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This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Tore Naerland who is the founder and since 1977 has been the president of Bike For Peace, a Norwegian-based peace organization that works to organize peace rides on bicycles all over the world. They collaborate with various peace organizations, schools, and universities to promote and focus on the work in the struggle against nuclear weapons. See https://bikeforpeace.no
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This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with Kevin B. Smith who is the author of the brand new book The Jailer’s Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America. Smith is also the Leland and Dorothy H. Olson Chair of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The book shows that incarceration rates vary dramatically by state, within the United States, and that several factors correlate significantly with variations in those rates.
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about the illegality of the war in Gaza and the utility or lack thereof of international law. Our guest John Quigley is Professor emeritus of international law at Ohio State University, Quigley's books include The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict (Cambridge University Press).
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This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with portrait painter Robert Shetterly whose website is americanswhotellthetruth.org. Robert’s paintings and prints are in collections all over the U.S. and Europe. For more than 20 years he has been painting the series of portraits Americans Who Tell the Truth. These portraits have been traveling around the country since 2003. Venues have included everything from university museums and grade school libraries to sandwich shops, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, and the Superior Court in San Francisco. To date, the exhibits have visited 35 states. In 2005, Dutton published a book of the portraits by the same name. In 2006, the book won the top award of the International Reading Association for Intermediate non-fiction. New Village Press in New York City is currently publishing a series of themed books on the portraits. Each volume contains 50 portraits. The first two were Portraits of Racial Justice (2021) and Portraits of Earth Justice (2022). The new one is Portraits of Peacemakers: https://nyupress.org/9781613322567/portraits-of-peacemakers
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This week on Talk World Radio: Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma surgeon who volunteered for two weeks in March and April at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. He is one of 99 doctors who recently signed an open letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris that estimated Palestinian war deaths in Gaza at no less than 118,908. He is also the author of an October 9th article in the New York Times based on his surveying of 65 healthcare workers, documenting -- among much else -- that Israeli soldiers are regularly shooting children in the head and chest.
The New York Times article discussed:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html
The letter discussed:
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the November 3rd 1979 Greensboro Massacre in Greensboro, North Carolina, with Aran Shetterly, the author of a brand new book on the topic, titled MORNINGSIDE: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul.
To join an online bookclub with Aran Shetterly, go to:
https://worldbeyondwar.org/book-club-aran-shetterly-with-morningside-the-1979-greensboro-massacre-and-the-struggle-for-an-american-citys-soul/?clear_id=true -
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about a new book called WE THE POISONED: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Coverup and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans. Our guest is the author Jordan Chariton. The book, with a foreword by Erin Brokovitch, is devastating and not just about one town in Michigan but about the United States and beyond, and not just about something in the past, as the outrage is ongoing.
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about poverty with Karen Dolan who is Project Director of the Criminalization of Race and Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Karen has been on before but it's been a long time. We're happy to welcome her back.
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking with Norman Solomon about his book, newly out in paperback: WAR MADE INVISIBLE: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine -- with a new afterword on the Gaza War.
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about war and the Civilian Agenda. Our guest, Ousman Noor, is Co-Director of The Civilian Agenda. The website is
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the war in Sudan. Our guest is Omia Mustafa who goes by Zeirra on social media. She is a 21-year-old with an international relations degree. You can find her at:
Instagram: zzeirra
Twitter : KushiteDictator
Tiktok: zeirra7
A petition to sign:
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Kathy Kelly has been President of the Board of World BEYOND War since March 2022, prior to which time she served as a member of the Advisory Board. She is based in the United States, but is often elsewhere. Kathy is WBW’s second Board President, taking over for Leah Bolger. Kathy’s efforts to end wars have led her to living in war zones and prisons over the past 35 years. In 2009 and 2010, Kathy was part of two Voices for Creative Nonviolence delegations which visited Pakistan to learn more about the consequences of U.S. drone attacks. From 2010 – 2019, the group organized dozens of delegations to visit Afghanistan, where they continued learning about casualties of U.S. drone attacks. Voices also helped organize protests at U.S. military bases operating weaponized drone attacks. She is now a co-coordinator of the Ban Killer Drones campaign.
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the somehow ever-worsening livestreamed genocide in Gaza. Our guest, Jennifer Loewenstein, is former Associate Director of Middle Eastern Studies and Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has lived and reported from Gaza and Beirut. She highlights a series of critical recent reports.
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about working for peace in Africa. Our guest Brenda Wanjiru is based in Ghana where she works on peace education, peace activism, aiding children and refugees impacted by war, and rehabilitating child soldiers. We'll talk about all these topics. Find Brenda on Linked In at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-wanjiru-%F0%9F%A7%91%F0%9F%8F%BE%E2%80%8D%E2%9A%96%EF%B8%8F%E2%9A%96%EF%B8%8F-abb234153/ -
This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about peace activism in Romania and worldwide with Maria Cernat who is the co-organizer and co-founder of World BEYOND War Romania, a chapter of World BEYOND War of which I'm the executive director. Maria Cernat is also the host of a new podcast called Pacifist Barricades. She is also an Associate Professor of Communication and Public Relations, and President of the Institute for Media Research and Human Rights, and lecturer at the Faculty of Communication Sciences and International Relations at Titu Maiorescu University. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal for Politics and Law published by the Canadian Center for Higher Education.
World BEYOBND War: https://worldbeyondwar.org
World BEYOND War Romania: https://worldbeyondwar.org/romania
Pacifist Barricades Podcast: https://worldbeyondwar.org/category/podcasts/pacifist-barricade -
Campaign Nonviolence Action Days are coming up September 21 to October 2. See https://campaignnonviolence.org
World BEYOND War's #NoWar2024 is September 20 to 22. See https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2024
Rivera Sun is an author and activist whose novels include The Dandelion Insurrection and the award-winning Ari Ara Series. She is the editor of Nonviolence News and the Program Coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence. Her articles are syndicated by Peace Voice and published in hundreds of journals nationwide. Rivera Sun serves on the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War and the board of Backbone Campaign. Her website is riverasun.com -
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about how incredibly hot it is outside and why that might be and what might be done about it. Our guest Dr. Alec Feinberg has a Ph.D. from Northeastern University in Physics. He currently does volunteer climate modeling to help out on the climate crisis. His climate work has focused on urbanization heat flux contributions to global warming, re-radiation modeling for the global mean Earth’s energy budget, and the development of solar geoengineering equations for solar radiation modification to reverse global warming trends. He has published in all of these areas focusing on physics based modeling methods. He has a website at BestGlobalWarmingSolution.org
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about a new book called How America Works and Why It Doesn't by our guest William Cooper. He is an attorney, national columnist, and award-winning author. His commentary has appeared in hundreds of publications around the world, including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times, Dallas Morning News, Huffington Post, Toronto Star, and Jerusalem Post. Publishers Weekly calls his writings about American politics “a compelling rallying cry for democratic institutions under threat in America.”
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about immigration. Our guest Ernesto Castañeda is director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, the Immigration Lab, and the Masters in Sociology, Research, and Practice at American University in Washington, D.C.
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