Peace Radio Interim Edition: April 12, 2020
Welcome to the first Episode of Peace Radio Interim Edition!
Jill W is your lead blogger with input from DJ Sally P and Jill M as they are able.
Before we launch into the main blogshow: Farewell John Prine:
He will be missed.
Seasick Steve had to cancel the tour launching his "Love & Peace" album. We could use some Love and Peace now. Actually, we're seeing some of both. Here's the title track:
Here are some things we would have covered on the air.
From our Senior Senior Host, Sally P:
The April 6th edition of Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American with information on voter suppression in Wisconsin. Remember: The world and political shenanigans continue during the pandemic.
Click the link to read Ms Richardson's April 6th letter:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/?fbclid=IwAR1QwKyrQLj3Qgc1KSJaWlA4J_4pXOGloDC4Zyr8yUy2N20BoTuHlElqiq4
Sally P recommends the blog in general and the weekly chats especially.
Jill W's favorite person, one of several, Jane Goodall, celebrated her 86th birthday while social distancing and sends out this to all of us:
She is so hopeful and encouraging. At 86, Dr. Goodall has a perspective most of us do not.
The current administration is using the distraction of a pandemic for their own purposes. They are not alone in this.
Indian Country News:
Here's some background music while you page through the Indian Country News
Creative Ways of Continuing Traditions are popping up:
The Social Distance PowWow
https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/03/30/were-building-faith-indian-country-share.asp
But Native Americans are likely to be undercounted again on the census:
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/04/02/down-for-the-count-tribes-census-response-lags-far-behind-state-u-s/
And a pipeline got restarted under cover of Covid...
https://www.indianz.com/covid19/?p=2217
Cripes...did I mention political shenanigans during a pandemic?
BOOKS and MOVIES!!
This is mostly Jill W. I'm watching movies and still reading/listening to books. Hopefully Sally will have more on books or binge-watch-worthy shows for the next blog.
Before the library in Plummer gave up and closed it's doors, I managed to check out an audio book for the car. What would I want to listen to on repeat for a while? They had a copy of To Kill A Mocking Bird narrated by Sissy Spacek. It's perfect. I've enjoyed it 1.5 times so far.
I caught a free (with ads) movie on youtube:
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story 2014
Directed: Grant Baldwin
Written: Jenny Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin
About 40% of the food produced globally gets discarded. At the production point, in the 'refinement' process, at a farmers market, at home, in restaurants, through catering waste. When Grant and Jenny learned this they wanted to get a better understanding and decide to live entirely on discarded or about to be discarded (think the "culls" from the produce aisle at the market) food for They document this and give side information through interviews with farmers, marketers, grocery 6 months. clerks, and other experts.
Part of the issue in the US is the need for a presentation and perception of "abundance." The last bunch of chard at a farmers market stall may never sell because with just one, the customers think perhaps there is a problem with it. The first 49 bunches will sell easily.
Part of it is our obsession with perfection, at least in looks. Lumpy zucchini, due to a rain before harvest, sell poorly. Big zucchini sell poorly. Straight bananas! Anarchy! Those sorts of things are thrown out.
Food damaged in shipping, even if it is one can in a case of 50, will be thrown. The whole case. There isn't money to pay the time to sort and clean the rest.
At the farm, there is waste to provide things like "celery hearts." The rest of that celery plant, the outer stalks, leaves and tops of all stalks, are left in the field. Paying staff to pick it up and provide it to someone to even make soup eliminates profit. So it is tilled in.
"Baby carrots" are shaved down real carrots. The shavings are production waste.
You get the picture.
Grant and Jenny not only live on discarded food, Grant gains weight. Sometimes their diet is dull, sometimes it's chocolate and feta cheese rich. Never is it unhealthy or inadequate.
Now is a good time to watch the film, it's free. And a good time to use up the food you have. Consider your supply before you decide what to eat. Eat it up. Appreciate the abundance we do have without making a show of it that results in waste.
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Miriam Kent who usually does our children's segment sent in this:
Kid Time
Miriam Kent here, sharing about:
EARTHDAY, Enhancing family time, Homeschooling/Homelearning, and MK Picks
EARTHDAY
Look in the Moscow Food Co-op Newsletter for more on Earth Day from Miriam!
moscowfood.coop It should be posted later in the week.
Here are 2 Earth Day art ideas:
For youngers:
Make a "Be Kind To The Earth Pendant"
Supplies: Chapstick or dowel, masking tape, isosceles triangle / pendant shape, and marker.
Then have a parade. Pick up trash like we did at Moscow day school yearly.
For all ages:
Make a collage for the earth collectively or individually.
Supplies: card table, newspaper, damp rags, stiff background material, good scissors, glue, magazines, stickers, trash bag and recycle what you can!
Enhancing Family Time
Since families are kind of stuck together anyway these Corona Virus Times:
Share stories (true or made up), photos, books, new music, old music.
Support the wonderful US post office and use some snail mail to stay connected with cousins, grandmas, school friends, teachers, etc.
Homeschooling/Homelearning
Logistics:
-pick a time & include all kids in this / breaks OK / whatever could work for your family (UGH, schedules...but YAY! chance to keep learning)
-for curriculum: input from kids, their teachers, public tv, the internet (if you have it), & even Grandpa
-keep all together in SPECIAL box (kids can paint/decorate)
Thoughts:
-teach what you enjoy
-learn what you need to know and what interests you most
-math opportunities abound!
-oh, and have fun!
MK Picks
-book: The Lorax by Dr Seuss.
-author: Eve Bunting. She writes about hard topics for kids in a real way.
-song: What Do the Animals Do with Their Trash? By Sally Rogers. CD title is What Can One Little Person Do? Find this and more at sallyrogers.com
-old movie: Mr Holland's Opus (for older kids)
-public TV: In Idaho 12-5 is all kids programming. Science/Nature/Nova/geography/world & global awareness (travel shows!)
*************************************************************
By for now &, lavense sus manos! Cada veinte segundos. Chao. Miriam
*************************************************************
Please send suggestions for future Peace Radio Blogs in the comments! We'll see what we can do.
We'll send you out to face the week with this NOT for kids music from a Peace Radio favorite, Michael Franti:
Jill W is your lead blogger with input from DJ Sally P and Jill M as they are able.
Before we launch into the main blogshow: Farewell John Prine:
Seasick Steve had to cancel the tour launching his "Love & Peace" album. We could use some Love and Peace now. Actually, we're seeing some of both. Here's the title track:
Here are some things we would have covered on the air.
From our Senior Senior Host, Sally P:
The April 6th edition of Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American with information on voter suppression in Wisconsin. Remember: The world and political shenanigans continue during the pandemic.
Click the link to read Ms Richardson's April 6th letter:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/?fbclid=IwAR1QwKyrQLj3Qgc1KSJaWlA4J_4pXOGloDC4Zyr8yUy2N20BoTuHlElqiq4
Sally P recommends the blog in general and the weekly chats especially.
Jill W's favorite person, one of several, Jane Goodall, celebrated her 86th birthday while social distancing and sends out this to all of us:
The current administration is using the distraction of a pandemic for their own purposes. They are not alone in this.
Indian Country News:
Here's some background music while you page through the Indian Country News
Creative Ways of Continuing Traditions are popping up:
The Social Distance PowWow
https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/03/30/were-building-faith-indian-country-share.asp
But Native Americans are likely to be undercounted again on the census:
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/04/02/down-for-the-count-tribes-census-response-lags-far-behind-state-u-s/
And a pipeline got restarted under cover of Covid...
https://www.indianz.com/covid19/?p=2217
Cripes...did I mention political shenanigans during a pandemic?
BOOKS and MOVIES!!
This is mostly Jill W. I'm watching movies and still reading/listening to books. Hopefully Sally will have more on books or binge-watch-worthy shows for the next blog.
Before the library in Plummer gave up and closed it's doors, I managed to check out an audio book for the car. What would I want to listen to on repeat for a while? They had a copy of To Kill A Mocking Bird narrated by Sissy Spacek. It's perfect. I've enjoyed it 1.5 times so far.
I caught a free (with ads) movie on youtube:
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story 2014
Directed: Grant Baldwin
Written: Jenny Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin
About 40% of the food produced globally gets discarded. At the production point, in the 'refinement' process, at a farmers market, at home, in restaurants, through catering waste. When Grant and Jenny learned this they wanted to get a better understanding and decide to live entirely on discarded or about to be discarded (think the "culls" from the produce aisle at the market) food for They document this and give side information through interviews with farmers, marketers, grocery 6 months. clerks, and other experts.
Part of the issue in the US is the need for a presentation and perception of "abundance." The last bunch of chard at a farmers market stall may never sell because with just one, the customers think perhaps there is a problem with it. The first 49 bunches will sell easily.
Part of it is our obsession with perfection, at least in looks. Lumpy zucchini, due to a rain before harvest, sell poorly. Big zucchini sell poorly. Straight bananas! Anarchy! Those sorts of things are thrown out.
Food damaged in shipping, even if it is one can in a case of 50, will be thrown. The whole case. There isn't money to pay the time to sort and clean the rest.
At the farm, there is waste to provide things like "celery hearts." The rest of that celery plant, the outer stalks, leaves and tops of all stalks, are left in the field. Paying staff to pick it up and provide it to someone to even make soup eliminates profit. So it is tilled in.
"Baby carrots" are shaved down real carrots. The shavings are production waste.
You get the picture.
Grant and Jenny not only live on discarded food, Grant gains weight. Sometimes their diet is dull, sometimes it's chocolate and feta cheese rich. Never is it unhealthy or inadequate.
Now is a good time to watch the film, it's free. And a good time to use up the food you have. Consider your supply before you decide what to eat. Eat it up. Appreciate the abundance we do have without making a show of it that results in waste.
********************************************************************************
Miriam Kent who usually does our children's segment sent in this:
Kid Time
Miriam Kent here, sharing about:
EARTHDAY, Enhancing family time, Homeschooling/Homelearning, and MK Picks
EARTHDAY
Look in the Moscow Food Co-op Newsletter for more on Earth Day from Miriam!
moscowfood.coop It should be posted later in the week.
Here are 2 Earth Day art ideas:
For youngers:
Make a "Be Kind To The Earth Pendant"
Supplies: Chapstick or dowel, masking tape, isosceles triangle / pendant shape, and marker.
Then have a parade. Pick up trash like we did at Moscow day school yearly.
For all ages:
Make a collage for the earth collectively or individually.
Supplies: card table, newspaper, damp rags, stiff background material, good scissors, glue, magazines, stickers, trash bag and recycle what you can!
Enhancing Family Time
Since families are kind of stuck together anyway these Corona Virus Times:
Share stories (true or made up), photos, books, new music, old music.
Support the wonderful US post office and use some snail mail to stay connected with cousins, grandmas, school friends, teachers, etc.
Homeschooling/Homelearning
Logistics:
-pick a time & include all kids in this / breaks OK / whatever could work for your family (UGH, schedules...but YAY! chance to keep learning)
-for curriculum: input from kids, their teachers, public tv, the internet (if you have it), & even Grandpa
-keep all together in SPECIAL box (kids can paint/decorate)
Thoughts:
-teach what you enjoy
-learn what you need to know and what interests you most
-math opportunities abound!
-oh, and have fun!
MK Picks
-book: The Lorax by Dr Seuss.
-author: Eve Bunting. She writes about hard topics for kids in a real way.
-song: What Do the Animals Do with Their Trash? By Sally Rogers. CD title is What Can One Little Person Do? Find this and more at sallyrogers.com
-old movie: Mr Holland's Opus (for older kids)
-public TV: In Idaho 12-5 is all kids programming. Science/Nature/Nova/geography/world & global awareness (travel shows!)
*************************************************************
By for now &, lavense sus manos! Cada veinte segundos. Chao. Miriam
*************************************************************
Please send suggestions for future Peace Radio Blogs in the comments! We'll see what we can do.
We'll send you out to face the week with this NOT for kids music from a Peace Radio favorite, Michael Franti:
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