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Lawrence Ferlinghetti – End Of Industrial Civilization (Archive) and Wild Dreams of a New Beginning

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TUC Archives – a 29 minute audio-documentary of a January 2010 art exhibition in the small former logging town of Willits, CA, with poems and paintings by Ferlinghetti; and collages, and photos from Indian reservations by Maria Gilardin.
The re-broadcast of this documentary was scheduled to honor Lawrence Ferlinghetti on his 102nd birthday, March 24. City Lights Publishers just announced that he died last night on February 22nd, 2021. They said that: “He continued to write and publish new work up until he was 100 years old .. His curiosity was unbounded and his enthusiasm was infectious, and we will miss him greatly.” – I agree.
Even though this is not the formal Obit Ferlinghetti deserves, I decided to present this [ . . . ]

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Vandana Shiva on the 250 Million People Strong Protest by Indian Farmers

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The 2020–2021 Indian farmers’ protest is an ongoing campaign against three farm laws which were passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020. National and international media have been heavily censoring what is now known as the largest peaceful and enduring protest in the history of social movements. It all began on November 26, 2020 in India. 250 million people stood together in a united worker/farmer strike. Farmer unions and their representatives demanded that the laws be repealed and will not accept anything short of it.
The laws, often called the Farm Bills, have been described as “anti-farmer laws”. They would leave farmers at the mercy of corporations with monopoly control over the purchase, pricing, and distribution of farm [ . . . ]

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Vandana Shiva on the 250 Million People Strong Protest by Indian Farmers

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The 2020–2021 Indian farmers’ protest is an ongoing campaign against three farm laws which were passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020. National and international media have been heavily censoring what is now known as the largest peaceful and enduring protest in the history of social movements. It all began on November 26, 2020 in India. 250 million people stood together in a united worker/farmer strike. Farmer unions and their representatives demanded that the laws be repealed and will not accept anything short of it.
The laws, often called the Farm Bills, have been described as “anti-farmer laws”. They would leave farmers at the mercy of corporations with monopoly control over the purchase, pricing, and distribution of farm [ . . . ]

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The Public Banking Revolution – Ellen Brown, Paul Jay and Richard Wolff

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Does Public Banking Work – Project Censored named The Public Banking Revolution one of the top 25 most censored stories of 2020. The independent media pointed out that a public banking system on a national scale could finance the Green New Deal, as Roosevelt’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation did. A state or city based Public Bank can keep money local and fund projects like affordable housing and infrastructure without concern for maximizing profits or shareholder returns. A living example for such a bank already exists for 100 years in the Bank of North Dakota.
Economist Richard Wolff appreciated Gov. Gavin Newsom’s approval of a bill allowing local governments in California to establish public banks. Wolff said if people only knew how public [ . . . ]

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The Public Banking Revolution – Ellen Brown, Paul Jay and Richard Wolff

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Does Public Banking Work – Project Censored named The Public Banking Revolution one of the top 25 most censored stories of 2020. The independent media pointed out that a public banking system on a national scale could finance the Green New Deal, as Roosevelt’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation did. A state or city based Public Bank can keep money local and fund projects like affordable housing and infrastructure without concern for maximizing profits or shareholder returns. A living example for such a bank already exists for 100 years in the Bank of North Dakota.
Economist Richard Wolff appreciated Gov. Gavin Newsom’s approval of a bill allowing local governments in California to establish public banks. Wolff said if people only knew how public [ . . . ]

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Black History Month – Fred Gray – Civil Rights Attorney for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King

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Who was the attorney for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement? Fred Gray, just out of law school, had made a commitment to destroy everything segregated in his home state of Alabama when he was in high school. Rosa Parks was only his second case, after Claudette Colvin, a teenager, who nine months earlier had been the first to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and in turn inspired Rosa Parks.
When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance, 26-year-old Martin Luther King was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray also became his and the movement’s lawyer. Gray’s [ . . . ]

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Black History Month – Fred Gray – Civil Rights Attorney for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King

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Who was the attorney for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement? Fred Gray, just out of law school, had made a commitment to destroy everything segregated in his home state of Alabama when he was in high school. Rosa Parks was only his second case, after Claudette Colvin, a teenager, who nine months earlier had been the first to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and in turn inspired Rosa Parks.
When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance, 26-year-old Martin Luther King was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray also became his and the movement’s lawyer. Gray’s [ . . . ]

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Prof. Michael Hudson on the Rentier Economy

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Polarization, Then a Crash In December 2020, Lynn Fries, founder and producer of GPEnewsdocs interviewed the economist Michael Hudson. Lynn’s focus is on the global political economy.
Among contemporary economists Michael Hudson uses and refines terms that explain the specific brand of today’s finance capitalism. That includes the acronym “FIRE” and the term “Rentier Economy”. The FIRE sector, says Hudson, stands for Finance, Insurance and Real Estate. Hudson uses the term to make clear that we are experiencing a huge power shift from industrial to finance capitalism.
Lynn Fries wrote in a brief introduction on her website that she wanted to explore with Michael Hudson how: “Allied with landlords and monopolists, this powerful finance sector is extracting economic [ . . . ]

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Prof. Michael Hudson on the Rentier Economy

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Polarization, Then a Crash In December 2020, Lynn Fries, founder and producer of GPEnewsdocs interviewed the economist Michael Hudson. Lynn’s focus is on the global political economy.
Among contemporary economists Michael Hudson uses and refines terms that explain the specific brand of today’s finance capitalism. That includes the acronym “FIRE” and the term “Rentier Economy”. The FIRE sector, says Hudson, stands for Finance, Insurance and Real Estate. Hudson uses the term to make clear that we are experiencing a huge power shift from industrial to finance capitalism.
Lynn Fries wrote in a brief introduction on her website that she wanted to explore with Michael Hudson how: “Allied with landlords and monopolists, this powerful finance sector is extracting economic [ . . . ]

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Prof. Michael Hudson and Paul Jay

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Financialization and De-Industrialization
Paul Jay, the former CEO of The Real News Network, now is founder and publisher of theAnalysis.news and President of Counterspin Films.
On November 2, 2020 he invited the renowned economist Michael Hudson on theAnalysis.news.
Michael Hudson is professor of economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. He’s also a former Wall Street analyst.
Jay and Hudson began by discussing whether Trump policies have brought jobs and industries back home – as Trump still claims. They also discuss the huge and mounting Covid related debt of ordinary people and the need for writing it down.
Michael Hudson elaborates on the difference in the amounts of money in the Covid stimulus plan [ . . . ]

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Prof. Michael Hudson and Paul Jay

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Financialization and De-Industrialization
Paul Jay, the former CEO of The Real News Network, now is founder and publisher of theAnalysis.news and President of Counterspin Films.
On November 2, 2020 he invited the renowned economist Michael Hudson on theAnalysis.news.
Michael Hudson is professor of economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. He’s also a former Wall Street analyst.
Jay and Hudson began by discussing whether Trump policies have brought jobs and industries back home – as Trump still claims. They also discuss the huge and mounting Covid related debt of ordinary people and the need for writing it down.
Michael Hudson elaborates on the difference in the amounts of money in the Covid stimulus plan [ . . . ]

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The Treaty of Ruby Valley and Goldmines on Shoshone Land

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In Honor of Western Shoshone Elder Carrie Dann – She passed on January 2, 2021
For over 40 years the Dann Sisters were keeping Shoshone tradition and land rights alive against formidable opposition: Expanding gold mines, confiscation of their horses and cattle by armed federal agents and nuclear testing and waste storage.
Christopher Sewall was Environmental Program Director of the Western Shoshone Defense Project from 1992-2005. He spoke at the entrance to the Nevada Test site at the Shoshone peace and anti nuclear gathering in May 2003 – unraveling the broken Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863.
We were broadcasting him on a micro power radio station LIVE into the high security area of the test site that was then administered by the [ . . . ]

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The Treaty of Ruby Valley and Goldmines on Shoshone Land

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In Honor of Western Shoshone Elder Carrie Dann – She passed on January 2, 2021
For over 40 years the Dann Sisters were keeping Shoshone tradition and land rights alive against formidable opposition: Expanding gold mines, confiscation of their horses and cattle by armed federal agents and nuclear testing and waste storage.
Christopher Sewall was Environmental Program Director of the Western Shoshone Defense Project from 1992-2005. He spoke at the entrance to the Nevada Test site at the Shoshone peace and anti nuclear gathering in May 2003 – unraveling the broken Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863.
We were broadcasting him on a micro power radio station LIVE into the high security area of the test site that was then administered by the [ . . . ]

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In Honor of Western Shoshone Elder Carrie Dann – She passed on January 2, 2021

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Who will Protect the Earth?
On January second, 2021 a message began traveling out from Crescent Valley, Nevada. Western Shoshone elder Carrie Dann had passed and joined her sister Mary in the Spirit World.
For over 40 years the Dann Sisters were keeping Shoshone tradition and land rights alive against formidable opposition: Expanding gold mines, confiscation of their horses and cattle by armed federal agents and nuclear testing and waste storage.
In honor and in memory of Carrie Dann I’m returning to recordings I made on Shoshone land. In June 2003 we came in support of the Danns against the recent violent armed raids by federal agents on their horses and cattle.
The traditional Shoshone held council in a camp at the base [ . . . ]

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In Honor of Western Shoshone Elder Carrie Dann – She passed on January 2, 2021

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Who will Protect the Earth?
On January second, 2021 a message began traveling out from Crescent Valley, Nevada. Western Shoshone elder Carrie Dann had passed and joined her sister Mary in the Spirit World.
For over 40 years the Dann Sisters were keeping Shoshone tradition and land rights alive against formidable opposition: Expanding gold mines, confiscation of their horses and cattle by armed federal agents and nuclear testing and waste storage.
In honor and in memory of Carrie Dann I’m returning to recordings I made on Shoshone land. In June 2003 we came in support of the Danns against the recent violent armed raids by federal agents on their horses and cattle.
The traditional Shoshone held council in a camp at the base [ . . . ]

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