‘Words to Live By’ is a collage of interview segments, music and fiction.While the first series revolved around idioms and expressions, and later, stories, your host is now on the move. The show capitulates travels around the world, the sounds heard in different spaces, and talks with interesting people along the way.If you would like to contact ‘Words to Live By’ send an email to andrewr@ashevillefm.org.
Words To Live By
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- Freedom House
August 25th, 2020
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Following the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis last May, larger groups of people internationally are expressing how communities’ needs are not being met by current public safety configurations.
This has led to increasingly mainstream discussions about what our communities might look like with police abolition, police reform, And/Or budgets that reallocate typical police funding towards community-named needs.
(https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-defunding-the-police-really-means/)
In Asheville, for example, some community-named needs that were raised amidst budget draftings for the city have included calls for a fully funded Transit Master Plan, a pay raise for firefighters, the removal of confederate monuments, and calls to cut the APD budget by half and reinvest the money in Asheville’s Black community.
One petition connected to the local newspaper ‘the Urban News‘ (Take Action to Shift the Culture of Policing), argues that money set to fund the Asheville police department could better address community needs by “creating a new city department of peace and well-being, tasked with the care and safety of people and communities” – duties sometimes expected of the police but not necessarily received. “Under this new department,” the petition states, “there could be new roles to support the peace of the city and the well-being of its residents. (It could provide) unarmed support teams (that) could be dispatched at a moments notice,” including:
-A team of social workers, counselors, mediators/negotiators to support individuals and families
-A team trained in domestic violence
-Neighborhood leaders could be hired and trained to be peer support mediators
-People assigned to handle the flow and safety of traffic
-human and civil rights in housing, employment, etc observers
-Services for healing stress and trauma
-Allocating funds toward investment in current and incubation of African American and Latinx owned businesses,
-equitable economic and educational opportunities,
-living wage jobs, affordable housing, transportation, and poverty remediation
(https://theurbannews.com/latest-news/2020/take-action-to-shift-the-culture-of-policing/)
This appears as a sort of list of needs assumedly unseen in our current public safety models or local governing bodies.
Looking beyond Asheville, one recent example of funding reallocation has been in Austin Texas, where the community decided to redirect funds to support women’s health care following public outrage to the murder of George Floyd. Other cities have reduced police budgets and made promises for reform that we will watch over the next years (Minneapolis, L.A., etc) .
https://apnews.com/72b1011d720808b4cb0a3a59f1186b35
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/minneapolis-police-abolish.html
The focus of the audio broadcast featured here comes from another example that I learned of when speaking with Asheville drummer, Matt Shepard. He described to me how emergency medical services in the United States prior to the late 60s were often provided by police departments, and not the well-equipped EMS teams and ambulances that we think of today. In 1966, following a health research publication (Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society) often called the 1966 White Paper, it was noted that “inadequately trained (police), and inappropriately designed and ill-equipped vehicles” resulted in high numbers of unnecessary deaths. In fact, “50% of ambulances services nationwide were being provided by morticians, collecting dead bodies,” not providing trauma care. This all changed with an interesting project which emerged in 1967 out of Pittsburgh.
(https://www.nap.edu/read/11629/chapter/4)
Dr Peter Safar of Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, and the creator of CPR, collaborated with a community center (Freedom House Enterprises) in the predominantly black, hill district of Pittsburgh to create what has become the model of our current EMS systems. This project was called Freedom House.
In an effort to create meaningful work and respond to the lack of trauma care offered by police, Freedom House addressed community needs by developing a program of ambulances and trained paramedics from the community to meet those needs. Tragically, in a move of racist political gain, the city’s mayor, Peter Flaherty, took over the program and pushed out much of the original, successful black EMS team, taking credit for their work. Even so, the model developed by that original team of Freedom House provided the grounds of the Emergency Health Care response model that we now take for granted.
While until 2009, the story of Freedom House had been all but erased, Gene Starzenski, has told the story of Freedom House with a documentary. Gene is a career medical worker originally from Pittsburgh who is now based out of California. After completing the documentary, the story is now being negotiated as the base of a streaming mini series.
More information and opportunities to contact Gene can be found at:
http://www.freedomhousedoc.com/
Perhaps like Freedom House in the 60’s and 70’s, Asheville can now fund communities of color to create, continue or expand programs and businesses, that in 50 years will come to be taken for granted in its service (like our EMS) and honored in a documentary.
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-DJ Stretch
More Posts for Show: Words To Live By - Please Pass the (Radio) Hacksaw: Guest Host TUESDAY 1-3pm
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Guest host on Dr Hyena’s show, ‘Please Pass the Hacksaw,’ Tuesday, October 22nd, with a two hour radio show about the audio hacksaw of radio technology. This show features an extended interview with Asheville Radio Museum curator, Stuart Smolkin.
We talk about radio waves, why someone was thinking about invisible waves in the first place, pre-radio communication, Morse code, telegraphs, some of the first radios, radios + farmers, various physicists and entrepreneurs, amplitude modulation and more, in an atypical radio audio collage.
https://www.avlradiomuseum.org/
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More Posts for Show: Words To Live By - SUNDAY: Sandbox special edition of WORDS TO LIVE BY: Poison Ivy! 11am-noon
October 5th, 2019
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This Sunday, from 11am-noonA special edition of the Sandbox hour features ‘Words to Live By,’ now no longer on its weekly rotation, with POISON IVY & Jewelweed.The great boundary keeper for our local ecosystems, we hear about poison ivy, how to ID it, it’s appearance as a Batman character, the effects of rapid, human-induced climate change, it’s function in its ecosystem, its mirror to us, inspired musical projects and ways to handle it!Featuring: Jewelweed!Speaking with Abby Artemisia, Arvis Boughman, Doug Elliot, Morgan Albritton (Morgan’s Comics), Bobbi Williams (Smokifantastic) and Rachel Waterhouse (Sister Ivy).Check out more info about the guests here:https://www.thewanderschool.com/products.html#/http://www.arvisboughman.com/http://dougelliott.com/https://morganscomics.com/https://www.facebook.com/Smokifantastic-106715882728421/https://www.sisterivy.com/
More Posts for Show: Words To Live By - Words to Live By: David Harrington on Kronos Quartet’s ‘Sun Rings’ (1-2pm)
September 15th, 2019Show Times
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Sunday, September 15th from 1-2pm (EST) WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM
A conversation with David Harrington, artistic director, violinist and cofounder of the Kronos Quartet, as the ensemble prepares to perform their final concert for the post Sun Rings release tour in Asheville, NC, on Tuesday September 17th at the Diana Wortham Theatre.
Sun Rings was begun 18 years ago, commissioned by NASA. It is a collaboration between composer Terry Riley, astrophysicist Dr. Don Gurnett and performed by the Kronos Quartet and their team. It includes sounds recorded by the Voyager and Galileo probes in the 70s and 80s from ionized plasma – sent back to earth and processed to be audible to human ears.
More Posts for Show: Words To Live By - Words to Live By: The Flexner Report; 1-2pm SUNDAY
September 1st, 2019
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Today from 1-2pm (EST), speaking with medical historian, Frank W. Stahnisch about the Flexner Report.
This document, supported by the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations and published in 1910, has had a huge impact on how we view and handle medicine, medical school, and healthcare.
While it was advertised and no doubt desired as a raising of health standards in hygiene and education, other effects included the closure of African American medical schools and hospitals as well as those for women and those in rural areas where no alternatives existed. For those who have heard shows on herbalism, the Flexner Report is also responsible for the criminalization of this practice and other medical tracts outside the biomedical. This also centralized power in the medical world, building the foundation for the monopolies that exist today.
*I first learned of the Flexner Report from REI workshops in Asheville, another of which will be available this September!
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More Posts for Show: Words To Live By - Words to Live By: Feminist Masculinity SUNDAY 1-2pm (EST)
August 10th, 2019
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This Sunday, from 1-2pm (EST)
A conversation with Philippe Fradet, who among other works, has contributed articles such as “7 Reasons Why Patriarchy Is Bad (and Feminism is Good) for Men” and “4 Ways Men Can Take On More Emotional Labor In Relationships (And Why We Should)” to ‘The Body Is Not an Apology’ and ‘EverydayFeminism.’
In this installment of ‘Words to Live By,’ we talk some about their writings, positive masculinity, the systemic nature of patriarchy and ways that men can work on themselves for our own as well as our community’s benefit.
https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/11/patriarchy-bad-for-men/
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/…/7-ways-men-must-learn-…/
More Posts for Show: Words To Live By - Words to Live By: “The Big Exhale,” Farhad Bandesh SUNDAY 1-2pm (EST)
July 14th, 2019
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This Sunday from 1-2pm (EST) on Asheville FM:
Farhad Bandesh is a Kurdish luthier/artist/musician/writer who was detained by the Australian government when seeking asylum. He’s been at the detention center on Manus Island off of Papau New Guinea for 6 years now. The conditions there are inhumane and leaving is difficult even after the detention facility is ‘officially’ closed due to its location and the absence of support for those detained. Farhad recently released the song and music video ‘The Big Exhale’ in collaboration with the Melbourne City Ballet and various Australian musicians about his experience there.
Check out the Big Exhale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMsr4eQzVM
Writing Through Fences: http://writingthroughfences.org/writers/farhad-bandesh/
https://farhadbandeshband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuLqX9dooKrRfSNO9p7LbUw
Be sure to contact Farhad if you have opportunities to support international artists or if you are interested in collaborating on a project with him.
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Note also, that in the United States, ICE detains folks seeking asylum in inhumane conditions as well. If you’re in WNC, you can dial CIMA’s hotline to report the presence of ICE: 888-839-2839_____________________________________________________
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More Posts for Show: Words To Live By - Words to Live By: Visual Artist Zolfaqar Shaarani SUNDAY 1-2pm (EST)
June 23rd, 2019
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Sunday, from 1-2pm (EST)
A conversation with Berlin-based visual artist, Zolfaqar Shaarani.
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Link to Zolfaqar’s FB:
https://www.facebook.com/shaaranizolfaqar.wixsite/
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