Irresistible Fiction

Written by davidswanson 

Dr. Gregory Shupak has a PhD in Literary Studies and teaches Media Studies at the University of Guelph in Toronto. He is an activist and a fiction writer and his political analysis appears regularly on Jacobin, Middle East Eye, and elsewhere.He discusses these topics:

"The Case Against Bombing ISIS"

and

"Abolish the Military"

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 two men who had millions of dollars . . . and chose to give it all away. Chuck Collins and Dariel Garner share their stories of finding the true meaning of wealth, and how they've dedicated their lives to creating more just, equitable, and sustainable economies, wealth, and incomes.

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About Our Guests: Chuck Collins is great-grandson of 19th-century meatpacking mogul Oscar F. Mayer. He is now the senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, and cofounder of Wealth for the Common Good and Inequality.org. He is the author of numerous books, including 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking The World And What We Can Do About It. He is the coauthor, with William H. Gates, Sr., of the book Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes. In his twenties, he gave away his inheritance.

Dariel Garner is a serial entrepreneur who has started over forty businesses. He is a former member of the 0.01% and the inspiration for the fictional novel, Billionaire Buddha. Twelve years ago, he gave away his multi-million dollar fortune.

Related Links: Chuck Collins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Collins

Inequality.org http://inequality.org/

Billionaire Buddha by Rivera Sun http://www.riverasun.com/billionaire-buddha/

Institute for Policy Studies http://www.ips-dc.org/

Billionaire Bonanza (statistics on wealth inequality) http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/

The Next System http://thenextsystem.org/

New Economy Coalition http://neweconomy.net/

Resilience.org http://www.resilience.org/

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/

“The majority of people who live in the United States (Amerikkka) are fools, frauds, and fascists to some degree. Sad, but true. It is one of the reasons why I teach what I teach.”

– Sensei Gregory C. Lewis.

Beats:

“Start The Revolution” – Marcel Cartier

“Obsessed” – Mariah Carey

“Dreamin” – PartyNextDoor

“Sail” – Machine Gun Kelly

 

Cuts:

“DisAbility” – Khazm

“Sin Fronteras” – Poesia

“Destiny” – Moke & Tone

“Go Cut Creator Go” – LLCool J

“Someone Like You (Reggae Remix)” – Adele

“A Change Is Gonna Come” – Bri Luv

 

Vocals:

The Bombing of the MOVE Organization, Israeli apartheid, God Damn Amerikkka, and a lot more. 

Economic Update: Worker Coops: Why and How

by Richard Wolff

Updates on China's rising wages, lethal overdoses and economic crisis, courts worsen Puerto Rico's crisis, moving jobs to Mexico, and Florida governor tries to help Yale evade taxes. Major discussions of minimum wage debates, workers without college degrees, and workers coops as key to doing better than capitalism."

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.

Who is the Greatest Nuclear Threat?

by MFlowers

On the heels of Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit, we speak with Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group and Lillyanne Daigle and John Qua of Global Zero to cut through the propaganda about nuclear weapons, discuss which countries pose the greatest threat and what activists are doing to push for nuclear disarmament.

Relevant articles and websites:

No Significant Change Seen in Obama’s Nuclear Posture by Greg Mello

Global Zero Action at the Nuclear Security Summit 2016 by Liz Merrow

Irradiated (report on health impacts of nuclear weapons industry on workers) by Rob Hotakainen, Lindsay Wise, Frank Matt and Samantha Ehlinger

Los Alamos Study Group

Global Zero

 

Guests:

Greg Mello is Executive Director and a co-founder of the Los Alamos Study Group and has led its varied activities since 1992, including policy research, environmental analysis, congressional education and lobbying, community organizing, litigation (FOIA, civil rights, NEPA), advertising, and the nuts and bolts of funding and running a small nonprofit. From time to time he has served as a consulting analyst, writer, and spokesperson for other nuclear policy organizations. Greg was educated as a systems engineer with a broad scientific background (Harvey Mudd College, 1971, with distinction) and as a regional planner with emphases in environmental planning and regional economics (Harvard, 1975, with distinction, HUD Fellow in Urban Studies). During the early 1980s Greg was a high school science and math teacher, then a hazardous waste inspector and statewide hazardous materials incident commander, and in the late 1980s a supervising hydrogeologist, for the New Mexico Environment Department. In 1984 Greg led the first regulatory enforcement at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). In the early 1990s Greg was a consulting hydrologist in parallel with the early Study Group, with cleanup projects in New Mexico and California. In 2002, Greg was a Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. Greg’s research, analysis, and opinions have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Issues in Science and Technology, in the New Mexico press, and elsewhere. He has been interviewed thousands of times by U.S. and international news media (print, radio, and television). Greg’s research has been the source or impetus of many of these media articles and programs. In addition to speaking at hundreds of public meetings and events in New Mexico, Greg has been a guest speaker at several international disarmament events here and abroad.

Lillyanne Daigle joined the Global Zero team in October 2014 as a U.S. field organizer.  In her role, she will be spearheading Global Zero’s volunteer recruitment and mobilization across the United States.  Lilly graduated from Warren Wilson College with a degree in Global Studies focusing on social justice and a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. She is passionate about empowering individuals to fight for issues they care about.  Before her time at Global Zero, Lilly organized with several grassroots campaigns and completed the Green Corps year-long training program in field organizing.

 

 

 

John Qua joined the Global Zero team in January 2016 as a U.S. field organizer. He is committed to fighting for a more equitable world, and empowering people to make change through political organizing and community building. In his role, he will be spearheading Global Zero’s volunteer recruitment and mobilization across the United States. John graduated from Brown University with a degree in International Relations focusing on the environment. Before his time at Global Zero, John completed the Green Corps year-long training program in field organizing and organized on se(continued)

Margaret Kimberley writes at http://freedomrider.blogspot.com and BlackAgendaReport.comwhere she is editor and senior columnist. She is also on the administrative committee of UNAC, the United National Antiwar Coalition.

Total run time: 29:00

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

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This week of Love (and Revolution) Radio, Rhonda Fabian, the digital editor of Kosmos Journal and coauthor of the Connecting for Change study, joins us to discuss the movement of movements, self-organizing, emergence, and the personal practices that guide us through these times of great change.

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About Our Guest: Rhonda Fabian is the Digital Editor of Kosmos Journal, and the coauthor of the Connecting for Change study. She is the founder partner and CEO of Fabian Baber Communication, a digital learning company. She is a mindfulness advocate in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, deeply involved in the Transition Movement, and lives in Media, PA.

Related Links:

Five Insights about Global Transformation from the Connecting For Change Study http://www.kosmosjournal.org/news/five-insights-about-global-transformation-from-the-kosmos-study-connecting-for-change/

Kosmos Journal http://www.kosmosjournal.org/

Murmurations of Starlings in Flight https://youtu.be/ctMty7av0jc

Emergent Improvisational by Susan Sgorbati http://emergentimprovisation.org/Essay-on-Emergent-Improvisation.html

New Story Hub http://newstoryhub.com/

Findhorn Community in Scotland https://www.findhorn.org/aboutus/community/

Awakening the Movement of Movements by Rivera Sun http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/35079-awakening-the-movement-of-movements

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

"Lakelight" by Crowfoot on the album "As The Crow Flies"www.crowfootmusic.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/

Kiss your cash goodbye! The word is that things would be more convenient, crooks would be confounded and diseases might be thwarted if we’d just get rid of filthy currency as the most essential form of personal financial liquidity. Currently circulating in the corridors of world financial powers, it may appear as an enlightened technical step forward to eliminate cash, but is it also a stalking horse for yet another way global bank interests can separate you from your assets?  Ellen speaks with renown author and media figure Stephen Lendmen about why this idea is appearing now and what’s happening behind the scenes that’s moving it forward.  Also behind the scenes is a huge and stark reality about municipal debt to Wall Street that the Public Banking Institute is targeting in its new project called What Wall Street Costs America.  Co-host Walt McRee speaks with PBI’s Matt Stannard on this groundbreaking campaign.

Economic Update: How Capitalism Changes Intimacy and Family

by Richard Wolff and Harriet Fraad.

On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on top bankers' pay, bad auto corps' decisions, deflation, and socialist economics. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on capitalism and personal life.

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.

New Phase in Climate Crisis Raises Demand for Clean Energy

by MFlowers

We speak with Dr. Michael E. Mann, esteemed climate scientist, about the latest science regarding the climate crisis – the rise in global temperature, sea level rise, the impact of glacier melting on ocean currents and weather and what we can expect in the next few decades. Then we speak with Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson who has developed a 50-state plan for 100% renewable energy in the United States.

Relevant articles and websites:

Earth Enters New Era of Extreme Weather Caused by Global Warming, Michael Mann interviewed by Sharmini Peries

100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water and Sunlight (WWS) All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for the 50 United States by Mark Jacobson et alia.

RealClimate.org

The Solutions Project

 Skeptical Science

Solutionary Rail

 

Guests:

Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn StateEarth System Science Center (ESSC).

Dr. Mann received his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University. His research involves the use of theoretical models and observational data to better understand Earth’s climate system.

Dr. Mann was a Lead Author on the Observed Climate Variability and Change chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report in 2001 and was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003. He has received a number of honors and awards including NOAA’s outstanding publication award in 2002 and selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. He contributed, with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2012 and was awarded the National Conservation Achievement Award for science by the National Wildlife Federation in 2013. He made Bloomberg News’ list of fifty most influential people in 2013. In 2014, he was named Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and received the Friend of the Planet Award from the National Center for Science Education. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Mann is author of more than 190 peer-reviewed and edited publications, and has published two books including Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. He is also a co-founder of the award-winning science website RealClimate.org.

Mark Z. Jacobson is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University where he is also Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program. He is a Senior Fellow for both the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy. He received a B.S. in Engineering, a B.A. in Economics and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. He received an M.S. and a PhD in Atmospheric Science from UCLA.

The main goal of Jacobson’s research is to understand better severe atmospheric problems, such as air pollution and global warming, and develop and analyze large-scale clean-renewable energy solutions to them.

To address this goal, he has developed and applied three-dimensional atmosphere-biosphere-ocean computer models and solvers to simulate air pollution, weather, climate, and renewable energy. In 1993-4,(continued)