THURSDAY 10.01.26 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman Thursday October 1, 2026
Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Our reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events.
https://www.democracynow.org/shows
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: How a Washington State farm dramatically slashed its irrigation needs (00:01:30)
The approach could help farmers adapt to droughts.
www.YaleClimateConnections.org
LISTENING TO AMERICA with Clay Jenkins #1723 On the Trail of Marco Polo (00:57:09)
Author and explorer Denis Belliveau talks with Clay about his epic journey along the entire Silk Road in the footsteps of Marco Polo. Polo (ca. 1254-1324) traveled from Venice to the far end of China between 1271 and 1295 AD. He visited Kublai Khan in the legendary Xanadu. Denis Belliveau and his traveling companion, Francis O’Donnell, needed 70 visas to make the immense journey, none of it by airplane, much of it on foot, horse, camel, and such fortunate rides they could cadge along the way. They traveled with what Belliveau calls “reckless bravado and a lot of testosterone,” through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Tibet, and China, among other nations. They were, so far as anyone knows, the first people ever to retrace the entire Marco Polo journey. The result was a PBS documentary and excellent book, In the Footsteps of Marco Polo. You can also learn more at his website: In the Footsteps. This episode was recorded on April 8, 2026.
LABOR RADIO PODCAST DAILY: Don’t Forget the Roses (for 10/1/2026) (00:02:00)
On todays Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Labor Heritage Power Hour explores how workers rediscover their artistic side through theater. In labor history, NHL owners begin a 103-day lockout. Quote of the day: Jack McCallum.
https://www.laborradionetwork.org
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Trump and RFK Jr.’s Gutting of CDC Should Terrify Everyone” (00:58:00)
The grim state of affairs at the Trump CDC should terrify everyone, Brad Woodhouse, president of the advocacy group Protect Our Care, said in a statement on Monday in response to reporting by The New York Times, which shows how Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other administration officials have made the CDC a skeleton of the powerhouse it was.
RISING UP WITH SONALI – 2026-09-29 (00:58:30)
This week, I present a climate change special First, well hear from award winning journalist Joshua Frank, whose new book is called Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future. Franks book is a warning against how not to transition to a green energy future and an assertion of the fact that unfettered capitalism, which caused the problems of climate change, cannot be part of the solution. Then, in a case that is the first of its kind, a Washington woman is suing big oil companies like Exxon Mobil over the 2021 death of her mother whose cause of death was hyperthermia linked to a record-breaking heat dome in the Pacific Northwest. Mike Meno of the Center for Climate Integrity will share more about the case, and whether suing Big Oil can help end fossil fuel domination.
https://risingupwithsonali.com
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 8-9 (00:46:22)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
https://librivox.org/the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
ALAN WATTS: We Worry About Problems We Don’t Even Have (00:08:03)
An inspirational and profound speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts – Taoist Way”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47YEyPnXfvw
THE BRADCAST: (00:58:00)
Independent, investigative news, detailed reporting, interviews and snarky commentary.
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