August 5, 2024: Hope for the doomed

A whirlwind of information today. First up is Haydenville author David Daley, who arrives to talk about his latest book "Antidemocratic:  Inside the Far Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections". The tome looks at pivotal cases that have lead to several recent decisions, including the undermining of the Voting Rights Act. With this election cycle being perhaps one of the most contentious in our lifetimes, many  question the weight of ones vote, and we embark on a journey with the author to discover not just that the entire affair is more precipice than rabbit hole, but  who the players moving this needle are and a bit of how they continue to do it. And this evening Amherst Cinemas will be showing the documentary “Common Ground”. The film takes a look at deteriorating soil health and ways to combat it, leaning heavily on the method of regenerative farming. So we’ll speak with Mary Johnson, Founder and CEO of the non-profit Regenerative Farms about how that process works and her organization’s global efforts to change agricultural practices. Plus we’ll bring in the listener who was so inspired by the film that they got us excited about it too.