WFMU: Therese: Playlist from January 22, 2017

Listener comments!
	10:03pm KingThomas: Great show so far!
	10:04pm JakeGould: Hey!
	10:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - one of Hendrix's more understanding early employers.
	10:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: Want fun? Just add B-52s. Hi, Therese and listeners.
	10:19pm Fox (Rā-chul): Holy shit, if I was a dancing person, I'd be grooving right now. wheeee!!! What a party set!
	10:22pm Linda Lee: beautiful vibe Therese! thank you!
	10:27pm JakeGould: Big ups to anyone who went to D.C. on Saturday.
	10:28pm Matt from Springfield: Therese our Pink-Hatted Wonder! Good for you! Hi everybody!
	10:28pm Hoboken Jack: Thank you for marching, Therese!
	10:29pm Ken From Hyde Park: I was thinking about the marchers Saturday. Like a slug, I didn't even know there was a gathering locally. www.poughkeepsiejournal.com...
	10:29pm Matt from Springfield: Admittedly I wouldn't recognize the writer of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" on sight - but I'm sure she's proud of that and doesn't need to point it out (esp. to so many people at a march!)
	10:31pm hendrix wolfbat: Holy cow! Our bodies ourselves! Dang
	10:32pm Veronica (OG): Therese, that's so cool you got to meet one of the women who put together Our Bodies Ourselves!...and thanks to The Little Knittery in L.A. for the Pussyhat Project...
	10:35pm hendrix wolfbat: The real question is how do keep that momentum going and STOP THEM ? There's already two shockingly horrible bills being introduced; one to leave theUN!!? And another to be able to just throw out preexisting laws with no hearings or reviewes
	10:37pm sugarwolf: @KenFromHP: I saw in the paper that Poughkeepsie had a march on the walkway over the Hudson. They were expecting 2000 and there 5000!! Cool!!
	10:40pm JakeGould: RE: The “Pussy Hat” project, what a simple and great way to send a message. www.pussyhatproject.com
	10:43pm Therese: Handmade in the USA!
	10:44pm Veronica (OG): When I hear scary news I try to remember that instilling fear is a tactic. I saw one great sign that said something like - our enthusiasm is higher than our fear.
	10:45pm Matt from Springfield: Shakti Devi! That's Hindu! Many different types of feminine power within this deity.
	10:46pm Ken From Hyde Park: Our present government in action was foretold in 1943, apparently. youtu.be... Just go in and yank out random stuff.
	10:49pm Veronica (OG): @Matt, Shakti power, yes!
	10:51pm Matt from Springfield: Yeah Veronica! Totally glad I understand more about Eastern religions and thought now - so many intriguing and fascinating ideas like that.
	10:52pm Linda Lee: coping strategies? you mean re: new political realities? coping involves balance! knowing i need self-care, quietude, pleasure as much as i need engagement, information, community, awareness. life isn't easy & i don't plan on making it harder for myself than it has to be. balance in all things, because balance feeds strength. superman is a myth!
	10:53pm Gaylord Fields: Ah, the Housemartins — a great two-album band, and the best Marxist-Christian pop group Hull ever produced.
	10:56pm Matt from Springfield: @Ken HP: It seems that every 80 years or so, the U.S. faces an existential crisis in identity: the Revolution-to-Constitution/Civil War/WWII/post-industrial post-media post-truth mess. Most Americans love this country and wouldn't let anyone cast all that aside (including our Non-Super Superman, Linda). But to resist those people need to be engaged and not apathetic. AWARENESS like the Women's March making a public display gives a narrative that we aren't giving up and aren't going to let this become a twisted, different America.
	10:57pm Veronica (OG): Yeah, Linda, that's important. WFMU is part of my self-care :-)
	11:01pm Matt from Springfield: @Gaylord: Huh, what a concept. And Fatboy Slim! He got started there! But as for "the best Marxist-Christian pop group Hull ever produced", would the mid 20s vocal groups "Wilberforce" and "The Social Gospel" from Hull count? Oh wait, they were from Sutton, never mind...
	11:02pm JakeGould: FWIW, midterm elections in 2 years. Congressional elections count this time more than ever.
	11:03pm Linda Lee: also, as Rural Community Member Most Likely To Be Disappeared Under Christo-Fascism, i'm holding my community responsible for maintaining solidarity against the things community members pledge to oppose! gestures won't get us through the hard times ahead. true community, with some level of joined sacrifice, will. this means recognizing true allies against true enemies & refusing to be led by the nose into isolation on the basis of personal prejudices.
	11:03pm Matt from Springfield: @Jake: "Midterms '18: Don't wait 16 years, to kick out the 14% Congress!"
	11:04pm Hoboken Jack: Was just thinking, that sounds like Tobin Sprout, and I just streamed a song from his new album... then I come back to the playlist, and it is he! Hooray!
	11:05pm Linda Lee: i would like to know what the Democratic Party is doing about addressing the Crosscheck program that eliminated millions .. literal millions .. of likely Dem voters from the rolls in swing states before the primaries! this was documented at the time! what's the point of organizing the vote if the process has no integrity? (as it really hasn't since the HAVA).
	11:07pm Linda Lee: Veronica, you're right on about fear. totally right. beware of that.
	11:07pm Paul D: Ooh. I see I've missed some pretty good music on the playlist.
	11:09pm Matt from Springfield: @Linda: Unfortunate to be a RCMMLTBDUCF, it can get lonely out there for you, but we can help you on that front. Self-care at FMU! As for confrontations IRL, many of us aren't inclined to speak up when witnessing those - but this is the country and human rights on the line. Speak up to injustices early! Before those cowards gain ability to instill fear and do real damage. NOW is the time to hold those people back.
	11:13pm Paul D: Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner just released an album produced by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. He's still around.
	11:14pm pp: jesse jarnow is part of sloppy heads, right? gotta mention that. the guy is so cool
	11:14pm Fox (Rā-chul): I find it almost annoying that i live in a multi-ethnic and relatively liberal area, so my pressing the community around me won't have the kind of effect that it might have in a more mixed place.
	11:15pm Matt from Springfield: @Linda: As for the Dem/liberal politics front, write up a case and continually tell it to elected officials. The Homo politicus won't raise issues or fight for principles, if there's no punishment for ignoring them. Press your case to possible allies, reward those who take it up publicly, condemn those who don't! Responding to the public on what truly matters can only help the whole body politic.
	11:15pm Linda Lee: thanks for support Matt! i'm not lonely, actually, because the community here is pretty great. i only want stated allies to be ready to put their money where their mouth is, so to speak, when it comes down to it. as well should every individual at the marches yesterday, or they might as well have stayed home & avoided using the gas. i'm very serious. as for online confrontations, i have no illusions about changing anyone's mind without face-to-face confrontation. anonymity means dishonesty. it's just too easy to be dishonest without actual presence required.
	11:15pm Therese: Jesse Jarnow is the COOLEST, pp! He is indeed a part of the Sloppy Heads.
	11:19pm Fox (Rā-chul): I'm tired of social programs being put on the chopping block as part of compromise between the Republicans and Democrats. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Food Stamps should be continually expanded to better cover the growing numbers, need, and ability to spread basic livelihood as a human right.
	11:20pm Matt from Springfield: @Fox: But remember, you are part of many overlapping communities (to include this one, the FS!) It's still worth it to bolster those communities where you live, since a homogenous community won't do much if they're not united in supporting our rights. If your own communities are strong enough, those members who know people from rural communities might be able to help them out better.
	11:25pm Linda Lee: we have no opposition to the neo-liberal agenda right now. & the Democratic Party is the new Moderate GOP. i have no use for them, myself. i barely feel we have a government! we have an institutionalized redistribution of public resources into private hands, with the legal means for it widened & secured. & that's all we have. government supposedly protects citizens from foreign & domestic enemies, provides for basic individual sustenance & maintains the necessary infrastructure required for societal cohesion. when these simple functions aren't met we have what's called a failed state. half of us are now officially poor! that's what gave us Trump. desperation! nothing else. & he's just another opportunistic douche bag. ..
	11:26pm Fox (Rā-chul): Linda Lee: Yes. Same.
	11:27pm Linda Lee: thank you.
	11:27pm JakeGould: Apropos to nothing, but the New York Times has now coined a new term that should be a band name, “Famous Nazi Punchers”: www.nytimes.com...
	11:28pm Fox (Rā-chul): Matt: That is a good point. I'm just not sure by whom we are trying to be heard.
	11:28pm Linda Lee: i start fires with the times these days. nice big pages.
	11:28pm Matt from Springfield: @Jake: Or like the Anonymous Nazi Puncher the other day - gets the job done just the same ;)
	11:30pm Fox (Rā-chul): Money is what gets things done. So until the Disabled, Chronically Ill, &* Poor start an influential lobby, I don't really see how things are going to improve for people like me.
	11:32pm eye in the sky: Wow! Karl Hendrix Trio! I forgot about them...sounds good!
	11:33pm Matt from Springfield: @Fox: And that's a trickier part. I would like to convince our communit(ies) members, other possible allies, those in power, even those who disagree but might be won over - and all of whom require slightly different messages to reach. A lobby like that - promise the .01% that Trumpets/Brexiteers will wreck their plans if they keep ignoring the common peoples needs!
	11:33pm Linda Lee: i don't see any reason at all for our desperation to be mitigated under government by corporations. it's too good for business. as is individual isolation!
	11:34pm sugarwolf: Of all the things my taxes go towards, feeding people seems like a good idea. Hating on food stamps is so dumb.
	11:37pm eye in the sky: Ouch!!!
	11:37pm Linda Lee: people will hate on whatever they're trained by sophisticated means to hate on. just like those real people who wanted the government out of their Medicare .. they're not using their minds. they're just reacting to stimuli. like plants. ..
	11:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Be prepared for lots of alternate facts on welfare / food stamp / immigration numbers, climate change denials, etc. I give them no credibility on anything at this point.
	11:39pm Linda Lee: Agree Ken!! it's all up for grabs!! i'm off to heat up some free county food, myself.
	11:40pm Chop Scott: Thanks for the solid company through the airwaves. Cheers Therese!
	11:40pm Matt from Springfield: @sugarwolf: Even those who actually have used them still vote for those who hate on food stamps. A long Puritan culture may lead some to be embarassed by using them instead of seeing them as a needing lifeline for whoever might not be earning enough. Has there ever been a Food Stamp Pride march? That's probably too soon to be effective, but any kind of humanizing of FS recepients is needed. Without consistently giving support to them, the haters status-quo will remain.
	11:41pm Matt from Springfield: And, hooray to all our Pink Fairies demonstrating this weekend!
	11:42pm Linda Lee: what does come from the food stamp program is a hell of a lot of revenue for agribusiness! again, the movement from public resources into private hands. it works well with the general trend. so i don't really see the program successfully eliminated. it's a nice rallying point for people who need to feel superior, though.
	11:44pm Linda Lee: apparently the GOP plan is to force lots of really horrible shit down the people's throats in order just to keep that trend going .. that's all corporate governance is about .. & then shift all the inevitable blame onto Trump, making it politically feasible to dump his ass overboard.
	11:44pm Therese: On the Media did a series on poverty in America that is well worth a listen: www.wnyc.org...
	11:51pm Matt from Springfield: Good podcasts, thanks Therese. Now, if more could really listen to these (not just hear them), these are just the sorts of topics we need more awareness of.
	11:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Therese. Fight the power!
	11:57pm Matt from Springfield: @Ken: Fight the powers that [shouldn't] BE!!!
	11:57pm Linda Lee: half of us now have intimate personal experience with 'poverty in America'. this Stones side sounds amazing! good for them!
	11:58pm Linda Lee: Keith always said Mick was one of the best harp players around. it's true.
	11:59pm Matt from Springfield: Take care everyone, have a good night! Overcome! :)
	12:00am Linda Lee: can't we just come over? :-D
	12:00am Matt from Springfield: Why not Linda! :)
	12:01am Ken From Hyde Park: One of the protest signs this weekend: "We shall overcomb!"

Therese: Playlist from January 22, 2017

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	New	Approx. start time
Thelma Houston	I Ain't Going Nowhere	Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown's MoWest Story 1971-1973	Light in the Attic		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Isley Brothers	Freedom "Freedom" by "The Isley Brothers"	The RCA Victor and T-Neck Album Masters: 1959-1983	Legacy	*	0:02:54 (Pop-up)
Janelle Monáe	Tightrope (featuring Big Boi)	The ArchAndroid	Bad Boy / Wondaland		0:06:24 (Pop-up)
The B-52's	Future Generation "Future Generation" by "The B-52's"	Future Generation 12"	Island		0:11:04 (Pop-up)
Deee-Lite	Runaway "Runaway" by "Deee-Lite"	Infinity Within	Elektra		0:16:25 (Pop-up)
M.I.A.	Go Off "Go Off" by "M.I.A."	AIM	Interscope	*	0:20:20 (Pop-up)

Dum Dum Girls	Everybody's Out "Everybody's Out" by "Dum Dum Girls"	I Will Be	Sub Pop		0:30:16 (Pop-up)
The Ettes	Girls Are Mad "Girls Are Mad" by "The Ettes"	Look at Life Again Soon	Take Root		0:33:10 (Pop-up)
Fugazi	Reclamation "Reclamation" by "Fugazi"	Steady Diet of Nothing	Dischord		0:35:21 (Pop-up)
Sleater-Kinney	A New Wave "A New Wave" by "Sleater-Kinney"	No Cities to Love	Sub Pop		0:38:42 (Pop-up)
King Khan featuring Natalia Avelon	Bandit Queen	"Bandit Queen	Moon Studios	*	0:42:18 (Pop-up)

The Housemartins	Sitting on a Fence	London 0 Hull 4	Elektra/Asylum		0:48:26 (Pop-up)
Mark Eitzel	Sleep From My Eyes "Sleep From My Eyes" by "Mark Eitzel"	Hey Mr. Ferryman	Merge	*	0:51:42 (Pop-up)
Neko Case	Pretty Girls "Pretty Girls" by "Neko Case"	Black Listed	Bloodshot Records		0:55:38 (Pop-up)
Tobin Sprout	To Wake Up June "To Wake Up June" by "Tobin Sprout"	The Universe and Me	Burger Records	*	0:59:48 (Pop-up)

Hackamore Brick	And I Wonder "And I Wonder" by "Hackamore Brick"	Sound of Prehistoric Brooklyn: Dave Mandl's 2016 WFMU Marathon Premium	WFMU Premium 2016	*	1:12:02 (Pop-up)
Woods	The Take "The Take" by "Woods"	Live at Third Man Records	Third Man	*	1:19:21 (Pop-up)
Karl Hendricks Trio	Naked and High on Drugs	Old Enough To Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records	Merge		1:29:40 (Pop-up)

Pink Fairies	When's the Fun Begin?	Kings of Oblivion	Polydor		1:37:02 (Pop-up)
James Dean Death Cult	Baked at the Double R	The Glastonbury Grove EP: A Tribute to Twin Peaks 7" (V/A)	What's For Breakfast	*	1:42:59 (Pop-up)

Cloud Nothings	Things Are Right with You	Life Without Sound	Carpark Records	*	1:49:02 (Pop-up)
Ruth Garbus & Friends	Hello Everybody	Hello Everybody 7"	OSR	*	1:53:31 (Pop-up)
Rolling Stones	I Gotta Go "I Gotta Go" by "Rolling Stones"	Blue & Lonesome	Interscope	*	1:55:29 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	10:03pm KingThomas: Great show so far!
	10:04pm JakeGould: Hey!
	10:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - one of Hendrix's more understanding early employers.
	10:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: Want fun? Just add B-52s. Hi, Therese and listeners.
	10:19pm Fox (Rā-chul): Holy shit, if I was a dancing person, I'd be grooving right now. wheeee!!! What a party set!
	10:22pm Linda Lee: beautiful vibe Therese! thank you!
	10:27pm JakeGould: Big ups to anyone who went to D.C. on Saturday.
	10:28pm Matt from Springfield: Therese our Pink-Hatted Wonder! Good for you! Hi everybody!
	10:28pm Hoboken Jack: Thank you for marching, Therese!
	10:29pm Ken From Hyde Park: I was thinking about the marchers Saturday. Like a slug, I didn't even know there was a gathering locally. www.poughkeepsiejournal.com...
	10:29pm Matt from Springfield: Admittedly I wouldn't recognize the writer of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" on sight - but I'm sure she's proud of that and doesn't need to point it out (esp. to so many people at a march!)
	10:31pm hendrix wolfbat: Holy cow! Our bodies ourselves! Dang
	10:32pm Veronica (OG): Therese, that's so cool you got to meet one of the women who put together Our Bodies Ourselves!...and thanks to The Little Knittery in L.A. for the Pussyhat Project...
	10:35pm hendrix wolfbat: The real question is how do keep that momentum going and STOP THEM ? There's already two shockingly horrible bills being introduced; one to leave theUN!!? And another to be able to just throw out preexisting laws with no hearings or reviewes
	10:37pm sugarwolf: @KenFromHP: I saw in the paper that Poughkeepsie had a march on the walkway over the Hudson. They were expecting 2000 and there 5000!! Cool!!
	10:40pm JakeGould: RE: The “Pussy Hat” project, what a simple and great way to send a message. www.pussyhatproject.com
	10:43pm Therese: Handmade in the USA!
	10:44pm Veronica (OG): When I hear scary news I try to remember that instilling fear is a tactic. I saw one great sign that said something like - our enthusiasm is higher than our fear.
	10:45pm Matt from Springfield: Shakti Devi! That's Hindu! Many different types of feminine power within this deity.
	10:46pm Ken From Hyde Park: Our present government in action was foretold in 1943, apparently. youtu.be... Just go in and yank out random stuff.
	10:49pm Veronica (OG): @Matt, Shakti power, yes!
	10:51pm Matt from Springfield: Yeah Veronica! Totally glad I understand more about Eastern religions and thought now - so many intriguing and fascinating ideas like that.
	10:52pm Linda Lee: coping strategies? you mean re: new political realities? coping involves balance! knowing i need self-care, quietude, pleasure as much as i need engagement, information, community, awareness. life isn't easy & i don't plan on making it harder for myself than it has to be. balance in all things, because balance feeds strength. superman is a myth!
	10:53pm Gaylord Fields: Ah, the Housemartins — a great two-album band, and the best Marxist-Christian pop group Hull ever produced.
	10:56pm Matt from Springfield: @Ken HP: It seems that every 80 years or so, the U.S. faces an existential crisis in identity: the Revolution-to-Constitution/Civil War/WWII/post-industrial post-media post-truth mess. Most Americans love this country and wouldn't let anyone cast all that aside (including our Non-Super Superman, Linda). But to resist those people need to be engaged and not apathetic. AWARENESS like the Women's March making a public display gives a narrative that we aren't giving up and aren't going to let this become a twisted, different America.
	10:57pm Veronica (OG): Yeah, Linda, that's important. WFMU is part of my self-care :-)
	11:01pm Matt from Springfield: @Gaylord: Huh, what a concept. And Fatboy Slim! He got started there! But as for "the best Marxist-Christian pop group Hull ever produced", would the mid 20s vocal groups "Wilberforce" and "The Social Gospel" from Hull count? Oh wait, they were from Sutton, never mind...
	11:02pm JakeGould: FWIW, midterm elections in 2 years. Congressional elections count this time more than ever.
	11:03pm Linda Lee: also, as Rural Community Member Most Likely To Be Disappeared Under Christo-Fascism, i'm holding my community responsible for maintaining solidarity against the things community members pledge to oppose! gestures won't get us through the hard times ahead. true community, with some level of joined sacrifice, will. this means recognizing true allies against true enemies & refusing to be led by the nose into isolation on the basis of personal prejudices.
	11:03pm Matt from Springfield: @Jake: "Midterms '18: Don't wait 16 years, to kick out the 14% Congress!"
	11:04pm Hoboken Jack: Was just thinking, that sounds like Tobin Sprout, and I just streamed a song from his new album... then I come back to the playlist, and it is he! Hooray!
	11:05pm Linda Lee: i would like to know what the Democratic Party is doing about addressing the Crosscheck program that eliminated millions .. literal millions .. of likely Dem voters from the rolls in swing states before the primaries! this was documented at the time! what's the point of organizing the vote if the process has no integrity? (as it really hasn't since the HAVA).
	11:07pm Linda Lee: Veronica, you're right on about fear. totally right. beware of that.
	11:07pm Paul D: Ooh. I see I've missed some pretty good music on the playlist.
	11:09pm Matt from Springfield: @Linda: Unfortunate to be a RCMMLTBDUCF, it can get lonely out there for you, but we can help you on that front. Self-care at FMU! As for confrontations IRL, many of us aren't inclined to speak up when witnessing those - but this is the country and human rights on the line. Speak up to injustices early! Before those cowards gain ability to instill fear and do real damage. NOW is the time to hold those people back.
	11:13pm Paul D: Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner just released an album produced by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. He's still around.
	11:14pm pp: jesse jarnow is part of sloppy heads, right? gotta mention that. the guy is so cool
	11:14pm Fox (Rā-chul): I find it almost annoying that i live in a multi-ethnic and relatively liberal area, so my pressing the community around me won't have the kind of effect that it might have in a more mixed place.
	11:15pm Matt from Springfield: @Linda: As for the Dem/liberal politics front, write up a case and continually tell it to elected officials. The Homo politicus won't raise issues or fight for principles, if there's no punishment for ignoring them. Press your case to possible allies, reward those who take it up publicly, condemn those who don't! Responding to the public on what truly matters can only help the whole body politic.
	11:15pm Linda Lee: thanks for support Matt! i'm not lonely, actually, because the community here is pretty great. i only want stated allies to be ready to put their money where their mouth is, so to speak, when it comes down to it. as well should every individual at the marches yesterday, or they might as well have stayed home & avoided using the gas. i'm very serious. as for online confrontations, i have no illusions about changing anyone's mind without face-to-face confrontation. anonymity means dishonesty. it's just too easy to be dishonest without actual presence required.
	11:15pm Therese: Jesse Jarnow is the COOLEST, pp! He is indeed a part of the Sloppy Heads.
	11:19pm Fox (Rā-chul): I'm tired of social programs being put on the chopping block as part of compromise between the Republicans and Democrats. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Food Stamps should be continually expanded to better cover the growing numbers, need, and ability to spread basic livelihood as a human right.
	11:20pm Matt from Springfield: @Fox: But remember, you are part of many overlapping communities (to include this one, the FS!) It's still worth it to bolster those communities where you live, since a homogenous community won't do much if they're not united in supporting our rights. If your own communities are strong enough, those members who know people from rural communities might be able to help them out better.
	11:25pm Linda Lee: we have no opposition to the neo-liberal agenda right now. & the Democratic Party is the new Moderate GOP. i have no use for them, myself. i barely feel we have a government! we have an institutionalized redistribution of public resources into private hands, with the legal means for it widened & secured. & that's all we have. government supposedly protects citizens from foreign & domestic enemies, provides for basic individual sustenance & maintains the necessary infrastructure required for societal cohesion. when these simple functions aren't met we have what's called a failed state. half of us are now officially poor! that's what gave us Trump. desperation! nothing else. & he's just another opportunistic douche bag. ..
	11:26pm Fox (Rā-chul): Linda Lee: Yes. Same.
	11:27pm Linda Lee: thank you.
	11:27pm JakeGould: Apropos to nothing, but the New York Times has now coined a new term that should be a band name, “Famous Nazi Punchers”: www.nytimes.com...
	11:28pm Fox (Rā-chul): Matt: That is a good point. I'm just not sure by whom we are trying to be heard.
	11:28pm Linda Lee: i start fires with the times these days. nice big pages.
	11:28pm Matt from Springfield: @Jake: Or like the Anonymous Nazi Puncher the other day - gets the job done just the same ;)
	11:30pm Fox (Rā-chul): Money is what gets things done. So until the Disabled, Chronically Ill, &* Poor start an influential lobby, I don't really see how things are going to improve for people like me.
	11:32pm eye in the sky: Wow! Karl Hendrix Trio! I forgot about them...sounds good!
	11:33pm Matt from Springfield: @Fox: And that's a trickier part. I would like to convince our communit(ies) members, other possible allies, those in power, even those who disagree but might be won over - and all of whom require slightly different messages to reach. A lobby like that - promise the .01% that Trumpets/Brexiteers will wreck their plans if they keep ignoring the common peoples needs!
	11:33pm Linda Lee: i don't see any reason at all for our desperation to be mitigated under government by corporations. it's too good for business. as is individual isolation!
	11:34pm sugarwolf: Of all the things my taxes go towards, feeding people seems like a good idea. Hating on food stamps is so dumb.
	11:37pm eye in the sky: Ouch!!!
	11:37pm Linda Lee: people will hate on whatever they're trained by sophisticated means to hate on. just like those real people who wanted the government out of their Medicare .. they're not using their minds. they're just reacting to stimuli. like plants. ..
	11:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Be prepared for lots of alternate facts on welfare / food stamp / immigration numbers, climate change denials, etc. I give them no credibility on anything at this point.
	11:39pm Linda Lee: Agree Ken!! it's all up for grabs!! i'm off to heat up some free county food, myself.
	11:40pm Chop Scott: Thanks for the solid company through the airwaves. Cheers Therese!
	11:40pm Matt from Springfield: @sugarwolf: Even those who actually have used them still vote for those who hate on food stamps. A long Puritan culture may lead some to be embarassed by using them instead of seeing them as a needing lifeline for whoever might not be earning enough. Has there ever been a Food Stamp Pride march? That's probably too soon to be effective, but any kind of humanizing of FS recepients is needed. Without consistently giving support to them, the haters status-quo will remain.
	11:41pm Matt from Springfield: And, hooray to all our Pink Fairies demonstrating this weekend!
	11:42pm Linda Lee: what does come from the food stamp program is a hell of a lot of revenue for agribusiness! again, the movement from public resources into private hands. it works well with the general trend. so i don't really see the program successfully eliminated. it's a nice rallying point for people who need to feel superior, though.
	11:44pm Linda Lee: apparently the GOP plan is to force lots of really horrible shit down the people's throats in order just to keep that trend going .. that's all corporate governance is about .. & then shift all the inevitable blame onto Trump, making it politically feasible to dump his ass overboard.
	11:44pm Therese: On the Media did a series on poverty in America that is well worth a listen: www.wnyc.org...
	11:51pm Matt from Springfield: Good podcasts, thanks Therese. Now, if more could really listen to these (not just hear them), these are just the sorts of topics we need more awareness of.
	11:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Therese. Fight the power!
	11:57pm Matt from Springfield: @Ken: Fight the powers that [shouldn't] BE!!!
	11:57pm Linda Lee: half of us now have intimate personal experience with 'poverty in America'. this Stones side sounds amazing! good for them!
	11:58pm Linda Lee: Keith always said Mick was one of the best harp players around. it's true.
	11:59pm Matt from Springfield: Take care everyone, have a good night! Overcome! :)
	12:00am Linda Lee: can't we just come over? :-D
	12:00am Matt from Springfield: Why not Linda! :)
	12:01am Ken From Hyde Park: One of the protest signs this weekend: "We shall overcomb!"

Therese: Playlist from January 22, 2017

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