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Economic Update: Choosing Your Struggles On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on FED decision, struggles over China trade and Brexit, and fascism. Major discussions: (1) critique of capitalists' "job creation" and (2) why state support of worker coops is what capitalism got from states for centuries. 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.

Farmworkers Fight for Food and Job Justice by MFlowers Farm workers in the United States and Mexico are uniting to protest working conditions. From March 17 to 20, workers marched North in Mexico and South in the United States to meet at the border, at Playas de Tijuana. They are commemorating a march and strike one year ago and they are calling for the right to organize and demand fair wages, overtime pay and more. We speak with Rosalinda Guillen and Edgar Franks of Food Justice. Relevant articles and websites: Farmworkers in Mexico, Facing Human Rights Abuses Prepare to March in Protest by Griselda San Martin Sakuma Farmworkers Depart on Month Long Tour to Promote Driscoll’s Boycott Food Justice Boycott Sakuma Berries Alliance of Organizations for Social Justice (Mexican) Community to Community Development Facebook Page   Guests: Rosalinda Guillen is a widely recognized farm worker and rural justice leader. The oldest of eight she was born in Texas and spent her first decade in Coahuila Mexico. Her family emigrated to LaConner, Washington in 1960 and she began working as a farm worker in the fields in Skagit County at the age of ten. Ms. Guillen has worked within the labor movement with Caesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers of America and has represented farm workers in ongoing dialogues of immigration issues, labor rights, trade agreements, and strengthening the food sovereignty movement. She works to build a broader base of support for rural communities and sustainable agriculture policies that ensure equity and healthy communities for farm workers.     Edgar Franks lives in Bellingham, WA. He serves as the Civic Engagement Program Coordinator at Community to Community Development, working to engage supporters and develop a strategy that ensures the needs of the Farm Worker community are represented. Community to Community works on issues of Food Sovereignty through the lens of Farm Workers, with the goal of creating a politically conscious inter-sectional base that is fighting to create a local solidarity economy. Edgar currently represents Community to Community on the National Planning Committee for the US Social Forum and on the US Food Sovereignty Alliance. He is also on the National Leadership Team of Move to Amend.  0

Farmworkers Fight for Food and Job Justice by MFlowers Farm workers in the United States and Mexico are uniting to protest working conditions. From March 17 to 20, workers marched North in Mexico and South in the United States to meet at the border, at Playas de Tijuana. They are commemorating a march and strike one year ago and they are calling for the right to organize and demand fair wages, overtime pay and more. We speak with Rosalinda Guillen and Edgar Franks of Food Justice. Relevant articles and websites: Farmworkers in Mexico, Facing Human Rights Abuses Prepare to March in Protest by Griselda San Martin Sakuma Farmworkers Depart on Month Long Tour to Promote Driscoll’s Boycott Food Justice Boycott Sakuma Berries Alliance of Organizations for Social Justice (Mexican) Community to Community Development Facebook Page   Guests: Rosalinda Guillen is a widely recognized farm worker and rural justice leader. The oldest of eight she was born in Texas and spent her first decade in Coahuila Mexico. Her family emigrated to LaConner, Washington in 1960 and she began working as a farm worker in the fields in Skagit County at the age of ten. Ms. Guillen has worked within the labor movement with Caesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers of America and has represented farm workers in ongoing dialogues of immigration issues, labor rights, trade agreements, and strengthening the food sovereignty movement. She works to build a broader base of support for rural communities and sustainable agriculture policies that ensure equity and healthy communities for farm workers.     Edgar Franks lives in Bellingham, WA. He serves as the Civic Engagement Program Coordinator at Community to Community Development, working to engage supporters and develop a strategy that ensures the needs of the Farm Worker community are represented. Community to Community works on issues of Food Sovereignty through the lens of Farm Workers, with the goal of creating a politically conscious inter-sectional base that is fighting to create a local solidarity economy. Edgar currently represents Community to Community on the National Planning Committee for the US Social Forum and on the US Food Sovereignty Alliance. He is also on the National Leadership Team of Move to Amend.  0

Paul Engler is founding director of the Center for the Working Poor and one of the founders of Momentum Training. He is co-author of the new book: This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. 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!

Paul Engler is founding director of the Center for the Working Poor and one of the founders of Momentum Training. He is co-author of the new book: This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. 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, David Bollier joins us to explore the role of the Commons in using ancient and new practices to break free of the outdated, unsustainable economic systems of our world. Speaking about natural systems, digital commons, urban commoning, and some looming challenges over the patenting of genomes, smell, and "flows of natural systems", our conversation dives into uncharted territories and thrilling new possibilities. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: David Bollier is an activist and author (Think Like a Commoner). He is the cofounder of the Commons Strategies Group, and writes numerous articles and research pieces on the commons. www.bollier.org Related Links: David Bollier www.bollier.org Think Like A Commoner by David Bollier http://www.thinklikeacommoner.com/ Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons by David Bollier http://bollier.org/blog/now-published-green-governance-ecological-survival-human-rights-and-law-commons Elinor Ostrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom Elinor Ostrom "8 Principles for Managing the Commons" http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons Magna Carta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Public Social Partnerships / Public Commons Partnerships http://p2pfoundation.net/Public-Commons_Partnership City as Commons http://bollier.org/blog/city-commons-conference Enclosure Movement of England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure The Tragedy of the Commons - 1960s Garrett Harden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons Rebuttal of Tragedy of Commons By David Bollier: http://bollier.org/commons-political-transformation-and-cities By Yes Magazine about Elinor Ostrom's work:http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-victory-of-the-commons Farm Hack http://farmhack.org/tools Emergence and Complexity Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence Creative Commons Licensing http://creativecommons.org/ Patterns of Commoning (.org0 Commons Strategies Group http://commonsstrategies.org/#2 Commons Transition Plan http://commonstransition.org/ Nonviolence Interlude: Midland Revolt of 1607 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Revolt Cochabamba, Bolivia, Water Rights Struggle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org Featured Music by Matti Paalenenhttps://www.jamendo.com/album/149174/folk www.bollier.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/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, David Bollier joins us to explore the role of the Commons in using ancient and new practices to break free of the outdated, unsustainable economic systems of our world. Speaking about natural systems, digital commons, urban commoning, and some looming challenges over the patenting of genomes, smell, and "flows of natural systems", our conversation dives into uncharted territories and thrilling new possibilities. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: David Bollier is an activist and author (Think Like a Commoner). He is the cofounder of the Commons Strategies Group, and writes numerous articles and research pieces on the commons. www.bollier.org Related Links: David Bollier www.bollier.org Think Like A Commoner by David Bollier http://www.thinklikeacommoner.com/ Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons by David Bollier http://bollier.org/blog/now-published-green-governance-ecological-survival-human-rights-and-law-commons Elinor Ostrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom Elinor Ostrom "8 Principles for Managing the Commons" http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons Magna Carta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Public Social Partnerships / Public Commons Partnerships http://p2pfoundation.net/Public-Commons_Partnership City as Commons http://bollier.org/blog/city-commons-conference Enclosure Movement of England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure The Tragedy of the Commons - 1960s Garrett Harden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons Rebuttal of Tragedy of Commons By David Bollier: http://bollier.org/commons-political-transformation-and-cities By Yes Magazine about Elinor Ostrom's work:http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-victory-of-the-commons Farm Hack http://farmhack.org/tools Emergence and Complexity Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence Creative Commons Licensing http://creativecommons.org/ Patterns of Commoning (.org0 Commons Strategies Group http://commonsstrategies.org/#2 Commons Transition Plan http://commonstransition.org/ Nonviolence Interlude: Midland Revolt of 1607 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Revolt Cochabamba, Bolivia, Water Rights Struggle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org Featured Music by Matti Paalenenhttps://www.jamendo.com/album/149174/folk www.bollier.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/

When legislators here and abroad gave power to private bank interests to supply the money for their national economies, it was a thickly-veiled ruse that set the stage for complete debt subjection of all public interests. Our notional national debt levels are the proof.  So it is with great interest that we delve back into a continuing legal struggle over the Bank of Canada’s chartered responsibilities for interest-free public investment.  We remind you of some simple truths from 12-year old Victoria Grant about the Bank of Canada and Ellen’s guest, Dr. J. Ryan Collins, discusses the policy that foisted a change on B of C’s virtuous history. And as a legal maven himself, Matt Stannard reviews the benefits that reside even in failed legal challenges of this sort.

When legislators here and abroad gave power to private bank interests to supply the money for their national economies, it was a thickly-veiled ruse that set the stage for complete debt subjection of all public interests. Our notional national debt levels are the proof.  So it is with great interest that we delve back into a continuing legal struggle over the Bank of Canada’s chartered responsibilities for interest-free public investment.  We remind you of some simple truths from 12-year old Victoria Grant about the Bank of Canada and Ellen’s guest, Dr. J. Ryan Collins, discusses the policy that foisted a change on B of C’s virtuous history. And as a legal maven himself, Matt Stannard reviews the benefits that reside even in failed legal challenges of this sort.

This week, spring is in the air and so is a renewed call for justice, peace and freedom. But before we get to the front lines, let's take a look at what it means to be an activist and what makes a social movement successful. Next up, on the front lines – Code Pink wants you to stand up against the military industrial complex, and more precisely against the Saudi regime and the lobbying group, AIPAC. And finally, we can't all live off-the-grid, but we can all make changes that loosen our strong ties to a consumerist, overly commodified lifestyle. But first, I just gotta riff this right now. If you enjoy the show, please consider helping us create it! A coffee a month, an anonymous mask a month - help us keep acting out!  Site List:   bit.ly/MoyerMap bit.ly/Activist4Roles codepink.org/saudiarabia facebook.com/codepinkalert patreon.com/actout Read more at http://actout.libsyn.com/#d2r10d1qdeGJ4pyL.99

“Nonviolence has failed on a global level. It has proven to be a great friend to governments, political parties, police departments, and NGOs; and a traitor to our struggles for freedom, dignity, and well-being. The vast majority of its proponents have jumped ship to cozy up to the media, the state, or wealthy benefactors, using any cheap trick, manipulation, or form of violence (like attacking fellow protesters or helping the cops carry out arrests) that comes in handy to win the contest, even if it means the division or death of a movement. Many have proven themselves to be opportunists, politicians, or careerists. And a principled minority who actually have remained true to their historical movements still have not answered for past failings or current weaknesses.” -Peter Gelderloos.   Beats: “Start The Revolution” – Marcel Cartier “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It” – Ice Cube “Achievement” – G Eazy “Thirsty” – E-40 “Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix cover)” – Luna “Taxi Riddim” – Sly & Robbie   Cuts: “Can You Call It Love” – Rodrigo Starz “Rotten Fruit” – Araless “Never Loved Us” – Jasiri X “A Change Is Gonna Come” – T-Pain   Vocals: Mumia Abu-Jamal (prisonradio.org) on Solidarity, Lizzie Phelan on the REAL Syria, Sensei Lewis, Jacob Brown, and more, More, MORE…! Like what you hear? Like what you see? Tell 10 people to tell 10 people. And tell all of them to go to the right sidebar and click on “$upport!” right NOW. #SolidarityNotCharity #ShowAndProve #WakeUpGodDammit  

“Nonviolence has failed on a global level. It has proven to be a great friend to governments, political parties, police departments, and NGOs; and a traitor to our struggles for freedom, dignity, and well-being. The vast majority of its proponents have jumped ship to cozy up to the media, the state, or wealthy benefactors, using any cheap trick, manipulation, or form of violence (like attacking fellow protesters or helping the cops carry out arrests) that comes in handy to win the contest, even if it means the division or death of a movement. Many have proven themselves to be opportunists, politicians, or careerists. And a principled minority who actually have remained true to their historical movements still have not answered for past failings or current weaknesses.” -Peter Gelderloos.   Beats: “Start The Revolution” – Marcel Cartier “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It” – Ice Cube “Achievement” – G Eazy “Thirsty” – E-40 “Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix cover)” – Luna “Taxi Riddim” – Sly & Robbie   Cuts: “Can You Call It Love” – Rodrigo Starz “Rotten Fruit” – Araless “Never Loved Us” – Jasiri X “A Change Is Gonna Come” – T-Pain   Vocals: Mumia Abu-Jamal (prisonradio.org) on Solidarity, Lizzie Phelan on the REAL Syria, Sensei Lewis, Jacob Brown, and more, More, MORE…! Like what you hear? Like what you see? Tell 10 people to tell 10 people. And tell all of them to go to the right sidebar and click on “$upport!” right NOW. #SolidarityNotCharity #ShowAndProve #WakeUpGodDammit  

Economic Update: Economics of our Politics On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on Europe's new econ stimulus, French workers rally for job security, US airlines' rip-off fees. Response to question about govt blame for economic crisis since 2008. Major discussions on what capitalist profit is and on the basic economics of our political party system.

Economic Update: Economics of our Politics On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on Europe's new econ stimulus, French workers rally for job security, US airlines' rip-off fees. Response to question about govt blame for economic crisis since 2008. Major discussions on what capitalist profit is and on the basic economics of our political party system.

Prof. Wolff Examines The Presidential Candidates’ Positions on Economy PUBLISHED ON MARCH 18, 2016 Prof. Wolff joins Rob Lorei of WMNF, Tampa's community radio, and dissects the economics of higher tariffs of imported goods, as proposed by Donald Trump, the US corporate tax rate compared to other countries and the financial viability of an increased minimum wage.