Podcasts about Democracy Spring

Playing for Team Human today are Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen from the Small Planet Institute. Lappé and Eichen are out on the road with a mission to reinvigorate “civic courage” and inclusive participation in democracy. Their latest book Daring Democracy Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want offers a diagnosis of what has come to ail our democracy and recommends the necessary cures, offering concrete examples of ballot initiatives, reforms, and collective organizing happening across the country. Counter to a despairing narrative on the current state of democracy in the U.S., Lappé and Eichen argue that people are indeed rising to take the reigns. Inspired by examples of deep organizing and the convergence of movements in places such as Democracy Spring, Democracy Awakening, and Occupy Wall Street, Lappé and Eichen see power shifting back into the people’s hands. Their analysis of how we got to where we are, coupled with their passion and optimism for change, is both contagious and empowering. In this Team Human conversation, Lappé and Eichen join Douglas to make a case for hope, courage, and optimism in this moment of turmoil and division. Rushkoff begins today’s show with a monologue on the theme of democracy inspired by this conversation. Though it may have been easy to have lost faith in democracy after the 2016 election, perhaps election day is the wrong place to look if we really see democracy in action. It’s a monologue that asks: where does democracy begin for team human?... and lucky for us, today’s guests Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen are ready with the answer.This episode was made possible thanks to listener support. If you enjoy this show, consider subscribing via Patreon. There you’ll find subscriber rewards and the opportunity to connect with other listeners through the Team Human Slack Channel. Also, if you enjoy this show and want to spread the word, please review Team Human on iTunes or your favorite podcast platform. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

About Adam Eichen:   Adam Eichen Adam Eichen, Small Planet Democracy Fellow, is a writer, researcher, and organizer, working to build a democracy that represents and empowers all voices in society. He recently spent a year as a Maguire Fellow researching comparative campaign finance policy at the French research institute Sciences Po, and, in April 2016, he served as deputy communications director for Democracy Spring, a historic national mobilization for campaign finance and voting rights reform. Since 2015, he has sat on the Democracy Matters Board of Directors. Adam received his B.A. from Vassar College with general and departmental honors in Political Science and French. Over the past several years, his research has focused on campaign finance, comparative election policy, and social movement theory. His articles have appeared in Salon, Huffington Post, Billmoyers.com, and Common Dreams. Adam began collaborating with Frances Moore Lappé at the International IDEA Global Conference on Money in Politics in September 2015. Since then, the two have been working to develop new ways to think and write about campaign finance reform and the democracy movement more broadly.

Most recently, Frances participated in Democracy Spring, a movement committed to taking money out of politics and putting more people in politics, enforcing voter rights, and the Supreme Court understanding that the right to speak must be driven by a meaningful right to be heard. "Hunger," she says, "is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy." No one is hungry by choice, "hunger is the symptom of powerlessness," and powerlessness is the opposite of democracy.

Democracy Spring was a large protest, calling to get money out of politics, corruption out of the government and give Democracy should be for the people. Written by Krish Mohan (http://ramannoodlescomedy.com) Music by Max Somerville Subscribe: http://eepurl.com/oOJ45 Show Dates: http://ramannoodlescomedy.com/shows/

Democracy Spring was a large protest, calling to get money out of politics, corruption out of the government and give Democracy should be for the people. Written by Krish Mohan (http://ramannoodlescomedy.com) Music by Max Somerville Subscribe: http://eepurl.com/oOJ45 Show Dates: http://ramannoodlescomedy.com/shows/

​Activist & Comedian Elise Whitaker and Krish discuss the way to Organize Your Own Protest. Elise is one of the founder members of Democracy Spring, which was the largest the non-violent civil disobedient protest seen, and 99 Rise. They discuss the importance of focus in Protest, particularly with Money in Politics! Plus a little trivia about Star Wars! Subscribe to Krish’s Bandcamp for exclusive content & if you liked this episode donate to the Patreon. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/taboo-table-talk/support

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https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OTG-APRIL15-2016.mp3 On what is traditionally Tax Day, hundreds at the U.S. Capitol are arrested as a part of Democracy Spring to get money out of politics, to advocate for voting rights and for racial justice. We hear voices from the racial justice rally at Democracy Awakening. Also, Tony Medina, editor of the new poetry anthology, Resisting Arrest, joins us and reads from the book that includes more than 80 poets. Guests and voices: Tiffany Hunter, Gerald Horne, April Goggans, Stewart Anderson, Shani Smith, Dorie Ladner and more. Headlines: -Democracy Spring at the U.S. Capitol. -Fight for 15 strikes and actions in more than 300 cities. -Maryland General Assembly passes police reform legislation. -So far the other shoe has not dropped in the hack of Mossack-Fonseca. List of U.S. individuals and groups involved has not been released. -Gerald Horne visits the DMV for his new books, Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, The Haitian Revolution and the Origins of the Dominican Republic and Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary Links: Democracy Spring Resisting Arrest poetry anthology Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, The Haitian Revolution and the Origins of the Dominican Republic Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OTG-SPECIAL-DEMOCRACY-AWAKENING-BROADCAST-EDIT.mp3 After a week when hundreds were arrested at the U.S. Capitol in the Democracy Spring movement, thousands gathered at the Capitol for the Democracy Awakening rally on Sunday April 17, 2016. Featured speakers included the Rev. William Barber II of the Moral Monday Movement; Cornell William Brooks, president of the NAACP; David Goodman, brother of civil rights martyr Andrew Goodman; the Rev. Ezra Tillman of Flint, Michigan; Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace and also singing group Sweet Honey in the Rock. Producer and Host: Esther Iverem Field Producer and Contributor: Lydia Curtis Engineers: Michael Nasella and David Kelly Links: Democracy Awakening

In two very high energy and passionate interviews, Ralph talks to former Green Party running mate, Winona LaDuke, about her fight to stop a tar sands pipeline from running through tribal lands in Minnesota and Kai Newkirk, one of the organizers of Democracy Spring, a protest to highlight the corruption of money in politics.

When I first met Richard Painter some months ago, I thought he must be the loneliest man in the Republican Party. He’s a conservative, and of course, I’m not. But he believes, as I do, that there’s too much money in politics. Now, political insiders know Richard Painter well as President George W. Bush’s White House counselor and chief ethical advisor. He’s now teaching law at the University of Minnesota, and he’s causing heads to turn with a book advocating that we reduce the power of big money in politics. Its title is Taxation Only With Representation: The Conservative Conscience and Campaign Finance Reform. There’s a lot to learn from it, and I urge you to read it, because it is rare today to find a conservative who will admit, as Mr. Painter does, that money corrupts politics and then makes his case with so much passion and logic. His book is also timely because the issue has reached a boiling point this year. Thousands of people descended on Washington just last week in a movement they call Democracy Spring, deliberately getting arrested to protest for cleaner politics and for government liberated from Big Money. Every poll I’ve consulted reveals a deep and substantial support in the country for those objectives. Most Americans seem to agree that rich people should be able to buy more houses than anyone else, buy more cars and more clothes and more gizmos, even take more vacations than any one else, but we don’t think they should be able to buy more democracy than anyone else. Richard Painter joins me now to talk about how to rein in the power of big money in politics so that we are indeed, as his book suggests, government of, by, and for the people.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

#feeltheBern, by Dave Moore, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Panama Papers, Panama Trade Agreement, Grief, NY Daily News, Democracy Spring, There is No Black Crime Problem, Underdog by Boots Riley.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Nicole speaks with @rousseau_ist about Democracy Spring, going on in DC now where 400 were arrested yesterday. Then it's the return of John Perkins, @economic_hitman, who's been telling us the things Bernie Sanders is now saying for over a decade. And @GottaLaff helps bring down the temperature

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

A participant on the Democracy Spring March of April 2016 joined in Philadelphia, walked to Baltimore, MD, and then decided to leave because of difficulties with 99 Rise co-founder Kai Newkirk, whose organization, and who personally, created and led (and still leads) the march. Democracy Spring just reached its ultimate destination, Washington DC this morning, where they'll be doing a sit-in on the steps of the House of Representatives.

"They were even suggesting that people use Ziploc bags to piss in and properly dispose of them." Mike is (still) playing a supportive role for marchers and also has significant frustrations with Democracy Spring leadership, including Kai Newkirk. Allegations: - Making it extremely difficult to coordinate bathroom breaks for hundreds of people, including resisting a relatively inexpensive idea of hitching a trailer to Mike's truck with porta-potties. And pulling up in their own large and new RV for leadership only. - Forcing people to speak and dress in certain ways. - Dismissing the marchers input, interests, and needs, and stealing the limelight when the cameras and politicians show up.

In recent months we have listened to Donald Trump suggest there might be riots if he is denied the Republican nomination, witnessed several acts of political violence, and now we hear the emerging chants from a group called Democracy Spring promising the largest civil disobedience action in American political history. In our most recent podcast, "Civil Disobedience and the Season of Political Discontent," we examine the current political environment through the lens of Henry David Thoreau's and Martin Luther King's account of civil disobedience. We begin by investigating what Thoreau and King meant by civil disobedience, what makes civil disobedience civil, and how they differ. We conclude the episode by reflecting on the question of whether the coming season of political discontent will remain civil, or if it will slip towards something more ominous. Enjoy.

Frances Moore Lappé is putting herself on the line as part of the April 2016 Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OTG-MAR31-2016.mp3 Michele Roberts, national co-chair of the Environmental Justice Health Alliance, kicks off this show’s renewed commitment to cover issues of the environment and sustainability. We speak to her and Pam Nixon about one Black West Virginia community a fighting David-versus-Goliath battles against corporate pollution, about a recent big victory, and about how the lead poisoning water crisis in Flint Michigan is just the top of the iceberg of not only deficiencies in the country’s water infrastructure but of structural environmental racism. Guests and voices: Michele Roberts, Pam Nixon, Chen Kane, Democracy Spring, voices from "West Virginia Water Crisis" by Krista Bryson. Headlines: -Nuclear Summit is underway here in the nation’s capital. -The Nuclear Threat Initiative hosts a panel on nuclear security in the Middle East. -Global Zero/ globalzero.org rallies against 15000 ready-to-fire nuclear weapons in the world with a a life-size inflated nuclear missile. -After the shocking decision by the DC Public Service to allow the nuclear giant Exelon to take over Pepco, Power DC is continuing the fight. -Democracy Spring starts this Saturday with a march from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to DC, where from April 11th to 18th, thousands have pledged to engage in civil disobedience. -Nigerians are vehemently opposing Monsanto’s attempts to introduce genetically modifiedcotton and maize into Nigeria’s food and farming systems. -Beekeepers in Minnesota have received compensation from the state’s department of agriculture after hives destroyed by pesticides. -Congresswoman Maxine Waters introduced landmark legislation that would provide $13 billion dollars to end homelessness in America. -In Black Lives Matter News, Minneapolis police officers win Minnesota who shot and killed unarmed 24-yearold Jamar Clark will not face charges, prosecutors announced on yesterday. Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper seen on video harassing bullying and assaulting Sandra Bland during a false arrest last year was just fired from him job and here locally progressive activists are winning in some of their demands to the Maryland General Assembly for police reform in the state. -Black Millennials for flint is holding a NoLeadZone Old School Pajama Jam (April 8, 2016 10:00 PM-1:00 AM) in DC. -'Miles Ahead,' the biopic about Miles Davis starring Don Cheadle opens tomorrow here in the DMV. Also opening is the comedy 'Meet the Blacks'. Also tomorrow, the poetry anthology Resisting Arrest edited by poetTony Median drops tomorrow. -Jamila Bey on the elections and announcing her nrew show in our exisiting time slot. "On the Ground" is moving to Friday 10am, 89.3 FM in the DMV and and streaming live at www.wpfwfm.org. Producer and Host: Esther Iverem Contributors: Michele Roberts Chantal James Lydia Curtis Michael Byfield Dj Wah-Heed with remixes of "Alright" by Kendrick Lamar and "Mercy, Mercy Me, The Ecology" by Marvin Gaye.

Edition #1003 Today we take a look at the raging battle for the soul of the new economy. The age of working at the factory for decades before retiring with a pension and gold watch is well behind us but what’s coming next? A world where everyone is completely on their own, scraping together work one gig at a time? Or an economy of worker-owners who are compensated fully for their labor and have a voice in the direction of their companies?   Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991 Show Notes Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill Ch. 2: Act 1: How Good is the Sharing Economy at Sharing? - KQED News - Air Date: 2-4-16 Ch. 3: Song 1: The Sharing Song - Jack Johnson Ch. 4: Act 2: Chris Mackin: Creating Economic Democracy - @theLFshow w/ @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date: 7-22-14 Ch. 5: Song 2: RazorWire-Remastered - Chris Priest Ch. 6: Act 3: Uber isn't nearly as new of an idea as you think - Economic Update w/ @profwolff - Air Date: 3-22-15 Ch. 7: Song 3: Capitalism Is Tearing Us Apart - sole Ch. 8: Act 4: Uber Wants to Reorganize the Economy? Workers, too Can Play at that Game - The F Word w/ @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date: 2-17-15 Ch. 9: Song 4: Working Poor - Horse Feathers Ch. 10: Act 5: David J. Thompson on the superiority of cooperatives - @RalphNader Radio Hour - Air Date: 8-1-15 Ch. 11: Song 5: Cooperation - Jim Valley Ch. 12: Act 6: Nationwide Next System Teach-Ins via @TheNextSystem - Best of the Left Activism Ch. 13: Song 6: Right to Complain - Trombone Shorty & Marc Broussard Ch. 14: Act 7: Paul Mason - Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 3-3-16 Voicemails Ch. 21: Understanding our political system - Kim from Pennsylvania Ch. 22: The importance of progressive unity in the election - Ben from New Jersey Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics Ch. 23: Final comments on Democracy Spring and the cabbie who suggested todays episode Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone TAKE ACTION: Activism Resources:  Find a Next System Teach-In near you or register to host one where you live at http://teachins.thenextsystem.org  Learn more about the The Next System Project and sign their statement. Follow The Next System Project on Twitter @TheNextSystem for the latest updates and use '#NextSystem' to join the conversation. Further Reading: Not Cool Uber (via Dave Craige on Medium.com) Sharing Economy Isn’t About Sharing - The Dark Reality Behind This Major Workplace Shift (via Alternet)  Uber on the Road to Nowhere - Uber Drivers are getting creative in their fight for basic workplace rights (via American Prospect)   Latest News/Actions:  Seattle Passes Law Letting Uber, Lyft Drivers Unionize (via Reuters)  Fed up Uber Drivers Aim to Disrupt Super Bowl 50 - With their Own Mobile App (via Mother Jones) Jakarta Taxi Drivers Protest Against Uber and Grab  (via BBC) Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman  Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!

Brother COINTELPRO on Google+ DO NOT BE MOVED!!! There's an Agenda behind everything!!!! In April of this year, an organization known as Democracy Spring will be springing into action as they will be protesting for what they call "the right to political freedom." Said to be "the largest civil disobedience action of the century," this will be taking place across the East Coast, and you can expect these sort of events to trickle all throughout America in the coming months. HOWEVER, there is something they are NOT telling you! And just what is that something?!?! THE TRUTH REVEALED!!! ----------------------------------------------------- BT: http://www.btlonline.org/2016/seg/160304cf-btl-newkirk.html NTEB: http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/george-soros-group-called-democracy-spring-vows-to-cause-catastrophic-civil-disobedience-to-stop-trump/ DEMOCRACY SPRING: http://www.democracyspring.org/the_campaign BRAITBERT: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/16/anti-trump-groups-threaten-largest-civil-disobedience-action-of-the-century/