SATURDAY 08.01.26 PROGRAM Notes
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TECHTONIC with MARK HURST: Fighting for delivery worker rights: Los Deliveristas Unidos (00:59:30)
App companies like Uber, Doordash, and Grubhub have made billions by exploiting delivery workers: offering no benefits, stealing tips, and firing workers by algorithm. Mark visits Los Deliveristas Unidos, a New York-based group fighting for worker rights.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: PR Professional of the Left: Win by Touching Peoples Morals (00:58:52)
The Democratic establishment doesn’t get that people vote their morals. So says our guest David Fenton, successful public relations veteran of fifty years. Civil rights, wars, climate change: he says these are moral issues and people vote with their hearts not just their heads. In the 70s, he stopped the poisoning of apples. Fenton has worked with rock and roll celebrities as well as Nelson Mandela. He praises his professor Abbie Hoffman as a brilliant communicator from whom we can all learn what works
AGING MATTERS: Village Movement (00:58:03)
While many older adults want to stay in their homes and age in place, they may need help to do so. One possible solution is a concept called a “village,” which combines aging in place with a type of interdependent living that helps make aging at home possible. Barbara Sullivan, National Director, Village-to-Village Network, https://vtvnetwork.org/, and Wendy Zenker, Executive Director, Arlington Neighborhood Village, https://anvarlington.org/, describe the village movement in the U.S., village models, services, and programs, and the work of one village in Arlington, Virginia.
https://www.agingmattersonline.com
GROWING GREENER: Are There Microplastics in the Compost Youve been Buying? (00:29:00)
Rutger Myers of Eco-Cycle, a leader in promoting community composting programs for 50 years, discusses studies that indicate microplastics may be finding their way into the finished product and what you can do to prevent that.
https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com
TUC RADIO: Cecile Pineda with Harvey Wasserman: From Fukushima to Solartopia! (00:29:00)
This is an updated archival program in memory of Cecile Pineda
Cecile Pineda had come to the Unitarian Universalists Fellowship Hall in Berkeley on Hiroshima Day 2014 to support Harvey Wasserman. He campaigns to prevent the opening of nuclear power plants – to limit their operation – or to close them down.
THE BOPST SHOW: It Hardly Matters (00:55:00)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide variety of music that knows no one genre, era, or inspiration. On this edition, you’ll hear the soulful sounds of Jackie Wilson, the poppy goodness of Mates of State, and the jump blues of Stick McGhee, as well as tunes by RTX, Bella Bellow, and many others locked out of the nation’s largest terrestrial bandwidths.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
ALAN WATTS: Are You Tired of Playing the Social Game? (00:08:50)
Alan Watts. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.
Full lectures: https://www.alanwatts.com/ Learn more: https://www.alanwatts.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXVrNRo1Zj8
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #648 (00:58:00)
Last week, Ralph, along with our constitutional law expert, Bruce Fein, organized another symposium in Washington DC on impeaching Donald Trump. On todays program, we play you highlights from that symposium with eight of the participants, each of whom are going to give listeners their perspective on why Donald Trump should be impeached even before the midterm elections.