Today on the news, an interview with activist Hy Thurman, who helped found Chicago’s Young Patriots Organization in 1968. The organization fought for affordable housing and health care, and later joined with the Black Panther Party and Young Lords to form the Rainbow Coalition, an influential multi-racial network. As labor issues heat up around the country, Thurman shares some lessons for rural areas like Southeastern Utah.
Plus, the Weekly News Reel where we discuss stories about the Moab area with the journalists and editors who reported them. Doug McMurdo of The Times-Independent (13:00) discusses Arches’ 2022 reservation system, a lost appeal for a man who killed a Moab resident in 2018, and the new Grand County EMS building. Maggie McGuire of the Moab Sun News (22:00) has details on the city council’s decision to fund the replacement of the Pack Creek footbridge.
Show Notes:
Photo: The cover of a March 1970 edition of ‘The Patriot: A Peoples News Service,’ a white revolutionary newspaper. The Young Patriots Organization formed in the late 1960s, later joining the Black Panthers and the Young Lords to form the multi-racial Rainbow Coalition. Credit Washington Area Spark
Read the transcript of this interview:
https://www.kzmu.org/activist-hy-thurman-on-the-rainbow-coalition-labor-organizing/
Revolutionary Hillbilly by Hy Thurman
https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Hillbilly-Hy-Thurman/dp/1587905515
Music Featured in the Hy Thurman Interview:
Body Busy Blues by techtheist
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/techtheist/fma2021-part-2/body-busy-blues
I Have Found a Way by Jacob Henry & Bill Jolliff:
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jacob_Henry_amp_Bill_Jolliff_1928/Music_From_the_True_Vine_2002/I_Have_Found_a_Way
Dirty Old Frogg (ID 359) by Lobo Loco:
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/NIce_Nowhere/Dirty_Old_Frogg_ID_359
Weekly News Reel Mentions –
The Times-Independent: Arches to pilot timed entry in 2022
https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/arches-to-pilot-timed-entry-in-2022/
The Times-Independent: Man who killed Moab resident loses bid for new trial
https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/man-who-killed-moab-resident-loses-bid-for-new-trial/
The Times-Independent: New EMS building is ‘substantially completed’
https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/new-ems-building-is-substantially-completed/
The Times-Independent: Two truckers dead following head-on collision
https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/two-truckers-dead-following-head-on-collision/
*The Moab Sun News story will be added once available online*
