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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

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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
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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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The Sports and Comedy Podcast: The Diamondbacks and the Olympics.

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Host Mike Cuccherini (nee Diesel :) ) reports
 
Getting to the Olympics may mean crossing battlefields and out of control corruption.
 
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: June 12: Stories my father told me

The Sports and Comedy Attack: The Dobie Maxwell interview

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The Dobie Maxwell Interview
host: Mike Diesel - Cuccherini
 
 
rry, West Virginia.
A Spiritual Discussion of Life in a Declining Empire
(there's more to it than that.....but somewhere that gets said.)
 
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The Winners and Losers Podcast: Empires in Decline

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Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case and Larry Bish
The Winners and Losers Program broadcasts LIVE Fridays at 7 AM Eastern Time, from the Red Caboose Studio in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
A Spiritual Discussion of Life in a Declining Empire
(there's more to it than that.....but somewhere that gets said.)
 
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The Poetry Show Podcast: Poems of the Heart

Enlighten Radio Presents:
The Poetry Show Podcast, June 7, 2023
Hosts: Janet Harrison and John Case
Theme: Poems to the Heart from Dorianne Laux and Campbell McGrath
 
 
What’s Broken -- via the Poetry Foundation
BY DORIANNE LAUX
The slate black sky. The middle step
of the back porch. And long ago
 
my mother’s necklace, the beads
rolling north and south. Broken
 
the rose stem, water into drops, glass
knobs on the bedroom door. Last summer’s
 
pot of parsley and mint, white roots
shooting like streamers through the cracks.
 
Years ago the cat’s tail, the bird bath,
the car hood’s rusted latch. Broken
 
little finger on my right hand at birth—
I was pulled out too fast. What hasn’t
 
been rent, divided, split? Broken
the days into nights, the night sky
 
into stars, the stars into patterns
I make up as I trace them
 
with a broken-off blade
of grass. Possible, unthinkable,
 
the cricket’s tiny back as I lie
on the lawn in the dark, my heart
 
a blue cup fallen from someone’s hands.
 
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