Strung Out Episode 22

Send us Fan MailWe speak with journalist/activist/grassroots arts advocate and all around fantastic guy, Doug Kamholz.  We explore the creation of his weekly observance "Wednesday Mornings With Moxie" that served as a "not-so-underground" reflection on the Trump regime.  We also discuss the dysfunctional media (or so-called media) that pervades the partisan atmosphere in the country. In Doug's own words......    On the morning after Donald Trump was elected I wrote to a few dozen friends, revealing the depth of my depression at such an ill-advised act by my fellow Americans.  I continued my weekly Wednesday tales of woe for a few weeks before deciding the time for wallowing was over.  Quoting Mother Jones and Joe Hill I embarked on a four-year project of weekly missives called Wednesday Moorings with Moxie.  They ranged from rage to parody and back again, almost always with the man I called the Dorito-in-chief at the center.  I tried to avoid screed; there was enough of that out there.  My goal was to bring news my several hundred readers had not heard elsewhere and to give those readers articulations of arguments forged from half a century of writing and political activism.  In fact for some time I had been referring to myself as a media activist.    On the morning after Donald Trump was voted out of office – well, a few mornings, really – I sent my last Wednesday Moorings with Moxie.  I am humbled by the many responses to my writing over the past four years and at the project’s conclusion.  I know it helped my weather these awful times, and it seems it did the same for many others.                                                                                     -30 - Support the showWe are always grateful to have you listening to STRUNG OUT.    Here are some important links:SUPPORT THE SHOW:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MartyfineaKMARTIN'S WEBSITE:http://www.MARTINMcCORMACK.COM  (note---you can get my weekly bulletin when you sign up on the list!)MARTIN'S MUSIC: Music | Martin Laurence McCormack (bandcamp.com)Martin McCormack | SpotifyMARTIN'S YOUTUBE CHANNELMartin McCormack - YouTubeFACEBOOKFacebook...