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WRWK January ’23 NewsLetter

TheWorkFM has a new Radio Intern!
Join us in giving a hearty welcome to Larry Witt of Cartersville High School as he learns his way around the studio, mix-boards and various broadcasting procedures and tasks at WRWK.

He is preparing a series on the obesidy epidemic, you’ll hear it soon in weekly installments.

Express Yourself!

Take a brief moment to complete our listener survey –
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Note that you can also leave direct feedback in the text box at the bottom of the survey page.

What we’re up to, what’s next

In 2023 WRWK has its work cut out for it. Problems dominate the media when solutions could be the story. The media is a mirror on society. Ideally it educates citizens so they can help their leaders find new answers to ever evolving situations that happen when a species gains mastery over its environment. There is the ever-present dilemma of how to inform listeners without boring them or killing the buying-enjoyment mood so they don’t just change the station.

So how do you get folks to listen to stuff they need to hear like the truth?

As George Bernard Shaw said:

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”

We have no comedy team to present the news a la SNL so we use other devices:

intelligent conversations that inspire intelligent conversations, notes on all the shows in our 6 hour loop so listeners can follow up on anything they heard, shared insights on the human dilemma of being animal and spiritual, tugged at by both. We have a solutions orientation that goes past issues to understand how we created most of them. This is an open invitation to join us to add your voice to the choices.

At WRWK we take our role as a media outlet to mean that we should educate listeners generally and tell the stories of people who, like 90% of our neighbors, want the world to work. Our work at the work FM is to help find the path ahead in a constantly changing world. So, stay with us and we promise you we will do our best to tell you about people and groups and even some countries that are helping the world work and pass it on to their kids.

As our motto says: Let me be useful.

To people whose lives are centered on fear of change, WRWK will make no sense.

If you know people like that, do what you can to embrace them. They need to learn to feel safe with unfamiliar things, the same things their kids will need to understand to find a way forward in a changing world.

People living in fear desperately need you to reject them to keep their fear alive. Connect anyway.

We are all in this together, like it or not.

Politics, the social system that is supposed to find solutions, has been hijacked. Not that politicians or lobbyists are evil, but that in a system where money is unregulated, it will always dominate and citizens will get a back seat – if that.

Still, 2023 is our best year this decade because it is becoming obvious that the idea of abandoning the USA as was suggested by certain parties, is losing steam as the crimes of that collection of people grow and its connections to the Russian regime become more explicit. Like the dog that caught the car, the burn-it-down set doesn’t know how to inspire participation. It will either learn that fire is not enough or their voters will learn that oppositional leaders are not actually leaders. WRWK is non-partisan, but really bad ideas do call for a comment. As citizens of the USA we are party to keeping the USA together. We don’t get lost in words like “socialist” or “capitalist” or “communist” or “woke.”

We know that western civilization is based on civility, that society is based on a trust, that life is based on a supportive environment, breathable air, etc., and that if other living things are dying off, we may be next. Those ideas are the context for our programming choices.

And Donations! you were expecting that, Right? $ Love

Stay tuned for our Spring fundraiser. More info in next week’s edition.

We will have an online auction of donated goods and services, a Work-Athon, our version of a beg-a-thon, and several events. Stay tuned.

If the things we do are important to you, please support us to the degree that you can.

We’ve received donations from $1 to $1,000, RVs, to junk cars, microphones to mix-boards. Our volunteers have ranged from 6-year olds doing voice-overs, to opera singers, from the poor to the well off. They are all people who wanted to make a difference and saw that we could help them tell their stories. To give their ideas voice. Join us to add your voice.

Re: General Assembly is running until

Here’s a tool to find your rep: https://whosmy.virginiageneralassembly.gov/

Here’s a tool to research bills and their progress. https://lis.virginia.gov/000/sab.htm

Here is a tool to up to 5 bills: https://lis.virginia.gov/231/noc/uu292384.HTM

This link will help you Testify on a bill at the G.A.: To Testify

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We have found the enemy and he is Us.

attributed to Pogo Possum

The biggest Conspiracy of 2022 is Who is promoting all the conspiracies? Who wants to bring down the great social experiment that is the USA?


It’s not about red vs blue or conservative vs liberal. It’s not even about MAGA versus more grounded citizens.
This conspiracy is all about:
1. the social media (SM) companies that turn cynics and trusting followers into MAGA-bots using carefully designed algorithms that play to and amplify their worst fears.
2. Businesses that create content designed to subvert civility.
3. Groups and individuals who pay to create the confusion that we see.

But Who are the co-conspirators?
Those who cannot compete in a civil society so they have to reduce it to their level?

Kindergarten drop-outs who take civility as weakness?

Anti-social people, the kind of people who profit from disruption and are willing to create it if there is none?

People who play on any fears they find, not to solve them but to gain power?
People who spent their lives deceiving others, passing as important because they had money?
Politicians who have to fan the flames of discord as they lack ideas? Aliens, or worse yet, failed humans?

Just Who is behind this civilization destroying industry?
I’d love to understand the algorithms and who pays to run the incendiary stuff and to know who it’s created for.
That’s a conspiracy worth following.
Stay tuned to TheWorkFM/ wrwk/ 93.9 and we’ll discover it together.
Let’s unravel this conspiracy and reuse this wasted energy to make a sustainable future.
We can do this.

At the end of the day/year/life our purpose here is to be useful, to the system of life that gave rise to us, to each other, to the next generations.

Good luck to us all.

Ron/theworkfm/wrwk/93.9

We also welcome your feedback at feedback2wrwk@gmail.com

Here are some studies about the the conspiracy mill/ SM industry :

isdglobal.org

NPR article

CIA

BBC

LADBIBLE

Entreprenure

November Voting Guide and Commentary

This election season has all the trappings of a spy novel.
Villains who might be good guys or actors or who might just be crazy.
It almost doesn’t matter.
If you are with the red or blue tribe and you had power and influence over the past 50 years as the middle class shrank you either were knee-capping the government, trying to knee-cap the other guy or watching helplessly as it all went down around you.
Actually no matter what your allegiance was you were probably nearly helpless in the face of big dollars, twisted leadership and mis-information.
This election is between people who want to revive the flawed USA and those who are want to sell it off like the USSR was, ironically, to Russia, multinational companies or to anyone else who thinks shoppers or citizens with captured minds assure an easy future. 
Here at wrwk we know that our future comes from minds busy creating a future, not locked up in the past.
As a member of the media on the planet where all this is taking place we just want to keep it real.
We can fix things in the USA or take an off ramp though to fix things we may have to suspend our egos and unplug from our tribes to some degree.
What are the alternatives to really doing the work?
An apocalypse promoted by folks who just want to grab a little on the way out, since its going to burn up anyway
Nihilism peddled by monied interest who don’t want to change anything
Magical leaders who will lead us out of the challenge into their monetized world of human desires.
Not real choices.
Now that everyone but us can see inside out heads, it is time for us to take a look, meet and tame our inner hate and fear before it is used against us.
It’s a bootstrap operation. We all have to muster our inner superman superwoman and find the meaningful life that balances challenge, work and outcomes.
Spoiler alert you may not get to enjoy the finished thing but end up passing it on to your kids.Be doing what you do because it is worth doing.
In the meantime, WRWK will continue to bring listeners more stories of people and groups who help make the world work. 
Life is about life, and all the parts that make it possible.
Humans have gained the power to alter the planet and life on it.
The question is – will we rise to the moment, own our power and be a useful part of life or indulge our way to oblivion.
Then there’s the election where we get to choose between the 242 year old attempt at human self management and a developer who speaks to our inner two-year old, our fear of the unfamiliar and our longing for a magic way out.
May we think beyond ourselves and be a part of the 2022 turn-around.

 Ron
WRWK
theworkfm.org

We welcome your feedback at 
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Closing and notes:None of these ideas are mine, I just cobble them together into a mosaic that describes for me an understanding of our situation, it’s depth and breadth, and some ideas for a way through this moment.If you’d like more background on any of these ideas I have prepared a list of resources that range from a dip into despair to a potential moral revival.

Political outcome study updatehttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/race-class-and-social-welfare-american-populism-since-the-new-deal-by-erik-j-engstrom-and-robert-huckfeldt-new-york-cambridge-university-press-2020-199p-11000-cloth/72D167B5FBFEDF7193E6D7059095D944Shrinking middle class:https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/04/20/how-the-american-middle-class-has-changed-in-the-past-five-decades/

FCC’s role in society: EXCERPT FROM https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mediaIn Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931), the Supreme Court determined that it is unconstitutional to exercise prior restraint with regard to print publications: “It is plain, then, that the language of this amendment imports no more than that every man shall have a right to speak, write, and print his opinions upon any subject whatsoever, without any prior restraint, so always that he does not injure any other person in his rights, person, property, or reputation, and so always that he does not thereby disturb the public peace or attempt to subvert the government. 

What happened to the economy?https://youtu.be/PVNdvkXTe1E

Apocalypse, a revelation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse

apocalypticism: a handy rationale for those who are tired by the though of having to be good for extended periods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypticism

the next chapter, after we conquer our selves:
https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/

living with intentional goodnesshttps://youtu.be/b5BVVZzhFYw

 
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WRWK Newsletter – SEPTEMBER 2022 – Birthday Edition             

     Progressive Radio in Midlothian, Virginia at 93.9 FM
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 Equinox Ruminations…                                                                                  
by Lee Carleton 
It seems only yesterday that we announced our August 5th Birthday celebration and now we’re on our way to the beginning of Fall with the Autumnal Equinox on September 22. Yes, time flies but it is good to mark the seasons with you.
Equinox is that time of year when the day and night are the same length, a time of balance and preparation for harvest. May yours be bountiful! 
I may be naturally biased since I’m the programming curator, but even if I weren’t I would listen to WRWK. If you listen regularly, you’ll discover that you will hear certain news stories and facts a week or two before the corporate media features them as “breaking news.” You’ll hear progressive content and notice that neither party escapes a fair critique in our programming.
You’ll also notice that we’re not as “polished” as the big stations, preferring our “flawed” grassroots production and honesty to slick, homogeneous corporate media production.
You may also notice that we at TheWorkFM take our work seriously – but not too seriously. Nobody wants a revolution if you can’t play for fun along the way. 
If you haven’t done so lately, check out our programming notes to see if there isn’t a show or two that grabs your interest and make time to listen. Don’t forget that our 6-hour loop repeats (noon to noon) so if you miss a show or can’t listen at a set time, you can catch one of the show repeats.
And if you find yourself appreciating our unique, rich programming please consider sending us some support whether as a one-time gift or an affordable monthly sustainer amount as low as $5/month.
Don’t forget, just like the big guys, we also take donations of vehicles. We here at TheWorkFM hope you will listen regularly, spread the word and please Donate.   

My Testimonial                                                                                  by Ian Mouer 
I think the best assignment I had was the time that I went to DC the day after the Saint John’s incident where they tear gassed the food vendors and the families congregating outside the gates…
I had Press credentials which allowed me to go to a lot of places that I wouldn’t otherwise allowed and it gave me a perspective that I wouldn’t have otherwise had. It gave me a purpose to be there to bear witness to history to know that I had seen the truth and what the actual environment was like for myself. To say that they were peaceful protesters is almost not enough. It was benign. It was literally families and ice cream trucks that got teargas, not to mention members of the clergy.
I talked to them personally and got their first hand accounts, so when I heard what other media outlets were saying on the national stage I know which ones to put my faith in.
This experience helped me decide who is telling the truth in corporate media, who I can believe in. It reinforced my beliefs but it made them very real and you don’t get that kind of experience sitting on the couch. You gotta get off the sidelines…That’s what I would tell a prospective volunteer looking for an experience at an independent media station like WRWK. That’s my testimonial. 
(our Founder Chris Maxwell was on that same assignment )
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What is news?                                                                                               
by Ron Skinner
 What is news? To an extreme sports fan it’s extreme skydiving, to a parent it’s how schools are doing, to a business owner it’s how the market is doing, to a minister it’s how many souls were saved. What is news, worthy news, depends on what you value, how close it is to you, if you have a role in it or if it will cost you something.
As a small station we’re not out to replace any part of the RVA media.  We just want to raise the bar and provide tools for critical thinking or what I prefer: affirmative inquiry.
When our past president spoke of the “fake media” maybe he meant that he could fake most media out by feeding their love of outrage when they should have been focusing on facts.
At WRWK, TheWorkFM, we look for the stories that are not covered at all, that should be covered and the stories that are covered incorrectly, essentially as political footballs, created to define political positions and drive people to the polls or keep them away but not to solve problems or find solutions.  Most importantly we bring you the Good things that go on every day that lead to social progress and stories of how this great living experiment on human governance, the USA is going.
Profit driven media delivers our attention to advertisers and opinion shapers who will pay well to understand how each ad viewing, product buying, election supporter or denier reaches their decisions. It’s all about money, and managing the narrative. Of course, money can “buy” votes, influence and power but given the growing cynicism and sense of betrayal among voters many have traded their critical thinking skills for scripted emotions for or against people, issues, stereotypes.
In this media noise, conversation, essential to democracy, is often drowned out by chants and taunts led by the well-paid and strident voices of the sensational media and its followers.
This is not cynicism, it is the business model followed by a sensationalist and inflammatory media.
Anyone who thinks that MSNBC or CNN or Fox News make their profits according to how well the USA is working is not paying attention. 
If you want progressive media you have to find it and of course support it. 
So, let’s rescue our attention from the profit seeking corporate media and refocus it on the more informative, rational and inspiring voices of independent media like TheWorkFM. Together we can change the conversation.   You can help by volunteering your services, audio gear, anything of value, or money.
Subscribe to our success as we subscribe to yours.
We also welcome your feedback at feedback2wrwk@gmail.com 
Thanks, 

Ron, Ian and Lee are all Volunteers at
WRWK 93.9 FM Midlothian, Virginia
theworkfm  on facebook
theworkfm.org on the internet
listen to the stream at theworkfm

Happy Birthday WRWK/theworkfm 93.9

August is our “birth month” and have these 5 years been interesting!

It’s a good time for presents so to help focus your interest in showering us with gifts we are setting up an on line auction right here on this platform.

You can still make donations through FaceBook via the Contact button that takes you to paypal

Or use this link: WRWK

Or mail is a check to

WRWK,913 Grove Road, unit 8, Midlothian Virginia 23114

We are gathering up gently used items, to be sold via pictures and delivered from the donor’s home to the winner.

In the case of services the provider and winner can arrange times that work best for them to deliver and receive them.

here are a few of the items gathered so far:

items and description

Fibit charge 3 complete with charger and two bands (womans)


2 other sport watches


4 quad drones with wifi and 4g cameras


84 key StudioLogicv vmk176 keyboard


Dry sink with washbowl, marble top antique



27″ mac running Linux Manjaro

Laptops, refurbished running Linux Ubuntu

5 foot opening french door set, 80″ (no picture)

Happy 5th Birthday WRWK!

Did you ever get so dirty doing something that you wanted a bubble bath to get clean? I think it is time for the USA to take a bubble bath, not just for getting a little sweaty and soiled, a byproduct of hard work, but to remove the grime of misleading media narratives that surround hard-working Americans.


Some of the grime that plagues us comes from the excuses that industry and political leaders have fed us over the years to explain why America is the only developed nation that has failed its citizens and denied them a higher quality of life while less endowed societies have made progress (see the Human Development Index).
This should make us curious: how does this happen in a wealthy, educated nation?

The answer to that question is news.
Move over click-bait. There are real stories out there.

One of the roles of WRWK, as media, is to act as a mirror for society so we can see what we have become or are becoming and to offer workable solutions when the USA is going astray. It’s a thankless job since no one wants to know when it’s time to head to the gym or start a diet, read a book or drop some fun but costly pleasure. To that end, we will work to inform, explain, uplift and inspire with a variety of voices and perspectives unpolluted by profiteering or commercialism.

And in the process, we may even entertain you!


Thomas Jefferson thought of opera as hyper-evolution; growth in an area of no utility to human progress.
That is what our political system has become: political opera (no offense to opera lovers of course). Our political system has devolved into an entertaining drama and ultimately an influence auction – on both sides of the aisle.

WRWK is not democratic or republican, liberal or conservative, right or left, etc. We are progressive, committed to making progress beyond the drama. We believe in the attainability and the bright possibilities of human progress. We follow the standard set by the founders: to create a more perfect union and it’s a journey, not a static “stand.”


On this journey, we will do our best to inform, inspire and entertain you so we can all have challenging, worthwhile and fun time building up our country for our children and all future generations.


Remember that everything we do now socially, politically, economically and spiritually, like golf and football, were brought into existence by thinking human beings. The good news is that we can tweak them all we want to make this world work better for Everyone.

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The first Wrwk NewsLetter since Brooke Passed

This newsletter was cobbled together by Ron, Lee, Max and Ann Sykes, Brooke’s Widow. Without Ann this would not have been possible.

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On Tue, May 10, 2022, 6:23 PM WRWK <info@theworkfm.org> wrote:

 “Radio by, for, and of the People”Midlothian, Virginia  WRWK Newsletter
May, 2022  
Word of the Year at TheWorkFM is Antifragility
“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call it antifragile. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb  

TheWorkFM Op-ed

The future is here now, buried in the din of haters, hawkers, paid actors and anti-hero wannabes. We know we are all vulnerable to our reptilian emotions; the violent events they’ve created litter our history. Luckily, a more progressive thread winds through human history, fed by our better angels. This element scares those fed by fear and anger–those who perceive change as a threat. Mix in politicians who base their messaging on fear and anger to turn-out voters, and you have Virginia in 2022. 
Our kids will have to find a future. Let’s help them make a path. Vote, write, engage, protest;
and laugh at, smile at, or just ignore those who rely on fear and anger to deal with uncertainty.  
Let’s model and teach antifragility, the power to learn from challenges; to keep cool and carry on. 
That is my Work at theworkfm.  
Join me!
Ron

A Celebration of Being inappropriate through history in song  

Good news on the donation front at the WorkFM!
I just deposited a check for $1,000 from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, and a friend and neighbor is donating a serious, but older road bike to WRWK. Soon, I will have it appraised. In spite of Covid, Big Lies and other naysayers, WRWK is still doing the work of Progressive Community Radio in Midlothian and beyond.
Bring us your donations, cars, boats, airplanes, gently used Audio Equipment, worn dollars, and coins, and we will give you continuous Progressive Community Radio—not trapped or muted by corporate dollars.
A few programs to consider…
While we don’t want to overwhelm with a list of all our programs, each month we’ll try to point out a few programs you might really enjoy – check ‘em out!
Weekdays at 2pm listen for “The Thom Hartmann Show” the #1 progressive news talk show in America. On 
Mondays you can enjoy the light-hearted but informative show “When the Biomass Hits the Wind turbine” at 1pm, as Annie and Jay discuss sustainable living and their own experiences with their “Earthship” home. For those interested in experiments with sound, hear “Radio Art Hour” at 3pm from Wave Farm studios, where resident radio artists feature audio collages that include ambient sounds, old shortwave broadcasts, sound effects, phone messages, random conversations, and other sounds, to create a compelling sonic salad. 
Tuesdays at 3pm we feature programming for kids with “The Children’s Hour with educational episodes and artist interviews. For the history buff, on 
Wednesdays at 1:30 we air “This Way Out” a locally produced news program focused on the LGBT community. We also offer “The Thomas Jefferson Hour” at 4pm with Humanities Scholar Clay Jenkins.
On Thursdays at 1pm, listen to “Green Street Radio” a science-based but accessible discussion of environmental issues. At 3pmget a more local perspective from “Richmond Business Babes” where host Lisa Linnell interviews RVA women about the businesses they own and run. 
Fridays you can listen to “Counterspin” at 1:30, a media-analysis discussion by FAIR. “Time with Fred” at 8pm is a local program focused on inspirational interviews with those who have overcome great challenges. 
Saturday and Sundays you can hear a progressive take on current events with “The Bradcast” news review at noon and “Attitude with Arnie Arnesen” at 2pm, hosted by the funny and feisty Arnie Arnesen.
 Sundays,get your dose of Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping for “Earth Riot Radio” at 1pm and be sure to stay for the hilarious hijinks of “Turn On the News” at 1:30pm, where a collage of news and talk show clips help to put current events into a comic spotlight.
 For a specific list and program notes for a specific day, check “Program Notes” at TheWorkFM.com 

Three Live programs emanate from the WRWK studios weekly,
Richmond Business Babes when Lisa Linnell interviews successful businesswomen in RVA 3 tp 4 PM on Thursday.  
Finding Our Fit discusses wellness in relationships with ourselves, others and our planet, 5 to 6 PM on Thursday with a renowned healing advocate and  counselor Susanna Wo-Pong Calvert
Building Better Communities discusses how to build communities in RVA, and the people who make that happen on Saturday 4 till 5 or 6. 

Note—kudos to Ann Sykes, Brooke’s widow, who rescued our email list from the bit bucket so we could send this newsletter to our family of Supporters, Hosts and Volunteers at WRWK Progressive Community Radio.
Ann has also helped with the web site and other loose ends, following the sudden loss of her husband, and our board member, a noted local musician and promoter in RVA. We all miss Brooke Saunders.  

Misinformation is a #Deathcult,  
Commentary from WRWK’s Founder, Chris Maxwell 
The deadly impacts of misinformation are dramatically revealed through the election results of 2016 and 2020, the Covid pandemic chaos, and mass exodus from climate damaged area. Such migrations may become localized if Roe v. Wade is overturned, turning some states into a theocratic “Gilead” from Handmaid’s Tale – no longer so fictional.
 
But the vast majority of Americans across all spectrums favor retaining abortion choice as a woman’s decision. Even among evangelicals, only 45% support overturning Roe v Wade. Since SCOTUS Justice Alito insists on forcing births by compelling us back to 1789, it behooves us to note that abortion was NOT illegal then. It is also relevant to know that abortion was not even a political issue until Nixon flunky, Pat Buchanan, suggested using abortion as a wedge issue to turn evangelicals away from the Democratic Party. This disinformation effect is not new; its first conception boiled up in the cauldron of the Nixon lie factory, from that unholy communion of Nixon and Buchanan. 
That rough beast slouching towards us was then birthed, and raised to strength, through thousands of networked radio transmitters, broadcasting syndicated “religious” political content, starting in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan dramatically relaxed FCC rules.
Waves of disinformation flooded the air–the new FCC rules allowed programming to be delivered via satellite, without a local host, and controlled remotely. This allowed Talk-radio entertainers like Rush Limbaugh to play on listeners’ fears of change, and goaded them to anger. 
Did the majority push back? No, they let that disinformation continue, as a matter of “free speech”, safely snoozing in their faith that logic would prevail. And the liberals also slept, so sure that logic would win the day.
Now, the beast is huge, hale, hearty and beating the hinges off the civilization.
We comprehend now that WE MUST PUSH BACK ON DISINFORMATION. And since it is from Radio networks that we first saw the birth and development of the “Alt-Facts” broadcasting, it makes sense that it is on Radio we should make the stand against misinformation. 

  Usque ad finem (English. be true to yourself to the end)
Please remember, even in the midst of all the noisy news, we’ll keep reporting on the authentic reality, and how we can help extricate it from the influence of the con-artists and the confused. This century has been like a final exam for humans seeking genuine progress—the previous president, Covid, Ukraine, are the tests. Faced with challenges, some countries fight for human progress, while others are on the fence, and some leaders look for ways to enrich themselves from human tragedy. 
Roe is the latest test—do some Republicans still wonder if women are full citizens or just accessories?… if “all men are created equal” refers only to the males of our species?
Deep bias remains, and body autonomy is still in the chasm. Keep fighting, keep growing. 
WRWK LP FM  Midlothian, Virginia. Progressive Community Radio in RVA @93.9 FM theworkfm.org 
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Reality to Earth Leaders: Get it together!

“God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and love and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7

This is my attempt to summarize what we can learn from this moment and where we can go from here, as humans and what that has to do with WRWK, TheWork FM, and my work as an individual in my 80+ years on this planet.

Life consists of humans looking to understand the world and then inventing ways to avoid, deal with or change it.

We can decide that the world is very dangerous where only the brutal survive, and we come to believe we must become dangerous to survive.

Alternatively, as thinking humans, we can decide to take control of the system and change it instead. We are, after all, homo sapiens, “wise men.”

Humans share many characteristics with other animals just as we share similar parts of our brain with them.
Whether you believe in evolution or not, the similarities are striking. Life is geared towards survival through change.

We can even see parallels with single cell organisms which can find food and avoid danger, or with chimpanzees which can find food, mate, avoid danger and share social functions to make life better for all of them.

Then there are humans with the stimulus response brains of reptiles, the social brains of chimps and then that something extra, a huge prefrontal cortex. This is the “something extra” that allows us to create realities in our heads that allow for us to see the one we live in even as we imagine a alternative one; and even how to inspire it into existence.

We have to accept the world we see but we must also imagine a better world, and the ways we can get there.

The dilemma is that we are something like 7 times more likely to act because of anger or fear than out of inspiration.

Anger and fear are hard-wired in ancient parts of the human brain. This leaves humans open to seduction, even self-seduction by their own fear and anger. And anti-social “leaders” are always looking for vulnerable people.

You see this commonly in fear based cults, political parties and religions. Fear and anger are also used to sell bigger cars, guns, defense budgets, and to get us to the polls.

Bigger cars, guns, swelling defense budgets and fearful and angry voters have seldom led to a better world though they can be very profitable.

Until the Russian leader decided to hold us all ransom to his paranoid and violent version of the world we could wallow in our ignorance and put up with his well documented misdeeds and other misdeeds closer to home.

Now that humanity is in his cross-hairs it is too late to avert his 20th century version of the world, where violence is still an option.

It is not.

As an example, hundreds of thousands of people have died in the USA, a far greater percentage than any other country, because for political advantage, many leaders of the fear and anger persuasion used the epidemic as a political football.

Thinking humans, this is your moment to put into action your ideas for the world you want. Don’t let fear and anger be your guide, look for leaders who can inspire you to new ideas for these new times.

Let’s go for it!

Wrwk welcomes governor-elect Glen youngkin

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

Mark Twain

WRWK LP FM 93.9 welcomes Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin to his leadership role.
We in Virginia have just begun to throw off the history of “winners” who keep the winnings for themselves.
Leaders who get rich “leading” as their supporters are losing are really carpetbaggers whether they have “done anything wrong” or not.
Mitch in the senate and Nancy in the house have presided over a nation in decline even as benefits to their fellow electors and lobbyists and particularly corporations who finance their influence machine reap most of the benefits.
Informed citizens are aware that voter interests and passed laws are not in step.
A woman’s right to choose is decided by men who apparently don’t realize men are also involved.
Critical Race Theory is a deciding issue for voters even though it is not taught in public schools in Virginia.
The MVP claims eminent domain to build a pipeline across Virginia to ship fracked gas out of the country.
Leaders in the state legislature legalize gambling as a good source for jobs even though the costs of gambling are always borne by the citizens.
Hemp is made legal in Virginia not for its excellent fiber and the jobs it would bring but for pot smokers. Nothing against pot smokers but what is the government’s interest in this?
In short, the government  is always preyed upon by special interests, and it can’t or won’t protect itself from them.
As a man who has  “made his money”  I hope you can break up the taxpayer funded party and usher in a new era for Virginia.
An era where electors can represent the needs of citizens now and into the future.
An era where electors getting fat on the public dollar are called out or at least labeled.
An era when citizens falling for emotional issues tell you not now to win the sucker vote, but that you have an angry and divided state and job number one should be to bring it back together.
In our 70 + years on the planet how is it that we get lost in ourselves and our interests?
I put it to poor leadership and I welcome your interest in moving Virginia beyond that and into a future that will serve our kids, and their kids.
As the new moral leader of Virginia I hope I can count on you to lead all of Virginia into a future fit for our kids and not just for business.

To quote the very first Republican:

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Abraham Lincoln”

  We at WRWK will help you to do this in any way that we can.  Please let us know if special interests try to bend you from your goal.

Ron  Skinner
WRWK LP FM  Midlothian, Virginia.Progressive Community Radio in RVA @93.9 FM