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Economic Update: Pro-environment, anti-capitalist

On this week' episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff. provides updates on fossil-fuel divestment, Zika virus economics, product recalls , and payday loan scandal. Interview with environmentalist lawyer/activist Carol Dansereau.

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The TPP is What Plutocracy Looks Like

by MFlowers

As President Obama completes his final term in office, his administration is working closely with Big Business and Big Finance to sneak the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) through Congress during the lame duck session after the November election. The TPP is an international agreement that was negotiated in secret with the help of hundreds of corporate advisers. If ratified, it will rig the political system even more to benefit multinational corporations at the expense of our sovereignty and our ability to protect our communities and the planet. Bill Waren of Friends of the Earth will join us to discuss the close ties between the financial industry and the office of the US Trade Representative and why it is critical that we stop the TPP. Gillian Locascio  of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition will speak with us about how people are organizing to stop the TPP.

Relevant articles and websites:

The Wall Street revolving door and the US Trade Representative by Bill Waren

Money Merry-Go-Round: Emails show how Wall Street Execs and Alums Crafted Trade Bill by Kathy Kiely

Official Report on the TPP: Almost No Measurable Value by Stan Sorscher

Friends of the Earth

Washington Fair Trade

FlushtheTPP.org

Stop the TPP contingent in the March for a Clean Energy Revolution

No Lame Duck Uprising

 

Guests:

Bill Waren is a trade policy analyst for Friends of the Earth. He works to protect the environment from the negative impact of international trade and investment agreements. Bill contributes to the policy discussion about trade and environment issues as they arise in community forums, the U.S. congressional debate, the federal agency process, international negotiations, and litigation before international trade and investment tribunals. Prior to joining Friends of the Earth, Bill worked at the Forum on Democracy & Trade and its sister organization, the Harrison Institute for Public Law at Georgetown University. Earlier in his career, Bill served as federal affairs counsel for the National Conference of State Legislatures and as a staffer for the Illinois General Assembly.  A native of rural, downstate Illinois, Bill is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Duke Law School.

 

Gillian Locascio is the director for the Washington Fair Trade Coalition, a group of 66 labor, faith, environmental, student, public health, social justice organizations, fair trade businesses and cooperatives in Washington State that are committed to creating a fair, balanced, and sustainable global trading system. Prior to joining the coalition, she worked extensively in the United States and Latin America as a community health and human rights advocate, where she watched both CAFTA and the Panama Free Trade agreement go into effect.

  

Talk Nation Radio: Ahmed Salah on Masterminding the Egyptian Revolution

Ahmed Salah is an Egyptian democracy activist. He was a co-leader of three of Egypt’s most prominent protest movements—Kefaya, Youth for Change, and the April 6th Movement—and a principal organizer of the Egyptian Revolution. In 2013, he re­ceived the Champion of Justice Award from the Center for Justice and Accountability. His book is called You Are Under Arrest for Masterminding the Egyptian Revolution.

Total run time: 29:00

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

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Fellowship of Reconciliation Centennial: 100 Years Of Nonviolence, Action, Peace, and Justice

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with four guests who each offer a unique lens into the upcoming, historic Fellowship of Reconciliation Centennial Conference at Seabeck, WA, exploring the past, present, and future of the largest, oldest interfaith peace organization in the United States, and how one hundred years of working for peace, justice, and nonviolence affects us all in our contemporary lives.

As Fellowship of Reconciliation celebrates its centennial year, we can almost trace the arc of social justice through their history, for indeed, FOR has been entwined in nearly every struggle for peace and justice in the last hundred years. The Fellowship of Reconciliation is the largest, oldest interfaith peace organization in the United States, working for peace, justice and nonviolence since 1915. As an interfaith organization, FOR-USA’s mission is to organize, train, and grow a diverse movement that welcomes all people of conscience to end structures of violence and war, and create peace through the transformative power of nonviolence.

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About Our Guests: Michael Colvin is on the planning committee for the FOR Seabeck Conference and is also a member of the FOR National Conference. Adam Vogal serves on the planning committee for the FOR Seabeck Conference, is the leader of Students United For Nonviolence at Portland State University, a member of the FOR National Council, and a Campaign Nonviolence Associate. Karla Elizarraraz is a board member for the Inland Congregation United for Change based in Southern California, and a part of the PICO National Network, as well as being a youth participant in the FOR Seabeck Conference. Tom Hastings is a life long activist, serves on the communications committee of the NAACP, is a professor of conflict resolution at Portland State University, and a presenter at the FOR Seabeck Conference.

Related Links:

FOR Seabeck Centennial Conference http://forseabeck.org/

Ask questions of presenters during the Seabeck Conference through Twitter by using: #FORSeabeck and #DandelionInsurrection, or tweeting at @FORSeabeck Fellowship of Reconciliation http://forusa.org/

Erica Chenoweth's TedX Talk on Why Civil Resistance Works https://youtu.be/YJSehRlU34w

Jamila Raqib & the Albert Einstein Institution http://www.aeinstein.org/

Students United for Nonviolence https://www.pdx.edu/conflict-resolution/students-united-for-nonviolence

Campaign Nonviolence http://www.paceebene.org/

Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org

Our featured music this week is "Now Is the Time" by Heather Houston. Find her music at www.heatherhoustonmusic.com

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/

All Power To The Positive! Vol#6, Episode #11

“First and foremost, you do not have to live up to or emulate the lives of any of your predecessors. But at the very least, you should know about them. You will have your own life, interests, and ideas of what you want or do not want in life. Do what you enjoy doing. Be honest with yourself and others. Don’t think of satisfying anyone: your elders, peers, government, religion, or children who will come after you. Develop meaningful ideals, and become conscious of others, their existence, and their lives.”

– Yuri Kochiyama

Beats:

“Start The Revolution” – Marcel Cartier

“Dead Or In Prison” – Lil Bibby

“Luv Dem Gun Sounds” – Wocka Flocka Flames

“Curve Ball” – Honey Cocaine

“Hip To Da Game” – Lord Finesse

“Right Now” – Celph Titled

 

Cuts:

“I Wanna Be Your Lover” – Prince

“This Is America” – Spekulation, ft. Michele Khazak (EXPLICIT)

“Do The Digs Dug” – The Goats (EXPLICIT)

“A Change Is Gonna Come” – Sam Cooke

 

Vocals:

Mumia Abu-Jamal (prisonradio.org), Throwback remix: “F–K You Judge” (EXPLICIT), Sensei Lewis, Jacob Brown, and a lot more. Click here for a “Steal This House!” supplemental.

Economic Update: Listen, Prof. Krugman

On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on car companies buying ride-share companies, Pope's latest, evidence against Prof. Krugman's rosy view of inequality. Major discussions of (1) why markets need not undermine worker-coop based economy and (2) European leaders' failed policies on Greece.

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Permission to reprint Professor Wolff's writing and videos is granted on an individual basis. Please contact [email protected] to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.

Escalating the Resistance to Fossil Fuels

by MFlowers

May has been a month of escalated resistance to fossil fuel industries and a call for a rapid transition to clean renewable sources of energy. The month began with Break Free: two weeks of direct action targeting coal, oil and gas around the world. That was followed by a week of action called the Rubber Stamp Rebellion protesting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its approval of new fossil fuel infrastructure without adequate consideration of the impacts new projects will have on the health and safety of communities, harm to the environment or worsening of the climate crisis. We speak with three advocates who are working to stop dangerous fossil fuel projects.

 

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Relevant articles and websites:

Spectra-Funded Group Lobbied for FERC Commissioner’s Reappointment, Then FERC Approved Spectra’s Gas Pipeline by Steve Horn

Seven Arrested in Rubber Stamp Rebellion at FERC by Beyond Extreme Energy

Safe Energy Rights Group

Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy

Beyond Extreme Energy

We Are Cove Point

 

Guests:

Courtney Williams is vice president of Safe Energy Rights Group. She brings her scientific expertise to issues involving the health impacts of energy infrastructure. Courtney holds a B.S. in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics from Yale University and a PhD in Molecular Biology from Princeton University. She completed her post-doctoral training in biological engineering at MIT before transitioning into industry. She is currently a cancer researcher at a biopharmaceutical company. Courtney brings over a decade of experience researching cancer and the molecular mechanisms of disease to parse the emerging data on the health and environmental impacts of shale gas development. She has worked closely with local governments to educate them on the public health issues surrounding natural gas infrastructure.

Courtney is a resident of Peekskill New York in the Hudson Valley where she is directly affected by the AIM pipeline project which passes by her house and the school her children attend. She is a member of Resist Aim.

Linda Reik is a biochemist, a mother and a resident of Sullivan County in New York. She is on the board of directors of the Sullivan Alliance for Sustainable Development and she is a member of Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy. Linda has been involved in the work to stop pipelines and gas infrastructure mainly in PA, NY and NJ and she participated in the Rubber Stamp Rebellion in Washington, DC.

 

 

 

 

Steve Norris is a father, grandfather and great grandfather  who lives in the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina. He’s a retired teacher, builder, farmer, and a full time activist working to end climate change and promote environmental, social and economic justice.  His primary focus recently has been on changing the priorities of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as the country transitions to renewable energy, and  upon challenging Duke Energy, a fossil fuel monster which is the largest emitter of green house gases in the country.lives He is a co-founder of Beyond Extreme Energy.

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Talk Nation Radio: Sam Husseini on Greatness of Katharine Gun, How to Vote, and Hillary v. Muslims

Written by davidswanson Tag: Peace and War, Talk Nation Radio

 

  https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-sam-husseini-on-greatness-of-katharine-gun-how-to-vote-and-hillary-v-muslims

Sam Husseini is the Communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, whom I have to thank for having found and promoted many of my previous guests on this show. Husseini wrote an article titled "Katharine Gun’s Risky Truth-telling" about a British official who crucially leaked evidence of NSA spying against UN officials during the buildup to the Iraq invasion. The Intercept has now published copies of the NSA's internal newsletter that fit into that story. See:

http://www.accuracy.orghttp://www.votepact.org

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 speak with Margret Aldrich, the author of The Little Free Library Book, about the quiet revolution of community, sharing, and literacy that's popping up in more than 40,000 front yards, street corners, and coffee shops around the world.

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About Our Guest: Margret Aldrich is the author of The Little Free Library Book, and a writer and editor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Nonviolence Minute: Our Nonviolence Minute on AJ Muste was sent to us this week from Love (and Revolution) Radio listener Moti Rieber. You can follow his writings at rebmoti.blogspot.com or @rebmoti on Twitter. Thank you, Moti!

Related Links:

The Little Free Library https://littlefreelibrary.org/

The Little Free Library Book by Margret Aldrich https://littlefreelibrary.org/shop/rewards/little-free-library-book-preorder/

Little Free Library Festival https://littlefreelibrary.org/festival2016/

Delivering Little Books of Peace, Decator, Georgia during the Campaign Nonviolence Week of Actions 2015 http://www.paceebene.org/2015/10/06/delivering-little-books-of-peace-in-georgia/

River Phoenix Center For Peacebuilding on Love (and Revolution) Radio http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-01T12_50_42-08_00

Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org

Our featured music this week is Water Into Water by Marya Stark, featuring Daniel Berkman. You can find this and more great music by Marya Stark at www.maryastarkmusic.com

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: The Idea of Revolution

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on Alabama convicts strike against slavery, Greece's victimization, TTIP exposed, and taxing Yale. Interview with Joan Berezin and Kip Waldo on revolutionary change.

 Visit Professor Wolff's social movement project, democracyatwork.info. 

Permission to reprint Professor Wolff's writing and videos is granted on an individual basis. Please contact [email protected] to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.