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CousinTL Stank Free Radio: Prince, Dance Electric

Your favorite cousin shares from his personal purple collection of remixes, maxi-singles, deep tracks and rare versions of familiar hits Produced, Composed and Performed by Prince
Stream Online, listen on your computer, smartphone and tablet https://ashevillefm.org/stank-free-radio

#Prince #PRNlegacy #PaisleyPark #love4oneanother #NPG #Tribute #music #Funk #stayathome #StayAtHomeSaveLives #AshevilleNC #AshevilleFM #AVL #communityradio #radio #localradio #internetradio #listenerpowered #freemedia #soulmusic #alternativeRandB #contemporaryrandb #bestofwnc #CousinTL #StankFreeRadio


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Local Church Offers Drive Up Food Bank

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There are a number of community members and groups responding to the many needs the coronavirus pandemic and stay at home orders are creating.  Earlier this week we spoke with Emmanuel Lutheran Church in West Asheville, who are providing food for many families now facing food insecurity because of the mass of joblessness.  Listen to the interview here:


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Radio Active Kids April 25! Interview with Joanie Leeds!

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Y’all! This week on Radio Active Kids I’m excited to interview Joanie Leeds, who has a amazing new album called #AlltheLadies! Also, an astonishing amount of new stuff from Alastair Moock Music, Mista Cookie Jar & The Chocolate Chips, Ben Rudnick and Friends, Music with Michal, Walter Martin, José-Luis Orozco, The Amoeba People, Flor Bromley – Actress, Singer, Storyteller, Puppeteer, fleaBITE, Kymberly Stewart Music, Rushad Eggleston, Karibuni – Weltmusik für Kinder, Pussycat Dolores, La Bollito Band & Zak Engel and friends!!! 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! Cover image used by permission of Joanie Leeds.


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The UnCola Takes A Trip to 1985

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Join us tonight at 8 PM est on 103.3 FM Asheville as we take a trip back thirty-five years in time to the year 1985. We’ll be playing two hours of forgotten Top 40 from the year of New Coke, CDs, and Live Aid. Where we’re going, we won’t need roads!


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4/20/2020 – What You Need to Know: COVID-19 in Buncombe County

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Throughout the wake of COVID-19 and practicing social distancing, information and resources will be posted here under “What You Need to Know: COVID-19 in Buncombe County”

As of this morning on April 20, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services counts 6,764 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the state. That’s an increase of 271 cases since the April 19 numbers were released. NCDHHS tallies 179 deaths statewide, up 7 deaths since April 19.

Buncombe County reported 47 lab-confirmed positive cases as of April 17. Three people have died in Buncombe County from COVID-19.

Buncombe County food stamp applications are up 1,000%. An unprecedented number of unemployment insurance applications has brought North Carolina’s online application portal down. Many Western North Carolinians are turning to Food and Nutrition Services, formerly known as food stamps, to feed themselves and their families.

Thirteen people have died in Henderson County due to complications surrounding COVID-19. NCDHHS says there are currently four ongoing outbreaks in congregate living facilities in Henderson County as of April 20— three in nursing homes and one in a residential facility. In congregate living settings an outbreak is defined as two or more laboratory-confirmed cases in the same facility.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-what-you-need-to-know-in-asheville-wnc-on-april-20/ar-BB12VrQq

 Ashville citizens flooded the City Council with calls to open hotels to the homeless and others in need during the COVID-19 outbreak. Officials say that could lead to more infections. Instead, the city is housing 50 people in Harrah’s Cherokee Center Asheville. In extreme cases, people without homes can stay in hotels, officials said, along with medical and public safety workers. Half of the council’s hour-long April 14 meeting consisted of phoned-in public comments and responses by officials. Thirteen of the 14 prerecorded callers spoke on the topic of hotels, saying they should be open to the homeless or other people left vulnerable.

At the request of Mayor Esther Manheimer, Assistant City Manager Cathy Ball said that medical and public safety personnel can stay in hotels at a “significantly reduced rate” that’s paid by the nonprofit Dogwood Health Trust, which uses money from the sale of Mission Hospital. Local officials explored having people without homes stay in hotels, Ball said, but it wasn’t recommended by Interim County Health Director Dr. Jennifer Mullendore.

“It’s purely a voluntary program. So anybody can come in and leave,” the assistant city manager told the Associated Press. “So being able to monitor and check medical stats and temperatures where people were in hotel rooms became very problematic. It was also problematic to be able to monitor to make sure people were not gathering in those rooms in significant numbers.”

Officials have opted for the Harrah’s Cherokee Center, where volunteers are more easily able to monitor the health of occupants. Ball said if someone who is homeless is suspected to have COVID-19, they are quarantined in a hotel while they await test results.

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/04/17/open-asheville-hotels-homeless-public-could-worsen-coronavirus-outbreak-officials-say/5146688002/

Steady Collective Mobile Outreach:

  • Firestorm Books & COOP: Tues, 4/20/20, 1:30pm-4:00pm

  • Haywood St. Congregation: Weds, 4//21/20, 10:30am-12:00pm

  • AHOPE: Fri, 10:00am-12:00pm, 4/24/20

  • Pisgah View (across from community center): Fri, 5/1/20, 12:00pm-1:30pm

(Updated 4/20/20)

* Syringes for intravenous & intramuscular (steroids, hormones, insulin) use

** Clients can come by during the day between 9-4 to see if they have a bed open.  They will refill them as folks leave.  They are prioritizing clients who are long term homeless in our community with chronic health conditions.

Asheville Humane Society’s Community Solutions Program can help with pet care. They already deliver pet food to Haywood Congregation and AHOPE and are looking to most effectively distribute other supplies to those in higher need during Covid-19. Call 828-761-2008 or email  [email protected] for more information on the following programs:

  • Pet food/supply assistance

  • Temporary re-homing

  • Low-cost spay/neuter

  • Low-cost vaccinations

  • Pet behavior help

  • Pet-friendly housing guide

  • Re-homing

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Against Animals (ASPCAA)- Call their Hotline @ 1-800-738-9437, between 8am-8pm. Pick-up is drive-thru only; Do not arrive early; Do not bring your pets; call hotline if you are running late. Have someone else pick up your order if you are experiencing symptoms of Coronavirus. (Updated 4/14/20)

Emmanuel Lutheran Church is conducting a “Drive Up/Open Trunk” Food Bank for any community member in need.  They will be open from 12pm to 2pm on Sunday.  Drive to the back of the church and open your trunk.  They have fruits, vegetables, dry goods, meats, eggs, etc. Donations from the Manna Food Bank, ALDI’s and others makes this possible.


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Harm Reduction in Pandemic and Jason Renard Walker

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Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on April 20th through 26th, 2020 and podcasting on libsyn.com.

Harm Reduction in Pandemic and Jason Renard Walker

This week we feature two segments, first up we got to chat with Hill Brown about Asheville’s response to the pandemic in terms of public health, drug use and the houseless communities. Then, Jason Renard Walker talks about his journalism, activism and troubles in the Texas prison system.

Harm Reduction in Asheville during Pandemic

First we got to sit down with Hill Brown who works with Asheville’s Steady Collective doing harm reduction outreach to people experiencing homelessness and addiction. We talk about a lot of topics, including how the current health crisis has affected Steady’s operation, how the city of Asheville is mishandling its resources right now, and how folks can plug in and have solidarity with this work.

If you are concerned about hotel access for oppressed populations, you can call:

  • The Tourism Development Authority (TDA) at 828-258-6111,
  • The County Commissioners at 828-250-4066 and leave a message,
  • and the City of Asheville, who funds the TDA, at 828-251-1122

You can also find ways to support the Steady Collective by visiting their website TheSteadyCollective.org. Visit our blog or show notes to see an interview Bursts did with Hill back in 2018 which was done at a time when the city was threatening to close Steady’s operations.

Incarcerated Journalist and Organizer, Jason Renard Walker

Then we’ll be hearing from Jason Renard Walker, an incarcerated journalist and activist at the Clemens Unit near Amarillo, Texas. Jason is the Minister of Labor for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter) and his writing is frequently featured in the SF Bay View National Black Newspaper. Mr. Walker’s answers will be read by his girlfriend, Noelle. You can find more of Jasons writings at his blog, JasonsPrisonJournal.com, including a link to his recently published e-book “Reports from Within The Belly Of The Beast: Torture and Injustice Inside Texas Department of Criminal Justice” available from Amazon.com and hopefully soon in paperback. He also just published this piece on his blog about the coverup around covid-19. This interview is transcribed below.

Jason Renard Walker #1532092
Clements Unit
9601 Spur 591
Amarillo, TX 79107

You can hear our chat from 2018 with Kevin Rashid Johnson (co-founder of the NABPP and Minister of Defense for the Prison Chapter) which is also transcribed in that post, or printable as a zine here.

Jason Renard Walker also mentions Julio Alex Zunigo, aka Comrade Z, who is rustling up resistance in Darington Unit. Comrade Z was interviewed by ItsGoingDown and we will be airing a recording of an interview with him coming up this week.

Comrade Malik’s Covid-19 Update Update

The elder, politicized prisoner that Comrade Malik references in Texas as Alvaro Luna Hernandez also goes by the name Xinachtli, which you can use in personal communication. You can hear a recording of Xinachtli telling his story in his own words here. For the envelope or dealing with administration you can write to him at:

Alvaro Luna Hernández #255735
James V Allred Unit
2101 FM 369
NorthIowa Park, TX 76367 USA

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