Hampton Institute interview

Activist Radio has the following guest on this Thursday (5 - 6 pm):

GUEST: Colin Jenkins, researcher, political writer, and founder of the Hampton Institute, a working-class think tank named after Fred Hampton, talks about neoliberalism, the war economy, and his own political awakening as a US veteran.

https://hamptoninstitution.academia.edu/ColinJenkins

The interview can be heard live on Vassar College Radio 91.3 FM, or streamed from https://classwars.org. It will also be aired this Sunday on the Progressive Radio Network PRN.FM (5 - 6 pm). In addition, the interview will be available on the ClassWars.org website for the next ten weeks. Simply click on the date to hear it.

Sunday at 4 p.m. at Inquiring Minds Bookstore

I wanted to let you know about a talk happening this Sunday at 4 p.m. at Inquiring Minds Bookstore in New Paltz, highlighting the book, The Emergence of Ecosocialism: Collected Essays by Joel Kovel.  Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro and Dee Dee Halleck will be speaking.

The Emergence of Ecosocialism is the first book published posthumously by author, activist and scholar, Joel Kovel, who passed away on April 30, 2018. In 2001, Kovel co-authored “An Ecosocialist Manifesto,” launching a global movement with ancient roots and prophetic horizons. Since that time, dozens of books and hundreds of articles have been published on the subject. Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro and DeeDee Halleck will be reading excerpts from the book and fielding questions. Engel-Di Mauro is chief editor for the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism and co-founder with Joel Kovel of Ecosocialist Horizons. DeeDee Halleck is a media activist and founder of Paper Tiger television. 

Here's a link to a printable poster.  It would be great if some people from the Climate Action Coalition could make it!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f44h-Bb3erpSFkv-9PNqJyYVJBvwoIj15i-s4_1zDKM/edit?usp=sharing

~ Deborah Engel- Di Mauro

Who is left to stand for peace?

No level of U.S. aggression toward other nations is acceptable. However, this week's drone assassination of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani could launch our country’s war machine into overdrive at a scale we have not seen in some years. And that puts countless more lives in danger around the world.

Trump is a monster, a criminal and he is responsible for this attack. But the larger crisis, the crisis that brought us Trump in the first place, is the domination of our government by two parties who march to the beat drummed out by War and Wall Street. When the Republican and Democratic parties are both controlled by war hawks, who is left to stand for peace?

The Green Party, that’s who. Greens like you and me, standing together, as we always have. The threat of all-out war is real, and we need your contribution today if we’re going to be strong enough to stop it. War dollars flood the corporate parties. If enough decent people like you contribute — $35, $50, $75 or whatever you can afford — then we can beat back the drive to war.