Two New Nygaard Notes: State of U.S. Democracy and On Climate

Nygaard Notes Independent Periodic News and Analysis Number 570, January 26, 2015 On the Web at http://www.nygaardnotes.org/ ****** “Quote” of the Week: “Inequality Unlike Anything Seen in Recent Years” The Third Big Theme of the Year 2014: The State of U.S. Democracy Voting, Money, and Having a Say Equal Rights for All? ****** Nygaard Notes More

Popular Resistance: Fifteen Core Issues the Country Must Face

PopularResistance.org These are fifteen core issues that are in crisis in the United States. This list was developed during the organizing process for the Occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC. There are solutions to each of these crises and many of them are supported by a majority of the population, but instead of considering More

▶ Reasons US Should Stay Out of New Iraq War

On June 18, 2014 the weekly bridge vigil on the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Peace Bridge, Minneapolis/St. Paul, focused on No New War on Iraq. These are the words of some of the peace advocates who stood on the bridge that day for an hour and heard the positive response to their vigil/picket line from people More

▶ Sunday Song — Rising Appalachia: Scale Down

[youtube=http://youtu.be/Bmr5rdaemYk] Reposted from Organizing Notes  June 22, 2014 Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook!  Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today.  Rise Up Times is also on  Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr.  Find us on Twitter at Rise Up Times (@touchpeace).  

Steve Russell: ALEC Threatening Indian Country

Beware of the Smart ALEC:  The Lobbyists Threatening Indian Country Steve Russell  ResistPrivatationofAmerica  16 February 2014 The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is God’s gift to corporate America, tying it directly to elected legislators and providing the vehicle for the interests of corporate persons to trump the interests of human persons What ALEC “exchanges” are model More

▶ Chris Hedges: The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies

In this speech, which he gave in Santa Monica, Calif., and other cities last year, Chris Hedges talks about the existential challenges faced by the human species. [youtube=http://youtu.be/uAo7ky1kq-Q] By Chris Hedges  Posted on Apr 13, 2014  truthdig.com Truthdig Editor's Note: The following is the transcript of a speech that Chris Hedges gave in Santa Monica, Calif., on Oct. 13, More

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Robert Jensen

Robert Jensen Professor, Author: b. 1958 "This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have failed to care for it. And as our collective contempt for the non-human world has intensified, so has our contempt for each other. We have More

▶ Blue Man Group video “Earth To America!” [Music]

[youtube=http://youtu.be/QM-mfEMssy8] Thanks to Bruce Gagnon, Organizing Notes Sunday Song Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Find us on Twitter at Rise Up Times (@touchpeace). Rise Up Times is also on  Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr.  nicklezinUploaded on Jan 27, 2006 You More

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