Face 2 Face Show

On this show, we speak with Susan Karbiner, and Janie Lynch, Chair and Co-Chair of the Long Island Poor People’s Campaign – A National Call for Moral Revival. Today we are speaking about the origins of the Poor People’s Campaign, its important programs and considerations today for civil and human rights in the nonviolent tradition of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

On this show, we speak with Giorgio Cantarini, award-winning actor from Life is Beautiful and Gladiator, who is now involved on new production by Alveare Cinema in Rome, Italy.

The film is called On the Fourth String, and focuses on climate crisis after a 2018 hurricane-force windstorm destroyed millions of trees in a few hours in Northeast Italy.

Those particular trees were used to make the highest quality of violins in the world. Also joining us, representing Alveare Cinema is Pressenza contributor and teacher of Italian at SUNY, Jacqueline Jill Rito.

On this show we speak with Mel Lehman founded and director of Common Humanity. Common Humanity is a non-profit organization based in New York City which seeks to build understanding, respect and friendship with the Middle East and Muslim world. CH believes that the road to peace in the Middle East lies in recognizing the humanity of people on all sides of the conflict we’re in.

www.commonhumanity.org

Disclaimer: This discussion was done in video format showing many art-pieces that may not be well represented for Podcast format. We recommend to see the video show if you can:

On this show we speak with Thomas F. Lee about his new book "The Warning: A Novel for the Nuclear Age” Telling the story of a monk and two nuns who engage in acts of civil disobedience against the threat of nuclear weapons, and suffer the consequences.

On this show we speak over the phone with Martha Hennessy granddaughter of Dorothy Day and Activist again nuclear weapons. Martha is out of prison on a very restricted confinement in a "halfway house” without internet connect and perhaps for another month or two.  She took part of a plowshares action where seven activists entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia. The world’s biggest naval submarine base, home to Trident nuclear powered submarines, the Atlantic Fleet’s Ballistic and Guided Missile Submarines.

On this show we speak with Payal Mehta, volunteer at Community Solidarity - Food is a right.  An all volunteer organization that rescues and distributes food to those marginalized and the many forgotten in overburdened systems that don't always function the way they are designed.

On this show we speak with Cristina Porzio, photographer and art director about two very different projects. The first story called OFLAG 83 about remnants of WWII concentration camp where her grandfather was Lt. Colonel commander of that camp for the Italian troops who declined to continue fighting  and the second project called the WO-MEN Project, showing portraits featuring 'ordinary women and men' in their surroundings.

On this show we are speaking with Rosa and Amer from Combatants for Peace, a volunteer organization of ex-combatant Israelis and Palestinians, men and women, who have laid down their weapons and rejected all means of violence. They are working together to end the occupation of Palestine, bring just peace to the land, and demonstrate that Israelis and Palestinians can work and live together.

Their mission is to build the social infrastructure necessary for ending the conflict and the occupation: communities of Palestinians and Israelis working together through nonviolent means to promote peace. They believe that such communities can serve as a role model for both people, demonstrating through action that there is a real alternative to the cycle of violence.

On this show we are speaking with  David Rojas, Colombian activist living in New York, about the serious situation in Colombia where at least 19 people were killed during protests opposing tax increase and inequality.

On this show we are speaking with Angelo Cardona about the First Youth Summit Against NATO. Angelo is Co-founder & President Ibero-American Alliance for Peace, Council member of the International Peace Bureau,and member of the No to War - no to NATO international network.

https://www.pressenza.com/2021/04/youth-summit-against-nato/

Pressenza: https://www.pressenza.com/2021/05/face-2-face-with-angelo-cardona/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFbXG5fiIwk