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Positive Vibes for your morning ride or wherever you are.. only on AshevilleFM 103.3FM – www.ashevillefm.org – Tuesdays 8-10am

Positive Vibes for your morning ride or wherever you are.. only on AshevilleFM 103.3FM – www.ashevillefm.org – Tuesdays 8-10am

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Get Your Reggae & Local Vibes On!!

Join me – DJSmittymon this week Tuesday Nov 15th from 8-10am

New music from one of my favorite local bands Leisureville “Islands feat Christian Ahmed” / plus Rockstead “My High” Roots of Creation “Guiding Light feat Arise Roots” Earthkry “Soon Come” and more…  even a chance for tickets to see Porangui (musician / healer) 7pm Thursday night (Nov 17th) w/ Numatik at the Salvage Station

Tune in and turn it up! – smittymon

          Tuesday 8-10am – November 15th

     www.ashevillefm.org – 103.3 Asheville FM

@leisurevillemusic @salvagestation @103.3ashevillefm


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Heater Blocs & Political Prisoners

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Heater Blocs & Political Prisoners

"TFSR 11-13-22 | Heater Blocs & Political Prisoners"This week on The Final Straw we have 4 whopping segments, tidbits in length but whopping in importance.

First up, you’ll hear from Zachariah Jazz (@BlackariahJazz161 on twitter), who distributes alcohol jet heaters with ABQHeaterBloc in so-called Albuquerque, NM, to talk about their efforts to help keep folks living on the streets safer from the elements through mutual aid.

Then, Tom of Heater Bloc Chicago talks about the construction of these devices, based on shared design.

After that, you’ll hear Josh of the Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective to talk about this year’s edition and briefly update listeners on the situations of Oso Blanco & Eric King, two anarchist political prisoners Josh does support work for and works on projects with.

Finally, Sean Swain’s weekly segment!

Next week…

We’ll be sharing a recent conversation with antifascist researcher and activist, Matthew Lyons, author of the 2015 PM Press & Kersplebedeb book, Insurgent Supremacists, and contributor to the Three Way Fight blog to speak about Christian Nationalist tendencies and their relationship to distinctly racist elements of the far right in the so-called USA, approaches to understanding their approach of Christian Patriarchy as regards axes of gender, sexuality, abortion and bodily autonomy, as well as a call for antifascists to understand and more actively oppose these tendencies. More of Matthews thoughts at his blog, MatthewNLyons.net

Announcements

Mutulu Shakur Released!

It is bittersweet for us to share the news that Dr. Mutulu Shakur of the Republic of New Afrika, imprisoned since 1986, is being released from prison. Bittersweet because his case and incarceration were a travesty, and also because Dr. Shakur was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in 2019 and has suffered in prison since. We are overjoyed that Dr. Shakur can pass on to the ancestors surrounded by loved ones on the outside of the bars. You can donate to his support via paypal to [email protected]. You can hear our conversation from a few months back about his case and health at our website by searching “Mutulu Shakur”. Free them all!

Mutual Aid Efforts

Lots of us are involved in social efforts of mutual aid, which can be a lot on top of just keeping afloat personally in capitalism, keeping rent paid, etc. In line with the subject matter of most of today’s show, we were hoping to highlight a couple of projects that could use money and support in the good work they’re doing during this so-called holiday season.

  • There is an effort in Eastern Kentucky, which was hit hard by floods and tornadoes this year that left many homeless, to raise money for cold gear and other help that can be donated to at @ekymutualaid on venmo or paypal, or $ekymutualaid on cashapp.
  • Chehalis River Mutual Aid Network of rural so-called Washington state’s info can be found at linktr.ee/crmutualaidnet
  • Kinlani Mutual Aid in so-called Flagstaff, AZ is collecting cold weather gear at Talahogan Infoshop, connecting people and building solidarity. More info at KinlaniMutualAid.Org
  • Asheville Survival Program is also doing a drive for cold weather clothes. You can find info on their site, linktr.ee/AVLSurvival
  • Finally, the Knoxville shared radical space known as MASK that was used by East TN Harm Reduction, First Aid Knoxville & Knoxville Radical Library could use some support on recovering materials destroyed in this summer’s flooding. You can learn more at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mutual-aid-space-recover-from-flood

Support

Hey listeners. As prices rise and capitalism chugs along, crushing us in its wake, so goes our patreon. We’ve recently lost a about $50 a month in support, which leaves us below $500/mo, which puts us in danger in falling short of being able to pay for transcription services and web hosting each month. We have a regular goal of $550 to cover those months with 5 Sundays and occasional extra costs.

If you can support us via a one-time donation, a merch purchase, a recurring donation via librapay or paypal or a subscription via patreon, we’d be much obliged. At patreon.com/tfsr those who support us at $2 or more a month have access to the occasional early audio release and upcoming planned behind the scenes chats among the producers. At the $5 level and above, you’ll get the aforementioned releases plus some stickers to show our appreciation. For $10 or more per month, you’ll get all that plus a monthly zine in the mail sent to you or the prisoner of your choice. Finally, for $15 per month and above you get those thank you’s plus a TFSR tshirt. But we don’t expect these meager enticements to get you to fork over the cash, honestly it seems more likely you’d kick in a few bucks because you have a little extra and appreciate our transcription work that allows for easier translation and accessibility of our episodes as well as easier sharing with prisoners and others who can’t hear the podcast. You can learn more at tfsr.wtf/support

That said, if you don’t have cash, please consider rating the podcast on amazon, google or apple podcasts to help us beat the algorithm, follow and amplify our social media posts (tfsr.wtf), share our content with others in real life, or try to get us on your local community or college radio station (tfsr.wtf/radio). More info on this and more at our website. Thanks for the support!


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Radio Active Kids November 12! Interview with David Gibb!

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I am so stoked (or should I say spoked?) to interview David Gibb this week on Radio Active Kids! His new concept album about bicycles is incredible! ???????????? Also, new songs by 123 Andrés, #TheTallestKidintheRoom, Ms. D&Me, #LosAurores/aka_swell_rell/Dream Quaffle on a comp by Wizrocklopedia Compilation Club, & Happy Music Garden, plus older tunes by Mike Phirman & Lucas Miller, the “Singing Zoologist”! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at mixcloud.com/Radio_Active_Kids!


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Asheville FM News Hour – 11.9.22 – if you missed it, check it out here!

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On the Asheville FM News Hour, we aired the headlines, the Civic Roundup on the elections, the Healthy Asheville Report, and an interview from guest contributor Julia Haverstock, who interviewed local writer and collaborator, Ami Worthen, on Stumptown and the Montford neighborhood

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This weekend marks the return to standard time: Time to ponder how Daylight Saving Time can harm your health

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UNITED STATES – November 6, 2022 – Daylight Savings Time (DST) can stress our bodies for weeks by upsetting our natural biologic clock that is affected by light and darkness. Health groups have pointed out that fatigue and health problems can occur from sleep loss after the ‘Spring forward’ time change. There are more hospital admissions due to heart attacks, strokes and irregular heartbeat. Other health problems are more car accidents including more fatalities, mood swings and seasonal depression. Christopher Barnes, a sleep researcher, told Mattress Clarity, an organization that reviews sleep products and promotes sleep health, “We’ve discovered that people have about 40 minutes less sleep. Because we’re already short on sleep to begin with, the effects of even 40 minutes are noticeable.”

As a result of the longer daylight hours during the summer months, beginning in 1966, Congress moved the clocks forward by one hour so we can wake up in the morning when the sun rises and have an extra hour of daylight for outdoor leisure activities after the traditional workday. Most countries in North America and Europe have adopted DST during the summer months. Sunday morning November 6 at 2 AM is the time to ‘Fall back’ by setting the clocks back one hour and return to standard time. DST will start on Sunday, March 12, 2023 and ‘Spring forward’ by advancing our clocks one hour. This is the bi-annual ritual of the ‘changing of the clocks.’

According to a recent 2022 poll by YouGov, more than two-thirds of Americans want to stop changing the clocks. A recent study in the journal Current Biology reported that eliminating time changes with year-round DST could prevent 33 human deaths, over 2 thousand human injuries and save over $1 billion in collision costs each year. The Senate passed a bipartisan bill last March to make DST permanent throughout the United States. The bill hasn’t been voted on by the House. 19 states have already enacted legislation or passed resolutions for year-round DST. However, federal law prohibits states from adopting year-round DST unless it is approved by Congress. Therefore, states can move to year-round standard time. Hawaii, Arizona and U.S. territories have year-round standard time.

Sleep experts feel that having standard time year-round would be much better for a person’s health than year-round DST. Changing the clocks doesn’t change the amount of sunlight during the day. However, adopting permanent standard time allows for sunlight to be present at the right time of the day and the sun would be at its highest point in the sky at 12 noon. In contrast, a shift to permanent DST would also wreak havoc on our natural biologic clock in the winter as it does in the summer. The sun wouldn’t rise until after many people were awake and at work or school so people would be at a higher risk for seasonal depression and car accidents.

 

Listen to the full report below:

 

 

Contact: Dick Needleman, Health reporter, 103.3 AshevilleFM, [email protected]


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