John Michael Talbot: He Is Risen + Pope Francis: Let Us Pray for a More Widespread Culture of Nonviolence

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First video originally published Mar. 27, 2016
April 9, 2023

Happy Easter!

“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. — Mark 16:6

April: For a Nonviolent Culture

“Living, speaking, and acting without violence is not surrendering, losing or giving up anything, but aspiring to everything. As Saint John XXIII said 60 years ago in his Encyclical Pacem in Terris, war is madness. It’s beyond reason. Any war, any armed confrontation, always ends in defeat for all. Let us develop a culture of peace."

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Lee Camp and David Cobb: Imagining A World Beyond Capitalism

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April 8, 2023

“We have to come to terms with the fact that these transnational corporations globally and the empire for which the U.S is the capital of corporate Empire—they’re literally going to destroy the planet if we do not stop, interrupt, and transition. And to be clear, the window to do that is literally closing before our very eyes.” — David Cobb

MintPress News on Apr 7, 2023

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/08/lee-camp-and-david-cobb-imagining-a-world-beyond-capitalism/

Chris Hedges and Margaret Flowers: COVID-19 Isn’t ‘Over’—But Your Medicaid Might Be

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April 7, 2023

with Chris Hedges and Margaret Flowers

TheRealNews on Apr 7, 2023

Dr. Margaret Flowers joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the toll that COVID denialism will have on our society, and the generally outrageous state of US healthcare.

The national emergency and public health emergency declarations related to the COVID-19 pandemic will terminate on May 11, 2023. These emergency declarations, in place since 2020, waived or modified requirements in a range of areas, including in the Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP programs, as well as in private health insurance.

The end of these special measures will see between 5 and 14 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. More than 30 million Americans already don’t have health insurance and millions more are underinsured.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/07/chris-hedges-and-margaret-flowers-covid-19-isnt-over-but-your-medicaid-might-be/

Peter Carter: There’s No Incentive To Use Warfare If You Have A Renewable Energized Planet

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theAnalysis-news on Mar 13, 2023

Why net zero commitments are empty and dangerously misleading if we continue to burn fossil fuels. Talia Baroncelli speaks to retired physician and IPCC climate expert Peter Carter about how ongoing wars, illegal mineral wealth extraction in active conflict zones, and the plunder of resources by transnational corporations are literally killing the planet.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/06/peter-carter-theres-no-incentive-to-use-warfare-if-you-have-a-renewable-energized-planet/

I Can’t Imagine Maine Without Moose, by Rivera Sun

by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 5, 2023

At the post office, my neighbor rolled down the window of his pick-up truck to chat. As is typical in Northern Maine this time of year, we praised the sunlight, warmth, bare patches of ground, and eyed the shrinking snowbanks with delight.

“Winter wasn’t so bad, this year,” he weighed in, “not like it used to be.”

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/i-cant-imagine-maine-without-moose-by-rivera-sun/

Following Murder of Dr. King: Lessons of the April 1968 Black Rebellions, by Sam Marcy

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by Sam Marcy
Workers World, Apr. 4, 2023
April 4, 2023

Following are excerpts from an article published on April 11, 1968, in WW newspaper, by Workers World Party founding Chairperson Sam Marcy, a week after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in Memphis, Tennessee.

The rebellions which opened spontaneously upon the heels of the announcement of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were so widespread that they had an almost universal character throughout the length and breadth of this land. The magnitude and depth of the uprisings were so great that President Johnson had to cancel his Vietnam conference in Honolulu to attend to the crisis here — a sure sign that, for the moment at least, the war of liberation at home took precedence over the war of liberation waged by the Vietnamese people abroad.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/following-murder-of-dr-king-lessons-of-the-april-1968-black-rebellions-by-sam-marcy/

The Real Paul Makinen? by David R. Yale, Reviewed by Diane Donovan

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Sent to DS by the author, David R. Yale

by Diane Donovan
Midwest Book Review Bookwatch, Aug. 10, 2022
April 3, 2023

The Real Paul Makinen?
By David R. Yale
A Healthy Relationship Press, LLC
978-0-9791766-0-9,  978-0-9791766-1-6,  978-0-9791766-3-0
www.DavidRYale.Com

The Real Paul Makinen? is a novel not for those seeking quick reads, but is highly recommended for readers not daunted by complex, in-depth probes of emotional relationships, from family and work to potential loved ones.

Set in three parts, it introduces the milieu of Minneapolis in the early 1970s, where the 19-year-old Paul receives his draft notice, refuses to go, and is summarily thrown out of his parents’ house.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/03/the-real-paul-makinen-by-david-r-yale-reviewed-by-diane-donovan/

Ralph Nader and Nomi Prins: Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever

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April 2, 2023

with Ralph Nader

We are joined for the full hour by geopolitical financial expert and financial historian, Nomi Prins, to discuss her new book, Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever, which highlights the huge gap between the high-flying stock market, versus back down here on earth, where average people struggle to make ends meet.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/02/ralph-nader-and-nomi-prins-permanent-distortion-how-financial-markets-abandoned-the-real-economy-forever/

Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai: Did Big Banks Take Over the Treasury?

by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 1, 2023

Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the US banking crisis in this episode of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/01/michael-hudson-and-radhika-desai-did-big-banks-take-over-the-treasury/

Chris Hedges and Lori Grinker: Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict and Mike Tyson

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March 31, 2023

with Chris Hedges

I first encountered Lori Grinker’s remarkable work as a photographer in her book Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict, where a century of war is represented by and through portraits of individuals and their haunting stories of war.

Her other books include Dear Grinkers, a photographic series on diaspora, Six Days From Forty, an installation revolving around her brother’s life and his death from AIDS, and A Portrait of Audrey and All the Little Things, which considers her mother’s struggles with cancer and dementia in documentary and still life images.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/chris-hedges-and-lori-grinker-afterwar-veterans-from-a-world-in-conflict-and-mike-tyson/ 

The Latest Offensive From U.S. Imperialism: The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, by Pete Dolack

by Pete Dolack
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Systemic Disorder, Mar. 29, 2023
March 30, 2023

As production is moved to ever more distant locales, with ever lower labor and environmental standards, the corporations behind these moves want all barriers to the movement of raw materials and finished products removed. Thus the era of so-called “free trade” agreements. These agreements, which are written to elevate corporations to the level of national governments (and in practice, actually above governments), have become so unpopular thanks to the efforts of grassroots activists to expose them to public scrutiny that governments have become cautious about embracing new ones.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/03/30/the-latest-offensive-from-u-s-imperialism-the-indo-pacific-economic-framework-by-pete-dolack/

Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Meditation about Empathy on a Dying World, by Kenn Orphan

by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
March 29, 2023

Recently, I’ve been listening to The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy, by American composer Christopher Tin. [Video below] It is an arrangement based on the poems of Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Christina Rossetti. It is sung beautifully by Voces8 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Tin composed this marvelous arrangement as a memorial to various bird species that have been driven to extinction by habit loss, pollution and encroachment. The pieces soar and dive in a powerful rollercoaster of emotion, especially when one has been a student of extinction for as long as I have.

continued at https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-a-meditation-about-empathy-on-a-dying-world-by-kenn-orphan/

Striking Education Workers Help Teach a City about Inequality, by Andrew Moss

by Andrew Moss
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 28, 2023

For three days, 30,000 education workers struck the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second-largest in the nation. Bus drivers, special education assistants, custodians, food service workers, and gardeners stayed off the job, joined in solidarity by the 35,000 members of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA). By Friday, March 24, the workers’ union, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 99, had attained a tentative agreement with the district, securing 30 percent wage or more increases for the lowest paid workers.

continued at https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/03/28/striking-education-workers-help-teach-a-city-about-inequality-by-andrew-moss/

9500 Liberty

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July 4, 2012

9500 LIBERTY documents the first time in U.S. history that an Arizona-style immigration law was actually implemented—and the surprising grassroots opposition that led to its repeal.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/9500-liberty-2009/ 

James Bamford: Inside the NSA’s Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center + Thomas Drake Prevails in Unprecedented Obama Admin Crackdown

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March 21, 2012

"A new exposé in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program code-named “Stellar Wind.” We speak with investigative reporter James Bamford who says the NSA has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas."

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