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2,834 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 22 hours 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 085 | Economic Bill of Rights (Part One) | 2-13-19
February 15, 2019 02:17 - 28 minutes - 32.8 MBEnvironmental justice is inseparable from social justice. If we want a world in which the environment supports human life, we must also work for the rights of workers and consumers. That's what the Economic Bill of Rights is about. The Economic Bill of Rights is part of the Green New Deal, and that's what we're talking about in this episode.
Save Our Schools w/Dear JCPS | KY Alliance | Facilities and Student Assignment
February 14, 2019 22:57 - 59 minutes - 64 MBSave Our Schools w/Dear JCPS | KY Alliance | Facilities and Student Assignment by FORward Radio
Save Our Schools w/Dear JCPS | Kumar & Harold | Breckinridge Metro/MDA Merger
February 14, 2019 22:55 - 59 minutes - 62.6 MBSave Our Schools w/Dear JCPS | Kumar & Harold | Breckinridge Metro/MDA Merger by FORward Radio
Let's Get Trashy | Brittany Harris & Grant Brown | CCL Southern Indiana Chapter
February 14, 2019 18:37 - 29 minutesGrant Brown and Brittany Harris discuss the CCL chapter that they assisted with launching in Southern Indiana. FEBRUARY 24TH FROM 1:00-4:00 PM AT 8TH STREET PIZZA IN NEW ALBANY INDIANA ---They are hosting a free Climate Advocate Workshop & Group Start led by Citizens' Climate Lobby. ------There is plenty of parking, and we will provide coffee, tea, and light snacks. -------You can register at https://eventbrite.com CCL is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization empowering people from al...
Body Justice With Sassy Latte And Melissa | February 13, 2019
February 14, 2019 15:43 - 55 minutes - 76 MBAn introduction to Body Justice. What does it mean and why are we excited about it. The program airs on FORward Radio, 106.5fm and forwardradio.org, WFMP-LP Louisville, monthly on the second Wednesday at 5pm and repeats on the second Thursday at 12am and second Friday at 6pm. ***This podcast contains no music***
The Climate Report 084 | Facts Every American Should Know | 2-13-19
February 12, 2019 03:42 - 28 minutes - 34.5 MBWhat do you know that few other people know? This episode is about what I know that I wish more people knew. More people should know about how climate change is real, that our commercial media is not telling the truth about important issues, that the Department of Defense is not about Defense (but Aggression and Empire), that Big Business is a much greater threat to our freedom than government, that Big Business is acting in ways that are directly adverse to our interests, ... and that the ...
Sustainability Now! | Kelsey Voit+Bethany Pratt | Community Farm Alliance | Feb. 11, 2019
February 11, 2019 02:10 - 58 minutes - 80.1 MBOn this edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, sets down his seed catalogues for a chat about the impact of the recently passed 2018 Farm Bill with two representatives from the Community Farm Alliance: Organizing director, Kelsey Voit, and Board Vice-Chair, Bethany Pratt. More information about CFA is available at http://cfaky.org Find more detailed analysis of the 2018 Farm Bill at the blog of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition: http://sustainableagriculture.ne...
The Climate Report 083 | Wall Street Journal's Lame Lampoon of Ocasio-Cortez | 2-12-19
February 11, 2019 01:45 - 28 minutes - 34 MBThe Wall Street Journal publishes what I'm sure they felt was a scathing critique of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new progressive congresswoman from New York City. The trouble is that their commentary is replete with factual errors and misunderstandings as to the exact nature of the Green New Deal, or American public opinion, or the feasibility of left-leaning proposals coming from the left. But one thing is for sure... they cannot ignore the "True Left" as personified by Ocasio-Cortez, Be...
The Climate Report 082 | How the Green New Deal Will Create a Whole New World
February 10, 2019 22:50 - 28 minutes - 33 MBThe Green New Deal is a blueprint for how to transition from the fossil fuel economy to an economy based on renewable energy, and how to do so in a way that is fair and just for all involved. This episode spells out how it will work and why it's needed. Creating a Whole New World, sounds idealistic (almost like it's from a Disney Movie :-) But the only alternative to creating a new world is to settle for the toxic world that we continue to create every day. That toxic world is also driven ...
Critical Thinking for Everyone 61 | Interstellar Objects & Reboot Foundation | February 7, 2019
February 10, 2019 16:35 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBWe start off with a follow up about the sighting of an interstellar object that doesn't have a clear explanation and we consider the thinking of the Harvard astronomer who has made waves by speculating it's an object sent from an intelligent, alien galaxy. Hmm..wonder what Carl Sagan, one of our fave critical thinkers, would say about the evidence at hand. This show also unpacks a recent white paper from the Reboot Foundation that offers up the data it gathered last year to sum up the "state ...
Critical Thinking for Everyone 60 | Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes | January 31, 2019
February 10, 2019 16:26 - 58 minutes - 81 MBListen up, critical thinking fans! This showdelves into the pages of "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes." Or maybe it's understanding jokes through philosophy? You know two things we love are dissecting jokes and thinking about our own thinking, so buckle up and listen in as we get totally philosophical (esp. Brian) and we laugh and groan at this very nerdy joke book discuss critical thinking in many different aspects during this hour-long conversati...
Critical Thinking for Everyone 56 | Thinking Through New Year Resolutions | January 3, 2019
February 10, 2019 16:23 - 58 minutes - 81 MBHappy New Year, critical thinkers! This week, we ring in the new year with a show about thinking about resolutions--what does the evidence tell us about setting resolutions (or not) and how we can make lasting change? How can we think through important goals and how to reach them? And one of our resolutions was to bring back jokes--don't miss that! We discuss critical thinking in many different aspects during this hour-long conversation about a variety of topics. All of it comes back to our a...
Critical Thinking for Everyone 58 | Robin Frederick | January 17, 2019
February 10, 2019 16:20 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBHello, critical thinking friends! Please bear with us through some recent technical difficulties with hearing our show on Thursdays at 5pm...we hope those get resolved this week! This is especially true because Robin Frederick joined us in the studio for this week's show. Robin is the general manager at Forward Radio and we had her share some background about the social justice roots of our station and its mission. Robin is also a community activist who works in the areas of animal rights, su...
Critical Thinking for Everyone 57 | "On Bullshit" by Harry Frankfurt | January 10, 2019
February 10, 2019 16:18 - 58 minutes - 80 MBThis week's episode delves into Harry Frankfurt's well-known 2005 essay "On Bullshit" Yes, that's right--we consider Frankfurt's engaging discourse around the differences between telling the truth, lying and bullshitting and why these concepts matter. Although this seminal essay (there is a now a whole field of bullshit studies, we kid you not) is almost 15 years old, We discuss critical thinking in many different aspects during this hour-long conversation about a variety of topics. All of it...
Critical Thinking for Everyone 55 | Critical Look at A Christmas Carol | December 27, 2018
February 10, 2019 16:12 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBIn what ways does Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" give us insight into the human condition? How does this Christmas classic give us critical thinking tools and diverse points of view to help us think deeply about social injustice? This week's episode of "Critical Thinking for Everyone" explores these timely questions during this holiday week. We discuss critical thinking in many different aspects during this hour-long conversation about a variety of topics. All of it comes back to our ability to...
Critical Thinking for Everyone 54 | Ethics of Social Media | December 20, 2019
February 10, 2019 16:09 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBGiven the disturbing headlines about Facebook, you might be interested to know that this episode of "Critical Thinking for Everyone" focuses on ethics and tech use, with an emphasis on social media. We use a recent article titled "Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook?" as a jumping off point for considering concepts of ethical duties to oneself and to others. We also use the article posted below as a source of rich information, suggesting the Electronic Frontier Foundation Alliance--a f...
Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Asteroid Strikes - New Beech Tree Disease | Feb. 11 2019
February 10, 2019 05:31 - 29 minutes - 32.2 MBFirst, celebrate the 150th birthday of the Periodic Table with us. Then hear about the likelihood that earth could be hit by an asteroid in the future (and what can we do about it). Learn about giant termite-mounds in Brazil, and a new disease attacking Beech trees in Ohio. The show finishes with Dr. Leslie Moise reading her new poem about this special tree. The poem was especially written for this show! Music by Dee Yan Kee (Cosmopolitan- Margarita-Bellini) from freemusicarchive.org.
Let's Get Trashy | Morgan Rumple | Human Trafficking | Black History Month
February 08, 2019 20:47 - 1 hour - 103 MBMorgan is the statewide SART Coordinator at Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault. Join us while we chat about human trafficking prevention and her personal story of why Black History Month is important to her. "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” —Martin Luther...
The Climate Report 081 | How to Pay for the Green New Deal | 2-07-19
February 08, 2019 02:22 - 27 minutes - 31.3 MBThe Green New Deal is a comprehensive set of proposals that seek to transition our country from a fossil fuel economy while providing social justice, an end to needless wars, etc. Skeptics ask how our proposals will be paid for. Here are a few answers.
Ethics Forward | A Thomistic Account of Hate Speech | 2-5-2019
February 05, 2019 23:57 - 51 minutesThe standard liberal doctrine of the "marketplace of ideas" makes it difficult to justify banning hate speech. Yet hate speech can do real harm. Can a Thomistic approach, grounded in the theology of Thomas Aquinas, do a better job of understanding the harm of hate speech and the justification for banning it? Ethics Forward visited the Society of Christian Ethics meeting in Louisville this past January and recorded this fascinating presentation by Valparaiso University Theology Prof. Stewart C...
Solutions to Violence | Chris Hartman | 2-4-19
February 04, 2019 22:59 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBSolutions to Violence | Chris Hartman | 2-4-19 by FORward Radio
Sustainability Now! | Tim Patterson | Sterling College Wendell Berry Farming Program | Feb. 4, 2019
February 04, 2019 03:34 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBOn this edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, sets down his seed catalogues for a chat with Tim Patterson, Dean of Admissions at Sterling College, an undergraduate college of environmental stewardship in Craftsbury Common, Vermont. Like Berea College, Sterling is one of seven colleges in the Work College Consortium and its curriculum is focused on environmental stewardship through Ecology, Environmental Humanities, Outdoor Education, Sustainable Agriculture, and Sustainable F...
Bench Talk: The Week in Science | February Sky - Nectar - Fecal Transplants | Feb 4 2019
February 03, 2019 21:49 - 29 minutes - 30 MBWhere is Mars in the February sky? What is 'nectar ecology'? And hear the history of fecal transplantation. All on this episode. Music ('Blue Danube' by Richard Strauss) provided on public domain by the Philadelphia Orchestra - 1939 - Stowkovski conducting.
Save Our Schools | KY Alliance | JCPS Student Assignment & Facilities | Jan. 31, 2019
February 01, 2019 20:35 - 59 minutes - 64 MBSave Our Schools | KY Alliance | JCPS Student Assignment & Facilities | Jan. 31, 2019 by FORward Radio
Ethics Forward | Groundhog Day with Nietzsche and Aristotle | 1-29-19
February 01, 2019 10:44 - 45 minutesFor Groundhog Day, Ethics Forward sits down with UofL Professor Anne Caldwell to discuss this classic Bill Murray film. We discuss how the film presents Nietzsche's ethics and to some extent also the ethics of Aristotle. Though Nietzsche claimed to be, and is widely regarded as, a 'great immoralist', we see that almost nothing could be further from the truth. It's a doozy! We discuss several scenes from the film which we cannot reproduce here due to copyright, but which can be found on YouTub...
Solutions To Violence | Carla Wallace | Jan. 28, 2019
January 31, 2019 21:15 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBJim Johnson and Jamie McMillin interview activist, Carla Wallace. Carla is a long time civil rights activist and Director of Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice.
Bench Talk: The Week in Science | Sleep Patterns of Primates; Viruses and Us | Jan 28 2019
January 31, 2019 01:20 - 29 minutes - 32.3 MBA rebroadcast of some of our favorite stories about human biology: How do the sleep patterns of other primates compare to ours? How much of our DNA is from viruses, and what does that have to do with consciousness? How do the brains of musicians playing jazz compare to those playing classical music? And what is the role of vigorous exercise on human health? Its all here in our 26th episode of Bench Talk. The music you hear is by Jason Shaw, 'Solo Acoustic Guitar' from freemusicarchive.org.
The Climate Report 080 | Leave Venezuela Alone | 1-31-19
January 30, 2019 02:07 - 28 minutes - 33.2 MBHart gives ten reason why we should NOT intervene in Venezuela, based on all the times in the past when foreign intervention has not lived up to promises and expectations.
The Climate Report 079 | Wendell Berry on NAFTA | 1-30-19
January 29, 2019 02:00 - 28 minutes - 32.5 MBWhat does Wendell Berry have to say about NAFTA? Writing in 1993, the year of NAFTA’s adoption (amid general hoopla by the “free press”), Kentucky writer and farmer Wendell Berry said what few people at the time knew or pretended to know … that NAFTA would have a terrible effect on the environment, on farmers, on factory workers, and on anyone in the vicinity of the maelstrom of toxins released by turbocharged industrial farming methods and manufacturing practices. Wendell Berry and Ralph ...
Access Hour | KY Conservation Committee Summit | Sen. McGarvey | Lauren Heberle | Jan. 30, 2019
January 28, 2019 06:06 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MBWith the Kentucky General Assembly now on recess until February 5th, on this week’s edition of the Access Hour, we bring you more highlights from the recent Annual Meeting and Legislative Summit of the Kentucky Conservation Committee (KCC). The Summit was held January 12th at the University of Louisville and featured a Q&A with Democratic State Senator Morgan McGarvey, representing Louisville's District 19. McGarvey is a Louisville native, a University of Kentucky Law graduate, an attorney, a...
FC2N 31 | Olivia Krauth | September 9 2018
January 28, 2019 03:51 - 59 minutes - 53.9 MBOn this episode, Insider Louisville education reporter Olivia Krauth talks about anonymous sources, viral news stories, and why education reporters have a hard time using teenagers as sources.
The Climate Report 078 | How the Mass Media Invents Reality Part Two | 1-29-19
January 28, 2019 03:27 - 28 minutes - 35.3 MBAccording to “Inventing Reality” by Michael Parenti, … “In 1983, the American Council, a Washington-based public foundation concerned with foreign policy issues, tried to buy commercial time on the local affiliates of the three networks in order to run a 28 second commercial critical of US involvement in El Salvador.” “The ABC affiliate sold three spots, but the NBC and CBS affiliates refused to carry it.” “On various occasions during the Vietnam era, the New York Times would not sell spa...
Sustainability Now! | Sam Avery | Peace And Sustainable Energy | Jan. 28, 2019
January 28, 2019 03:14 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBOn this edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, releases the doves and sits down for a chat with author and long-time activist for peace and sustainability, Sam Avery. Sam is also one of Louisville’s local solar installers, running the business Avery & Sun. Sam’s books in print include "The Pipeline and the Paradigm” and "The Globalist Papers.” The new book project he has just begun is entitled "The Carbon Boycott.” Sam is an activist with Louisville Peace Action and 350 Louis...
The Climate Report 077 | How the Mass Media Invents Reality | 1-28-19
January 28, 2019 01:22 - 28 minutes - 33.4 MBTwo items featured in this episode… 1. How to make change (and possibly start a business) by sharing your area of expertise. 2. “How to properly understand the news media.” A review of “Inventing Reality” by Michael Parenti First, … How to make change (and possibly start a business) by sharing your area of expertise … We know we need change, but how do we make it happen? The Climate Report is offering an opportunity for you to participate in a marketing study group. We will read and appl...