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This week: Break Free from fossil fuels, rebel against the fracking infrastructure, glean some inspiration from our European anti-corporate coup comrades and join the fight against lame ducks and their sneaky deals. Finally, Raed Jarrar has lived our Middle East policy and is now working to change it. But first, lunacy's loop: god and war. 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: breakfree2016.orgusa.breakfree2016.orgbeyondextremeenergy.orgflushthetpp.orgflushthetpp.org/nolameduck/ Read more at http://actout.libsyn.com/#SFByZfXv6CvtkRcU.99

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.

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.

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.

Talk Nation Radio: Jean Trounstine and Karter Reed on Murder, Juvenile Injustice, and Redemption   Jean Trounstine is the author of Boy With a Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner's Fight for Justice. Karter Reed is the subject of and the author of the Epilogue to the book. He was convicted of murder as a child in an adult court, and was sent to adult prison. Trounstine and Reed discuss Reed's story and U.S. policies on juvenile crime. 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: Jean Trounstine and Karter Reed on Murder, Juvenile Injustice, and Redemption   Jean Trounstine is the author of Boy With a Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner's Fight for Justice. Karter Reed is the subject of and the author of the Epilogue to the book. He was convicted of murder as a child in an adult court, and was sent to adult prison. Trounstine and Reed discuss Reed's story and U.S. policies on juvenile crime. 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, Kit Miller from the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Rochester, NY, discusses how to ground huge philosophies of nonviolence, permaculture, and systems change, into tangible, hands-on action in local neighborhoods for powerful, transformative change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Kit Miller is the Director of the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Rochester, NY. She is a mother and step-mother, and works on applications of nonviolence to projects related to racism, restorative justice, and sustainability. Related Links: Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/ Please see our email for more links to today's show: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Music: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org This week's featured music is "Walking Each Other Home" by Jenny Bird from her Sage Songs CD. You can find her wonderful music atwww.jennybird.com

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Kit Miller from the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Rochester, NY, discusses how to ground huge philosophies of nonviolence, permaculture, and systems change, into tangible, hands-on action in local neighborhoods for powerful, transformative change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Kit Miller is the Director of the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Rochester, NY. She is a mother and step-mother, and works on applications of nonviolence to projects related to racism, restorative justice, and sustainability. Related Links: Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/ Please see our email for more links to today's show: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Music: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org This week's featured music is "Walking Each Other Home" by Jenny Bird from her Sage Songs CD. You can find her wonderful music atwww.jennybird.com

This episode takes a look at that elusive idea of defining what art is. Where does that spark of creativity come from? What drives human beings to take an idea from our mind and create something in the physical world? As a starting point for this conversation we take a look back throughout history to see what people far smarter than all of us have to say about art and the role of art within human society. At a very basic level, any art (both good and bad) is just the product of a human being expressing something that first occurred in the mind. In fact, the majority of art is never put on display in a gallery. The society in which we live defines the value of art for us and determines what is displayed in a gallery. However, maybe the 'value' of art should be a personal definition. We then hear from a working artist on the dilemma between making a living from art, but also being able to artistically develop and explore with that fear in the back of your mind that 'no one will buy this'. How exactly does tying commerce (capitalism) to art affect the art? And, on the other end of that question, how does it affect the definition of art in the mind of the consumer of that art? In previous generations, art was produced and boundaries were pushed due to a societal circumstance that we no longer experience - boredom. When we have the ability to entertain ourselves 24/7, we are never bored. Without the presence of boredom, we are never forced to entertain ourselves. To create something from nothing. There is current scientific data that shows human creativity is on the decline (specifically in the USA) due to our lack of being bored. The good news is that the solution is simple and fun. We all just have to play and explore a lot more. Rhyme intended. Song Credits: Land of 7 Billion Dances - The Coup Come and Check Your Head - Blue King Brown All's Fair in Love and Dubstep - Skrillix Vitamin C - Can All That You Paid For - Falling Sickness Boredom - S.T.U.N. Brand New Colony - The Postal Service On the Corner - Miles Davis $o$ - Die Antwoord Only Getting Younger - Elliphant

This episode takes a look at that elusive idea of defining what art is. Where does that spark of creativity come from? What drives human beings to take an idea from our mind and create something in the physical world? As a starting point for this conversation we take a look back throughout history to see what people far smarter than all of us have to say about art and the role of art within human society. At a very basic level, any art (both good and bad) is just the product of a human being expressing something that first occurred in the mind. In fact, the majority of art is never put on display in a gallery. The society in which we live defines the value of art for us and determines what is displayed in a gallery. However, maybe the 'value' of art should be a personal definition. We then hear from a working artist on the dilemma between making a living from art, but also being able to artistically develop and explore with that fear in the back of your mind that 'no one will buy this'. How exactly does tying commerce (capitalism) to art affect the art? And, on the other end of that question, how does it affect the definition of art in the mind of the consumer of that art? In previous generations, art was produced and boundaries were pushed due to a societal circumstance that we no longer experience - boredom. When we have the ability to entertain ourselves 24/7, we are never bored. Without the presence of boredom, we are never forced to entertain ourselves. To create something from nothing. There is current scientific data that shows human creativity is on the decline (specifically in the USA) due to our lack of being bored. The good news is that the solution is simple and fun. We all just have to play and explore a lot more. Rhyme intended. Song Credits: Land of 7 Billion Dances - The Coup Come and Check Your Head - Blue King Brown All's Fair in Love and Dubstep - Skrillix Vitamin C - Can All That You Paid For - Falling Sickness Boredom - S.T.U.N. Brand New Colony - The Postal Service On the Corner - Miles Davis $o$ - Die Antwoord Only Getting Younger - Elliphant

Episode 610 May 6, 2016 This week: A wall is a wall until it's – the sky? Ana Teresa Fernandez shows us how we might view things differently, simply through the application of color. Next up, I'm not one to celebrate a corporatized holiday but this mother's day, leave the chocolates behind and stand up for peace. And finally, ever wonder where the idea for our militarized police came from? Trial, error and a determined piece of low life scum. But first, poetry Can.   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: anateresafernandez.com codepink.org   Read more at http://actout.libsyn.com/#a70TUstCHL7LV4GL.99

All Power To The Positive! Vol#6, Episode #9  by wakeupgoddammit   “Our mission is to do the work…Build power by building institutions, serve people, (re)educate the mind to cultivate a revolutionary consciousness, establish hope & peace by meeting people where they are at, develop allies who support Black liberation, transform predators into protectors, be collectively self-sufficient, develop a cadre of leaders/neighbor organizers that can work closely together or independent if need be, promote self-images of ourselves and establish concrete programs that is not only meeting the immediate needs of the people but is ultimately building a mass movement of people that is becoming organized to seize power!” – Yusef Bunchy Shakur. Beats: “Start The Revolution” – Marcel Cartier “I Took A Pill At Ibiza” – Mike Posner “American Greed” –  AraabMUZIK “My House” – Flo Rida “I Mean It” – G Eazy “Middle” – DJ Snake “Groove Grease” – Jimmy McGriff “Takeover” – Lion Riddims “A Milli” – Lil Wayne   Cuts: “Afrika Hot” – dead prez “Never Give Up” – Jennifer Johns “Whisper” – Ronnie Rain “A Change Is Gonna Come” – Humphrey   Vocals: Jay-Z (freestyle), 6 Facts About The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Dr. Jared Ball on Colonialism in The U.$., and MORE…! Click on the image (above) to learn about the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Click here to learn why the U.$. is NOT ‘your’ land.  Click here to watch the history of May Day.Click here and here to learn how to help yourself to housing in [gentrified] Seattle.

All Power To The Positive! Vol#6, Episode #9  by wakeupgoddammit   “Our mission is to do the work…Build power by building institutions, serve people, (re)educate the mind to cultivate a revolutionary consciousness, establish hope & peace by meeting people where they are at, develop allies who support Black liberation, transform predators into protectors, be collectively self-sufficient, develop a cadre of leaders/neighbor organizers that can work closely together or independent if need be, promote self-images of ourselves and establish concrete programs that is not only meeting the immediate needs of the people but is ultimately building a mass movement of people that is becoming organized to seize power!” – Yusef Bunchy Shakur. Beats: “Start The Revolution” – Marcel Cartier “I Took A Pill At Ibiza” – Mike Posner “American Greed” –  AraabMUZIK “My House” – Flo Rida “I Mean It” – G Eazy “Middle” – DJ Snake “Groove Grease” – Jimmy McGriff “Takeover” – Lion Riddims “A Milli” – Lil Wayne   Cuts: “Afrika Hot” – dead prez “Never Give Up” – Jennifer Johns “Whisper” – Ronnie Rain “A Change Is Gonna Come” – Humphrey   Vocals: Jay-Z (freestyle), 6 Facts About The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Dr. Jared Ball on Colonialism in The U.$., and MORE…! Click on the image (above) to learn about the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Click here to learn why the U.$. is NOT ‘your’ land.  Click here to watch the history of May Day.Click here and here to learn how to help yourself to housing in [gentrified] Seattle.

Economic Update: Poverty and the US Economy by Richard Wolff. On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on slow US economy, money drives Yale, Chobani workers get profits, more car corps scandal, and Christian/Marxist dialogue. Interview with anti-poverty activist Rob Robinson. 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.