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

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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.

Abby Martin and Immortal Technique: On the Brink of Civil War

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Dandelion Salad

with Abby Martin

Empire Files on Jan 29, 2023

Legendary rapper Immortal Technique joins Abby to discuss the escalating tensions of the post-Trump era, the duopoly playing Americans, right-wing cooptation of conspiracy theory and deep-state critique, teaching real history and much more.

Christmas 1914: When Rank and File Imposed Truce During Imperialist War, by Henry Hagins + John McCutcheon: Christmas in the Trenches + Balls To War

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Watch the videos below

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by Henry Hagins
Workers World, Dec. 16, 2014
Originally published Dec. 24, 2015
December 22, 2022

The “Christmas Truce of 1914” was a short-lived, unofficial lull in combat between two antagonistic rival forces, determined to exercise military, political and economic supremacy over each other in Europe and in the colonized world, to which these imperial powers lay arrogant false claim. One of the bloodiest episodes in human history, World War I was largely played out on the battle-scarred lands of France and Belgium, starting in August of 1914.

Chris Hedges and Roger Waters: Ukraine, Palestine, Music and More

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Sep 30, 2022

Roger Waters, the British rock legend and co-founder of Pink Floyd, is in the midst of his “This Is Not A Drill” tour.

Roger Waters: War, Peace, and Music, with David Swanson and Todd Pierce + Roger Waters Uncut

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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
August 9, 2022

WorldBeyondWar.org on Aug 8, 2022

A webinar hosted by World BEYOND War on August 8, 2022, with Todd Pierce and David Swanson moderating.

Finian Cunningham: Julian: Let’s Take a Stand

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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
July 17, 2022

Finian Cunningham on Jul 11, 2022

Julian: Let’s Take a Stand, original song by journalist Finian Cunningham.

The Chris Hedges Report: Hip Hop, Censorship, and Palestinian Resistance with Lowkey

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Apr 29, 2022

Legendary UK-based hip-hop artist and activist Kareem Dennis, aka Lowkey, uses his considerable talents as a musician to pay homage to the voices and struggles of the oppressed, from the plight of migrants that have fled to Europe, to the suffering of Iraqis and Palestinians in the Middle East, to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017.

Keith Green: Easter Song + The Visual Bible: Matthew

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Dandelion Salad

Happy Easter!

previously posted March 23, 2008

wiredfortravel on Mar 22, 2008

Hallelujah, Jesus is alive! Produced for our Easter Service, 2008, to be a celebration of Jesus’ resurrection.

The Warmongers Miscalculated, by David Swanson

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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Feb. 5, 2022
February 7, 2022

Video from the White House on Saturday:

Christmas 1914: When Rank and File Imposed Truce During Imperialist War, by Henry Hagins + John McCutcheon: Christmas in the Trenches + Balls To War

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Watch the videos below

Dandelion Salad

by Henry Hagins
Workers World, Dec. 16, 2014
Originally published Dec. 24, 2015
December 23, 2021

The “Christmas Truce of 1914” was a short-lived, unofficial lull in combat between two antagonistic rival forces, determined to exercise military, political and economic supremacy over each other in Europe and in the colonized world, to which these imperial powers lay arrogant false claim. One of the bloodiest episodes in human history, World War I was largely played out on the battle-scarred lands of France and Belgium, starting in August of 1914.

Keith Green: Easter Song + The Visual Bible: Matthew

Image by John Crane via Flickr

Dandelion Salad

Happy Easter!

previously posted March 23, 2008

wiredfortravel on Mar 22, 2008

Hallelujah, Jesus is alive! Produced for our Easter Service, 2008, to be a celebration of Jesus’ resurrection.

Roger Waters: Threat of Nuclear War is Real + Two Suns in the Sunset

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goingundergroundRT on Jun 25, 2020

We speak to legendary former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters. He discusses the threat of nuclear war in 2020, why he believes nuclear weapons need to be abolished across the world, the Black Lives Matter protests which have swept the world since George Floyd’s murder at the hands of US police, the history of the British Empire which is under increased scrutiny, the United States’ regime change attempt in Venezuela against Nicolas Maduro, Israel’s coming illegal annexation of Palestine’s West Bank, the revelations that Julian Assange had fathered two children during his time in the Ecuadorean Embassy and more! He plays us out with ‘Two Suns in the Sunset’.

John Michael Talbot: He Is Risen + Pope Francis: Use Weapons of Love to Fight Evil of Terrorism + Royal Choral Society: Hallelujah Chorus in Isolation

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Dandelion Salad
Originally published Mar. 27, 2016
Updated: April 12, 2020

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

Chris Hedges: The Criminalization of Rap

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

RT America on Mar 21, 2020

On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to author and associate professor, Erik Nielson, about the criminalization of Rap.

David Byrne: Once in a Lifetime + Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (1984)

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Dandelion Salad

Sometimes you just have to dance!

Mixología Alterna on Feb 17, 2020

David Byrne live during his “American Utopia” tour at the Metropolitan Theater in Mexico City, 03 April 2018. Recorded by Sergio Rojas