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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Apr 4, 2020
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, about the death of the US Constitution.
Chris Hedges: The Death Of The US Constitution
Constitution
Chris Hedges: The Importance of Howard Zinn
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with Chris Hedges and Howard Zinn
RT America on Jan 25, 2020
On the show this week Chris Hedges discusses the importance of historian, Howard Zinn, for a fuller understanding of American history, with author and journalist, Ray Suarez.
Testimony for the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service + Draft Registration Will Be Either Ended or Imposed on Women by David Swanson
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
April 17, 2019
I was more surprised that your commission contacted me with a kind-of, sort-of invitation to speak than that you ultimately decided not to include me. I thank you for inviting me to submit testimony.
Paul Street: Reflections on the Absurdity of the U.S. Constitution
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with Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Official Website of Paul Street
March 25, 2019
“The Democratic Party isn’t about social and economic justice, democracy or ecological survival. It isn’t even mainly about winning elections, it’s about serving and colluding with corporate sponsors and climbing the neoliberal capitalist oligarchy. Think Bill (NAFTA) Clinton, the multi-millionaire head of The Clinton Foundation, think Barack (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Obama who has entered the economic oligarchy now as a reward to his dutiful service to the nation’s unelected dictatorship of capital.”
Michael Parenti: Capitalism vs. Reality (2015) + Michael Parenti on Bernie Sanders
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with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published November 20, 2017
February 28, 2019
“Capitalism has given us neither democracy nor prosperity.” — Michael Parenti
The Tools Of Nonviolent Struggle Should Never Lose Their Edge
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The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
January 6, 2019
The tools of nonviolent action and the skills of struggle are as vital to these times as reading, writing, and arithmetic. Training to use them is as essential as learning how to use a computer. The ability to boycott and strike is as important as the ability to drive a car. Every citizen who knows how to use email should also know how to protest, walk-out, shut-down, occupy, blockade, and more. This is the only way the power of the people can hold the power of oligarchs in check.
I Call For A Constitution 2.0
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The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
December 16, 2018
If we, the people, wrote a constitution now, what would go in it? Equal rights for women, men, non-binary, and undefined? Caps on wealth tied to poverty levels? Rights of nature? Reparations for past crimes, wrongs, and thefts? Limits on military spending? A free and open Internet? Abolition of mass incarceration, or the entire prison system; replaced with restorative and community justice? Free healthcare for all? Living wages or universal basic income? Would we keep corporate personhood or the electoral college?
The Openly Plutocratic Domination of U.S. Politics by Paul Street
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by Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Official Website of Paul Street
November 14, 2018
So often, underlying structures and institutions of oppression escape serious scrutiny amid our country’s most high-profile political dramas. Take the recent conviction of Jason Van Dyke, the white Chicago police officer caught on tape four years ago firing 16 shots into 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader: Liberals Are Not Progressives–They Are Into Empire and Corporate Welfare
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with Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader
RT America on June 23, 2018
Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate and former Presidential Candidate, discusses American Mythology with Chris Hedges.
Michael Parenti: Free Speech In The Face Of Oppression + Free Speech – At A Price by Michael Parenti
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by Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published Sept. 4, 2011
April 26, 2018
48South7th on Aug 31, 2011
Author Michael Parenti challenges his audience to learn about and advocate free speech in the face of oppression. From the origins of the Bill of Rights up to today’s challenges by the FBI and other government entities, Parenti says, it is essential to stand up for one’s rights. He spoke at an event sponsored by the South Bay Committee Against Political Repression.
The Problem is Civil Obedience by Howard Zinn + Matt Damon Reads from Howard Zinn’s Speech
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by Howard Zinn
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Previously published on November 25, 2013
March 22, 2018
[By the latter part of May, 1970, feelings about the war in Vietnam had become almost unbearably intense. In Boston, about a hundred of us decided to sit down at the Boston Army Base and block the road used by buses carrying draftees off to military duty. We were not so daft that we thought we were stopping the flow of soldiers to Vietnam; it was a symbolic act, a statement, a piece of guerrilla the after. We were all arrested and charged, in the quaint language of an old statute, with “sauntering and loitering” in such a way as to obstruct traffic.
“An Idiot Surrounded by Clowns”: Why Trump (Still) Sits in the White House by Paul Street + Max Blumenthal on Fire and Fury, Clinton Probe, and Russiagate
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by Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Official Website of Paul Street
Previously published at Counterpunch
January 6, 2018
Most of the media’s attention on journalist Michael Wolff’s “explosive” new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House has focused on the disclosure that Trump’s former political strategist Steve Bannon used the words “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” to describe Donald Trump, Jr. and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner’s infamous June 2016 meeting with Russians claiming to possess damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
Michael Parenti: Capitalism vs. Reality (2015)
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with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
November 20, 2017
anti-imperialism on Oct 31, 2017
Springfield, Illinois, 6th October 2015.
This took ages to upload and the audio might be a bit loud or quiet at some points, sorry.
Pull Down That Statue of the U.S. Constitution by David Swanson
Image by Brad Dougherty via Flickr
with David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
September 17, 2017
Nobody, not racist warmakers, not imaginary non-racist warmakers, not founding fathers, not radical protesters should be made into a deity, larger than life, in marble or bronze, on horseback or otherwise. Nobody is that flawless, and nobody’s story so withstands the test of time. We need human-sized statues and memorials of whole movements.
Will the Federal Civil Service Defend Us? by Ralph Nader
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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
August 8, 2017
As the Trump wrecking crew ramps up its destructive campaign against federal health and safety protections and social services for impoverished, disabled and vulnerable people (young and old) the latest targets of their ire are the federal civil servants who faithfully keep our government functioning here and abroad.
