Birthday Fascist
Handcuffing Padilla
A Parade for Trump
All aboard! Everybody Knows celebrates the Railroad
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan celebrate trains, especially older songs about trains when they really meant something! Listen to Trains Kept-a Rollin, Love Train, Downtown Train, Hobo Lullaby, Freight Train, Choo Choo Ch-Boogie and more!
Listen live at 11pm Friday, June 13 and 20 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
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Monday at 2pm streaming June 16 and 23 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM
New book release: Navigation - in these uncertain times
Navigation – in these uncertain times, A Book of Poetry by Michael Eckhardt Sr., just released by the Free Press/CICJ Books, is a compilation of free verse and haiku that will move and inspire the Free Press reader. Many of Michael’s poems frankly express Michael’s avowed radical political views on war and society’s numerous flaws including police brutality, injustice, apathy and much more.
The sentiments in this poem detail horrors that could describe any war, but are particularly relevant to the Gaza conflict today, titled “odds are.”
odd, the bombs which fall
are ordered, built and dropped
by those, once children
they have lived lives to date
with complete absence of contrition
the same odds and laws of probabilities
apply to those children about to hit
but their choices cut short
no chance to decide
how to live or which course to take
who can figure such odds.
Tik Tok videos of Immigration Customs Enforcement actions
In the event the reader would like to see Immigration and Customs Enforement (ICE) in action, the most egregious videos are suppressed but can be viewed on Tik Tok. These were posted prior to 6/12/2025.
https://www.tiktok.com/@jeanvargasss/video/7510389059454356766?q=ice%20…
https://www.tiktok.com/@fox9mn/video/7502515312378531102?q=ice%20kidnappings&t=1749736516980
https://www.tiktok.com/@cbseveningnews/video/7514905978916064554?q=ice%20kidnappings&t=1749736516980
STANDING UP TO FASCIST ASSAULTS in Los Angeles & Oregon AS THE AMERICAN REICHSTAG BURNS
Our great Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN opens with some of her treasured verse.
Then elected-removed-reinstated MAYOR HEIDE LAMPERT updates us on the latest grassroots stand for democracy in the face of fascism.
Safe energy legend KARL GROSSMAN skewers the latest shish kabob of “hot” pro-nuclear executive orders from the radioactive White House.
New York activist HEIDI VERKAMPT reminds us of emergency efforts surrounding the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.
Long-time No Nuker ANNA GYORGY explains the grassroots victory in Massachusetts over a highly toxic battery storage facility.
Safe energy crusader MYLA RESON reports from Los Angeles while warning us of all the pro-nuke Democrats now pushing radioactive disaster.
Page 153 of Trump’s big bad bill will gut the court system, warns DANIELLA G., who adds that we must “Keep Hope Alive!!!”
Election Protection pioneer LULU FRIESDAT explains in depth her landmark vote counting victory in New York.
With her, electoral champion JULIE WEINER pleads for help in stopping the spread of hackable voting machines throughout NY.
Brain Quack
Red Card for Genocide: Why FIFA Must Be Held to Account
Fans worldwide are unequivocally challenging FIFA's continued support for Israel, organizing with unprecedented unity for Palestine. Unlike previous actions, this mobilization is now notably well-coordinated, widespread, and consistent.
Solar News This Week - June 9, 2025
Tariffs Fail to Charge Confidence in Battery Prices
Recent tariff actions by the Trump administration have caused a sharp increase in battery prices according to the Q2 storage pricing insights report from ANSA, a solar and storage company.
This battery price spike is the sharpest single jump in battery energy storage prices since 2021, including the time period of the post-pandemic supply chain disruptions.
As of 2024, China currently accounts for approximately 60 percent of the world's lithium ion battery exports that are used in electric vehicles, as well as stationary battery storage systems.
In 2018, the first Trump administration imposed tariffs on batteries from China, In January of 2020, those tariffs on lithium ion batteries rose from 7.5 percent to 15 percent. In May of 2024, they increased to 25 percent.
April of this year, Trump announced a 125 percent additional tariff on products from China, which raised the tariff on batteries imported from that nation to about 150 percent.