
The Recovery Radio Podcast
Broadcast live on Thursday, June 15, 2023, 7 AM
hosts: James Boyd, John Case
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Theme: How do we find the truth when lies abound?
 
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The Poetry show: Battle at Blair Mountain

Enlighten Radio Presents:
 
The Poetry Show Podcast
Broadcast LIVE Wednesday, 7 AM Eastern, June 14, 2023
Themes: The Battle of Blair Mountain, and We All Gotta Eat
 
 
The Poems:
 
Battle at Blair Mountain by Hilda Downer
 
A harsh truth in childhood:who has the most moneyto have the most soldierswins.
Those plastic green men are formidable,deadpan faces staring in panicat not being able to move a finger,feet captured in puddles of fear.Redundant postures march awkwardup a steep bank the wayan old commercial showed a truckcould power straight up a mountainsideby tilting the picture so hemlocks,almost horizontal, speared the sky.
The bomber squad over Blair Mountainendorsed the same green configurationof ground troops scaling rock and ridge –1921: the United States at civil warwith the Appalachian people.Though one bomb did not explode,the big guns of poverty and displacementcontinue the genocide todaywith each subtractionof another coal-seamed mountain range,adding up to more fire powerthan “Little Boy”droppedon Hiroshima.
Still emulating gunfire,little boys are gathered for sleep,hard soldiers in a pilelike pieces that do not fit what is broken –alert to ambush bare feet.Only a few remain on the battlefield,the solar warmth they holdquickly draining.Never having been alivedoes not stop their grim stareinto the shotgun barrel of the full moon.
 
We All Gotta Eat by  Justice Ameer
 
even ants go to war.been thinking about it all summer, what it means…i mean how human. or maybe how ant.maybe nature begets violence because we all gotta eat.
yo i was on trains all weekend.and lord, got sick on an empty stomach.acid tides creeping up my throat.but no, i didn’t eat the train food.
on the hill, in the college,we poured gallons of slop into buckets for the pigs' feast.gross chunks, all fresh waste, an unholy stew…and so much of it.
they’re looking at the port again.Southside stays loud saying they don’t want it.but y’know, folks can’t hear colored voices and well...garbage needs a place to go.
every member of my family has mentioned my belly to me this year.as if she doesn’t wake up with me every morning.as if i don’t gaze at her lovingly in the mirror.as if i should worry if she looks full...
call me callow, i just don’t think something living should go hungry…not when we’ve made so much to eat,with armageddon’s gas stove,on a table we’ve slaughtered the world to build.
 
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The Labor Beat Radio Show: The Truckers Movement for Justice

Enlighten Radio Presents:
The Labor Beat Radio Podcast
Broadcast LIVE 7:30 AM Eastern, June 13, 2023
www.enlightenradio.org
hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
 
Truckers Movement for Justice is a national, and international, movement to raise living and working standards for truckers. Owner-operated, coop, or corporate.
The burdens place on frontline workers in this country -- and aggravated during and since the pandemic -- are becoming intolerable. Rebellion is here.
Guests Billy Randell and Jonah Kone
Want to learn more?
Jonah Kone, Hatfield Forestry Cooperative : JonahKone@gmail.com720-639-1777
 
 
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