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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Labor Beat Radio: 6-24-25 -- Rise UP!


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Labor Beat Radio: 6-24-25 -- Rise UP!

A Single Spark Can Start A Prarie Fire

 

Labor Beat Radio: 6-24-25 -- Rise UP!

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays at 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall

Description: John, JB and Scott celebrate the amped up labor participation in Trump resistance. Calls for national labor mobilizations comparable to those led by Dr King and the Solidarity Day mobilizations of the 60s and 80s

This Episode Recorded June 24, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: 6/25/25: Welsh Poetry

 

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Do Not Go Gentle Into The Night

 

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Janet focuses on modern Welsh poets: Dylan Thomas, R.S. Thomas, Gillian Clarke, Waldo Williams, ,and more. Do not go gentle......

Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded June 25, 2025

Lament

by Gillian Clarke

 

For the green turtle with her pulsing burden,
in search of the breeding ground.
For her eggs laid in their nest of sickness.
For the cormorant in his funeral silk,
the veil of iridescence on the sand,
the shadow on the sea.
For the ocean's lap with its mortal stain.
For Ahmed at the closed border.
For the soldier with his uniform of fire.
For the gunsmith and the armourer,
the boy fusilier who joined for the company,
the farmer's sons, in it for the music.
For the hook-beaked turtles,
the dugong and the dolphin,
the whale struck dumb by the missile's thunder.
For the tern, the gull and the restless wader,
the long migrations and the slow dying,
the veiled sun and the stink of anger.
For the burnt earth and the sun put out,
the scalded ocean and the blazing well.
For vengeance, and the ashes of language.

 

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Labor Beat Radio: Two Old ’Labor-Commies’ Assess the Moment

 

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Labor Beat Radio: Two Old 'Labor-Commies' Assess the Moment

Road to Socialism starts with Solidarity

 

Labor Beat Radio: Two Old 'Labor-Commies' Assess the Moment

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays at 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: John Case, Scott Marshall

Description: John and Scott cheer on the socialist vision while JB is off at a solar conference. Power squared, one might hope. John wants to do a Norway on WV energy. Scott is good with becoming a Canadian province for the (more) socialized medicine.

This Episode Recorded June 17, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Sunday, June 22, 2025

Paris on the Potomac: 20 June 2025

 

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Be a Tom Paine Reporter for Enlighten Radio

 

Paris on the Potomac: Be a Reporter for Enlighten Radio

 

Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

John and Karen assess the overall positive impact of the "No Kings" and Pride Day demonstrations this past week. Noting especially, the huge turnout in Shepherdstown. Noting too, the advancing Nazi outrages of the Administration and their flunkeys. Time for expanding a grass roots reporting network!! Sign UP!

This Episode Recorded June 20, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Saturday, June 21, 2025

The Last Stop Cafe: Want to End It All? Stop! Jody Kerns is HERE

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: Want to End It All? Stop Here.

Ghost Busters Needed: Who Ya Gonna Call When the Romans are Coming?

Special Guest

Jody Kerns

 



 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern

Hosts: "Echoes of Dread" star Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd

The whole End of the Road thing is Bullshit. 

There is no such thing as Final Defeat. 

Ask a loyal Nationals fan. Not those shapeshifting bean counters. Ask our "Losers Confidential" counsellor, Dr. Mike Cuccherini, for his personal injection of Pure Rock And Roll  Sports. Batter Up!

This Episode Recorded June 16, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: ”The Nationals -- They’re Young, But Hard to Beat?”

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: "The Nationals -- They're Young, But Hard to Beat?"

 

Washinton Nationals Fans -- This is NOT OUR FATE!!

 

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Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd

It is hard to overstate the Shakespearean pathos in Cuccherini's devotion to staying positive about one's ass getting kicked. Maybe Predator 3 needs to take over management of the Nationals. If we are going to lose, why not return to savagery? James takess us straight to the Ring, where fate awaits.

This Episode Recorded June 9, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: A Wandering Aengus


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And pluck till time and times are done...

 

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Janet features Irish poetry -- surely the most verdant, lyrical and lush poetry of the modern era.

But I am biased!

WB Yeats, Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon top the selections for today.

Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded June 11, 2025

The Song of Wandering Aengus

('Aengus': rish god of love, youth, and poetic inspiration)

by William Butler Yeats 


I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

 
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

 
Source: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

 

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