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Adam Dierksmeier
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"(C)ommunity radio has always been more than music. It is also one of the few places where unheard voices can break through. Legacy media rarely carried Spanish- or Vietnamese-language programming, women-centered stories, or hometown news for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities. Community radio made room."
The Fight to Save Community Radio
The death of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting threatens a critical piece of U.S. civic infrastructure.
progressive.org
"Legal experts have questioned why the U.S. military is carrying out the strikes, instead of the Coast Guard, which is the main U.S. maritime law enforcement agency, and why other efforts to halt the shipments are not made before resorting to deadly strikes."
www.reuters.com
"...to fund EMS systems or CIHCS programs."
"Only 21 states designate EMS as an essential service, which puts it on par financially with firefighters or police. With that designation, states can allocate a funding source towards EMS agencies, such as a tax. But without that designation, there is no requirement for states..."
Better Rural Mental Health Care Is Under Our Nose. Why Can’t More Communities Use It?
There's a solution to addressing shortcomings in behavioral health systems in rural America. Yet many rural communities are unable to access it.
barnraisingmedia.com
Reposted by Adam Dierksmeier
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"...under the action of the IMF and the World Bank, to straighten it out when it failed to meet its financial obligations."
"Thanks to the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary, named after U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt and which explicitly authorized the use of military force, Washington assumed the power to adopt all necessary measures to “stabilize” a country or,..."
CIA activity against Venezuelan leaders revives specter of US interventionism in Latin America
The agency’s covert operations, which Trump confirmed last week, hark back to the coups, assassination attempts and insurgencies supported or carried out by Washington in the region during the 20th ce...
english.elpais.com
..."But he says he’ll maintain MAS-style benefits and take a gradual approach to free-market reforms, in hopes of avoiding a sharp recession or jump in inflation that would enrage the masses — as has happened before in Bolivia."
"Highlander’s position as a gathering place for Black and white labor and civil rights organizers made it a target for Red Scare paranoia, inciting attacks and probes from not only HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) but also the Southern press, the capitalist class and the FBI."
Weathering Backlash with Care Infrastructure
The Highlander Nursery School’s free socialist early childhood education helped sustain the Southern labor movement. Here’s what we can learn.
inthesetimes.com
""They are poor because wages are too low, because social protection is insufficient, and because small farmers do not receive a fair price for their products. Hunger is not a technical problem; it is a political one, and it can be eradicated.""
Olivier de Schutter: ‘A 2% tax on billionaires would provide social protection for 820 million people in low-income countries’
‘The money is there,’ says the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. ‘All that is needed is the political will’
english.elpais.com
Reposted by Adam Dierksmeier
The American Gestapo is getting more and more comfortable with their brutality and flouting of the law and constitution because they know they will never be held accountable for it.

America’s fascism is going to require an effort on par with war to correct and decades to accomplish.
A US citizen in Chicago was kidnapped by Border Patrol and dumped on the streets half a mile away. EVEN THOUGH HE WAS FILMING IT. They do not care about getting caught. They have no fear of accountability.
"Nineteen states operate farm to school food purchase programs similar to LFS (Local Food for Schools). After the federal program was cut in March, states, including Vermont, Connecticut, Alabama, Oklahoma and Minnesota stepped in to increase their funding."
Rural Schools Struggle to Rebuild Fresh Food Programs Cut by Trump
Without funding from the USDA, some states are stepping up to fund locally grown produce for rural school districts who could not afford it otherwise.
barnraisingmedia.com
"...transparent investigation,” Salvador Santino Regilme, an associate professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands said."
"“UNCLOS [United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea] and the 1988 UN Drug Trafficking Convention emphasise cooperation, boarding and consent mechanisms at sea, not summary destruction. Any strike that kills suspected traffickers should trigger a prompt, independent, and...
Trump approves CIA operations in Venezuela: What we know, and what’s next
Trump confirmed he has green-lit CIA covert operations in Venezuela, and that ground attacks might be next.
www.aljazeera.com
Reposted by Adam Dierksmeier
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
www.nytimes.com
"According to the Feeding America Map the Meal Gap tool, which uses the USDA report and other data to create an interactive map broken down by county, more than 60,000 Dane County residents experienced food insecurity in 2023, an additional 18,510 from 2019."
Madison-area food pantries say they'll miss federal hunger report
Dane County pantries like Second Harvest Food Bank used a now-canceled annual USDA report to track national trends in food insecurity.
captimes.com
"In 2024, about 1 in 8 people in Wisconsin received SNAP benefits, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. The average monthly benefit for a Wisconsin household was $161."
FoodShare, WIC benefits won't be fully funded come November if federal shutdown continues
More than 700,000 Wisconsin residents depend on the two affected programs.
www.jsonline.com
Reposted by Adam Dierksmeier
- It is legal to organize and fund protest.
- That someone organizes and funds promotion of a protest does not mean most, some, or any protesters are paid.
- Even if all protesters are paid, that is also legal
- It is good to oppose kings and fascism
- That's not what what "begs the question" means
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
..."In 2024 its budget was about $7.5 billion, most of which went directly to states for programs aimed at mental health issues and addiction."