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Economic Update: Gentrification: The Market Rules

by Richard Wolff.

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on pay of CEO's that fight $15/ he for workers, workers who get public assistance, facts on taxes paid and evaded, Mitsubishi like VW. Major discussion on economics of gentrification.

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Ending Israeli Apartheid, Protecting Palestinian Rights

by MFlowers

We speak with two Refusers from Israel, Yasmin Yablonko and Khaled Farrag, who are on tour in the United States to raise awareness about the conditions that youth face in Israel. Yasmin and Khaled are part of a coalition of organizations called the Refuser Solidarity Network that supports teenagers who decide not to serve in the Israeli Defense Force. Then we speak with Ramah Kudaimi of End the Occupation and Chip Gibbons of Freedom to Boycott – Maryland about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to end Israeli Apartheid and the push back against it in the United States.

Relevant articles and websites:

No One Would Serve in the Israeli Army if They Knew; Israel Should Let Conscientious Objector Serve Both Society and Her Conscience by Tair Kaminer

Refuser Solidarity Network Facebook Page

Congress Under Pressure to Defund University Middle East Programs by Chip Gibbons

The BDS Movement and the Return of McCarthyism by Chip Gibbons

Palestinian-American Teen Brutalized by Israeli Police Testifies on Capitol Hill by Chip Gibbons

End the Occupation

BDS Movement

 

Guests:

Yasmin Yablonko is a 23 year-old Israeli conscientious Objector from Jaffa. Today she is the coordinator of Mesarvot, a newly established network of Israeli organizations supporting refusal and opposing the occupation. The network helps elevate the voices of young people refusing military service, offering them capacity building, assisting with media work and helping them organize.Yasmin currently studies Humanities and Arts in the Tel Aviv University.

 

 

 

Khaled Farrag is a 34 year old Palestinian Druze conscientious objector from Rama village in the Upper Galilee. In 1999, after moving to Jerusalem, Khaled refused to serve in the army and was sentenced to two months in military prison. Khaled was of the founders of Urfod, a movement that calls for ending compulsory military service imposed on Druze men at the age of 18, and reconnecting Druze with their Palestinian and Arab identity as it was throughout the history.

Khaled law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, established and run a preparatory school for university admission in East Jerusalem and co-found Grassroots Jerusalem, a Palestinian NGO working on empowering communities in East Jerusalem.

 

 

Ramah Kudaimi is the membership and outreach coordinator for End the Occupation. She serves on the board of the Washington Peace Center. She has been an activist with other grassroots organizations including CODEPINK: Women for Peace and the Arab American Action Network. She has a Master of Arts degree in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University and a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University. Her writing has been published by Al Jazeera English, The Progressive, Truthout, and more.

 

 

 

Chip Gibbons is a long time supporter of the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement. In 2014, he helped form Keep Free Speech in the Free State to battle an anti-BDS bill in Maryland and more recently served as legislative Chair of Freedom to Boycott-Maryland. As a freelance journalist, his work has frequently covered the struggle for Palestinian human rights, as well as attempts to suppress the it.

Gibbons is a Legal Fellow at the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Defending Dissent Foundation, where he heads the Activism is Not Terrorism Campaign, which focuses on protecting the rights of activists with an emphasis on the increased use of anti-terrorism legislation against non-violent activists and terrorism as a pretext for the surveillance of First Amendment protected activities. Additionally, he is a freelance writer and journalist whose work has appeared at Truthout, Counterpunch, and the Dissent NewsWire.

Talk Nation Radio: John Dear on Catholic Church Rejecting "Just War" Theory

After 1700 years, the Catholic Church is turning against the idea that there can be a "just war." We speak with John Dear.John Dear is an internationally recognized voice for peace and nonviolence. A priest, pastor, retreat leader, and author, he served for years as the director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the U.S. After September 11, 2001, he was a Red Cross coordinator of chaplains at the Family Assistance Center in New York, and counseled thousands of relatives and rescue workers. John has traveled the war zones of the world, been arrested some 75 times for peace, led Nobel Peace prize winners to Iraq, recently visited Afghanistan, given thousands of lectures on peace across the U.S., and served as a pastor of several churches in New Mexico.

His many books include: The Nonviolent Life; Walking the Way; Thomas Merton Peacemaker; A Persistent Peace; Transfiguration;  You Will Be My Witnesses;   Living Peace;  The Questions of Jesus;   The God of Peace;  Jesus the Rebel;   Peace Behind Bars;  and Disarming the Heart.  He has been nominated many times for the Nobel Peace Prize, including by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sen Barbara Mikulski. He works forwww.campaignnonviolence.org, is a priest of the Diocese of Monterey, Cal., and lives in New Mexico. See: www.johndear.org

Statement from April 11-13 Vatican Meeting:http://www.paxchristi.net/news/appeal-catholic-church-recommit-centrality-gospel-nonviolence/5855#sthash.gBLNmWLZ.Ko153230.dpbs

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, Stephan Schwartz, editor of the daily Schwartz Report and author of the book, The Eight Laws of Change, explains how modern science and ancient wisdom are coming full circle . . . and why that's great news for everyone working for social change.

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About Our Guest: Stephan Schwartz is the author of Eight Laws of Change, the editor of the daily Schwartz Report, columnist for the journal Explore, and has spent over forty years exploring extraordinary human functioning, and how individuals and small groups can, and have, affected social change.

Related Links: Stephan A. Schwartz http://www.stephanaschwartz.com/

Schwartz Report - Trends That Will Affect Your Future http://www.schwartzreport.net/

8 Laws of Change by Stephan Schwartz http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Change-Personal-Social-Transformation/dp/1620554577/

Opening To The Infinite - Course With Stephan Schwartz http://www.glidewing.com/sas/opening_to_the_infinite-home.html

Global Consciousness Project & Roger Nelson research http://global-mind.org/

Quantum Biology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology

Max Planck, Quantum Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck

The Great Turning http://www.paceebene.org/2016/04/22/on-earth-day-commit-to-the-great-turning/

Joanna Macy http://www.joannamacy.net/

David Korten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Korten

337 Whales Breached In Chile http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/03/22/337-dead-whales-in-chile-what-the-worst-case-of-mass-deaths-reveals-about-the-ocean/

Thomas Kuhn (coined the term paradigm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn

Barbara McClintock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock

The Axial Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age

Quote from Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (1841).

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

"Interlude" by Max TenRoMhttps://www.jamendo.com/track/1314632/interlude

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: Prisons and Sugar Babies

by Richard Wolff.

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on IMF, Panama Papers and tax evasion, workers fighting back. Major discussions of economics of prisons and sugar babies and of how worker coops might have changed the USSR and China.

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.

Talk Nation Radio: John Hanrahan on Avaaz's Warmongering

John Hanrahan, currently on the editorial board of ExposeFacts, is a former executive director of The Fund for Investigative Journalism and reporter for  The Washington Post, The Washington Star, UPI and other news organizations. He also has extensive experience as a legal investigator. Hanrahan is the author of Government by Contract and co-author of Lost Frontier: The Marketing of Alaska. He has written extensively for NiemanWatchdog.org, a project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

We discuss these articles by Hanrahan at Truthout.org:

As in Libya, Avaaz Campaigned for Syria No-Fly Zone That Even Top Generals Opposed

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Avaaz Ignored Libya Lessons When Advocating for Syria No-Fly Zone

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, Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun uncover the deep themes that run like rivers through the shows. Exploring spirituality, economics, the commons, activism, and living boldly and creatively in these times of change, this show opens the heart and mind to new possibilities in our world.

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Related Links:

Americans Who Tell The Truth: Art and Education As Resistance with Robert Shetterly http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-29T14_00_00-07_00

The Commons: Reclaiming Our Humanity with David Bollier http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-22T14_00_00-07_00

Nonviolent Classrooms and Public Schools with Robin Wildman http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-15T14_00_00-07_00

Challenging the Divide: Connecting Inner and Outer Change with Simon Dennis http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-08T14_00_00-08_00

Transforming Cops, Kids, and Whole Communities With Peacebuilding with Heart Phoenix and Jeffrey Weisberg http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-01T12_50_42-08_00

The Divine Feminine in Transforming Our World with Miigamaghan and Nickie Sekera http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-02-23T21_00_00-08_00

Sounding the Depths with Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-02-16T19_43_46-08_00

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

You’ve Been Strip Mined! That’s how Ellen’s guest Les Leopold describes what has happened to the constructive role of capital, such as investment in research and development, expansion and improvement of services and industries. He calls it “economic strip-mining” in which capital speculators like hedge funds strip the equity of companies, countries and consumers to feed their insatiable desire for short term profits - outcomes be damned.  We also introduce the new national project and campaign called “What Wall Street Costs America” – the start of a national conversation revealing the massive extraction of public dollars by Wall Street interests.  And Matt Stannard reviews presidential politics and bank reform on the Public Banking Report.

Economic Update: Efficiency: Capitalist vs Human

by Richard Wolff.

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on tax issues: Panama Papers, corp tax rates, tax-avoiding "inversions" and Yale's tax avoidance. Part 2 of interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad: capitalist efficiency produces human inefficiency and what to do about it.

 

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

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Panama Papers’ and the Shadow World of Finance

by MFlowers

The release of the ‘Panama Papers’ reveal the secret world of shell companies used by the rich to hide their wealth and avoid paying taxes on it. While it appears that the release of information was intended as a tool to demonize Russian President Vladimir Putin, it has backfired and instead led to a probing of who in the US is involved in this type of scheme. McClatchy News is publishing investigative pieces revealing the same activity taking place in states such as Nevada and Wyoming. The list of people involved connects directly to government figures such as US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. It has also led to massive upheaval in Iceland where protesters are calling for the resignation of the government and new elections. We explore what’s going on with James Henry of the Tax Justice Network and Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies.

 

Relevant articles and websites:

US Scolds Others about Offshores, but Looks Other Way at Home by Kevin Hall and Marisa Taylor

The Price of Offshore Revisited by the Tax Justice Network

Panama Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super Rich by Chuck Collins

Tax Justice Network

The FACT Coalition

Inequality.org

We’re Not Broke Movie

Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson

 

Guests:

James Shelburne Henry is a U.S. economist, attorney, and investigative journalist who has written extensively about global banking, debt crises, tax havens and economic development. In the corporate world, Henry served as Chief Economist, McKinsey & Co. (NYC global h.q.); VP Strategy, IBM/Lotus Development Corporation (Cambridge), Manager, Business Development, the Chairman’s Office (Jack Welch), GE (Fairfield), and senior consultant Monitor Group,the international consulting firm. As Managing Director of Sag Harbor Group, a strategy consulting firm, his clients have included such enterprises as ABB, Allen & Co., AT&T, AT Kearney, Calvert Fund, Ce-mex, ChinaTrust, the Scotland Yard/FBI Task Force on Caribbean Havens, IBM/Lotus, Intel, Interwise, Lucent, Merrill Lynch, South Africa Telkom, Rockefeller Foundation, the Swedish Power Board, TransAlta, UBS Warburg, Volvo, and Monitor Company. A member of the New York Bar, he has served as a pro bono cooperating attorney for the NYCLU on First Amendment issues, and as Vice President, New York Civil Liberties Union – Suffolk County. He is author of the acclaimed investigative economics book The Blood Bankers, and his articles and citations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, The Conference Board, The Washington Post, Harpers, Fortune, Jornal do Brasil, The Manila Chronicle, La Nacion, and many others.

 

Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and directs IPS’s Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is an expert on U.S. inequality and author of several books, including 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It.

He is co-author with Bill Gates Sr. of Wealth and Our Commonwealth, (Beacon Press, 2003), a case for taxing inherited fortunes. He is co-author with Mary Wright of The Moral Measure of the Economy, a book about Christian ethics and economic life.

He is co-founder of Wealth for the Common Good, a network of business leaders, high-income households and partners working together to promote shared prosperity and fair taxation. This network merged in 2015 with the Patriotic Millionaires.

In 1995, he co-founded United for a Fair Economy (UFE) to raise the profile of the inequality issue and support popular education and organizing efforts to address inequality. He was Executive Director of UFE from 1995-2001 and Program Director until 2005.