Irresistible Fiction

David Carroll Cochran is the author of Catholic Realism and the Abolition of War. He teaches politics and directs the Archbishop Kucera Center for Catholic Intellectual and Spiritual Life at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He discusses how war might be abolished and what sorts of institutions have been abolished already.

Total run time: 29:00

Host: David Swanson.Producer: David Swanson.Music by Duke Ellington.

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This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Robin Wildman of Broad Rock Elementary School about how she integrated nonviolence into her classroom . . . and inspired parents, teachers, and students to work together to create the nation's first nonviolent public school.

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About Our Guest: Robin Wildman is a fifth grade teacher at Broad Rock Elementary School. She has been a public school teacher for twenty-five years, and a nonviolence trainer for students and teachers for the past fifteen years. She loves to grow organic vegetables, has several children and is soon-to-be a grandmother. Robin has pioneered nonviolence education in her public school system.

Related Links:

The Story of Broad Rock by Carol Bragg http://www.paceebene.org/2015/12/21/nonviolence-education-the-story-of-broad-rock/

Peace Paradigm Radio Interview w/ Robin Wildman http://mettacenter.org/ppr/nonviolence-in-schools-podcast/

Dr. Bernard Lafayette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lafayette

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Six Principles Of Nonviolence http://www.thekingcenter.org/king-philosophy#sub2

Stride Toward Freedom by Dr. King http://www.amazon.com/Stride-Toward-Freedom-Montgomery-Story/dp/0062504908

17th Annual International Nonviolence Summer Institute at the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1771207

Robin Wildman's July Training for Teachers (link coming soon)

Campaign Nonviolence Conference Call on K-12 Nonviolence Education with special guest Robin Wildman http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/50LRXHS7NXJDMPGW

Learn more about Campaign Nonviolence http://www.paceebene.org/programs/campaign-nonviolence

The Dandelion Insurrection by Rivera Sun http://www.riverasun.com/online-store/the-dandelion-insurrection/

Boycotts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott

Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org

Our featured music this week is "Shall We Rise/Occupy!" by Diane Patterson from her Build A Bridge CD www.dianepatterson.org

About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline

Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

Economic Update: Seeds of Fascism?

by Richard Wolff.

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on injustice of Argentina's default settlement, on Pope Francis's rejection of "exploiters," and on stagnating real median incomes in US. Major discussions of (1) what Sanders's support proves about Occupy Wall Street, and (2) economics of fascism.

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