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2,869 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsForward Radio is independent, listener-sponsored, volunteer-powered, grassroots community radio WFMP-LP Louisville, Kentucky. We have been broadcasting at 106.5fm and live-streaming at forwardradio.org since April 9, 2017. Please donate at forwardradio.org to keep us on-air. It costs $20/day to keep this programming coming your way.
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The Climate Report 141-142 | Green New Jobs
June 22, 2020 01:30 - 58 minutes - 67.5 MBThe Climate Report 141-142 | Green New Jobs by FORward Radio
The Climate Report 141-142 Green New Jobs
June 22, 2020 01:30 - 58 minutes - 67.5 MBThe Climate Report 141-142 Green New Jobs by FORward Radio
The Climate Report 135-136 | A New Deal For A New Era
June 22, 2020 01:29 - 58 minutes - 67.1 MBThe Climate Report 135-136 | A New Deal For A New Era by FORward Radio
The Climate Report 135-136 A New Deal For A New Era
June 22, 2020 01:29 - 58 minutes - 67.1 MBThe Climate Report 135-136 A New Deal For A New Era by FORward Radio
Truth To Power | Howie Hawkins | Green Party Presidential Candidate | June 21, 2020
June 21, 2020 01:00 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBOn this week’s Truth To Power, we gather in the virtual studio for a community conversation with Howie Hawkins, co-founder and presumptive presidential nominee of the U.S. Green Party. He is one of the original Greens in the United States, having participated in the first national meeting to organize a US Green Party in St. Paul, Minnesota in August 1984. Howie became active in “The Movement” for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam in the 1960s as a teenager in the San Francisco Bay A...
Truth to Power | Rolf Friis, Jake Bush and Hart Hagan | June 13, 2020
June 21, 2020 00:41 - 58 minutes - 50.4 MBOn Truth to Power each week, we gather Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else! Truth to Power airs every Sunday at 4pm, Monday at 2pm, and Tuesday at 9am on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org
#115 Critical Thinking for Everyone! | Attica Scott & David Snardon | June 18, 2020
June 18, 2020 19:12 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBSome fantastic interviews to share with you this week, critical thinking friends! In this episode, Patty and Brian talk with Attica Scott, Kentucky State Representative for the 41st District, about her journey in politics and activism, some of the ideas she has encountered in Frankfort, and we get some of her perspective on being the only Black female legislator, and how white folks can be effective allies and advocates. We also listen in as Brian talks with David Snardon, local pastor and ca...
Perks Ep. 50 | Bobi Conn | Between the Holler and the Hills | 6-17-20
June 16, 2020 22:58 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBThis week we branch out away from Louisville and venture out into the state to the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky, where our guest this week resides. Bobi Conn is a technical writer by day and author whose first book, In The Shadow of the Valley, was published this past May by Little A Publishing, the literary imprint for Amazon. Her memoir of growing up in a holler on the outskirts of Morehead KY conveys a tension between the beauty of the landscape in contrast to her family’s p...
Two Nuts in a Pod | Episode 12 "Cultivating Joy" | Nubia Bennett | June 16, 2020
June 16, 2020 19:56 - 55 minutes - 51 MBThis week we are joined by Nubia Bennett, an activist and a mother who is on the board of Neighborhood House and Hack Excellence. We talk about the current protests, race-based trauma, and joy as an act of both self care and defiance in a racist society. Original theme music composed by Neil Lucas. Recommendations: Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown. Hope and Hard Pills podcast: https://hope-hard-pills.simplecast.com/.
Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Citizen Science; Einstein; Cancer Ed; Climate Model | June 15 2020
June 15, 2020 19:44 - 28 minutes - 35.1 MBDo you want to know how YOU can contribute to science yourself? Jon Dixon, science educator, tell us about Citizen Science. Then, J Scott Miller updates us on the latest observations that confirm Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Later in the show he discusses how climate models contradict speculations about future earth cooling due to sun activity and cloud cover. Also hear from Zachary Hall, another intern in the University of Kentucky ACTION program, talk about how cancer has impacted h...
Election Connection | Metro Council Candidates Cassie Armstrong & Aletha Fields | 6-9-2020
June 15, 2020 18:47 - 52 minutes - 39.3 MBRuth interviews Cassie Chambers Armstrong from Louisville's 8th District, and Aletha Fields, from the 4th District, both Democratic candidates running for Louisville Metro Council.
Sustainability Now! | Jecorey Arthur | Candidate For Metro Council District 4 | June 22, 2020
June 15, 2020 09:11 - 58 minutes - 80 MBIn one last push for an informed electorate for the June 23rd Kentucky Primary Election, your host, Justin Mog, sits down with another candidate for Louisville Metro Council’s downtown District 4. Jecorey Arthur, also known as ‘1200', has performed around the world as a classically trained percussionist as well as a hip hop artist. Born in Parkland, Jecorey Arthur is an award-winning teacher, musician, activist, and now professor at Louisville’s HBCU, Simmons College of Kentucky. At 28, he’s ...
Sustainability Now! | Darryl Young Jr. | Candidate For Metro Council District 4 | June 15, 2020
June 15, 2020 07:25 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBContinuing our quest for an informed electorate for the June 23rd Kentucky Primary Election, your host, Justin Mog, sits down with another candidate for Louisville Metro Council’s downtown District 4. Darryl Young Jr. is the Manager of Programming at the Muhammad Ali Center, overseeing youth initiatives, strategic community partnerships, and innovative programming. He first gained community organizing experience as a member of the Network Center for Community Change (NC3), where he helped can...
Solutions To Violence | Cara Meeks | June 8, 2020
June 15, 2020 00:59 - 58 minutes - 77.5 MBJim Johnson and Jamie McMillin interview Cara Meeks, Director of a Peace and Justice Movement that demands justice for Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Eric Gardner and others. She has a Bachelor's degree from Indiana Southeast.
#114 Critical Thinking for Everyone! | Advice for Allies and Intellectual Humility | June 11, 2020
June 11, 2020 17:00 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBThis week's show on Advice for Allies helps us consider how to be an ally in the work of decolonizing our own minds and our oppressive social and political structures. The resource/links from the show are in the comments on our Facebook page. This week's show is sponsored by Intellectual Humility, reminding us to know the limits of what we know and what we still have to learn. "Critical Thinking for Everyone" airs on FORward Radio, 106.5fm and forwardradio.org, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Thur...
Perks Ep. 49 | Sam Miller | Reading for Summer Sun and Solidarity | 6-10-20
June 10, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutes - 80.2 MBIt’s officially summer. The kids are done with school and it feels like time to relax a little after a stressful spring. Wouldn’t we all like to be sitting on a beach, by a lake, or on a shaded porch reading the perfect book? But not everyone’s plans are what they once were with the uncertainty that has plagued us in 2020. Maybe our biggest escape is through the pages of a book. Our guest this week is someone we trust to help us with finding that book. We are excited to welcome back fri...
Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Racism and Police Shootings | June 8 2020
June 08, 2020 07:06 - 29 minutes - 31.3 MBDid you know that unarmed Black citizens in the U.S. are fatally shot by police at a rate that is 4.5 times higher than for Whites? Find out which states have the highest & lowest rates of police shootings of unarmed Black individuals and which states have the highest & lowest rates of structural racism. Are these two things correlated? The show ends with 10 recommendations for reducing police violence in the future. Here are some useful websites pertaining to this topic: https://www.sci...
Sustainability Now! | Charles Booker | Candidate for U.S. Senate | June 8, 2020
June 08, 2020 04:03 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBJust in case you weren’t already pumped to vote in the June 23rd Kentucky Primary Election, this week your host, Justin Mog, sits down with one of the ten candidates running on the Democratic ticket for U.S. Senate to unseat Mitch McConnell. Charles Booker is a Representative in the Kentucky House from District 43 in downtown Louisville who has given up his seat and is making a bid to defeat a man who has been in office so long that he became Kentucky’s senator the same year Booker was born! ...
Truth To Power | The Uprising in America | Racism & Police Violence | June 7, 2020
June 07, 2020 01:07 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MBOn this week’s Truth To Power, we gather in the virtual studio for a community conversation about the uprising on our streets and the racism and police violence that is destroying the frayed social fabric in America. Forward Radio’s Justin Mog (Sustainability Now!) and Hart Hagan (The Climate Report / Let’s Talk) discuss these issues with one of the protestors who was arrested in the Louisville protests, Jake Bush from DSA Louisville. Learn more at http://dsalouisville.org Find the article J...
Election Connection | Darryl Young Jr. & Aletha Fields, Metro Council candidates | 6-2-20
June 06, 2020 00:17 - 58 minutes - 44 MBDarryl Young Jr. and Aletha Fields, both Metro Council candidates from the 4th District, each offer their approaches to advocating for the needs of their district and empowering their constituents to have a greater say in the halls of power.
#113 CriticalThinking for Everyone! | Intellectual Autonomy | June 4, 2020
June 04, 2020 17:14 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBP2!
#113 CriticalThinking for Everyone! | Intellectual Autonomy and "Learned" Optimism? | June 4, 2020
June 04, 2020 17:14 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBThis show is in response to a loyal listener (thanks, Amanda) who sent us an article about Optimism--can you think your way to being more optimistic? Studies say....well, listen and find out what they say. Brian and I compare notes on our perception of our own optimism and what we can learn from this topic. And--we launch a new part of the show in which we have a concept "sponsoring" each episode. This week is sponsored by Intellectual Autonomy! Listen as we use Intellectual Autonomy as a...
Let's Talk 004 | How to Change the World | 6-2-20
June 04, 2020 00:22 - 58 minutes - 88.4 MBLet's talk about how to change the world. For real.
Read&Succeed | Ep 4 Part 2 | Sena Jeter Naslund | Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer (1999) | 6-3-20
June 03, 2020 04:18 - 56 minutes - 53 MBFull interview 'Read&Succeed' interview with New York Times Bestselling Louisville-area novelist Dr. Sena Jeter Naslund. Shares thoughts on her recent induction in the Kentucky Writer's Hall of Fame and a whole spectrum of creative topics: early influences in her career, current and future projects, intersections of authors and activism, dreams, sex. We talk about it ALL.
Perks Ep. 48 | James Markert | The History Scene, Stephen King, and the Big Screen | 6-3-20
June 03, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MBOur guest this week, James Markert, is a Renaissance man. He was a tennis pro for over 20 years, a bookstore owner, a screenwriter, and the author of 5 historical fiction novels. His first novel, A White Wind Blew, focused on some local Louisville history with the story of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium, one of the largest facilities in the country for tuberculosis patients during the TB epidemic in the early 1900s. Now Waverly Hills is known internationally for being the home of the haunted...
Sustainability Now! | Aletha Fields | Candidate For Metro Council District 4 | June 1, 2020
June 01, 2020 00:48 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBWe continue to amp up your excitement for the June 23rd Primary Election as your host, Justin Mog, continues his conversations with Louisville Metro Council candidates who are running in seats that will be decided in the primary. This week we hear from Aletha Fields, a mother of two living children and a 22-year veteran teacher in JCPS, teaching at Iroquois High School. Aretha is endorsed by Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) and her platform is based on a Living Wage and a pledge to wor...
Bench Talk: The Week in Science | SpaceX; The June Sky; Cancer in Appalachia | June 1 2020
May 31, 2020 23:43 - 29 minutes - 34.4 MBHear about SpaceX, the first commercial flight to carry astronauts into space. And then, what can we see in the night sky from our backyards this month? Finally, hear Carrigan Wasilchenko of the University of Kentucky's 'Appalachian Career Training in Oncology (ACTION) Program' talk about cancer-related professions. Our thanks to the ACTION program for giving us permission to broadcast this essay. You can learn more about ACTION at https://ukhealthcare.uky.edu/markey-cancer-center/resear...
Let's Talk 003 | How to Change the World | 5-31-20
May 31, 2020 18:21 - 58 minutes - 91.2 MBLet's look at how to change the world. How does an average guy from Louisville, Kentucky have the nerve to talk about how to change the world? Answer: We are supposed to have a government of the people, by the people and for the people. But yet we don't. We have a government of the powerful, by the powerful and for the powerful. And they (the powerful) are bringing us to the brink of annihilation due to 1) climate change 2) nuclear war and 3) mass extinction. So the powers that be are not do...
Let's Talk 003 How to Change the World 5-31-20 ~0
May 31, 2020 18:21 - 58 minutes - 91.2 MBLet's look at how to change the world. How does an average guy from Louisville, Kentucky have the nerve to talk about how to change the world? Answer: We are supposed to have a government of the people, by the people and for the people. But yet we don't. We have a government of the powerful, by the powerful and for the powerful. And they (the powerful) are bringing us to the brink of annihilation due to 1) climate change 2) nuclear war and 3) mass extinction. So the powers that be are not do...
Truth To Power | LG&E's proposed pipeline in Bullitt County | May 31, 2020
May 31, 2020 00:45 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MBOn this week’s Truth To Power, we gather folks into the virtual studio for a community conversation about LG&E's proposed pipeline in Bullitt County. You may be familiar with this issue through the “Save Bernheim” campaign, as the proposed pipeline would run through Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest. Forward Radio’s Justin Mog (Sustainability Now!) and Hart Hagan (The Climate Report / Let’s Talk) discuss the issue with one of the property owners, Christy Collins, as well as Elaine Tanner, ...
Give Back Radio | Natalie Bonura | WaterStep | May 29, 2020
May 29, 2020 20:23 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBThis week's guest is Natalie Bonura ([email protected]), Community Project Manager at the Louisville-based non-profit, WaterStep. Learn more at https://waterstep.org/
GiveBack Radio Interview with Natalie Bonura From WaterStep
May 29, 2020 20:23 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBGiveBack Radio Interview with Natalie Bonura From WaterStep by FORward Radio
Creative Conversations | Chad Broskey | May 30, 2020
May 28, 2020 23:44 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBCreative Conversations is a brand new talk show premiering this Saturday at noon on Forward Radio! Hosted by Alonzo Ramont, the show features interviews with the most creative minds and voices from the seven sectors of society in Louisville, Kentucky and around the nation. Our first guest is Chad Broskey, an L.A. talent manager and actor who has appeared in several Disney Channel original shows, Scrubs, and the film Read It And Weep. Creative Conversations airs on Forward Radio 106.5fm Loui...
Save Our Schools | JCPS School Board Election Filing Deadline Tuesday 4pm | May 28, 2020
May 28, 2020 22:45 - 59 minutes - 45.3 MBHey folks! We experienced several technical challenges while trying to livestream today's broadcast with Gay and Ivonne talking about the upcoming filing deadline for the open JCPS school board seats, and why we support the proposed revenue increase for JCPS, and why folks should WAIT and listen to the facts before signing the petition that is circulating. We are still editing the video, but the soundcloud podcast can be heard here, if you're eager to find out what was said.
#112 CriticalThinking for Everyone! | Ghosts and COVID-19 | May 28, 2020
May 28, 2020 14:40 - 58 minutes - 81 MBWe consider the theories that try to explain why people are reporting more "hauntings" and ghost sightings at home during COVID-19 times. We revisit some concepts from our earlier shows in which we "think through" reports of paranormal activity and our own beliefs and background in this area. I also confess my viewing unusual viewing habits during pandemic times and Brian hits some highlights from his "rational man goes ghost hunting" days. "Critical Thinking for Everyone" airs on FORward Ra...
Read&Succeed | Ep 4 Part 1 | Sena Jeter Naslund | Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer (1999)| 5-27-20
May 27, 2020 02:23 - 59 minutes - 57.3 MBNew York Times Bestselling novelist and 2020 Inductee to the Kentucky Writer's Hall of Fame Dr. Sena Jeter Naslund joins us in-studio to talk about her 1999 noel 'Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer', American literature's only recognized sequel/prequel to Herman Melville's 1851 class 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'. Weighs in on the manly "Great American Novel" as only a woman can!
Two Nuts in a Pod | Episode 11 "Quarantimes" | May 26, 2020
May 26, 2020 21:07 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBIn this week's episode, we recount our experiences from the past two months of quarantine. We delve into coping strategies, new past-times, mindfulness, and gratitude.
Perks Ep. 47 | An Anniversary, A Bored Teen Host, and Some Books | 5-27-20
May 26, 2020 20:35 - 58 minutes - 81 MBWhen Carrie and I began recording The Perks of Being a Book Lover, we called it our half-assed idea. One year later, we are still half-assing our way through it, although we think we have learned some things and gotten more adept at using microphones, troubleshooting the recording technology, and asking interesting questions of our guests. It was a year filled with laughter, frustrations, and climbing learning curves. We thought it would be fun for our 1-year anniversary recording and 47th ...
Let's Talk 002 | How to Change the World | May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 17:49 - 28 minutes - 46.7 MBTo change the world, we have to change the power structures that we live under. Here's how. We also have to recognize what's at stake: Everything that matters. So... a few people feel like that have the authority to risk everything that matters. They do this through war. They do this through a global empire centered around oil. They do this by dictating what we will eat and whether we will have clean water to drink. They must be stopped! Here's how.
Let's Talk 002 | How to Change the World | 5-25-20 ~0
May 25, 2020 17:49 - 28 minutes - 46.7 MBTo change the world, we have to change the power structures that we live under. Here's how. We also have to recognize what's at stake: Everything that matters. So... a few people feel like that have the authority to risk everything that matters. They do this through war. They do this through a global empire centered around oil. They do this by dictating what we will eat and whether we will have clean water to drink. They must be stopped! Here's how.
Forward Radio - VFP Radio Hour 23 | Steven | Pandemic Militarism | May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 15:11 - 46 minutes - 84.2 MBVeteran For Peace member Steven Gardiner interviews VFP Executive Director Garret Reppenhagen and former State Department official and Marine Corps veteran Matthew Hoh on War and Militarism in the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
VFP Radio Hour 23 | Steven | Pandemic Militarism | May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 15:11 - 46 minutes - 84.2 MBVeteran For Peace member Steven Gardiner interviews VFP Executive Director Garret Reppenhagen and former State Department official and Marine Corps veteran Matthew Hoh on War and Militarism in the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Sustainability Now! | Robert LeVertis Bell | Candidate For Metro Council District 4 | May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 05:54 - 58 minutes - 80 MBWe continue to amp up your excitement for the June 23rd Primary Election as your host, Justin Mog, continues his conversations with Louisville Metro Council candidates who are running in seats that will be decided in the primary. This week we talk to Robert LeVertis Bell, running in an exciting six-way race to fill the seat on Metro Council being vacated by Barbara Sexton-Smith in downtown District 4. Robert is a 40-year-old Louisville native, public school teacher and democratic socialist. H...
Election Connection | Interview with author David Bollier | 5-19-20
May 24, 2020 19:46 - 50 minutes - 37.8 MBDavid Bollier is a noted author, lecturer, activist and blogger whose most recent book is Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons. He speaks authoritatively on the emergence of numerous self-organizing and self-governing communities of people who are creating alternative economies and social systems throughout the world and how this is leading to promising pathways of social change and resource conservation.
Truth To Power | Organized Labor | DSA Louisville | May 24, 2020
May 24, 2020 01:07 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBOn this week’s Truth To Power, we gather around the microphones to talk about the organized labor with three folks from the Louisville chapter of DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America: Nick Conder, Jo Smiley, and Katie Punsly. Forward Radio programmers, Justin Mog (Sustainability Now!) and Hart Hagan (The Climate Report & Let’s Talk) host the show. Learn more at http://dsalouisville.org On Truth to Power each week, we gather Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss the state of t...
On The Edge with K.A. Owens | Vincent Gongzalez | May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020 21:19 - 28 minutes - 21.1 MBThis week K.A. interviews Vincent Gongzalez, a young activist on the Board of the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, about the progressive movement. Learn more at: http://www.kentuckyalliance.org/ On The Edge with K.A. Owens airs on FORward Radio, 106.5fm and http://forwardradio.org, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Friday at 5:30pm and repeats every Saturday at 2:30pm, Sunday at noon, and Monday at 7am. This podcast contains no music.
#111 Critical Thinking for Everyone! | P2!! | May 21, 2020
May 22, 2020 19:38 - 58 minutes - 81 MBP2!
#111 Critical Thinking for Everyone! | Critical Thinking as Everyday Thinking| May 21, 2020
May 22, 2020 19:38 - 58 minutes - 81 MBOh, boy, friends! We got a fun show for you. We do a little checking in with Brian on his happiness-o-meter since it was his birthday and we are thinking about what the studies say on happiness curves in middle age. Brian and i spend a chunk of the show talking about the weight loss app Noom and some surprising shifts we've made in thinking about food (and checking our faulty assumptions) since we've each been using Noom and losing weight. Of course COVID creeps in to the conversation, too, a...
Perks Ep. 46 | Hannah Rose Neuhauser | The Greenhouse That Sows Literary Seeds | 5-20-20
May 20, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBWhen I think of a greenhouse, I envision small seeds sprouting roots and then green shoots slowly rising toward the sunlight. The progress to grow may be slow at first but soon becomes rapidly transformational as the plant drinks in the nourishment of the heat, moisture, and sunlight in the greenhouse cocoon. Our guest this week, Hannah Rose Neuhauser, is the co-founder and program director of The Young Author’s Greenhouse, an organization inspired by the 826 Valencia writing organization...
Read&Succeed | Ep 3 Part 2 | Lizzy Carraway | A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972)| Handke | 5-20-20
May 20, 2020 03:59 - 58 minutes - 55.1 MBRead&Succeed | Ep 3 Part 2 | Lizzy Carraway | A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972)| Handke | 5-20-20 by FORward Radio