Irresistible Fiction

Irresistible Fiction 6: Joy Riding in a Lifepod 2300   While flipping through the help menus of the Lifepod 2300, Getch reveals some behind the scenes pop cultural infrastructure. Somebody lands in the co-pilot’s seat, and some absolutely crushing details. What’s up with all of this talk about being fictional? Why does Orkin, Raptor, and Racket care about a person who doesn't exist? What sort of trouble has PanCom gotten us all into?   Get in touch through Facebook, at the Irresistible Fiction group,  or at irresistiblefiction@gmail.com   Want to read the OR&R Disclaimer for a future episode? Just record yourself delivering the Orkin, Raptor, and Racket, International disclaimer: "The views and opinions expressed by the hosts, guests, and correspondents of Irresistible Fiction in no way reflect the official views and opinions of Orkin, Raptor, and Racket, International. OR&R’s Department of Pandimensional Communication does not license, nor does it provide the purported technology used to create Irresistible Fiction. This podcast is not a product of, nor is it endorsed by Orkin, Raptor, and Racket, International." Send us a recording of your version of the OR&R Disclaimer, to irresistiblefiction@gmail.com. Image courtesy of the Walt Disney Company, Inc. Google results for “Barrier” bar·ri·er ˈberēər/ noun noun: barrier; plural noun: barriers a fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access.synonyms:fence, railing, barricade, hurdle, bar, blockade, roadblock"the barrier across the entrance"a circumstance or obstacle that keeps people or things apart or prevents communication or progress."a language barrier"synonyms:obstacle, obstruction, hurdle, stumbling block, bar, block, impediment, hindrance, curb"a barrier to international trade"the starting gate of a racecourse. BRITISH a gate at a parking lot that controls access by being raised or lowered. a long narrow island lying parallel and close to the mainland, protecting the mainland from erosion and storms. noun: barrier island; plural noun: barrier islands Origin late Middle English (denoting a palisade or fortification defending an entrance): from Old French barriere, of unknown origin; related to barre. Music: Metamorphosis (remix Zelf Bloemen) by Coldnoise http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Coldnoise/Good_Night/Coldnoise_-_Metamorphosis_remix_Zelf_Bloemen   Sounds: Auto Rattly Bumpy Road 50k Rf SOUND Effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3_yOwGNBis Creak, Metal - Underwater Metal Creak: Heavy Pressure Metal Foley, Squeak & Creak Foley,... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmV5y9XW2RE Computer Sounds http://soundbible.com/tags-computer.html Heavy Metal Creaking sound FX (Magneto) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iiiT42xwSU Metal Impact Sound Effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCf9ds6qglY Metal Objects Banging SOUND Effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8NCEk2328o Machine Rumble / Sound Effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaWjX974Ojo Stress Creak [SOUND EFFECT] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPWP_2OCIk Submarine Collision and Hull Breach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vayoOFWUlAM Submarine creaking sound effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1LBTjqlPwE Universal Metal Creaking sound FX from Six Million Dollar Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg8Wl-rUjz4 Warning Alarm - Beeps Sound Effects All sounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuwgJxYqft0&t=17s Space Ship Cruising Sound Effects Library Collection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYMjmGgsQ8 Spaceship Interior Sound Effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHd8weVz848  

Irresistible Fiction Chapter One: The Subatomic Chronicles Irresistible Fiction: Episodes 1 - 5   Veering drastically from the political programming of Occupy Radio, and Chaos Theory Radio, Getch, or David Geitgey Sierralupe, declares himself fictional. If you keep listening, you will find yourself becoming irresistibly fictional as well. In the first chapter of Irresistible Fiction, spanning episodes 1-5, Getch takes you deep into the nothingness at the core of the atom. Along the way expect vague recriminations about Albert Einstein. Expect corporate pressure from the legal team of Orkin, Raptor, and Racket, International. But mostly expect bullshit -- unrepentant, multi-layered, multi-dimensional bullshit. This is your chance to heed the call. Even though Getch is fictional, he needs your help. He's looking for his even more fictional friend, Norway Hansford. Will you ignore this call for help, merely because it comes from somebody who doesn’t exist? Are you the sort of person who discriminates against people who have the misfortune of being born fictional? Test the limits of your perception, and possibly your compassion, with Irresistible Fiction, Chapter One: The Sub Atomic Chronicles.

Irresistible Fiction 5: Club Neutron It’s a full moon Irresistible Fiction special, coming from a special place where the moonlight doesn’t shine. Getch makes some friends, and tries out the nightlife at Club Neutron.   Club Neutron, the last, best hope for some final chunk of matter, somewhere in the atom, turns out to be mostly illusions. Illusions, and maybe bad business decisions. While Getch talks quantum mechanics with Inga the bartender, the Incredible Quarks are on stage making things appear and disappear. With their magic act, the concept of anything solid in the universe survives on an Einsteinian technicality. As Inga says: “It’s not a bad trick though. Everywhere you look isn’t there until you look there. You look somewhere else, and what was once there, stops being there anymore. It’s the Incredible Quarks. Always one step ahead of you.” https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ANightclub_20170423.jpg   You might want to read up on quarks. Quarks are randomly, appearing somethings way deep down inside the nucleus of the atom. Einstein says we can call their magic act "mass."   I like Physics Girl. She spells things out easily for people like me.  What Are Quarks? Sugar Edition! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LraNu_78sCw&t=1s What Are Quarks? The Fuse School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlv06lSAC7c&t=4s What Are Quarks: Nuclear Physics and Science: https://quatr.us/physics/quarks-nuclear-physics-science.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark Thanks to Kyle Schweighauser for being a bouncer; Jebediah Wilson for looking after Club Neutron's best interests, and Inga Wilson for being an inspirational bartender at the core of reality. Dan Marks, from News Sausage, and formerly of Chaos Theory Radio, was the Great Nad. There were Sounds! Warning Alarm - Beeps Sound Effects All sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuwgJxYqft0&t=17s Busy Bar Ambiance - Talk and Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LObpA84ddL0 12 Epic Explosion Sound Effects [High Quality]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIijFSN35x8 BIG EXPLOSION SOUND EFFECTS (Mp3 Pack Download):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gB369NYFA collapse sound effects (dźwięki zawalenia/zniszczenia): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZr9jLDVDH0&index=2&list=RDQMtHbsTJiFer4 Explosion Sound Effects (Mp3 Download Link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yh-f_i9BTo Hit/Boom/Impact/Thud (Movie Trailer Cinematic) - Sound Effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKugLSWL3bM Machine Gun Sound Effects | Bullet Machine Guns Firing Sound Effect | Royalty Free Sound Effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pbpzdwlM90 Metal door - Sound effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PkhwTRHWKI Mixing Drinks - Ice / Glass / Pouring / Shaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wELCiljHEs Objects falling and crashing Sound Effect:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5bzqGyGj5s RESTAURANT sound effects ambience, 8 HOURS of restaurant background noise busy fancy diner #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYpJDOn1myo Pounding on Metal Door Sound Effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NTO6P_u7Po Space Door Air Lock Release Sound Effect 2017 - Free Download: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7im7exXYa6s Space Ship Cruising Sound Effects Library Collection:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYMjmGgsQ8 Spaceship Fast Takeoff Sound Effect:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCVv8_zdQrE Star Wars Spaceship take off sound effect 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOhca-UMnp4 Thud Sound Effects All Sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWy3WQzeoa8 Sakebeats Club Beat » Clubbeat_03.wav: https://freesound.org/people/sakebeats/sounds/176357/ Gun sound effects heard in movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At8kg0lQwDE Bar Glass Clinks & Slides Sound Effect  Hi - Resolution Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQtv875c5D4  

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Irresistible Fiction 4: Give Your Symbols Power   A jet pack ride interrupted. Whispers of Einstein. Why it’s good to be fictional. Jingle Bells. Graffitti. Wikipedia: Atomic Nucleus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_nucleus   Atomic Nucleus on Windows to the Universe https://www.windows2universe.org/physical_science/physics/atom_particle/atomic_nucleus.html   Relative Size of: Atoms, Nucleus, Neutrons and Electrons https://prezi.com/cyc8c_xro4z6/relative-size-of-atoms-nucleus-neutrons-and-electrons/ Find Irresistible Fiction on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1696707613914346/ Email us at: irresistiblefiction@gmail.com   "Jingle Bells" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The scream is a mix of the Wilhelm Scream, Alan Ruck from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Disney’s Goofy Yell. Lots of different crowd noise tracks went into the making of this episode: Fotball Soccer Match Stadium Ambience Sound -|- 8 hours Sleep, Relax, Meditate, Ambience: By: LiveRecords https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBQY8HDkdz4&t=6876s CROWD IN STADIUM SOUND EFFECT FREE, By: BLUE Sound Effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-0r05OTH4U Soccer stadium Sound Effect, By: Music Free Library ♪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqMcf-XzijM Stadium Crowd Sound Effects | One Hour | HQ, By: n Beats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FLgShtdxQ8&index=2&list=RDUBQY8HDkdz4   Plus, I also found these sounds on youtube: Body Falls Various Sound FX, By: nathanolson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMIC_Ttf3NU Harry Potter spells soundeffects, By: Benedict L.U. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70hvTVR7R40 5 Shocking Explosions Caught On Camera!, By: We Want More Facts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofGts2zVC8 High Voltage Electrical Explosion Compilation Electrical Explosion, Electrical fire, High voltage, By: detodounpoco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4hrUgbZISk Top 10 Big Movie Screams, By: MegaBig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1dxeSIUFpo Elevator Sound Effects, By: Nick Judy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=debkzEfwmMM

Irresistible Fiction 3: Subatomic Jet Pack In which Getch’s dimension-hopping doppelganger visits an intergalactic quidditch match in order to point out that it just doesn’t matter. Orkin, Raptor, and Racket imposes its will. Plus, vague rumblings about Einstein letting us all down. All of that, in just eleven minutes, and ten seconds. Or, as Nad commented after listening: “I love the sound of your show. I wasn't sure if I  was too high, or not high enough, for the subject matter.” Regarding the previous episode, “Utter Bullshit,” Nad says, “ I felt like I was walking through the fog with someone on mushrooms.” With reviews like that, you know you’re getting a quality podcast, dealing with important issues, delivered with a heaping pile of bullshit. And, according to Mrs. Nad, you can also count on a touch of Nuclear Blue Balls. But wait, there’s more, if you listen now, we guarantee you 100% more Quantum Bullshit!!   A tip of the hat to the Orkin, Raptor, and Racket legal team. You know you’re putting out important material when someone takes the time to slap a legal disclaimer on it. Drop us a line: irresistiblefiction@gmail.com   Music:  “Slow Burn,” by Kevin http://bit.ly/2kg4ypO  Comments: http://freemusicarchive.org/  Curator: WFMU  Sound Effects: “Fotball Soccer Match Stadium Ambience Sound -|- 8 hours Sleep, Relax, Meditate, Ambience” By LiveRecords  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBQY8HDkdz4 “Howling Wind Sound -|- 8 Hours sound of wind noise for sleep, relax, ambience, meditation etc.” By LiveRecords  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr1KfUMPNqE “Flag flapping in the wind, parachute, fabric (looped), sound effect” By Sound Berries  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od8_CBE-n6c

Irresistible Fiction 2: Utter Bullshit Almost a century ago, scientists searched to find the smallest particle of matter in the microverse.  Instead, they found puzzles and funhouse reflections. Deep down inside the atom, things got strange, and even Albert Einstein tried to sweep it all under the rug. But that strangeness at the core of the atom sat under that metaphorical rug, and waited. Every once and awhile, we lifted the corner of the rug and picked out little bits of quantum strangeness that suited our needs. But most of it, we avoided as improbable, waiting for another Einstein to sort it all out for us. Bullshit, my friends, is on the rise, and reaching historic levels.   Across the multiverse, it appears that all of those little bits of quantum strangeness have reached critical mass.  The pent up quantum strangeness appears to have  begun to release itself in historic, multi-cosmic waves of bullshit. There has been a surge in first, and second term Trump presidencies across an infinite number of worlds. In a dark, and frightening swath of the unending abyss, Trump has seized power in America as a warrior king, leading literal packs of wolves from Wall Street. The infrastructure in place, to protect against the build-up of bullshit is old and weak. In a frightening array of worlds, the bullshit flood is topping walls that have stood solid for centuries. If Trump is President in your world, know that you are currently experiencing historic levels of bullshit. Unfortunately, we can’t say for sure when you can hope to reach peak bullshit. Until bullshit levels return to normal, please use common sense as much a possible. Eventually, we are afraid, the whole multi-cosmos will be awash in bullshit. Then, and only then, will we be able to come to terms with what scared Albert Einstein. But, that’s for another episode. In the meantime, a little uncertainty will be good for us all. Bill Murray: “It just doesn’t matter.” That’s Bill Murray, chanting at the end of this episode. The clip his from his role as a summer camp counselor who helps a boy come to terms with his terminal cancer. Murray won the best supporting actor Oscar in the 1979 tear-jerker, Meatball Stew.   Music: Broke For Free "As Colorful As Ever" URL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Layers/As_Colorful_As_Ever Comments: http://freemusicarchive.org/ Curator: Music for Video Copyright: Attribution-NonCommercial: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/   Kevin MacLeod "Slow Burn" URL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Blues_Sampler/Slow_Burn Comments: http://freemusicarchive.org/ Curator: WFMU Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Irresistible Fiction 1: The Habit of Being Fictional The Datasphere plays a role in Being Fictional: We would like to define “datasphere.” but it doesn’t look like anybody agrees on a definition: Oxford Dictionary: NOUN Science Fiction  The notional environment in which digital data is stored; especially the Internet viewed in this way. Also (Science Fiction): the space of virtual reality, cyberspace. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/datasphere Urban Dictionary: TOP DEFINITION datasphere datasphere is an electronica/dance-based collective out of chicago, Illinois. Not some info technology, software or IT-based mumbo-jumbo. Or some name out of a silly science-fiction novel. have you ever heard of datasphere? their music is dope! Chitown represent. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=datasphere Net Lingo: datasphere A play on the word "atmosphere," this refers to data that is transmitted via satellites. See also : teleport   NetLingo Classification: Online Jargon - See more at: http://bit.ly/2nrW6zV   Shutterstock checks in on Datapshere. I don’t know if this is intentionally corny, or not.   Get it? It’s a Data Sphere. http://shutr.bz/2mSLYnf Music:   Good Times by Podington Bear http://bit.ly/2nbX8nY The last ones by Jahzzar http://bit.ly/2nrVUAH JENNY'S THEME by Jason Shaw http://bit.ly/2meatqQ   Sounds Effects:   Radio Tuning Sound Effect by Audio Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdPlUyMW6NQ Radio Static Sound Effect by ParadoxMirror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wffIdh0CZWs&t=2s Get in touch with the good folks at the Orkin, Raptor, Racket, International’s Department of Pandimensional Communication by email: irresistiblefiction@gmail.com      

Pre-Irresistible Fiction: Agent Cola Jakes There is so much more in this world, and all others, than you can possibly imagine. This world is a bit of a police state.   Nick’s Trouble-Making Comic http://nickdeangelo.com/chronicles/images/chronicles/itv/23.jpg   Carl Jung, and the Collective Unconscious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious What is the Collective Unconscious http://frithluton.com/articles/collective-unconscious/   If you see something. Say something: irresistiblefiction@gmail.com   Music: The last ones by Jahzzar Metamorphosis (remix Zelf Bloemen) by Coldnoise We Have All We've Ever Wanted (Instrumental) byYACHT Ignorance is Bliss by MindsEye & Dr. Rinkel There Is Something Wrong by Mystery Mammal     Sound Effects: Dead Air SOUND Effect Sound Effects PD https://youtu.be/X55bawH4404 Short Circuit - SOUND EFFECT - Elektrischer Kurzschluss BerlinAtmospheres https://youtu.be/9fk7w4gx1jA

Pre-Irresistible Fiction: Occam’s Razor Still trying to understand what’s happening with the former Occupy the Media Podcast. I’m not willing to believe we are witnessing actual interdimensional communication. So, I’m considering other reasons involving collusion, trickery, and mind-f*ckery. Occam’s Razor seems to be the best pathway to a solution. “The most useful statement of the principle for scientists is "when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better." http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/occam.html Occam’s Razor on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor My two choices are: somehow, another version of me, in a different dimension, has perfected interdimensional communication; or, somebody is messing with me big time in this dimension. Until I get proof of the potential for interdimensional communication, I’m inclined to accept trickery from within our local dimension. Drop me a line at irresistiblefiction@gmail.com I will have a website up soon. Probably irresistiblefiction.com, or irresistiblefiction.net. If you have knowledge about the topics in this podcast, or if you see anything on social media that reflects the topics raised in this podcast, please let me know about it: Interdimensional communication Quantum theory, especially Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Digital voice reproduction Literary theory, narrative writing, fiction writing, or if you write fiction. High strangeness: have you had strange, possibly interdimensional encounters recently? irresistiblefiction@gmail.com Here’s the music I used for this post: Last Dance by Jahzzar http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Blinded_by_dust/Last_Dance Happy Feelings by Dan Lizard http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dan_Lizard/Dance_2_The_Music_EP/01_-_Dan_Lizard_-_Happy_Feelings_-_Dance_2_the_Music_EP Bad Panda #127 by Hypermagic http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hypermagic/Bad_Panda_127/ Dirt Rhodes by Kevin MacLeod http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Blues_Sampler/Dirt_Rhodes Autumn Sunset by Jason Shaw http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/AUTUMN_SUNSET_________________1-36 Jenny’s Theme by Jason Shaw http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/JENNYS_THEME___________________-45

Transmission Four: Hello World   Orkin, Raptor, Racket International Department of Interdimensional Communication   An explanation. A request.   Music embed: Kopeika, by et http://freemusicarchive.org/music/et_/The_agency_of_missing_hearts/02_-_Kopeika#

Howdy Occupiers. Getch here, and I don’t know what’s going on. I’m sorry if I’m not going to be much help explaining those last three posts on the OTMC podcast. They are still a mystery to me. I did sit down in front of the mic to better explain just how much this is all a mystery to me. I’ll let ya’ll know when I know more. Until then, I guess you should keep checking back here. Who knows what’s going to happen next? I’m following the format of the mystery transmissions until I figure something else out. Vellela Vellela: Telephone Poles For Sale is the music bed for this podcast. You can find Vellela Vellela here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Velella_Velella/The_Bay_Of_Biscay/Telephone_Poles_For_Sale “Velella Velella come from Seattle. They make music that’s blissed out, tonal, enthusiastic and grooving. At their disposal is a mess of instruments: drum machine, drum kit, snarly bass, tremmy vibes, clean guitar lines, bassy Roland and overdriven Fafisa keyboards, drippy guitar washes.” From their Free Music Archive profile.

Transmission Three Orkin, Raptor, Racket, Intl, Dept. of Inter-Dimensional Communication   Test Panel for Inter-Dimensional Communication Carrier Embed: Bad Banana Bread Artist: CSC Funk Band https://www.facebook.com/CSCfunkband/ http://freemusicarchive.org/music/CSC_Funk_Band/Live_at_WFMU_on_Marty_McSorelys_show_4122010/CSC_Funk_Band_-_02_-_Bad_Banana_Bread Big Data: 20 Mind-Boggling Facts Everyone Must Read http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2015/09/30/big-data-20-mind-boggling-facts-everyone-must-read/#577a20e46c1d Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours http://www.industrytap.com/knowledge-doubling-every-12-months-soon-to-be-every-12-hours/3950 Understanding The Growth Of Information [INFOGRAPHIC] http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/growth-of-information/477932  

Transmission Two O,O,R, International: Department of Inter-Dimensional Communication Carrier Embed: (03) Cargo Ships (Chairs), by Matt LeGroulx http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Matt_LeGroulx/ Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/definitions/heisenberg-uncertainty-principle-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

Test Panel for Pan-Dimensional Communication Music embed: Masters of Science Fiction Artist: Lazy Magnet http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lazy_Magnet/Is_Music_Even_Good/Masters_Of_Science_Fiction

Talk Nation Radio: Mel Duncan on why unarmed civilian protection is better than war Written by davidswanson  Mel Duncan is a co-founder and current Director of Advocacy and Outreach for Nonviolent Peaceforce, an international non-governmental organization that provides direct protection to civilians caught in violent conflict and works with local civil society groups on violence deterrence throughout the world.  He has received numerous awards. The Utne Reader named Duncan one of “50 Visionaries Who are Changing Our World.”  The American Friends Service Committee nominated Nonviolent Peaceforce for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson.Producer: David Swanson.Music by Duke Ellington. Syndicated by Pacifica Network. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!

Viking Economics: George Lakey On How Nordic Nations Used Nonviolent Action to Oust the 1%   This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, George Lakey, nonviolent movement strategist, organizer, teacher, and author, joins us to speak about his new book, Viking Economics, about how Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland used nonviolent action to gain long-lasting economic justice . . . and how we can follow in their footsteps here in the United States. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: George Lakey is a long time activist, strategist and trainer for nonviolent movements, the cofounder of Training for Change and Earth Quaker Action Team, and the author of nine books that were "written as homework for the movement to support activism and a better world for all of us". His newest book, Viking Economics, explores how the Nordic Nations used nonviolent action to gain long-lasting economic justice. Related Links: Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got it Right and How We Can Too! http://vikingeconomics.org/ How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the 1% by George Lakey http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-the-power-of-the-1-percent/ Princeton Study on Oligarchy and American Non-Democracy https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf Rivera Sun's Op-Ed on the Princeton Study "Rich People Rule: Struggle Lies Ahead" http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23473-rich-people-rule-struggle-lies-ahead Earth Quaker Action Team http://www.eqat.org/ Training for Change http://www.trainingforchange.org/ Norway To Go Carbon-Neutral by 2030 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/15/norway-pledges-to-become-climate-neutral-by-2030 Where to Invade Next by Michael Moore http://wheretoinvadenext.com/ Deep Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured music is "Jog" by the band, Crowfoot, on their album, "As the Crow Flies". Find their music at 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.

    d@w Contributor:Richard WolffJune 27, 2016   Your voice matters, SHARE THIS          On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on victories (1) over US sugar industry and (2) in reducing Sweden's 40-hour workweek to 30 hours with no pay cut. Major analyses of jobs moving south, legal fight over tax exemption for religions, corporate bailouts in Michigan, excess Corp borrowing, and capitalist technology serving profits not people.

We’re In The Midst Of A Political Realignment by MFlowers Decades of lesser evil voting and the failed policies that have been the result are creating a political realignment in the United States. Such a realignment has been going on in other countries recently such as Spain, Venezuela, Greece and Iceland. The two major parties in the US, the Democrats and Republicans, are shrinking and more people are joining third parties or switching to be unaffiliated. We’ll discuss this political realignment and what it means with Darcy Richardson and Ashley Smith. Relevant articles and websites: Donald Trump Frees Us to Vote as We Wish by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Will the Democrats Put Out the Bern? by Ashley Smith The Sanders Campaign and the Left by Ashley Smith and Lance Selfa International Socialist Organization Uncovered Politics   Guests: Darcy Richardson is the author of more than a dozen books covering American political history.  Richardson’s books on American history and politics — one of which earned an Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) from scholarly Choicemagazine in 2005 — were cited in Newsweek’s “What You Need to Read” section in July 2010. His most recent book, Bernie: A Lifelong Crusade Against Wall Street & Wealth, was published by Sevierville Publishing in December 2015. Long active in third-party politics, Richardson has rubbed shoulders with some of the best-known political figures of the past three decades.  In addition to managing one of the late Minnesota Senator Eugene J. McCarthy’s campaigns and serving as a senior advisor in another, Richardson ran for Pennsylvania Auditor General in 1980 and for the U.S. Senate eight years later on the Philadelphia-based Consumer Party ticket.  In 2012, he offered himself as a protest candidate in several Democratic presidential primaries, briefly challenging Wall Street’s increasingly corrupt influence on the Democratic Party and the nation’s body politic. A resident of Jacksonville, Richardson has been quoted in major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, theWashington Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and has written numerous articles for a wide range of publications.  He has also been a guest on several nationally-syndicated radio talk shows, ranging from the progressive “Thom Hartmann Show” to Joseph Farah’s conservative “WorldNetDaily Radioactive” program. Darcy can be reached via email at darcy@uncoveredpolitics.com Ashley Smith is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review (ISR) and on the Steering Committee of the International Socialist Organization. He has written on various subjects for the ISR as well as Socialist Worker, New Politics, ZNet, and Jacobin. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Talk Nation Radio: Harvey Wasserman on Environmental and Antiwar Activism Written by davidswanson  Harvey Wasserman is a life-long activist who speaks, writes and organizes widely on energy, the environment, history, the drug war, election protection, and grassroots politics. He teaches (since 2004) history and cultural & ethnic diversity at two central Ohio colleges. He works for the permanent shutdown of the nuclear power industry and the birth of Solartopia, a democratic and socially just green-powered Earth free of all fossil and nuclear fuels. He writes for Ecowatch, solartopia.org, freepress.org and nukefree.org, which he edits. He helped found the anti-war Liberation News Service. In 1972 his History of the U.S., introduced by Howard Zinn, helped pave the way for a new generation of people’s histories. In 1973 Harvey coined the phrase “No Nukes” and helped found the global grassroots movement against atomic energy. In 1990 he became Senior Advisor to Greenpeace USA. Harvey’s America at the Brink of Rebirth: The Organic Spiral of U.S. History, which dissects our national story in terms of six cycles, will be published soon at www.solartopia.org Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson.Producer: David Swanson.Music by Duke Ellington. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!  

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're taking a moment for reflection and exploration, covering strategy for nonviolent movements, and a few key dynamics, practices and understandings you can use in your work to make change. Powerful tools and startling insights! Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun teach strategy for nonviolent movements across the country . . . and in this week's episode, we're bringing this knowledge to your ears! Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: Contact us about nonviolent action workshops! (We love to teach them!) Sherri Mitchell smitchel815(at)gmail.com orhttps://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/ Rivera Sun http://www.riverasun.com/workshops/ Also check out Rivera Sun's study guide to The Dandelion Insurrection which has sections on the 198 Methods of Nonviolent Actions, Campaign Design, Constructive Program, and much more!http://www.riverasun.com/online-store/the-dandelion-insurrection-study-guide-making-change-through-nonviolent-action/ Deganawida, The Great Peacemaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Peacemaker Gayanashagowa or The Great Law of Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_Peace Gandhian Constructive Programme http://mettacenter.org/definitions/constructive-program/ War Resisters' International Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns http://www.wri-irg.org/pubs/NonviolenceHandbook The Interest Convergence Theory by Derrick Bell, Civil Rights Scholarhttp://professorderrickbell.com/scholarship/ The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w Awakening the Movement of Movements by Rivera Sun http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/35079-awakening-the-movement-of-movements Gene Sharp and Civil Resistance http://www.aeinstein.org/ Music By: "Love and Revolution" and "Walls Fall Down" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio 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/

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown – It’s About Control  Mayer Rothschild is famously quoted as saying “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!” – and so it is.  When we look at the distribution of capital, we see that those who control the franchise of creating money through loans and debt rule our world.  Ellen speaks with one of the planet’s oldest serving statesmen, Canada’s Paul Hellyer, about the nature of this controlling franchise and about the alternatives still available.  Walt McRee speaks with Lisa Cody, a researcher for the Service Employees International Union, who did a landmark study of the outrageous costs Los Angeles has paid private financiers as part of our ongoing series What Wall Street Costs America, and Matt Stannard comments on the increasingly popular idea of providing a basic income to people as one way of balancing the scales against the controlling interests.

ECONOMIC UPDATE: ECONOMIC CHANGE: WHY AND HOW   d@w Contributor:Richard WolffJune 19, 2016   Your voice matters, SHARE THIS          On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on CEO pay, new book on inequality, US estate and inheritance taxes. Interview with Alan Schulman, coordinator Democracy at Work New York City. Click here to download th

Talk Nation Radio: Peter Kuznick on Untold Nuclear History and No War 2016 Written by davidswanson  Peter Kuznick is Professor of History at American University, and author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s America, co-author with Akira Kimura of  Rethinking the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Japanese and American Perspectives, co-author with Yuki Tanaka of Nuclear Power and Hiroshima: The Truth Behind the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Power, and co-editor with James Gilbert of Rethinking Cold War Culture. In 1995, he founded American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute, which he directs. In 2003, Kuznick organized a group of scholars, writers, artists, clergy, and activists to protest the Smithsonian’s celebratory display of the Enola Gay. He and filmmaker Oliver Stone co-authored the 12 part Showtime documentary film series and book both titled The Untold History of the United States. Kunick will be screening an episode of that program and speaking at the No War 2016 conference in Washington, D.C.: http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2016 Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson.Producer: David Swanson.Music by Duke Ellington. Syndicated by Pacifica Network. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!  

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with two cofounders of Beyond Extreme Energy, Melinda Tuhus and Ted Glick, about the nonviolent direct action campaigns aimed at getting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to stop rubber-stamping fossil fuel infrastructure permits. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guests: Melinda Tuhus is a founding member of Beyond Extreme Energy, an independent journalist, activist, and blogger. You can read her writings at Leaves and Fishes, a monthly column. Ted Glick is also a founding member of Beyond Extreme Energy, and has been a climate activist since 2004, and a progressive activist since 1968. He writes a bi-weekly column entitled Future Hope. Related Links: Beyond Extreme Energy https://beyondextremeenergy.org/ BXE Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BeyondExtremeEnergy/ BXE Twitter @BXEAction Future Hope Columns by Ted Glick https://tedglick.com/future-hope-columns/ Leaves and Fishes by Melinda Tuhus http://www.melindatuhus.net/blog Deep Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology Quebec Strategy Against Frackers http://www.riverasun.com/il-resistance-as-deterrent-to-fracking-part-one-they-shale-not-0 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured musician is Chad Wilkins. The song is "Be A Friend" on his album, "Show Us the Way of the Heart". You can find his music at www.chadwilkinsmusic.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.

ECONOMIC UPDATE: LOCAL GROUPS, SOCIAL CHANGE   On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on new book "Coming of Age in the Other America," new research shows superiority of worker coops over capitalist enterprises, negative results of profit-driven enterprises, "America" replaces Budweiser. Interview with Betsy Avila, digital organizer of local groups for social 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 profwolff@rdwolff.com to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.

FBI Stings of Muslims Worsen Bigotry and Security by MFlowers A study from 2014 showed that 99% of domestic terrorist plots in the US are aided in some way by the FBI; only 4 out of 400 were not FBI stings. And human rights groups found that the way the sting operations are conducted violate human rights. Sue Udry of Defending Dissent will speak about the ways these sting operations have been used to fuel hatred against Muslims. And to discuss the shooting and mass murder in Orlando, FL, Janaid Ahmad of Just International and Peace for Life speaks about the rise of homophobia and violence within Muslim communities because of Western influence and support for extremist sects such as the Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia. Relevant articles and websites: Living in the Shadow of Counterterrorism series from Rewire FBI Steps Up Use of Stings in ISIS Cases by Eric Lichtblau Inventing Terrorists: The Lawfare of Preemptive Prosecution from Project Salam and the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms Targeted and Entrapped: Manufacturing the ‘Homegrown Threat’ in the United States by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation Just International Peace for Life Center for Global Dialogue   Guests: Sue Udry is Executive Director of the Defending Dissent Foundation. Sue won her high school’s “Best Citizen” award in 1978 and has been working to earn that title ever since. She played a leadership role in her campus peace group, and after grad school she began knocking on doors in neighborhoods around the country as a canvasser for SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, now Peace Action.  She has been the Executive Director of the Defending Dissent Foundation since 2008. Prior to joining DDF, she served as the executive director of the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights and as an organizer for the Coalition for New Priorities and the Day Care Action Council of Illinois. She was the legislative coordinator for United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of over 1,600 groups opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She currently serves on the board of the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms and the National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy, as well as the Advisory Board of the Charity and Security Network. She is a co-founder of the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition and treasurer of the D.C. chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. Over a quarter of a century working for peace and social justice in Washington, DC, Illinois and Indiana, has taught Sue that the right to dissent is crucial to expanding democracy, promoting justice, and enlarging the global human rights perspective. Janaid S. Ahmad is based in Lahore, Pakistan where he is the director of the Center for Global Dialogue. He has a Juris Doctor (law) degree from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. He is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and is also a faculty member of the Faculty of Law and Policy, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. He served as president of the US-based National Muslim Law Students Association (NMLSA), and is on the board of the Muslim Peace Fellowship. He is a board member of Muslim Men against Domestic Abuse (MMADA). He served on the Executive Board of the Domestic Violence Resource Project. In the US, he worked with the National Interfaith Committee on Social Justice, and Amnesty International. In Pakistan, he worked with such groups as Educate Pakistan and AMAL Human Development Network. He continues to maintain an association with Positive Muslims, the Cape Town-based organization working on issues related to Muslims, HIV/AIDS and gender justice, a group with which he worked while he was in South Africa. His research interests include Islam in the public sphere, interfaith relations, globalization, and civil society, and has lectured and written extensively on these topics. He is currently working on a collaborative project with the International Islamic University – Islamabad (IIU-I) on globalization, Muslim societies and Islamic revivalism. Mr. Ahmed has been a long time human rights activist.

Talk Nation Radio: Sandy Davies on Asking World's Help in Resisting U.S. Crimes Written by davidswanson    Nicolas J "Sandy" Davies is the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq, with a preface by Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz.  He also wrote the chapter on “Obama at War” in Grading the 44th President, and a chapter titled "Crime By America: No Accountability, No Justice, No Peace" in a new book, Crime and Punishment in America, due out in the fall of 2016. He writes regularly about U.S. aggression and war crimes for Consortium News, Warisacrime.org and other alternative media outlets. He served as an issue team leader on war and peace issues for Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), and he drafted Roots Action's current "Appeal from U.S. to World" to ask foreign governments to come together and stand up for international law in the face of systematic U.S. aggression and war crimes. See: http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12247 Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson.Producer: David Swanson.Music by Duke Ellington. Download from LetsTryDemocracy or Archive.Pacifica stations can also download from Audioport. Syndicated by Pacifica Network. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with citizen scientist and master gardener Adrian Fisher about reconciliation ecology and how her neighborhood outside Chicago, IL used wild plant gardening to not only connect two wildlife preserves on either side of her, but also a bi-continental migration route for innumerable wild species. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Adrian Fisher is a sustainability coordinator, a wild and native plants gardener, and writes and speaks about Reconciliation Ecology and Regenerative Gardening. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and is a featured writer on Resilience.org Related Links: Why Reconciliation Ecology Matters by Adrian Fisher http://www.resilience.org/stories/2016-04-28/ethics-and-ecosystem-interactions-why-reconciliation-ecology-matters Reconciliation Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_ecology Wild Ones Organization http://www.wildones.org/ Deep Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology Resilience.org http://www.resilience.org/ Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken http://www.blessedunrest.com/ Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer https://www.amazon.com/Braiding-Sweetgrass-Indigenous-Scientific-Knowledge/dp/1571313567 Win-Win Ecology https://global.oup.com/academic/product/win-win-ecology-9780195156041 Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation http://www.xerces.org/ The Sunflower Forest by William Jordan https://www.amazon.com/Sunflower-Forest-Ecological-Restoration-Communion/dp/0520233204 The Carbon Farming Solution by Eric Toensmeier http://www.chelseagreen.com/the-carbon-farming-solution Paradise Lot (Book and Blog) https://paradiselotblog.wordpress.com/ Rodale Institute http://rodaleinstitute.org/ Rodale Institue White Paper on Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change http://rodaleinstitute.org/assets/WhitePaper.pdf Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured musician is Melissa Crabtree. This is her song, "Bees" from her album "The Day I Fell Into the Water". You can find this and other music by Melissa at www.melissacrabtree.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/

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown – The Little Bank that Does – Part 2   We continue our conversation with the preeminent historian of the Bank of North Dakota, Dr. Rozanne Enerson Junker, about the founding factors and functional dimensions of America’s only state-owned public bank.  Ellen discusses block-chain technology with co-host Walt McRee while this week’s What Wall Street Costs America examines the impact of predatory banking costs on the city of Detroit --  Matt Stannard talks with Tom Stevens of “Detroiters Resisting Emergency Management.”

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.  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 profwolff@rdwolff.com to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.

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. Syndicated by Pacifica Network. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!

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. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ 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.  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 profwolff@rdwolff.com 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.   Listen here:     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.

May 31 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. Download from LetsTryDemocracy or Archive.Pacifica stations can also download from Audioport. Syndicated by Pacifica Network. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!

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. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ 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 profwolff@rdwolff.com to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.

Corean Peace Delegation Works for End to Korean War by MFlowers Three members of the Corean Alliance for Independent Reunification and Democracy (CAIRD) are in the United States on a peace expedition. They speak with us about the brutal history of the US’ involvement in Korea and their work to end the Korean War, bring reunification and build democracy. Their work builds on decades of work by Korean activists. Under the current leader, this work is being made even more challenging by the application of a National Security Law. We also discuss the impact of trade agreements on Korean farmers and workers. Relevant articles and websites: Written answers to the questions that were asked on the program: Answers for questions on Corea Gwangju Democracy Protest, And Massacre US Was Complicit In by Kevin Zeese North Korea and the United States; Will the Real Aggressor Please Stand Down? by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers The Erosion of Democracy in South Korea: The Dissolution of the Unified Progressive Party (UPP) and the Incarceration of Rep. Lee Seok-ki by Hyun Lee CAIRD Facebook page  

Talk Nation Radio: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: U.S. Was Always at War Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has taught in the Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies. Her 1977 book The Great Sioux Nation was the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, held at the United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva. Dunbar-Ortiz is the author or editor of seven other books, including Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico, and including An Indigenous People's History of the United States. She discusses the idea that President Obama is the longest serving war president. Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson.Producer: David Swanson.Music by Duke Ellington. Syndicated by Pacifica Network. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!

Decolonizing Your Life While Working for Change w/ Idle No More Washington's Sweetwater Nannauck This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Sweetwater Nannauck, the director of Idle No More Washington, about culture, spirituality, social change, and how to decolonize our lives as we work to protect both people and planet. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Sweetwater Nannauck is the director of Idle No More Washington, a workshop leader and presenter, a spiritual activist, and is very active in advocating for the protection of the fragile environment of the Northwest Coast, for tribal sovereignty rights, and the traditional way of life of Native people. Related Links: Idle No More Washington: https://www.facebook.com/Idle-No-More-Washington-467317416649876/ Lummi Nation's Victory Over Coal Terminal http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/10/first-nation-wins-historic-victory-over-mammoth-coal-export-terminal Shell No Campaign Succeeds In Getting Shell Oil Co. To Withdraw from Arctic https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/28/royal-dutch-shell-suspends-arctic-drilling-indefinitely/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured music is by Aircab. You can find this and other tracks on Jamendo.com https://www.jamendo.com/track/1117334/aircab-acoustic2 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 #10. “It’s unacceptable and ultimate failed reporting when local media helps to perpetuate fossil fuel propaganda. it’s a sign of desperation to scoop so low. It would be reporting if you showed up and documented a sleeping activist being woken up at 5am with gun pointed to their face. you would have witnessed the police’s blockade, and [police] not allowing organizers to grab their belongings. It’s easy for media and locals to complain about our ‘trash’ when we should be worry about the refineries’ waste and pollution. the fact that this bullshit propaganda is getting more attention than the reality that all of us left the refineries with headaches and sore throats is evident that it’s all a distraction. a distraction from the fact the refineries are on unceded Coast Salish territories, distraction from the cancer rates, distraction that we need a just transition from fossil fuels infrastructure.” – Yin Yu.   Beats: “Start The Revolution” – Marcel Cartier “Geechi Liberace” – Rick Ross “Here” – Alessia Cara “Day By Day” – Reef Royals   Cuts: “God Vs. Religion” – I.Sheik, Awdbawl, Mikail, & DJ Packo “Dont Let Them Get Away With Murder” – Jasiri X. “A Change Is Gonna Come” – Wayne Brady   Vocals: Sarra Tekola (Women of Color Speak Out; Seattle Black Book Club) live at #‎BreakFreePNW, Sensei Lewis, Jacob Brown, and a lot MORE!

Economic Update: False Econ Recovery, True Journalism by Richard Wolff. In this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on "carry interest tax loophole," Miami's Marlin Park and state subsidies for business, negative interest rates, and banks' "bail-in" versus "bail-out." Interview reporter Bob Hennelly sbout false economic recovery, dissolving society, and real journalism.  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 profwolff@rdwolff.com to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.

Talking about a Political Revolution and the Sanders Campaign by MFlowers We discuss the current election environment in the context of the movement: how the movement has impacted the campaigns and the political parties and what a political revolution means.  Our guests discuss their ideas for continuing the momentum beyond this election season and for having an impact on whomever is elected.   Relevant articles and websites: Why Bernie Sanders Should Stay in the Race – And How He Can Win by Patrick Walker and Kevin Zeese Political Revolution will continue Long After the Sanders Campaign by Ethan Corey Revolt Against Plutocracy The Sane Progressive The People’s Revolution   Guests: Patrick Walker is a veteran anti-fracking and Occupy Scranton, PA activist, currently a co-founding member of Revolt Against Plutocracy (RAP) and co-creator of RAP’s Bernie or Bust pledge, which spawned the nationwide Bernie or Bust movement. He is delighted to announce that by the time of his Clearing the FOG interview, the pledge will almost certainly have garnered its 100,000 th signature. Patrick considers the anti-fracking movement his ideal, if belated, way to break into political activism, since the undemocratic conquest of Pennsylvania, his native state, by the fracking industry was based on precisely the rampant corruption of politicians by corporate money now vitiating U.S. (and global) politics. His whirlwind years as a PA anti-fracking activist (2010-12) included his family’s central role in the 2010 PA Homeland Security scandal, a successful protest he organized against former U.S. Homeland Security chief turned fracking shill Tom Ridge, a brief stint as Harrisburg spokesperson for Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, and his wife’s appearance in film maker Josh Fox’s anti-fracking movie Gasland 2. Patrick’s focus on the underlying problem of political corruption naturally interested him in the Occupy movement, where he unsuccessfully tried to spread his conviction that Occupy should adopt the Green Party as its political arm. Believing no useful transformation of U.S. politics will come unless voters show zero tolerance for candidates corrupted by corporate money, Patrick, along with Victor Tiffany, eagerly seized on Bernie Sanders’ insurgent candidacy to create Revolt Against Plutocracy, strategic hub of the Bernie or Bust movement. He’s excited that Bernie or Bust recently partnered with Popular Resistance, hoping to create the potent fusion between movement activism and insurgent electoral politics he sought to create with Occupy. A University of Scranton graduate, with bachelor’s degrees in English lit and philosophy, Patrick now resides in the Buffalo, NY area with his wife, daughter, and three Sheltie dogs. His activist writings haveappeared in OpEdNews, Nation of Change, CounterPunch, and Dissident Voice.   Debbie Lusignan is a vlogger at The Sane Progressive. She launched this project  in 2015 to put out an alternative narrative to the corporate media lies and manipulations of the American people.   JackRabbit Pollack is a founding member of Interoccupy.net – a communications working group of Occupy Wall Street that continues to operate in limited capacity. In 2012 he participated in the grassroots disaster relief to hurricane Sandy known as Occupy Sandy. He has provided logistical support for groups fighting for racial justice such as SURJ, Ferguson Action, and Movement for Black Lives. In April of 2015 he began work as one of the core members of People for Bernie with whom he worked through July. Along with partner Shana East, Jackrabbit started The People’s Revolution, but put the project on hold to begin Illinois for Bernie with Ms. East. Illinois for Bernie is a grassroots group autonomously supporting Bernie Sanders’ primary run for the presidency. Most recently, Jackrabbit and Ms. East have returned to organizing as the People’s Revolution to convene a gathering in Philadelphia the weekend before the DNC called the People’s Convention – an attempt to organize the insurgent energy surrounding the presidential election into a cohesive force for progressive change.

Talk Nation Radio: Meike Capps-Schubert on U.S. Military Resistance in Germany Written by davidswanson    Meike Capps-Schubert is the co-founder and current manager of The Clearing Barrel GI-Coffeehouse in Kaiserslautern next to Ramstein Airbase, Germany, the only GI-coffeehouse outside the United States. A long-time peace and justice activist in Germany, Meike is a counselor with the Military Counseling Network e.V. -- the German branch of the GI-rights-hotline, which provides free, confidential, and accurate information on U.S. military regulations and practices to members of the U.S. military, veterans, and their families. She has also helped build critical support for U.S. war resisters in Germany since 2003. Learn more:http://theclearingbarrel.blogspot.dehttp://www.mc-network.dehttps://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/5543-the-clearing-barrel-gi-cafe-germanyhttp://gicoffeehousetour.blogspot.de Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson.Producer: David Swanson.Music by Duke Ellington. Syndicated by Pacifica Network. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!

Diane Patterson, singer/songwriter, and creator of our theme song, joins Love (and Revolution) Radio to speak about art, music, life, loving, and making social change through heart, spirit, and human connection. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Folkgoddess Diane Patterson sings the world awake with strong voice, rocking guitar, sweet ukulele, and revolutionary lyrics. Her sincere spirit and wild heart joyfully plant seeds of love and light in every listener. Diane has been performing at festivals and venues since 1991, and for the past 20 years has been touring, producing albums, making music, and living life. www.dianepatterson.org Related Links: Diane Patterson www.dianepatterson.org Teach, Inspire, Be Real by Diane Patterson http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dianepatterson1 Build A Bridge by Diane Patterson http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dianepatterson6 World As Lover, World As Self by Joanna Macy http://www.joannamacy.net/books-dvds/20-world-as-lover-world-as-self.html Lt. Ehren Watada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehren_Watada Martín Prechtel http://www.floweringmountain.com/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio "Maiden the Flower" by Diane Patterson from "Teach, Inspire, Be Real". 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/

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown – Pursuing Populist Politics  Almost 100 years ago, populist politics marched across America in reaction to the same sort of monetary monopoly that is depriving this century’s citizens of their hard-earned assets and wealth. That deprivation has mobilized an angry, fed-up backlash of folks willing to support any candidate who will talk straight and promise real change. Several candidates are rising to the challenge.  Ellen talks with Tim Canova, a law professor and Fed expert facing off against Congressional Democratic insider Debbie Wasserman-Schultz in South Florida – out West, a State House Representative candidate Pamela Powers-Hannley runs on a platform calling for a public bank to stave off the deteriorating state economy and using inspiration from 100-years ago; and Matt Stannard talks with the award-winning author David Dayen whose new book Chain of Title reveals how a few plucky citizens pushed back against the Goliath of Wall Street mortgage fraud.

Economic Update: What Inequality Does by Richard Wolff. On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on rich tax evaders, Takata airbags, equalized wealth data, money in Chicago politics. Major discussions of corporate food scandals, govt fiscal "crises" and why build worker coop sectors.  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 profwolff@rdwolff.com to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.

The Next System Project: Life in the United States After Capitalism by MFlowers We speak with Joe Guinan and Dana Brown of the Next System Project about their ambitious work to draw from new economic institutions that are being used in the United States and around the world to build real alternatives that solve the crises of economic, racial and environmental injustice. They just completed a series of teach-ins across the country. They share with us what they’ve learned so far and what exciting new initiatives are developing out of the teach-ins. Relevant articles and websites: Wealth Belongs to All of Us, Not just the Rich by Dariel Garner The Next System Project Winter 2015 two-pager: NSP two pager Winter 2015 2016 The Next System Report #1: NSPReport1_Digital1 Democracy Collaborative The Next System The Next System Teach-ins     Guests: Joe Guinan is a Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative and Executive Director of the Next System Project. Having first worked with Gar Alperovitz and The Democracy Collaborative ten years earlier, he returned in 2012 to help design, launch and implement the Collaborative’s work on alternative political-economic systems. A former journalist, he was previously a program director at the Aspen Institute and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and has served as a consultant to the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. With a decade of experience in international economics, trade policy, global agriculture, and food security, he has been a frequently cited expert on globalization and economic development in major news media, including the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, BBC News, and Al-Jazeera. Born in England with dual Irish and British citizenship, he grew up in British labor movement circles and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He writes regularly for progressive outlets in the UK, including open Democracy and the journal Renewal, and is a member of the editorial collective of New Left Project.   Dana Brown joined the Democracy Collaborative in September 2015 for the launch of the Next System Teach-Ins program. She is an activist, popular educator and human rights advocate that has worked throughout the US, Latin America and the Middle East supporting communities organized in resistance to neoliberal economic reforms and military intervention. A board member of Peace Brigades International, she maintains a foot in international solidarity, assisting projects to protect human rights defenders from Colombia to Kenya, while thrilled to be based in the US working to change our political economy for the benefit of the 99%. Dana holds a B.A. in Sociology from Cornell University and a Masters in International Relations and Peace Studies from the Universidad del Salvador (Argentina). She is a founding member of Witness Against Torture, a movement to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and end the use of torture and indefinite detention at all US-run facilities. She is delighted to be the first Mississippian and third tango dancer to join the Democracy Collaborative staff.