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Radio Active Kids June 27! Interview with the Sewer Buddies!

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Y’all! Thanx to everyone who donated to the Asheville FM #SpringFundDrive! You can still do so at ashevillefm.org/donate! This week, on Radio Active Kids we’ll interview The Sewer Buddies, whose new EP #ButtBrains ROCKS! Plus, a metric ton of new music from Tim Kubart & Drue Davis, The Boo Hoo Crew, Claudia Robin Gunn/Little Wild Music, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Mariano Pose Pez al revés, FIRE DOG, The Corner Us, Tiptoe Giants, Elena Moon Park & Friends, Totally Knuts, Mister B’s Buzz, Ryan SanAngelo, #TheHolyheadHarpies ft. Oliver Boyd & The Remembralls, Suzanne Jamieson Music, and The Cool Chips! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & listen to the podcast at anchor.fm/radio-active-kids! Image used by permission of Lindsey Warren.


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2020 AshevilleFM Spring Fund Drive ! 

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2020 AshevilleFM Spring Fund Drive !
Keeping with the theme of helping out. Asheville FM is partnering with Asheville Music Professionals (#AMP) to provide meals to folks in the community who work in the music industry and have struggled during the shutdown. Local Synthesizer Manufacturer, Make Noise will be donating a meal for every donation we receive. #AMP delivers meals once a week. We’re so excited about the collaboration of these two organizations to help us while also helping our community! We need you to support what you love. Local, volunteer, non-corporate, freeform community radio!
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My Daddy Taught Me That

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Join The UnCola on Tuesday for another installment of African-American Music Appreciation Month. As we continue with our 2020 Spring fund drive, for any donations given to Asheville FM during my show on Tuesday between 8-10 PM, I will personally match the amount and donate that to My Daddy Taught Me That, a local non-profit with a program designed for the development and education for youth, transforming young males into our leading MEN of tomorrow.


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Pan-African Social Ecology: A conversation with Dr Modibo Kadalie

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Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on October 5th through 11th, 2020, and podcasting via libsyn.

Pan-African Social Ecology: A conversation with Dr Modibo Kadalie

This week, we’re happy to air a conversation I had with the author and activist, Modibo Kadalie, author of Pan-African Social Ecology as well as Internationalism, Pan-Africanism and the Struggle of Social Classes. A version of Dr. Kadalie’s conversation with Andrew Zonneveld of OOA! Publishing, entitled Pan-Africanism, Social Ecology and Intimate Direct Action appeared up in the recently released collection Deciding For Ourselves, edited by Cindy Milstein out from AK Press. Dr. Kadalie has also been involved in political organizing including resisting the draft of the Vietnam War, labor organizing in Detroit and Memphis, ecological protest, community self defense in Atlanta and currently is working on writings about ecology and living in the territories of southeastern Turtle Island, including those of the Creek and Seminole peoples, and working at the Autonomous Research Institute for Direct Democracy and Social Ecology in Midway, Georgia.

In this hour, Modibo talks about autonomous community organizing, the contradictions between the survival of the species and capitalism, CLR James, his read on Pan-Africanism and Social Ecology, the pandemic, and direct democracy. We also talk about Geechee history in south so-called Georgia, the weaknesses of nationalism, hierarchy and revering individual historical figures and the strength of spontaneity and community action.

This conversation was recorded before the killing of George Floyd and but after the increased awareness of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery nearby to Dr. Kadalie in Glynn County, GA, which reflects in the discussion. Modibo shares some criticisms of official Black Lives Matter, liberal cooptation and the veneration of representative leadership.

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Radio Active Kids June 16! Mostly new!!!!

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It’s the start of the Asheville FM #SpringFundDrive this week on Radio Active Kids, so please donate here: https://ashevillefm.org/donate We really need it! This week’s show has TONS of new and new-to-the-show tunes from Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band, Silly Bus, Sing-Along with Lindsay, Dirty Sock Funtime Band, Dana’s Music Playground, #BillAckerbauer, Erica Rabner Music/Pinna, Claire Ness Music, #StanislavKovačić, Lily & James, Stormin’ Bob Swanson – The Singing Weatherman, & Oliver Boyd & The Remembralls! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & listen to the podcast at anchor.fm/radio-active-kids! Image by me. 🙂


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Happy Juneteenth, 2020! Find Ways to Celebrate in Asheville Today!

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Today is June 19 – Juneteenth – The holiday celebrating the day when news of emancipation and the Civil War’s end finally reached the last group of slaves in America.

Although slavery had officially ended On January 1, 1863, with Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, there was no official attempt to liberate enslaved African Americans in the western union territories…. Until this day in 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger traveled to Galveston, Texas to tell enslaved Black folx of their freedom. A few months later in December of 1865, slavery in America was formally abolished in the 13th Amendment (with stipulations).

47 states (including NC) recognize today as a holiday and a reminder that freedom for Black people has been delayed by the ongoing institutional and systemic oppression of BIPOC in the United States.

Want to celebrate but don’t want to leave the house? 

  • Search Instagram, Etsy, and other social media sites for Black artists and companies and then purchase their products! 
  • Educate yourself and your friends and family about the importance of racial inequality in the United States. 
  • Buy gift cards from Black-owned businesses.
  • Contribute to Kickstarters for Black-owned businesses.
  • Contribute to funds and organizations that go directly to the Black community, including signing petitions, donating, following on social media and bail funds, .
  • Watch a movie or tv show, listen to a podcast or music, or read a book that features Black comedy and/or joy. 
  • Get take out from a Black-owned business.

OR you and your family can join one of the multiple celebrations happening in Asheville –

This year, the Hillcrest Community is hosting their ninth Juneteenth Festival: Celebrating Freedom. The commemoration will run from noon to 8 pm at 100 Atkinson St. Social distancing and sanitation protocols will be followed to limit the risk of COVID-19 transmission. 

Local hip-hop artist, Thomas Boyd, known as Ready Red, told the Mountain Xpress that the observance will feature a “series of wrestling and hip-hop performances that focus on telling the story of emancipation, soul food prepared by (local-restaurant) Daddy D’s Suber Soulfood, as well as neighborhood residents and kid-friendly activities.” Boyd also mentioned that “the event is open to anyone who wants to attend.” 

With July 4th celebrations right around the corner, this an opportunity for our community to remember the darker parts of our history that we tend to roll under the rug. This observance aims to spotlight and celebrate Asheville’s Black community and encourage liberation from white-supremacy and colonialism.

Black-owned businesses in Asheville –

Arts 

  • Cleaster Cotton
  • Curve Theory
  • James Love
  • Jenny Pickens
  • Joseph Pearson
  • Portrait Soul Readings
  • Pro 16 Productions
  • Still Smiling Photography
  • Tia Nicole Photography
  • Valeria Watson
  • Viola Spells

Food

  • AVL Cake Lady
  • Cooking with Comedy Catering
  • Daddy D’s
  • Dreadlife Kitchen
  • Ms. Quitas Kitchen
  • Smallcakes
  • Sweet Thangs
  • Tiger Bay Cafe
  • The Cake Studio

Health & Wellness

  • Asheville Pro Lash & Salon
  • Black Lotus Massage
  • Blaze Dance Studio
  • Della Terra Beauty
  • Closs Maintenance
  • Jolie de Shea Hair Design
  • Keep It Clean
  • OSEGA Dream Academy
  • Salon Roche

*Information provided by &the_undergrowth on Instagram

To find more information search “Juneteenth Asheville” on Facebook. Other events in Asehivlle include celebrations at the Pisgah View Apts and on Eagle Street. 

mountainx.com/news/asheville-celebrates-juneteenth/ (Laura Hackett)


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