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In Episode 501 of District of Conservation, Gabriella welcomes back her friend and past guest of the show, Joe Trotter. Since Joe last joined the program, he switched jobs from ALEC to Texans for Clean Water. In this episode, listeners will learn about Joe's new role, what Texans for Clean Water strives to accomplish, why clean water isn't political or leftist, how countries like Lithuania and Germany reduce litter more effectively than us, and how boosting domestic supply chains can alleviate our litter woes. Tune in to learn more!SHOW NOTESConnect with Joe Trotter on X/TwitterLearn about Texans for Clean Water
Diverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Joe William Trotter, Jr., author of Building The Black City: The Transformation of American Life. Building The Black City explores the history of African Americans in cities across America from the colonial era to recent times. He emphasized the agency of African people in building their own infrastructure and institutions despite being dispossessed of their labor. Trotter highlighted the importance of understanding the regional dimensions of black urban life, using New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah as examples.Joe William Trotter, Jr., is Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice, Director and Founder of Carnegie Mellon University's Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), and author of Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media: Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreview Instagram - @diverse_voices_book_review Twitter - @diversebookshay Email: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.com
Learn about the history of Indianapolis Recorder's midnight Christmas benefit concerts at the Walker Theatre. The concerts featured up to 60 acts and ran from midnight until 6 in the morning. Some of the greatest jazz, funk, and R&B musicians in Naptown performed at the midnight Christmas shows — including Wes Montgomery, Thurston Harris and Slide Hampton. But the entertainment wasn't limited to music alone — there were drag queens, burlesque dancers, fire-eaters, snake handlers, body builders and comedians. The concerts developed from the Indianapolis Recorder Cheer Fund. Established in 1929, the Cheer Fund was an annual holiday fundraiser that supported families in financial need. During the 1930s the Cheer Fund evolved into a benefit concert. These concerts attracted star performers, including the legendary tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson who performed at the Recorder's 1938 benefit show. The Recorder's midnight Christmas benefit concerts thrived until the 1980s. Listen to interviews with Indianapolis musicians and media personalities who performed at the Christmas benefit shows, including Henry Hinch, Josephine Cheatham, Rodney Stepp, Reggie Gammon, Debbie Nelson, Tyrone Caldwell, Richard Hamilton, Eunice Trotter, Geno Shelton and the late Joe Trotter.
The Biden Administration's energy policy pose a clear threat to affordable and reliable power by revoking permits, denying access, and enriching our enemies. Joe Trotter, director of ALEC's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force, explains where things went haywire. Special Guest: Joe Trotter.
A follow-up discussion with Joe Trotter from Public Health about the ongoing Narcan initiative on campus and in our community. Learn more about Narcan usage and resources. Resources: Champaign-Urbana Public Health: Champaign Urbana Public Health District - 201 W. Kenyon Rd. Champaign - (217) 352-7961 (c-uphd.org) Narcan: OTC NARCAN® (naloxone HCl) Nasal Spray McKinley Health Center: McKinley Health Center | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mckinley-health-center/message
Joe Trotter, ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Director, sits down with Lars Dalseide, ALEC Director of Policy Advancement and Media Relations, talking about the 3rd edition of the Energy Affordability Report. Special Guest: Joe Trotter.
This week on Echoes of Avenue learn about the history of Indianapolis Recorder's midnight Christmas benefit concerts at the Walker Theatre. The concerts featured up to 60 acts and ran from midnight until 6 in the morning. Some of the greatest jazz, funk, and R&B musicians in Naptown performed at the midnight Christmas shows — including Wes Montgomery, Thurston Harris and Slide Hampton. But the entertainment wasn't limited to music alone — there were drag queens, burlesque dancers, fire-eaters, snake handlers, body builders and comedians. The concerts developed from the Indianapolis Recorder Cheer Fund. Established in 1929, the Cheer Fund was an annual holiday fundraiser that supported families in financial need. During the 1930s the Cheer Fund evolved into a benefit concert. These concerts attracted star performers, including the legendary tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson who performed at the Recorder's 1938 benefit show. The Recorder's midnight Christmas benefit concerts thrived until the 1980s. Listen to interviews with Indianapolis musicians and media personalities who performed at the Christmas benefit shows, including Henry Hinch, Josephine Cheatham, Rodney Stepp, Reggie Gammon, Debbie Nelson, Tyrone Caldwell, Richard Hamilton, Eunice Trotter, Geno Shelton and the late Joe Trotter.
The Epoch Times investigative reporter Kevin Stocklin discusses how efforts to remake America's electric grid, including Biden's green energy transition, has left China, an accused saboteur of our infrastructure, as an essential supplier of transformers and other critical hardware. A new Epoch Times article written by investigative reporter Kevin Stocklin reveals that, while it appears China's “cartels” are lending a hand on the power front, it could also leave America's electric grid vulnerable to foreign control and sabotage. “If they're able to knock the grid out, basically modern society is going to fall,” Joe Trotter, director of the Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Counsel, told The Epoch Times. “The modern grid runs our whole infrastructure and without power, we don't have refrigeration, our food supply goes down, our water supply goes down. If the power went out across the entire United States for a month, people would die. There'd be widespread looting. Two-to-three months and you might actually have a full societal collapse.” Despite the potential attacks we've already seen from countries like China, Russia and Iran, utilities continue to import essential hardware from China, with an estimated 10-15 percent of our electric transformers now being supplied by Chinese companies. In 2020, former President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13920, which declared a state of emergency regarding America's power grid and barred new imports of Chinese hardware. Upon taking office, President Biden rescinded that order. In 2019, federal agents seized a transformer that arrived from China, on its way to being installed in a Colorado electric grid, and took it to a lab where it was disassembled for analysis. While the report remains classified, intelligence sources say they found that it contained microchips that intentionally allowed its functions to be hacked. Critics say that China, due to things like “backdoors” in microchips installed in grid hardware, will have the ability to shut down America's power grid at will. Kevin Stocklin joins us now to discuss his article further.
Joe Trotter, ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director, sits down with Lars Dalseide to discuss the probable causes of the fires in Maui and how President Biden's decision to designate one of America's richest uranium deposits as a national monument severely restricts the country's ability to become energy independent. Special Guest: Joe Trotter.
This week on Echoes of Indiana Avenue, we'll share the final episode of our two part series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Amnesty's 700 West sessions by looking back at our 2019 interview with Amnesty's vocalist Joe Trotter, percussionist Rafael Barnes, and sax player Gino Johnson. Amnesty was a legendary Indianapolis funk band, known for their hard-hitting grooves and soaring vocal harmonies. The music Amnesty recorded at 700 West has been streamed millions of times online and sampled in hip-hop tracks by Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, and Ye - the artist formerly known as Kanye West. On this week's episode we'll discuss Amnesty's legacy, and share rare unreleased demo recordings from the band.
During the 1970s, the Indianapolis music scene produced several important funk bands – including Amnesty, an eight-piece ensemble known for their hard-hitting grooves and soaring vocal harmonies. In 1973, Amnesty traveled to New Palestine, Indiana – a small town east of Indianapolis. Their destination was 700 West, a modest recording studio located in the home of Moe Whittemore. Amnesty recorded 10 tracks at 700 West. Two of those recordings were issued on Whittemore's 700 West label – but the full sessions remained unreleased for over 30 years. In 2007 the California-based label Now Again issued the complete Amnesty 700 West sessions. The album was titled “Free Your Mind” and it became an instant classic among funk and soul music fans. The music Amnesty recorded at 700 West has been streamed millions of times online and sampled in hip-hop tracks by Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, and Ye - the artist formerly known as Kanye West. For the next two weeks on Echoes of Indiana Avenue we'll celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amnesty's 700 West sessions by looking back at a 2019 interview WFYI's Kyle Long recorded with Amnesty's vocalist Joe Trotter, percussionist Rafael Barnes, and sax player Gino Johnson.
With smoky skies littering the eastern seaboard, the quality of Canada's forest management policies have come into question. Lars Dalseide sits down with ALEC's Energy, Environment, Agriculture Task Force Director Joe Trotter to discuss the current cloudy situation and how Canada could make better environmental choices. Special Guest: Joe Trotter.
One aspect of inflation that we don't hear much about is how the rising cost of diesel contributes to higher costs of goods. The cost of regular gas is roughly where it was last year, at around 3 dollars a gallon, but the change in the price of diesel gas is much more notable- it's gone up a dollar or more since last year. There are certain policies in place causing this. To break it down, here's Joe Trotter, the energy task force director at the American Legislative Exchange Council. New reports coming from China say that the country's population has dropped for the first time since 1961. This poses major challenges to their economy. And since the U.S. economy is intertwined with China, this is also expected to have impacts on the U.S. Joining us to discuss America's economic relationship with China, we have Ryan Yonk, Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research.
Narcan is an opioid medication to reverse or reduce the effects of an opioid overdose. McKinley Health Center recently partnered with Champaign-Urbana Public Health to distribute Narcan through McKinley's Health Resource Centers on campus free of charge to students and staff. Joe Trotter, from CU Public Health, talks about Narcan's need, use and how to access Narcan. We are also joined by a current UI student who shares a personal connection with the topic. Tune in and learn more! RESOURCES: McKinley Health Center | McKinley Health Center | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department | Champaign Urbana Public Health District - 201 W. Kenyon Rd. Champaign - (217) 352-7961 (c-uphd.org) Narcan | Opioid Overdose Treatment - NARCAN® (naloxone HCl) Nasal Spray --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mckinley-health-center/message
This week on Echoes of Indiana Avenue we'll explore the Indianapolis Recorder's midnight Christmas benefit concerts at the Walker Theatre. We'll be featuring interviews with several Indianapolis musicians who performed at the Christmas benefit shows, including Henry Hinch, Josephine Cheatham Manns, Reggie Gammon, and the late Joe Trotter. We'll also talk with Eunice Trotter, the former owner of the Indianapolis Recorder, and the legendary Indianapolis disc jockey Geno Shelton. Trotter and Shelton organized the Christmas benefit show during the 1980s.
In Episode 318 of District of Conservation, Gabriella welcomes her friend and ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Director, Joe Trotter, to the program. Joe shares his background, how he got involved in the Great Outdoors, his most recent Energy Affordability Report, and anti-conservation propositions. Tune in to learn more! SHOW NOTES Meet Joe Trotter Learn more about ALEC here and follow them on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter ALEC's Energy Affordability Report, 2nd Edition --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/district-of-conservation/support
Inflation reached record heights in March as prices soared by 8.5%. With working families paying more for gas and groceries, Lee Schalk, Vice President of Policy at ALEC, and Joe Trotter, Director of Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force, joined ALECtv and Across the States to discuss this latest development with Matt Fisher and Catherine Mortensen. Video Version of Today's Podcast, Runaway Inflation w/ Lee Schalk and Joe Trotter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw60UoroWHo) The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Inflation Accelerated to 8.5% in March, Hitting Four-Decade High (https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-inflation-consumer-price-index-march-2022-11649725215#:~:text=U.S.%20inflation%20surged%20to%20a,constraints%20and%20strong%20consumer%20demand.)
The crisis in Ukraine is leading to higher food costs across America but governors and state lawmakers don't have to wait for the federal government to act – ALEC policy experts offer policy solutions at the state level.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine combined with regulations at the state and federal level have presented a myriad of challenges for rural Americans and the agriculture industry. Join Matthew Fisher and Joe Trotter, Director of the ALEC Task Force on Energy, Environment, and Agriculture, as they sit down with Phil Green, Representative from Michigan's 84th District and Chair of the ALEC Subcommittee on Agriculture, to discuss the potential of food shortages, job losses, and more. The Crisis in Ukraine Has Major Implications for the Agricultural Sector and Global Food Security (https://alec.org/article/the-crisis-in-ukraine-has-major-implications-for-the-agricultural-sector-and-global-food-security/), by Karla Jones and Joe Trotter Learn more about the Russian invasion of Ukraine with our two part series Ukraine: On the Frontlines in Kyiv Part w/ Mykola Vorobiov and Karla Jones: Part I (https://podcast.alec.org/118) Part II (https://podcast.alec.org/119)
Joe Trotter is ALEC's new Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Director. He bring more than ten years of policy, campaign, and communications experience to the Task Force, having worked on energy and environment issues on Capitol Hill and served as the on-the-record spokesman for numerous free-market organizations and campaigns. During his tenure on the Hill, Joe served as a Natural Resources Legislative Assistant, where he worked with coal, natural gas, logging, and transportation industries, as well as federal agencies, to deal with a wide variety of issues. TOPIC: Gasoline Prices: Where Political Fantasy and Reality Collide!! Frank Vernuccio serves as editor-in-chief of the New York Analysis of Policy & Government, providing objective coverage of key issues facing the United States today. Frank is the co-host of the Vernuccio/Novak Report, nationally both on broadcast radio and the web at amfm247.com. FRANK also co-hosts of the “The American Political Zone,” Broadcast on the AUN-TV Network and on cable in eastern Connecticut. TOPIC: Democrats Must Explain Weakening Military!!
The pandemic may have accelerated the future of work, but it is certainly not the only factor necessitating targeted investment in the workforce. This week's episode looks at legislation aimed at reskilling and workforce development, with guests Jose-Marie Griffiths and Joe Trotter.
This week we celebrate the life and music of the Avenue musicians who passed away this year - including Slide Hampton, Joe Trotter of Amnesty, Herb Gibbs of the Fabulous Moonlighters, and more.
Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present and Future of Jobs
This is Episode 2-3 of Essential Work: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Jobs, brought to you by the Battle of Homestead Foundation.Nathan Ruggles hosts our feature interview Dr. Joe Trotter is the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also the Director and Founder of Carnegie Mellon's Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), President Elect of the Urban History Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest publication is Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America (University of California Press, 2019).Review us and give us five stars on Apple Podcasts!Support this podcast and the work of our sponsoring organization: battleofhomestead.orgessentialworkpodcast.orgShare a comment, ask a question:(412) 326-9435comments@essentialworkpodcast.orgAudio Engineering support and consulting provided by Angela Baughman: thatsoundgirl.comLogo by Brittany Sheets: bsheetscreative.comOriginal Music Composed and Recorded by Jason Kendall: jasonkendallproductions.comThe Battle of Homestead Foundation Organized to preserve, interpret, & promote a people's history focused on the 1892 labor conflict.SquadCast Record studio-quality content from anywhere. Create engaging audio + video with an intuitive platforBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://battleofhomestead.org/bhf/donations/)
This week on Echoes of Indiana Avenue we look back on the life and music of vocalist Joe Trotter. Trotter is best remembered for his work with the legendary Indianapolis funk band Amnesty.
Black in Appalachia is talking Black life in West Virginia coal camps, the Mine Wars and the struggles for Black political power and workers' rights, with excerpts from our visit to The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, retired coal miners and the one and only Dr. Joe Trotter, Jr.
In our first episode, interviewees discuss their first impressions of Pittsburgh, beginning with Anita Newell in the 1940s and ending with Joe Trotter in the 1980s. Sherri Nichols remembers the zig zag nature of the city layout, and many interviewees remember the pollution in vivid detail.
Please join us for a History Book Club virtual event from the University of Minnesota's Department of History, the Ramsey County Historical Society, the University of Minnesota's African American and African Studies Department and the Labor and Working History Association. This event features a discussion of "Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America" by Joe Trotter. Joe Trotter (PhD ‘80), Giant Eagle Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, will discuss his book with moderator William Jones, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. About the book: Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America, University of California Press (January 2019) From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as “consumers” rather than “producers,” as “takers” rather than “givers,” and as “liabilities” instead of “assets.” In his engrossing new history, Workers on Arrival, Joe William Trotter, Jr. refutes these perceptions by charting the black working class's vast contributions to the making of America. Covering the last four hundred years since Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619, Trotter traces black workers' complicated journey from the transatlantic slave trade through the American Century to the demise of the industrial order in the 21st century. At the center of this compelling, fast-paced narrative are the actual experiences of these African American men and women. A dynamic and vital history of remarkable contributions despite repeated setbacks, Workers on Arrival expands our understanding of America's economic and industrial growth, its cities, ideas, and institutions, and the real challenges confronting black urban communities today. About the author: Joe William Trotter, Jr. is the Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also the Director and Founder of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy, President Elect of the Urban History Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Trotter received his BA degree from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is currently working on a study of African American urban life since the Atlantic slave trade. About the moderator William P. Jones is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota and president of the Labor and Working Class History Association. He currently serves as the director of graduate studies for the History Department. An expert on race and labor in the twentieth-century United States, he is author of two award-winning books, The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (2005) and The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (2013). Jones has been a guest on the PBS Newshour, NPR's “The Takeaway,” and Democracy Now! He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, and other publications. He is currently writing a book on public employees and the transformation of the U.S. economy after World War II. Before coming to the University of Minnesota in 2016, Dr. Jones taught at the University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University.
Kyle presents part one of his two part series documenting the legendary Indianapolis funk group Amnesty. In this episode, hear from the group's three surviving members: Joe Trotter, Rafael Barnes, and Gino Johnson.