Posts tagged “current events”
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Daybreak excerpt in the ColdType Reader
December 17, 2009
For anyone who still hasn’t read David Swanson’s Daybreak, check out the long excerpt from the book on the power of the judiciary currently running in the ColdType Reader:
The power to decide to kidnap people, disappear them, hang them by their wrists, electroshock their genitals, and hide them away from the world indefinitely simply does not exist in the Constitution. It did exist until 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment banned slavery. But it existed as a personal, nongovernmental power for any president of the land of the free who happened to own a bunch of human beings (the same power any Congress member or private citizen had). It never existed at all as part of the executive power of the president in his official capacity, as something on which he might openly or secretly spend public funds. To do so would have been, and still is, in violation of the Fourth through Eighth Amendments, which were ratified as the heart of the Bill of Rights (for non-slaves) in 1791.
Tags: coldtype reader, current events, david swanson, daybreak, excerpts, politics/government
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Ralph Nader interviewed by Cindy Sheehan
December 9, 2009
On November 30, 2009, Ralph Nader appeared on Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox to talk about government, materialism, and “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” Listen to the interview on YouTube below.
Tags: cindy sheehan, current events, fiction, only the super-rich can save us, radio, ralph nader
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Joel Berg at the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia
December 5, 2009
10:15am, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107. Conference registration is required. Panel discussion on “Community Food Security, Social Justice, and Sustainability in the City.” Other panelists include: Lisa Markowitz (Univ. of Louisville); Charles Price (UNC-Chapel Hill); Alice Wilson. For more information, see Joel Berg’s website.
Tags: alice wilson, All You Can Eat, charles price, conferences, current events, Joel Berg, lisa markowitz, pennsylvania, philadelphia
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Joel Berg panel discussion in Philadelphia: “Community Food Security, Social Justice, and Sustainability in the City”
December 5, 2009
December 5, 10:15am, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
Panel discussion on “Community Food Security, Social Justice, and Sustainability in the City.” Other panelists include Lisa Markowitz (Univ. of Louisville), Charles Price (UNC-Chapel Hill), and Alice Wilson.…
Tags: alice wilson, All You Can Eat, charles price, current events, discussions, Joel Berg, lisa markowitz, philadelphia
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David Swanson on GritTV with Laura Flanders / at McNally Jackson
December 2, 2009
Daybreak author David Swanson stormed through New York yesterday with two appearances: one on GritTV with Laura Flanders, the other at McNally Jackson Books with John Nichols and Mark Crispin Miller. Check out video of both below.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, grittv, john nichols, laura flanders, mark crispin miller, mcnally jackson, new york city, politics, videos
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David Swanson at McNally Jackson in New York City
December 1, 2009
December 1, 7pm, McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012. With Mark Crispin Miller.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, mcnally jackson, politics/government, q&a
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Ralph Nader at First Congregational Church of Stockbridge
November 28, 2009
November 28, 7pm, First Congregational Church of Stockbridge, Main Street, Rte 102, west of the Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, MA in the Berkshire Hills. Talk, Q&A, book signing. Admission free; donations in BerkShares welcomed. Co-sponsored by: E. F. Schumacher Society, The Orion Society, The Bookloft.
Tags: current events, fiction, first congregational church of stockbridge, massachussetts, only the super-rich can save us, q&a, ralph nader
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Warm Intentions, Meet Cold Reality: Joel Berg on Thanksgiving volunteering
November 25, 2009
From the New York Times article by Ariel Kaminer on volunteering to fight hunger on Thanksgiving:
What is the sound of one eye rolling? Call Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, and tell him you want to engage in that wonderful holiday tradition of volunteering on a soup line in the third week of November.
“Thanksgiving is to hunger groups what Halloween is to a costume company,” he said. “Sometimes people actually get mad at us when they call a day or two before Thanksgiving or a day or two before Christmas and want to volunteer, when in fact many of these agencies have waiting lists months in advance.” Out of fear of alienating anyone, Mr. Berg said, some places just make up work for people to do — even if it gets in the way of more important business.
Tags: All You Can Eat, articles, current events, Joel Berg, new york times, thanksgiving
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David Swanson in Los Angeles
November 23, 2009
November 23, 7:30pm, St. Bede’s Church in Mar Vista, 3590 Grand View Blvd., Los Angeles 90066. Sponsored by CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Westside Progressives, and Winograd for Congress.
Tags: california, codepink, current events, david swanson, daybreak, los angeles, politics/government, q&a
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David Swanson at Walnut Creek Community Center
November 22, 2009
November 22, 12:30pm, Walnut Creek Community Center, 1375 Civic Drive (in Civic Park), Walnut Creek CA, 94596. For more information (including other events on this date in the Bay Area), please see David’s website.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, politics/government, q&a
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David Swanson in Fresno, CA
November 21, 2009
November 21, 10:30am - 12pm, Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno, 2672 E. Alluvial Ave, Clovis CA. For more information, please see David’s website.
Tags: california, current events, david swanson, daybreak, fresno, politics/government, q&a
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David Swanson in Nevada City, CA
November 20, 2009
November 20, 7pm, Unitarian Universalists Community of the Mountains, 246 S. Church St., Grass Valley, CA.
Tags: california, current events, david swanson, daybreak, nevada city, politics/government, q&a
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David Swanson at the Avid Reader in Davis, CA
November 19, 2009
November 19, 6:30pm, Avid Reader Bookstore, 617 2nd Street, Davis, CA. For more information please see David’s website.
Tags: avid reader, california, current events, david swanson, davis, daybreak, politics/government, q&a
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Ralph Nader at Miami Book Fair International
November 17, 2009
On November 15, 2009, Ralph Nader appeared at the Miami Book Fair International to talk about “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!”, and about the power and uses of imagination. Take a look at a clip of his appearance on C-SPAN’s BookTV at the C-SPAN site.
Tags: current events, fiction, miami, miami book fair international, only the super-rich can save us, q&a, ralph nader, videos
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Joel Berg at the University of Illinois
November 16, 2009
November 16, 4:30pm, University of Illinois at Springfield, Student Life Building, One University Plaza, Springfield, IL, 62703.
Tags: All You Can Eat, current events, Joel Berg, q&a, university of illinois springfield
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Loretta Napoleoni: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?
November 11, 2009
From Loretta Napoleoni (author of Rogue Economics and the upcoming Terrorism and the Economy) at the Huffington Post:
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the US is losing the war in Afghanistan, a country that indirectly contributed to the break-up of the USSR. Where coalition forces today battle the Taliban and al Qaeda, in the 1980s, the Soviets fought the Mujahedeen — a Muslim army of volunteers that Moscow called terrorists. Fighting the anti-Soviet Jihad, a brutal war funded by the CIA and the Saudis, became too costly for bankrupt Moscow. In a painful and humiliating withdrawal, the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in February 1989, just a few months before the implosion of the Soviet System. Without that defeat we might not be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Cold War or a unified Europe today. Remarkably, the central Asian country of Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future.
Tags: afghanistan, articles, current events, economics, huffington post, loretta napoleoni, rogue economics, terrorism and the economy
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David Swanson at Martha’s Vineyard
November 7, 2009
November 7, 4-6pm, Oak Bluffs Library, 56R School St, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, martha's vineyard, massachussets, politics/government, q&a
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David Swanson at Longfellow Bookstore in Porland, Maine
November 6, 2009
November 6, 6pm, Longfellow Bookstore, 1 Monument Way, Portland, Maine. There will also be a rally at 5pm: for more information, see David’s website.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, longfellow bookstore, maine, politics/government, portland, q&a
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Joel Berg at the University of Arkansas
November 5, 2009
November 5, 7pm, Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas, Sturgis Hall, 1200 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72201.
Tags: All You Can Eat, current events, Joel Berg, q&a, university of arkansas
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David Swanson in Bangor, Maine
November 5, 2009
November 5, two events:
12:30 p.m. Talk on “Undoing the Imperial Presidency”
Bangor Room, Memorial Union, University of Maine, Orono, Maine7:00 p.m. evening talk on “Forming a More Perfect Union: Rights We’ve Lost and Rights We’ve Never Had”
Peace and Justice Center of…Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, maine, politics/government, q&a, university of maine
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David Swanson in Philadelphia
November 4, 2009
November 3-4, three events: please see David Swanson’s website for more information.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, philadelphia, politics/government, q&a, radio, university of the arts, villanova university
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Can the Rich Really Save Us? at In These Times
November 3, 2009
From Can the Rich Really Save Us?, a piece on Ralph Nader’s “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” at In These Times:
Only the rich? A book about billionaires giving their time and money to charity? From “America’s first citizen”? Has Ralph Nader lost his faith in grassroots organizing and activism?
Not at all, the perennial third-party presidential candidate replied. Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us is a utopian fantasy, not an ideological surrender. Its characters are real-life people (usually billionaires) like Warren Buffett, Bill Cosby, George Soros, Yoko Ono and Ted Turner, who are powerful enough to enact large-scale social change. Nader imagines them acting on behalf of the American people, and wonders what would happen if society’s wealthiest were “not just interested in charity, but real change.”
It is, in essence, Nader’s dream.
Tags: articles, current events, fiction, in these times, only the super-rich can save us, ralph nader
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Obama signs first-ever American pro-transgender legislation
October 29, 2009
From the National Center for Transgender Equality (and, at one remove, from Kate Bornstein’s Twitter:
President Obama has just signed into law the very first protections for transgender people in US history: The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Tags: current events, gender, obama
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Joel Berg at Northhampton Community College
October 27, 2009
October 27th, 3pm, Northhampton Community College, Bethlehem Campus, 3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem, PA 18020.
Tags: All You Can Eat, current events, Joel Berg, northhampton community college, q&a
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David Swanson: The Militarization of America’s Youth
October 27, 2009
From Daybreak author David Swanson’s article, The Militarization of America’s Youth:
“This is so cool! This is so cool!” a thirteen-year-old boy repeated as he squeezed rounds from a real M-16, picking off “enemy combatants” in a video game while perched atop a real Army Humvee. “I just came to the mall to skateboard but everyone said this was pretty cool. I just had to try it and it’s great!”
The person reporting on this youthful enthusiasm was Pat Elder, who serves on the Steering Committee of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth. Elder also described young teenagers congratulating each other for “killing ragheads” and “wiping out hajis.”
All of this fun went on at the Army Experience Center (AEC), a 14,500-square-foot “virtual educational facility” in the Franklin Mills Mall in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army opened the center in August 2008 and planned to run it for two years as a pilot program. If the center proved able to recruit as many new soldiers as five ordinary recruiting stations, the Army planned to build them nationally. The AEC cost more than $12 million to design and construct, but of course the Army spends several billion dollars a year on recruitment.
Tags: articles, current events, david swanson, daybreak, global research, military, politics/government
“current events” Posts
- Dec 17, Daybreak excerpt in the ColdType Reader
- Dec 9, Ralph Nader interviewed by Cindy Sheehan
- Dec 5, Joel Berg at the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia
- Dec 5, Joel Berg panel discussion in Philadelphia: “Community Food Security, Social Justice, and Sustainability in the City”
- Dec 2, David Swanson on GritTV with Laura Flanders / at McNally Jackson
- Dec 1, David Swanson at McNally Jackson in New York City
- Nov 28, Ralph Nader at First Congregational Church of Stockbridge
- Nov 25, Warm Intentions, Meet Cold Reality: Joel Berg on Thanksgiving volunteering
- Nov 23, David Swanson in Los Angeles
- Nov 22, David Swanson at Walnut Creek Community Center
- Nov 21, David Swanson in Fresno, CA
- Nov 20, David Swanson in Nevada City, CA
- Nov 19, David Swanson at the Avid Reader in Davis, CA
- Nov 17, Ralph Nader at Miami Book Fair International
- Nov 16, Joel Berg at the University of Illinois
- Nov 11, Loretta Napoleoni: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?
- Nov 7, David Swanson at Martha’s Vineyard
- Nov 6, David Swanson at Longfellow Bookstore in Porland, Maine
- Nov 5, Joel Berg at the University of Arkansas
- Nov 5, David Swanson in Bangor, Maine
- Nov 4, David Swanson in Philadelphia
- Nov 3, Can the Rich Really Save Us? at In These Times
- Oct 29, Obama signs first-ever American pro-transgender legislation
- Oct 27, Joel Berg at Northhampton Community College
- Oct 27, David Swanson: The Militarization of America’s Youth
