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Forward 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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Truth To Power | Kay Tillow | Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare | April 26, 2020

April 26, 2020 00:55 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MB

This week’s show features Kay Tillow from Kentuckians For Single Payer Healthcare along with The Climate Report’s Hart Hagan, and Sustainability Now!’s Justin Mog. We reflect on the unjust state of healthcare and the poor health outcomes in the U.S. stemming from our reliance on an inefficient, for-profit health insurance industry. Learn about a better way forward that puts people and public health first and holds particular promise in pandemic times like these. Find out more at http://kyhea...

Earth Day Live 2020 | Extinction Rebellion | Critical Mass | April 24, 2020

April 24, 2020 19:13 - 16 minutes - 18.2 MB

Forward Radio was proud to participate as a Local Livestream for the three-day global Earth Day Live teach-in to mark the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day! At noon on April 24th, members of Extinction Rebellion Kentucky gathered at Slugger Field for a critical mass bicycle ride to reclaim the streets of downtown Louisville for people and to show that another world is possible! Get involved in the global teach-in at http://www.earthdaylive2020.org/ Join the Rebellion at http://www.xrebelky.org

Truth To Power / The Climate Report | Earth Day Live | Alexia, Justin, Alice, Hart | April 22, 2020

April 24, 2020 04:35 - 56 minutes - 36.7 MB

Forward Radio was proud to participate as a Local Livestream for the global Earth Day Live teach-in on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day! At 7pm on Earth Day 2020, we brought you a special live Truth To Power community conversation hosted by Hart Hagan (The Climate Report) and Justin Mog (Sustainability Now!), with Alice Melendez from Extinction Rebellion Kentucky, and a special guest on the line from Madison, Wisconsin: Alexia Sabor is chair of the Democratic Party of Dane Co. We start with...

Critical Thinking for Everyone 116 | Justin Mog | April 16, 2020

April 23, 2020 16:47 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MB

On this week's show we return to the topic of sustainability with Dr. Justin Mog, the University of Louisville's sustainability coordinator!

CriticalThinking for Everyone 116 | David Johnson | April 23, 2020

April 23, 2020 16:47 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MB

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#106 Critical Thinking for Everyone! | Justin Mog | April 16, 2020

April 23, 2020 16:47 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MB

On this week's show we return to the topic of sustainability with Dr. Justin Mog, the University of Louisville's sustainability coordinator!

Earth Day Live! | Live Remote Broadcast | Monthly Mayor's Earth Day Letter Drop | April 22, 2020

April 22, 2020 18:08 - 31 minutes - 35.7 MB

Forward Radio is proud to participate as a Local Livestream for the global Earth Day Live teach-in on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day! At noon on Earth Day 2020, we brought you live coverage of the monthly Mayor's Earth Day Letter drop with concerned citizens at Metro Hall. Get involved in the global teach-in at https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/ Forward Radio and The Climate Report will be broadcasting live again April 22nd 7-8pm for a Truth To Power community conversation on the 50th Anniv...

Perks Ep. 42 | Diane Neu | Books That Bring Back Childhood Bliss | 4-22-20

April 22, 2020 04:00 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MB

Are you nostalgic about a book you read as a kid? What book from your childhood remains vivid in your mind? Our guest today, Diane Neu, hosts a podcast that explores that very question. The podcast titled Shaped by Stories features one avid reader each episode who talks about the book from their childhood or early adolescence that made the biggest impact on them and why. Diane had been a podcast fan for many years; in fact she’s been a podcast listener since almost the beginning of podcas...

Read&Succeed | Special COVID-19 Ep. Part 2 | Pandemic (2016) | Sonia Shah | 4-22-20

April 22, 2020 01:30 - 58 minutes - 56.4 MB

Read&Succeed | Special COVID-19 Ep. Part 2 | Pandemic (2016) | Sonia Shah | 4-22-20 by FORward Radio

Election Connection | Senator Morgan McGarvey | 4-14-20

April 21, 2020 17:35 - 58 minutes - 41 MB

Morgan McGarvey, 19th District Kentucky State Senator, fields questions on a number of topics from the state budget to schools to the current Pandemic to jobs. He is interviewed by Ruth and her co-host, Jamie McMillan

Sustainability Now! | Alicia Hullinger+Julia Murray | Louisville Sustainability Council | 4-20-20

April 20, 2020 05:52 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MB

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, on this week’s edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, pulls two folks from the Louisville Sustainability Council into our virtual studio: Board Chair, Alicia Hullinger, and the LSC’s new full-time Program Manager, Julia Murray. To mark the occasion, on April 22nd, they will launch Do Something Green, an in-depth, multifaceted campaign that includes a virtual pledging platform, extensive online resource library, and community Roun...

Truth to Power | James Miller and Manufacturing Consent | 4 - 14 - 20

April 20, 2020 00:20 - 58 minutes - 20 MB

James Miller of DuPont Manual High School talks to us about Manufacturing Consent.

Let's Talk 001 | Rolf Friis And Hart Hagan | Political Commentary | 5-14-20

April 20, 2020 00:12 - 59 minutes - 20.3 MB

Rolf Friis and Hart Hagan talk about recent political developments. Let’s Talk is a new one-hour talk show about issues that concern us including Climate, Culture, Politics and Sustainability. Hart Hagan is your host. Let's Talk airs on Louisville's Forward Radio WFMP 106.5fm and http://forwardradio.org

Let's Talk | Rolf Friis And Hart Hagan | Political Commentary | 5-14-20

April 20, 2020 00:12 - 59 minutes - 20.3 MB

Rolf Friis and Hart Hagan talk about recent political developments. Let’s Talk is a new one-hour talk show about issues that concern us including Climate, Culture, Politics and Sustainability. Hart Hagan is your host. Let's Talk airs on Louisville's Forward Radio WFMP 106.5fm and http://forwardradio.org

Let's Talk | Rolf Friis And Hart Hagan | Policital Commentary | 4-19-20

April 20, 2020 00:12 - 59 minutes - 20.3 MB

Rolf Friis and Hart Hagan talk about recent political developments.

Truth To Power | Petrochemicals and Fracking | 4-19-20

April 19, 2020 22:37 - 1 hour - 39.6 MB

This week’s show focuses on fracking and the petrochemical industry in the Ohio River Valley with Cheryl Johncox with the Sierra Club Beyond Fossil Fuels campaign, Deanna Rushing & Alice Melendez from Extinction Rebellion Kentucky, The Climate Report’s Hart Hagan, and Justin Mog, host of Sustainability Now! on Forward Radio. More: www.sierraclub.org/dirty-fuels/dir…fuels-story-map www.xrebelky.org/ On Truth to Power, we gather Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss the state of the ...

Truth To Power | Fracking and Petrochemicals in the Ohio River Valley | April 19, 2020

April 19, 2020 02:49 - 58 minutes - 62.7 MB

This week’s show focuses on fracking and the petrochemical industry in the Ohio River Valley with Cheryl Johncox with the Sierra Club Beyond Fossil Fuels campaign, Deanna Rushing & Alice Melendez from Extinction Rebellion Kentucky, The Climate Report’s Hart Hagan, and Justin Mog, host of Sustainability Now! on Forward Radio. More: https://www.sierraclub.org/dirty-fuels/dirty-fuels-story-map http://www.xrebelky.org/ On Truth to Power, we gather Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss...

Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Community Radio; Black Holes; Science Literacy |April 13 2020

April 17, 2020 17:29 - 25 minutes - 28.5 MB

How does community radio help us fight feelings of loneliness and isolation? What's up with the big eruption that was recently observed in a black hole? And how does the U.S. rate for science literary? Do Americans think they are better at science than they really are? Hear it all on this episode. Bench Talk is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am. Visit our Facebook...

Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Community Radio; Black Holes; Science Literacy | April 13, 2020

April 17, 2020 17:29 - 25 minutes - 28.5 MB

How does community radio help us fight feelings of loneliness and isolation? What's up with the big eruption that was recently observed in a black hole? And how does the U.S. rate for science literary? Do Americans think they are better at science than they really are? Hear it all on this episode. Bench Talk is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am. Visit our Facebook...

Single Payer Radio Charlie Casper discusses healthcare issues with Dr. Barbara Casper

April 15, 2020 13:03 - 57 minutes - 51.9 MB

Dr. Barbara Casper shares her concerns about our current profit driven healthcare system, harm to patients and providers. This episode of Single Payer Radio will air Wednesday May 13 at 2pm and repeat broadcasts on Thursday May 14 at 11am and Friday May 15 at 1pm - the Forward Radio Community Access hours for the 2nd week in May. Single Payer Radio is a project of Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare and Physicians for a National Health Plan, Kentucky. We are proud to be a community part...

Single Payer Radio | Charlie Casper discusses healthcare with Dr. Barbara Casper | May 13, 2020

April 15, 2020 13:03 - 57 minutes - 51.9 MB

Dr. Barbara Casper shares her concerns about our current profit driven healthcare system, harm to patients and providers. This episode of Single Payer Radio will air Wednesday May 13 at 2pm and repeat broadcasts on Thursday May 14 at 11am and Friday May 15 at 1pm - the Forward Radio community Access Hours for the 2nd week in May. Single Payer Radio is a project of Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare and Physicians for a National Health Plan, Kentucky. We are proud to be a community part...

Perks Ep. 41 | Patty Clark | Quarantine Hacks for the Library Stacks | 4-15-20

April 15, 2020 04:00 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MB

With many libraries across the country having to stay closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, patrons may have more time to discover all the resources libraries have to offer that aren’t between the four walls of a library building. While many of us may be nostalgic about those card catalogues and the check-out card pocket glued inside the back of books, libraries have become focused on information in all forms and the best ways to get it to all of us at home. Our guest today, Patty Clark, ...

Read&Succeed | Special COVID-19 Ep. Part 1 | Pandemic (2016) | Sonia Shah | 4-15-20

April 14, 2020 23:23 - 59 minutes - 59.5 MB

Read&Succeed | Special COVID-19 Ep. Part 1 | Pandemic (2016) | Sonia Shah | 4-15-20 by FORward Radio

Sustainability Now! | Cagle | Kentucky Climate Consortium | April 13, 2020

April 13, 2020 06:43 - 58 minutes - 80.1 MB

On this week’s edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, gets beyond the rhetoric with Lauren Cagle, Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky, and Program Faculty for Environmental and Sustainability Studies. She is also the Director and Co-Founder of the Kentucky Climate Consortium, which brings together people from many Kentucky universities to organize cross-pollination, trainings, education, and research around climate change. ...

Truth To Power | The Post-Bernie Left | April 12, 2020

April 11, 2020 21:17 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MB

This week’s show features Gary Tyler from DSA Louisville along with The Climate Report’s Hart Hagan, and Sustainability Now!’s Justin Mog. We reflect on the future of the Green New Deal and the Left in the wake of the suspension of the Bernie Sanders campaign. On Truth to Power, 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! Find out more about DSA Louis...

Single Payer Radio with Dr. Eugene Shively And Dr. Michael Flynn

April 10, 2020 18:04 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MB

Retired surgeons Dr. Eugene Shively of the Campbellsville, Ky area and Dr. Michael Flynn talk about our profit driven healthcare system.

Single Payer Radio | Dr. Eugene Shively And Dr. Michael Flynn | April 10, 2020

April 10, 2020 18:04 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MB

Retired surgeons Dr. Eugene Shively of the Campbellsville, Ky area and Dr. Michael Flynn talk about our profit driven healthcare system.

Single Payer Radio | Dr. Ed Weisbart | Physicians for a National Health Plan Missouri | 3-25-20

April 10, 2020 14:59 - 58 minutes - 68 MB

Dr. Ed Weisbart, pointperson for Physicians for a National Health Plan Missouri talks with Kay Tillow about the need for an Expanded and Improved Medicare for All program in our country.

Dr. Ed Weisbart And Kay Tillow

April 10, 2020 14:59 - 58 minutes - 68 MB

Dr. Ed Weisbart, pointperson for Physicians for a National Health Plan Missouri talks with Kay Tillow about the need for an Expanded and Improved Medicare for All program in our country.

4 - 2-20 PTO Dr. Kimberly

April 09, 2020 22:08 - 59 minutes - 78.5 MB

4 - 2-20 PTO Dr. Kimberly by FORward Radio

Save Our Schools with Dear JCPS | PTO Random Acts | 4-9-20

April 09, 2020 22:08 - 59 minutes - 77.1 MB

Save Our Schools with Dear JCPS | PTO Random Acts | 4-9-20 by FORward Radio

Save Our Schools with Dear JCPS | Counselor Dr. Kimberly | PTO | 4-2-20

April 09, 2020 22:08 - 59 minutes - 78.5 MB

Save Our Schools with Dear JCPS | Counselor Dr. Kimberly | PTO | 4-2-20 by FORward Radio

4 - 9-20 PTO Random Acts

April 09, 2020 22:08 - 59 minutes - 77.1 MB

4 - 9-20 PTO Random Acts by FORward Radio

3 - 28 - 20 PTO Renee Murphy AOT

April 09, 2020 22:08 - 59 minutes - 78.8 MB

3 - 28 - 20 PTO Renee Murphy AOT by FORward Radio

Save Our Schools with Dear JCPS | Superintendent Polio | Coronavirus Updates

April 09, 2020 22:08 - 59 minutes - 78.2 MB

Save Our Schools with Dear JCPS | Superintendent Polio | Coronavirus Updates by FORward Radio

Coronavirus UpdatesNEW

April 09, 2020 22:08 - 59 minutes - 78.2 MB

Coronavirus UpdatesNEW by FORward Radio

Save Our Schools with Dear JCPS | Renee Murphy | Louisville PTO | AOT | 3-28-20

April 09, 2020 22:08 - 59 minutes - 78.8 MB

Save Our Schools with Dear JCPS | Renee Murphy | Louisville PTO | AOT | 3-28-20 by FORward Radio

Critical Thinking for Everyone 115 | David Johnson | April 9, 2020

April 09, 2020 17:10 - 58 minutes - 81 MB

With appropriate social distancing, Brian and I produced another fresh episode of our show!! We interviewed our colleague and friend Dr. David Johnson from the School of Public Health and Information Sciences at UofL. David shows us the important lens that public health brings to our everyday lives, academic disciplines, and important issues of the day not just during a pandemic. It's a kind of "public health can help illuminate everything" mantra and Brian and I are digging it! David is also...

CriticalThinking for Everyone 115 | David Johnson | April 9, 2020

April 09, 2020 17:10 - 58 minutes - 81 MB

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#105 Critical Thinking for Everyone! | David Johnson | April 9, 2020

April 09, 2020 17:10 - 58 minutes - 81 MB

With appropriate social distancing, Brian and I produced another fresh episode of our show!! We interviewed our colleague and friend Dr. David Johnson from the School of Public Health and Information Sciences at UofL. David shows us the important lens that public health brings to our everyday lives, academic disciplines, and important issues of the day not just during a pandemic. It's a kind of "public health can help illuminate everything" mantra and Brian and I are digging it! David is also...

Perks Ep. 40 | The Long Before The End Book Club | Life and Literary Loss | 4-8-20

April 08, 2020 04:00 - 59 minutes - 81.2 MB

When we recorded with our guests for today’s episode over a month and a half ago, we had no idea how timely our discussion would be. Our topic today is mortality. The vast majority of people probably don’t like talking or thinking about that topic, but with Covid-19 confronting us every day, it's a subject that is certainly taking up space in our heads. But what we discovered during our discussion is that thinking about death also makes you think about the joys of life and humanity; and t...

Read&Succeed | Ep 1 Part 2 | Dr. April D. Pennington | Moby-Dick (1851)| Melville | 4-8-20

April 08, 2020 02:56 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MB

Read&Succeed | Ep 1 Part 2 | Dr. April D. Pennington | Moby-Dick (1851)| Melville | 4-8-20 by FORward Radio

Two Nuts in a Pod | Episode 10 "Sibling Rivalry" | Katie Gangler | Apr. 7, 2020

April 07, 2020 22:21 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MB

Emory's sister returns to the show to impart her therapeutic wisdom and tell embarrassing stories about Emory. This episode was recorded days before social distancing officially started, so we talk about the Coronavirus's impact on the world and our overwhelming feelings of uncertainty. Katie tells us about her new therapy practice, Healing Within, which is focused on treating the whole individual. Katie shares her route to becoming a therapist and her philosophy of care. Learn more about ...

Access Hour | Dr. Angela Garcia | Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life | April 8, 2020

April 06, 2020 08:31 - 57 minutes - 79 MB

On this week’s edition of the Access Hour, we take you back to pre-pandemic times and listen in on a Feb. 20th lecture at UofL on "Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law” as part of the Department of Sociology’s 2020 Jon H. Rieger Speaker Series. The speaker was Dr. Angela S. García, a sociologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her research centers on international migration, law and society, urban s...

Sustainability Now! | Palmer Stroup | Pandemic Perseverance | April 6, 2020

April 06, 2020 04:37 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MB

On this week’s edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, pedals over to the studio with Palmer Stroup, a UofL senior from Paducah, KY about to graduate with a degree in Sustainability. We discuss the “new normal” with the COVID-19 pandemic helping get people outside while also increasing our digital connections and online learning. We talk about the environmental benefits resulting from the pandemic, both in immediate terms and down the road when we “get back to normal.” We also ...

Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Shopping & Coronavirus - April Sky - Graphs | April 6 2020

April 06, 2020 03:42 - 29 minutes - 28.7 MB

Wendy Sharp (Registered Nurse) gives helpful hints on how to shop safely in these days of coronavirus. J Scott Miller tells us when, where and how to view planets and meteor showers in April. Finally, we rebroadcast a portion of the November 27, 2019 episode of the Groks Science Radio Show featuring Professor Alberto Cairo (University of Miami). He wrote a book called 'How Charts Lie' and provides some helpful hints on how to better interpret graphs and charts. The full, public-domain in...

Truth To Power | Adam Romano | Empire | April 5, 2020

April 06, 2020 00:25 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MB

This week, Hart Hagan talks with Adam Romano about the US Empire.

Truth To Power 09 | Adam Romano | Empire | April 5, 2020

April 06, 2020 00:25 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MB

This week, Hart Hagan talks with Adam Romano about the US Empire.

Truth To Power 08 | Jake Bush | Manufacturing Consent | March 29, 2020

April 06, 2020 00:21 - 59 minutes - 53.3 MB

This week, Hart talks with Jake Bush about Noam Chomsky's analysis of the US media, "Manufacturing Consent."

Truth To Power | Jake Bush | Manufacturing Consent | March 29, 2020

April 06, 2020 00:21 - 59 minutes - 53.3 MB

This week, Hart talks with Jake Bush about Noam Chomsky's analysis of the US media, "Manufacturing Consent."

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