Democracy Minute, Good News Planet, XR Radio, Troubadours & Raconteurs, Writer’s Voice, Letters from an American, Chartcrush, Choose to be Curious, Dirty Laundry

Fresh Today:

• American Democracy Minute – Two significant wins for Ohio voters, with signatures certified for a citizen-led redistricting commission ballot measure, and a federal court ruling striking down a portion of a state voter suppression law. 1 min 30 sec
• Good News Good Planet  – In Miami, “Nest of Love” is dedicated to mentoring and supporting women, especially single mothers. 1 min 30 sec
• Listen & Be Heard Hour for Readers & Writers – We listen to highlights from previous climate resilience specials with authors Laura Lengnick, Resilient Agriculture, and Meredith Leigh, The Ethical Meat Handbook. Martha Cinader adds personal comments about changing behavior and recommends books. Poetry by Vanessa Lee Miller. Music by Baba Brinkman and DJ’s for Climate Action.
• Troubadours And Raconteurs with E.W. Conundrum Demure – Lesley-Ann Brown talks with us from her home outside of Copenhagen, Denmark. We discuss: Cities, the Country, Human Settlements, Chocolate, Being Humble, Our Feet, Our Souls, Being Present, Tapping Into the Flow, Spiritual Trauma, Right & Wrong, Being Ostracized, De-linking from the Norm, Privilege, Cleaning Toilets, Plant Spirits, Getting Out of Our Trance 58 min
• Writer’s Voice – We spend the hour with William Bronston, the doctor who sparked the movement to shut down the Willowbrook State School and other institutions of its kind across America. He tells us about his historic battle and how it continues today. His book is Public Hostage: Public Ransom: Ending Institutional America. 59 min
• Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson discusses: Harris’ momentum, MAGA’s distress, FTC — Surveillance Pricing, Vance’s Weakness, Ignoring Climate Change 15 min
• The Chartcrush Top Ten Countdown Show – It’s settle or scramble in the third year of the Petrillo musicians’ strike: Decca and Capitol churn out hit after hit but Victor and Columbia dig in, reissue old stuff and record their Singers a capella. Bing Crosby on Decca has his best year ever, Louis Jordan becomes the first R&B crossover act and king of Billboard’s new Jukebox chart, and a single movie musical launches five of the year’s top 10 hits. 58 min
• Dirty Laundry – FEATURING:The Lightning Seeds, Warpaint, Loggins & Messina, Bent, Miten, Deval Premal, Joby Baker, Ariel Pink, Slowdive, The Left Banke, Shirley Bassey, Away Team, Smoke City, The Human Experience, Saint Sinner, Younger Brother 58 min
• XR Radio – There is a lot of doom and gloom in the climate news and we certainly broadcast our share. But in this episode we take a look at some progress, however small and halting, and evaluate how we might build on it. 28 min
• Choose To Be Curious – Join me in making Anne-Laure Le Cunffs Curiosity Prayer your own: Grant me the curiosity to explore the things I do not understand, the courage to question the things I do, and the wisdom to never stop learning. 28 min

Repeating Today:

• Nuestra Música– We are presenting Latinx Blues. With Afro Cuban and Afro Mexican rhythms becoming apparent in the 19 century music scene in North America, and forever in debt to the Mississippi Delta Blues, the Latinx Blues takes the best from the American rhythms, and incorporates some native instruments like Quena, Cajon, Mayan Drum, African Marimba, and Erque. Today we are presenting Blues in Spanish, Portuguese, and Quechua. 58 min
• Talk World Radio  – How Cities Could Cool Off and Why Black Teslas Are Stupid 29 min
• L&BH Hour for Readers & Writers – Tony Robles talks with JOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE, poet and operator of Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore in SF, and JOE TALAUGON, author of the memoir Mestizo Through My Eyes. Alderete shares his poem “Somos” and some choice words about banning books. Martha shares a garden update and thoughts on native wisdom. 1 hr
• L&BH Radio – Tony Robles speaks with Bernard Powers, Director of the Black History Museum in Charleston, SC  16 min