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The History of Anti-Racist Action with Shannon Clay

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A History of Anti-Racist Action with Shannon Clay

book cover of "We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action" featuring an anti-racist protest in red tone with "TFSR 6-14-23" along the sideHere’s our interview with Shannon Clay, co-author of We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action. For this episode, Shannon and I walk through the book, covering some of the history of the network, how it evolved, challenges it faced, and invitations to discuss current day anti-fascist and anti-racist organizing on Turtle Island. The full podcast of this can be found here. To hear a related interview on the book and podcast, It Did Happen Here about anti-racist struggle in Portland, OR in the late 1980s find it here.

Shannon also suggests co-authors Kristin Schwartz and Michael Staudenmaier podcast interview on The Brief about Canadian ARA history: http://thebriefpodcast.com/anti-racist-action/


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** Evan Veasey ** – Live on 103.3 Asheville FM – Positive Vibes’ Early Morning Music Sessions – Tuesday, June 27th, from 9-10a * / www.ashevillefm.org

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Join DJSmittymon this week as he welcomes Evan Veasey (Asheville-Based Musician, Songwriter & Teacher) on the Positive Vibes’ Early Morning Music Sessions..

Live in-studio performance and talk with Evan about his music  and more…

happens this Tuesday, June 27th, 2023 – starts around 9am..

Positive Vibes  starts at 8am with great reggae and local vibes – plus chance to win a pair of tickets to see Collie Buddz at the Salvage Station – Thursday, June 29th..    tune in to win…

Evan Veasey – is a musician, songwriter, and teacher based in Asheville, North Carolina.

As a songwriter and guitarist, Evan plays with the conventions of 20th century Folk and American music to explore the recesses of his inner life with an unflinching light. Evan uses his writing as a mirror, a way of seeing himself and a way that the listeners who choose to inhabit the world of his songs can see themselves.

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RANDOM ACTIVE KIDS

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Alright! So! I knew I would be unable to put a Radio Active Kids show together this week, so I had planned on taking this week off as well! However, I remembered something that I’ve been thinking about doing for a while now & haven’t had the right opportunity to do: what if I went into an episode with literally no idea what I was going to play & picked the playlist completely on the fly, live on the air?
Welp, I’m gonna do it this week. Presenting: RANDOM ACTIVE KIDS this Saturday! I don’t know WHAT the heck I’m going to play on this show–you’ll be finding out with me! One thing’s for sure, it’ll be awesome kindie music! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at https://anchor.fm/radio-active-kids!


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Soul of the Blues

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Blues falling down like rain! The blues will rain all over you when you tune in the Blueshound on Soul of the Blues this Thursday from 12-2pm on AshevilleFM! Listen live at 103.3fm or stream it live and for 2 weeks after it airs anytime you want at ashevillefm.org! Plenty of new music from bands like rockabilly phenoms from down under-The Barnestromers, Samantha Fish/Jesse Dayton collaboration, Chicago’s Larry Taylor and the Taylor Family, Philly blues from Paul Boddy &The Slidewinders Blues Band and blues rocker Chris Duarte! Also, got some Chicago vintage blues from James Wheeler! Asheville rocker, Andrew Scotchie, will be in the studio with me this week discussing his new album and playing a few tunes for ya! You won’t wanna miss the Blueshound this week on Soul of the Blues for 2 hours of mind jiggling, butt wiggling blues, baby!


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AFM News Hour reports on “job threatening pressure” from mayor during December water outage

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In this week’s Civic Roundup for Wednesday, June 21, 2023, we report on the Asheville City Council meeting of June 13, at which extensive reports were presented on the system-wide water outages over the Christmas holiday last year. Concerns with water pressure, lack of water, or discolored water began on Dec. 24 when temperatures fell, causing the water production facility’s filtration and settling basins to freeze.

The system normally would be able to keep up with the water demand when the facility went offline, according to officials, but the winter storm led to numerous water line breaks that depleted the system’s water level. Overly optimistic estimates of when the restoration of service would occur, according to multiple sources made under pressure from the mayor’s office, led to confusion and frustration on the part of the public.

According to reporting in the Asheville Watchdog, the city has a longstanding history of water woes. The origin of the city’s run-down water infrastructure dates to the Great Depression and the mountain town’s insistence on paying off a massive debt load. The city funneled every available dollar to repaying that debt, ignoring infrastructure needs and using water revenues to that purpose. The depression-era debt was paid off in 1976.

In 2022, an estimated 27 percent of the water from the city’s two main reservoirs was lost to leaky pipes, and there were more than 720 “boil water advisories” in various parts of the city between 2017 and 2021, usually caused by breaks in water mains.

Listen to our report to hear Mike McGill, of WaterPIO, a water system communication firm, regarding misleading messaging and its results, with McGill pointing to direct orders and “job-threatening pressure” from Mayor Esther Manheimer for the water department to say on Dec. 27 that service would be restored within 24-48 hours, even though employees expressed concerns that meeting such a time frame would be “highly unlikely.”