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Brook Hines on #ForceTheVote, New RussiaGate, and a terrible precedent for freedom of speech.  

Rick Spisak chats with Professor Jerry Brown on his new class Hallucinogins & Culture which ANYONE CAN TAKE at Florida International University. More info here --> https://sipanews.fiu.edu/2020/11/19/fiu-founding-professor-of-anthropology-to-teach-hallucinogens-and-culture-online-in-spring/

Jeanine Molloff's The Justice Report looks at Sen. Joe Manchin's vile corporate immunity provision in the Covid Relief bill. 

CITATIONS

Brianna Joy Gray's article on about why #ForceTheVote for Medicare For All makes sense. 

Moon of Alabama on FireEye, SolarWind and the NEW Russiagate that's emerging just in time for a Joe Biden administration.

POETS of the East, Episode 2 - Alex, Andrada, Alexander and Alexandra, featuring Co-Host Mircea Dan Duta Master Poet Educator and Translator.

Mircea Dan Duta has invited the finest poets of Romania, to share their work in both English and Romanian/

The delicasy and passion of these poets wil capture your heart. Many of these poets have come together  in a Morning Poet group in Romania to share their writing and share their hearts.

This is the second in a End of the Year Series produced by Rick Spisak of PNN (Poet of the Three River) and  Co-Host Mircea Dan Duta, of poet of prodigious talent and a great heart and humanity. Mirceau will not be with us live this week, because he has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and has been hospitalized. I hope each of you will say a prayer for this increadibly talented poet and sensitive human being. He had proposed we bring these talented voices together and has done herculean efforts to bring us the finest poets from Romania. I know you will agree.

TUNE IN LIVE or Anytime - The Show will be available for Months

Rick Spisak Co-Host and Executive Producer and Editor

PNN

Environmental Racism has been discussed since the 1980's when the Rev. Chavis denounced this crime against humanity from the rooftops. Put bluntly, environmental racism is the ultimate corporate crime of convenience. Large scale polluters target low income communities and communities of color because they frequently lack the fiscal resources to fight these corporate criminals. Furthermore, such corporate criminals probably bank on the structure racism which permeates the US--including the media. While Oprah continues to be a media mainstay--and Obama fans still claim the we are 'post-racial'--the ugly truth remains--namely that the mainstream media does not care about communities of color--unless they can feed racist tropes blaming communities of color for their own misfortunes. Mainstream media--including MSNBC--only seems to focus on communities of color if there appears to be rioting in the streets. The stories on Ferguson focused on violence (which was most often perpetrated by the police), and virtually ignored the peacemakers.  The fact that most Ferguson activists were peaceful did not sell on MSM. The same biased lens also controls stories on environmental racism--especially on tv. 

This report will focus on the truth regarding environmental racism in the USA.

Perhaps Santa can bring the corporate media--a collective conscience?

Brook Hines has The Weekly Beat, and then shares thoughts on Joe Biden's unsportsmanlike behavior toward civil rights leaders in leaked audio.

Rick Spisak in conversation with poet and storyteller Kevin Kiely.

Jeanine Molloff on Trump's shenanigans in Texas to steal the election. 

SOURCES:

Iowa caucus autopsy finds DNC meddling behind fiasco

Shadow app that sunk the Iowa caucus created by company with connection to Alabama false flag (essential background on Shadow App). 

Leaked audio from Joe Biden's trainwreck with civil rights leaders—story at The Intercept. 

227 policies that Biden can do immediately without asking permission: Day One Agenda

PNN - Poets of the East -Episode One - Host Rick Spisak is Joined by Mircea Dan Duta POET, AUTHOR, EDITOR  and other Poets

This first Episode We introduce Mircea Dan Duta and the Voices of Other Poets of the east. Our  reach will be global but we have a strong focus on the POETIC VOICES OF ROMANIA

although from time to time we will be joined by other poets and story-tellers across the globe which is the homeland of every poet.

We wil lead off the show with the MASTER POET HIMSELF - Mircea Dan Duta and two poets he brought us from Romainia.

Andreas Budnah and two other marvelous voices reading in both Romanian and English.

And speaking of English we will also hear some poetry by Master poet/educator Dominic Windram from Northern England 

And finally a wee bonny tale from master story teller Rab Fulton from Scotland by way of Shannon Ireland

Hope you'll join us

RICK SPISAK PRODUCER/host

After a week of hiatus, we are going to talk about ECOCIDE. Ecocide is an old idea that is becoming the latest proposed 'crime against humanity.' International attorneys along with various environmental groups are proposing this idea. As we move closer to the Doomsday scenario, the time has come to make environmental destruction a criminal act as heinous as the genocide of a specific people. We will also consider how the poor and communities of color have been forced to endure the most deleterious effects of environmental devastation triggered by the fossil fuel industry and others.

Brook Hines, Jeanine Molloff, and Rick Spisak each week with progressive news and analysis.

Brook Hines on the history that is being made right now. What is required of this moment? What is the moral response? What is the response we're likely to get? I discuss it ALL. 

TRIGGER WARNING: suicide is discussed in the context of economic depression and Emile Durkheim's analysis of anomie. 

Jeanine Molloff on Trump's stealth plan to steal the election, and provides prescriptives to fix it. 

READINGS and VIEWINGS:

Chris Hedges interviewed in Salon on the task ahead: Will Biden surrender to plutocrats and paralysis?

Ryan Cooper's piece in The Week on Obama's cowardly policy that gave us Trump. 

George Monbiot on why we were LUCKY to get Trump from Double Down News

Fun, short video on Emile Durkheim if you're interested.

This week on the Environmental Justice Report, I will talk about the people and events which bring me gratitude. I have heard from many apologists who refuse to face the ugly reality about Thanksgiving, namely that it is a holiday that celebrates how white men instituted a genocide against indigenous people of color in the name of various European monarchs. This genocide was the beginning of a massive land theft--again for the rich, titled and privileged.  I have been told by closet racists thatThanksgiving celebrates our 'blessings' as migrant Englishmen celebrated a friendship with the same indigenous people that they will displace.  So--in the spirit of celebrating blessings--I am going to speak about the blessing of strong progressive movements--and especially of individuals who have risked life and limb in the name of true justice. This show is dedicated to those progressive heroes and sheroes.

Brook Hines on austerity and how people are managing without income. Trigger warning: suicidal ideation (not associated with mental illness) is discussed. 

Jen Perelman joins us to talk about the fecklessness of party elites; the "socialism" excuse in South Florida; and how it felt to vote for Joe Biden (not good).

Rick Spisak chats with Denis Campbell. 

Jeanine Molloff has The Justice Report on the continued clumsy coup.

Check out Jen's YouTube channel and podcast JENerational Change and don't miss this week's episode with (possible) Governor candidate Anna Eskamani. 

CITATIONS

"The last thing we need is Joe Biden's austerity" writes Megan Day in Jacobin

How Joe Biden can cancel student debt without Mitch McConnell getting in his way.

Biden's first appointment is a fossil fuel stooge

The Prospect: Day One Agenda (entire collection of work).