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This week: Meet the people making a killing off of death plus the how and why gun owners are pro gun control and WHY gun control is the only common sense policy available. Next up, the stand against fracked gas and oil pipelines is a national fight, being fought on local levels by activists all over the political and social spectrum -- and here's how you can get involved. But first – shots fired.    If you enjoy the show, please become a patron! A coffee a month, a bushel of organic kale a month - help us keep acting out!  Site List: bravenewfilms.org/makingakilling http://bit.ly/BoldIowa rezpectourwater.com/ nobakken.com/ facebook.com/CampoftheSacredStone stopspectra.org resistthepipeline.org/ Read more at http://actout.libsyn.com/#lrvDpi9T6gC0WFdv.99

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

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!  

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.

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.

Project Fatherhood uses support, education and outreach to engage fathers and build community. Next up, embracing hypocrisy in our fight against hypocrisy and finally, a look at toxic prisons and the prisoners who've experienced them. But first – we are but creatures of habit, keepers of time.    If you enjoy the show, please become a patron! A coffee a month, a bushel of organic kale a month - help us keep acting out!    Site List: projectfatherhood.org http://bit.ly/ElectionMPN fighttoxicprisons.org Read more at http://actout.libsyn.com/#aF182s0qXeXgM4Co.99

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.

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 (continued)

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 (continued)

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!

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/