Diane Sawyer did a great job on 20/20 last night giving a voice to many forgotten Americans. We will explore the angst and ills of those who continue to suffer in silence, our declining middle-class.

As we start to believe in our worth and assert it, demanding what is ours by hitting the streets, forcing the hands of our representatives, and electing progressives will begin the transformation.

What are your thoughts? Let’s  talk. I will also be following our hashtag #PoliticsDoneRight on Twitter @EgbertoWillies. Give me a call, listen to the live stream, or listen to the podcast/vlogcast. We are also broadcasting live on Facebook at http://facebook.com/politicsdoneright.

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We present the truth about the problems and solutions surrounding prohibition.

We focus on civil-rights and YOUR freedom and liberty.

Join us for "A Cup of Joe" to find out what YOU can do to help The Human Solution International accomplish our mission of ending cannabis prohibition to ensure civil and basic human rights.

This week: Join us for huge show. Tune in to find out what The Human Solution International has been working on. We will have several special gusts- Shona Banda and Staci Swanson-Crass will be joining us to give an update on Shona's case as well as Galen Fisher from Nevada who will be discussing how legalization of cannabis is working out. 

Relax, grab a fresh one and join us for this very bold and delicious brew with plenty to go around on Coffee Party USA Radio. Wednesday Nights 8:00 PM EDT/5:00 PM PDT 

*Cannabis defendants from around the world are always welcome to join the show and share the details of their cases with the goal of reaching out to the community for support.

Macey Tomlin and Matt Kahl have been advocates for plant medicine for some time. For years, Americans have turned to the pharmaceutical companies for a solution to their unhappiness. The Journal of the American Medical Association states the percentage of Americans taking antidepressants nearly doubled between 1999 and 2012.Macey has been an advocate for the therapeutic properties of psychedelics for six years.After her first Ayahuasca ceremony, she became interested in the growing rate of depression and anxiety in western cultures and believes scientific studies will move people will away from big Pharma. Matt comes by way of education meeting reality. Matt's concentration in college was Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology of the indole alkylamine hallucinogenics and eCB receptor chemistry. Discovered sacred medicinal plants and studied academically and experientially. Cannabis, mushrooms, cacti, and tropical shrubs. Matt joined the Army and was a member of the "Band of Brothers". His service time resulted in him attempting suicide, injured in battle, feeling that he abandoned his combat brothers, and now suffering from PTSD.  The standard military treatment regimen put Matt into a cage with bars made of pills and pharmaceutical regimens, and his own house became his prison. Macy lost a close family member to suicide at the age of 12 because of the antidepressant Paxil. We will discuss these issues and how plant medicine of all types create avenues of physical and mental health without the damaging side effects we are forced to use by government. Macey plans to build a wellness center in Acapulco that centers around the use of Ayahuasca and possibly MDMA therapy as well. Matt works with Veterans for Natural Rights, appeared on Viceland, NBC Dateline, and CBS This Morning. He devotes his life to this as a way to help his brothers and sisters suffering from PTSD, Please join us.

The story is too common in our society today.  Prohibition has destroyed lives and killed people, both from lack of access for medical purposes, and from filling prisons. Cannabis; medical, recreational, argicultural, should not be prohibited from complete access in our society. Period.  Tennessee offers us the complete spectrum of what is wrong with prohibition.  Meet Susan, Cecily and Dave.  All are patients in need.  Cannabis is their salvation and Tennessee is their home.  These three wonderful people are the examples as to why we must not allow prohibition to continue in our society.  People are dying.  Families are being destroyed.  Every day.  Susan, Cecily and Dave tell us their history, their medical battles, their activism and why they are seeking justice in Tennessee.  Tennessee Medical Cannabis Patients and Activist Group, Tennesee Cannabis Coalition and Tennessee NORML are five of the organizations working together to fix the access issues in Tennessee and save lives.  We discuss their personal struggles, Tennessee proposed legislation and elected officials who continue to work against what is best for the citizens of Tennesee.  Please join us for this importnat discussion.  Longtime Activist, Journalist, Tax Revolution Institute & Coffee Party Director & Radio Host, Bobby Rodrigo brings you "I Take LIBERTY With My Coffee" on Coffee Party Radio Sunday Morning at 10:00 AM. "If we focused on following the Constitution we would solve many of the ills of our society. Offering guests from Political Organizations, Activism, Media & Artists Bobby invites you to join him Sunday Morning at 10:00 AM on Coffee Party Radio

Journalism and Activism: the witness and the witnessed.

In this day and age the world, and especially the online world, is awash in communication. The vast majority of this communication, however, is not news and especially not journalism. (If you did any of the homework reading you will recognise this quote from AmericanPressInstitute.ORG).

Guest journalist Cheryl Hatch will help us understand the difference.

Full disclosure. Cheryl and I have known each other for over 20 years. She was my husband’s journalism student. We met when she returned from Iraqi Kurdistan during Desert Storm. I have had the pleasure of witnessing Cheryl’s career evolve.

Cheryl is just back from a trip (as a journalist) to Standing Rock and she and I will be attending the Women’s Rally in Washington DC on January 21st. She will attend as a journalist. I will attend as an activist.

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Time is of essence. It is not the time to be recriminating the Trump voter. The time is now to make them allies. Recent interviews many of them have given on cable and national TV makes it clear that there are common interests some of them are ready to fight for. We should do it and do it now.

What are your thoughts? Let’s  talk. I will also be following our hashtag #PoliticsDoneRight on Twitter @EgbertoWillies. Give me a call, listen to the live stream, or listen to the podcast/vlogcast. We are also broadcasting live on Facebook at http://facebook.com/politicsdoneright.

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It’s a secret. Living Room Conversations transforms our relationships with people we thought we knew.  And it’s in a very, very good way. That’s the secret...talking with others using proven guidelines...allows us to practice listening, empathy and find common interests with others that we didn’t know. What’s the best part of secrets?  Sharing them!

Today we’ll hear from people who have co-hosted and participated in one or more Living Room Conversations --- but not with each other.  They will share what they thought the Living Room Conversation was and what actually happened. These stories will warm your heart and give you hope that the beyond the partisan bickering of a presidential election year, we can connect with each other and enjoy our time together.

Living Room Conversations places our humanity above our politics and allows deep sharing so our hearts can open up to one another. Join us as we share how our own lives have transformed as a result.

On Coffee Party Radio

We present the truth about the problems and solutions surrounding prohibition.

We focus on civil-rights and YOUR freedom and liberty.

Join us for "A Cup of Joe" to find out what YOU can do to help The Human Solution International accomplish our mission of ending cannabis prohibition to ensure civil and basic human rights.

This week: Join us as we talk about all aspects of jury nullification.

Relax, grab a fresh one and join us for this very bold and delicious brew with plenty to go around on Coffee Party USA Radio.  

Wednesday Nights 8:00 PM EDT/5:00 PM PDT 

*Cannabis defendants from around the world are always welcome to join the show

and share the details of their cases with the goal of reaching out to the community for support.

We are currently in a state of flux in America. We will be governed shortly by an undemocratically illegitimate president who is intent on effect massive changes. He has no mandate for those changes. In fact, most Americans voted for policies diametrically opposed to what he, through Paul Ryan is proposing.

It is imperative that all Americans understand he does not have the will of the people. We must keep that narrative because the media in normalizing Donald Trump will give the impression that he is effecting what he was elected for. Allowing him carte blanche is effectively acquiescing to fascism based on Trump's modus operandi.

What are your thoughts? Let’s  talk. I will also be following our hashtag #PoliticsDoneRight on Twitter @EgbertoWillies. Give me a call, listen to the live stream, or listen to the podcast/vlogcast. We are also broadcasting live on Facebook at http://facebook.com/politicsdoneright.

"We all learned in grade school that Abraham Lincoln “saved the Union.” But, in saving our nation, did he destroy our Constitution? He did some pretty extreme things, after all, from suspending habeas corpus to signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Were his actions constitutionally justified, or not? We’ll talk to Daniel Farber, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and who presented this year’s R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture at Lincoln Memorial University’s Duncan School of Law." 

Your Weekly Constitutional is hosted by Constitutional Law Professor Stewart Harris. Stewart teaches Constitutional Law at the Appalachian School of Law (ASL) in Grundy, Virginia. In 2011, Professor Harris created a public radio show, Your Weekly Constitutional, which is produced at WETS-FM, the NPR affiliate in Johnson City, Tennessee, and syndicated nationally.  YWC is underwritten by the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at Montpelier, the historic home of the Father of the Constitution, James Madison.