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Thursday Night Special
Thursday nights are special!
First Thursday: Jasmine Jones hosts Next Step Forward, a spotlight on millennials of Kansas City who are within a marginalized group, but are using their talents, business, activism etc. to help bring positivity within their communities. This program exists to be a place that is inclusive, safe, fun, inspirational and educational not only for the listeners but for the guest as well.
Second Thursday: Shots in the Night radio theatre; hosted and produced by various members of Shots In The Night. In 2023 SITN has received seven awards for podcast productions in the 9th Annual Hear Now Audio Fiction and Arts Festival produced by the National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc.
Third Thursday: People Power Hour, brought to you by KC Tenants, hosts a rotation of speakers featuring members and leaders from KC Tenants and other tenant unions across the country to analyze, inform, and inspire listeners about the power of tenant unions in America. Every episode will showcase a different lesson about tenant unions and America's problematic history with housing by providing in-depth historical analysis, testimonials and stories from leaders who organized in their communities, and collectively brainstorming a vision for a better world where housing is treated as a human right.
Fourth Thursday: Sirisha Naidu and Taki Manolakos host Economics For the People, a journey to explore the transformative power of economics when it is harnessed for the working classes, to advance social justice, and to create an inclusive and equitable society. It is an open invitation to participate in collectively shaping and reimagining an economy that prioritizes the needs and aspirations of the working classes, marginalized communities, and individuals of different gender expressions, sexualities, and abilities. The show features diverse voices, experiences and perspectives that often remain unheard in mainstream conversations about economics, markets and numbers.
Fifth Thursday: The provocative "From Ark to Microchip", produced by Dwight Frizzell, mixes commentary, dramatic re-enactment, original music, historic voices, audio art and sound effects in a pan-historical, pan-cultural milieu. Programs in the program series have received several awards.
Note: These programs may be preempted by special presentations.
The robots are on the rise, and they’re taking all of the jobs. Even though robots might save corporations cash, they can’t buy corporate goods. Scott Santens, joins Occupy Radio to explain how Universal Basic Income might be the next logical step.
Sisten Mary Pendergast explains the Pope Encyclical on Climate Change. What does it mean when 1.1 billion Catholics start receiving divine direction to defend the environment and protect the poor? It’s Climate Revolution, with Pope Francis.
Pilgrimage to the Tar Sands
Pope s eco-manifesto looks like a game-changer in the US
Scott Santens sent us Universal Basic Income show notes:
“One woman called to say she remembered the Mincome project. In the early 1970s, she was a single mother raising two girls on welfare ” then called Mothers Allowance. She said she had always been treated respectfully, but there was one thing case workers said that bothered her.
She said she wanted to get some job training. They told her to go home and take care of her kids and they would take care of her, explained Forget.
When the opportunity to transfer from Mothers Allowance to Mincome came along, the woman took it. With no restrictions on how she could spend the money she was given, she signed up for training and got a part-time job at the local library which eventually became a full-time career.
So when I talked to her, she was incredibly proud of having modeled a different kind of life for her daughters, Forget said. The retired librarian invited Forget to visit her home. Inside, she was shown pictures from her two girls graduations, mother beaming with pride.”
Oh and there’s this too: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/city-eliminated-poverty-mincome_n_6392126.html
Also this is a breakdown of UBI vs NIT.
http://www.scottsantens.com/negative-income-tax-nit-and-unconditional-basic-income-ubi-what-makes-them-the-same-and-what-makes-them-different
Show note links:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/what-if-everybody-didnt-have-to-work-to-get-paid/393428/
https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-going-to-hit-us-like-a-human-driven-truck-b8507d9c5961
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-robots-are-here-to-take-jobs-2015-6
https://www.patreon.com/scottsantens
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/cities-are-now/in-alaska-everyone-gets-paid-thousands-in-oil-dividends-per-year
http://www.uvm.edu/giee/pubpdfs/Flomenhoft_2012_Exploring_the_Alaska_Model.pdf
https://medium.com/basic-income/universal-basic-income-as-the-social-vaccine-of-the-21st-century-d66dff39073 ($1 saves $3 to $9)
https://medium.com/working-life/why-should-we-support-the-idea-of-an-unconditional-basic-income-8a2680c73dd3
http://www.scottsantens.com/reddit-robots-and-resources-why-I-got-into-the-idea-of-basic-income-and-how-we-can-go-about-implementing-it
http://www.scottsantens.com/will-replacing-current-benefits-with-cash-tomorrow-leave-todays-recipients-better-or-worse-off-basic-income-single-parents-welfare
http://qz.com/422428/help-the-poor-and-jumpstart-the-economy-by-changing-the-way-the-us-collects-tax/ (VAT)
http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Why-Inequality-Matters-Capital-in-21st-Century-Review (Bill Gates on consumption tax)
Pilgrimage to the Tar Sands
Pope s eco-manifesto looks like a game-changer in the US
Scott Santens sent us Universal Basic Income show notes:
“One woman called to say she remembered the Mincome project. In the early 1970s, she was a single mother raising two girls on welfare ” then called Mothers Allowance. She said she had always been treated respectfully, but there was one thing case workers said that bothered her.
She said she wanted to get some job training. They told her to go home and take care of her kids and they would take care of her, explained Forget.
When the opportunity to transfer from Mothers Allowance to Mincome came along, the woman took it. With no restrictions on how she could spend the money she was given, she signed up for training and got a part-time job at the local library which eventually became a full-time career.
So when I talked to her, she was incredibly proud of having modeled a different kind of life for her daughters, Forget said. The retired librarian invited Forget to visit her home. Inside, she was shown pictures from her two girls graduations, mother beaming with pride.”
Oh and there’s this too: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/city-eliminated-poverty-mincome_n_6392126.html
Also this is a breakdown of UBI vs NIT.
http://www.scottsantens.com/negative-income-tax-nit-and-unconditional-basic-income-ubi-what-makes-them-the-same-and-what-makes-them-different
Show note links:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/what-if-everybody-didnt-have-to-work-to-get-paid/393428/
https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-going-to-hit-us-like-a-human-driven-truck-b8507d9c5961
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-robots-are-here-to-take-jobs-2015-6
https://www.patreon.com/scottsantens
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/cities-are-now/in-alaska-everyone-gets-paid-thousands-in-oil-dividends-per-year
http://www.uvm.edu/giee/pubpdfs/Flomenhoft_2012_Exploring_the_Alaska_Model.pdf
https://medium.com/basic-income/universal-basic-income-as-the-social-vaccine-of-the-21st-century-d66dff39073 ($1 saves $3 to $9)
https://medium.com/working-life/why-should-we-support-the-idea-of-an-unconditional-basic-income-8a2680c73dd3
http://www.scottsantens.com/reddit-robots-and-resources-why-I-got-into-the-idea-of-basic-income-and-how-we-can-go-about-implementing-it
http://www.scottsantens.com/will-replacing-current-benefits-with-cash-tomorrow-leave-todays-recipients-better-or-worse-off-basic-income-single-parents-welfare
http://qz.com/422428/help-the-poor-and-jumpstart-the-economy-by-changing-the-way-the-us-collects-tax/ (VAT)
http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Why-Inequality-Matters-Capital-in-21st-Century-Review (Bill Gates on consumption tax)
