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“The Ups and Downs of Love: A Concert of Memories, Fun, and Goodies” hosted by Bill Cohen Sings

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Saturday, February 1, 7pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.

Serious and comical love songs, fun trivia questions, and delicious home-made sweets will highlight the 15th annual Valentine’s concert by Bill Cohen and friends from 7pm to 9pm on Saturday, February 1.

With guitar and piano, Bill will sing favorites, from the 1940s through the 1990s, made famous by John Denver, the Everly Brothers, Sam Cooke, James Taylor, Sting, Patti Page, and even “Weird Al” Yankovic.

Ann Fisher will be on hand to add some romantic flute accompaniment on several songs. David Maywhoor will keep the beat on percussion, and Dean Gledhill will add extra sparkle on lead guitar. Plus, the all-girl trio, The Harmonettes, will sing smooth backup vocals.

While the songs will reflect the ecstasy, warmth, heartache, and pain that love can bring, there will be a lighter side too, as Bill poses trivia questions about famous and infamous couples and love songs throughout the decades. Plus, expect a couple of surprises.

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Everybody Knows plays really long rock songs

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Dr. Bob goes solo as his co-host is unavailable this week, and plays the three longest rock songs he could find - Alice's Restaurant, In-a-gadda-da-vida and Thick as a Brick. 

Listen live at 11pm Friday, January 31 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
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Monday at 2pm streaming February 3 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM

Archived on Mixcloud here

Nuclear Energy Is a Recipe for Disaster in Ohio

Map of US with No nukes symbol

A rebirth of nuclear power is threatened in the United States. It stems from a combination of factors, including the U.S. government's refusal to seriously address actually clean energy, the political and propaganda power of the nuclear weapons and nuclear energy industries, the poor quality of U.S. education, the sad state of corporate media, and the rise of a tech-firm oligarchy.

Click here to tell your state legislators and governor to make Ohio a nuclear free zone.

White House Press Sec.'s story about condoms to Gaza is laughable propaganda

Donald Trump’s 27-year-old press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the US was halting shipments of condoms to Gaza during her first new look White House briefing. Miss Leavitt briefed reporters that the US was halting shipment of condoms to Gaza. 
 
What a bizarre story! It's so ridiculous, it almost sounds like it was made up to distract from the US-Israeli war crimes committed in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. This lady is worse than Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kayleigh McEnany who were no truth tellers.
 
First of all, they don't use birth control in Gaza and as a result, the population went from 1 million to 2.2 million in the last 20 years.
 
Secondly, Israel has banned condoms from Gaza since 2018, and if you thought the Israelis were scared of the demographic time bomb, think again.

Free Cuba

Before I start I want to express sympathy for the people who have died in a plane crash in Washington, and I want to condemn Trump’s disgusting proposal to kidnap people and lock them up in Guantanamo.

I’m very happy to be in Cuba. I feel closer to Cuba than I do to people in the United States with red hats reading MAGA. Cuba is, in fact, closer to the continental United States than is Hawaii or Alaska or any of the U.S. colonies in the Pacific or about 916 of the United States’ 917 foreign military bases. The people of the U.S. and Cuba have managed, against the odds, to share a great deal of culture and good will, poetry, music, food, and drink. But we sure are divided by governments.

I just searched the internet in the United States for the words “free Cuba” and discovered that it means the overthrow of the Cuban government. I tried searching for “Cuba libre” and learned that it means a drink. But what if I want to search for “a Cuba free of hostile actions by the U.S. government”? The internet is of no help.

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After being held hostage for two days in Switzerland, Ali Abu Nimah was deported to the US

On Monday, January 27, 2025, Switzerland deported the Executive Director of the Electronic Intifada website Ali Abu Nimah after he spent two nights in prison following his arrest, insult, arrest, and investigation without any justification only because he is an activist with Palestine and against the occupation.

Dear World: This is What Palestinian Unity Looks Like

Even those of us who have long emphasized the importance of the Palestinian people’s voice, experience, and collective action in Palestinian history must have been shocked by the cultural revolution resulting from the Israeli war on Gaza.

 By cultural revolution, I mean the defiant and rebellious narrative evolving in Gaza, where people see themselves as active participants in the popular resistance, not just mere victims of the Israeli war machine.

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