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— Sam Smith
The Progressive Review
From "The Progrrressive Avenger"
The only problem with the running of the nation was the girl who had lived.
The family lay in the road, in the gravel and dust, in their own blood.
The three sprawled in not-human poses, arms and elbows, legs sprayed out as if forced into unnatural forms by the men who made the nation.
The father and mother and brother, with their faces covered in blood, noses shoved into the black Iowa earth.
Eyes and mouths open, filled with mucus and wonder and disbelief.
Just as it should be.
If she had died all would be well.
All would be awesome.
The nation's gears growled, screamed, enormous, and oiled, and cleverly meshed, showing signs of human genius.
They ran and never stopped.
But that could not go on forever, because the girl had lived and she grew stronger.
Her bones and her blood would one day become stronger even than gears and oil and grease.
They beat and they grew and they knew — because that is what bones and blood can do.
The little girl ran, at first, but only for a while.
She would turn and face her pursuers.
Then they would become afraid because they saw the green steel in her eye.
Those who ran the nation looked for her every day, all the time.
The work continued.
Every dawn of a new day in the nation dripped with immense possibility.
Bohemian Grove Protests
When you hear about Bohemian Grove, Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commision, the Bilderbergers ... well, it all sounds a bit far out ... like it's not real ... not really happening ... it can't be happening ... although it is happening.
From the Sonoma Free Press
[Killing George Bush]
I like KGB because it tells the forgotten story of prisoners and conspiracy theorists and people slaughtered by Bush Sr. in Panama and women and children in jail visiting rooms and other stuff.
I would like to say something about KGB.
I would like to ask why there is such a stink about even talking about the killing of a rich "leader" in a fictional story — and yet, the real-life slaughter of thousands, millions, of poor people goes by without a whisper, a passing breeze in the trees that is gone and forgotten by the time the hot dogs on the grill are ready.
I am not for the killing of George Bush Sr. or George Bush Jr. or George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush or George X.Y.Z. Bush.
I am not for killing. Period.
But I do think it is within the parameters of fiction and good taste and morality to allow the characters in a novel to discuss what they might do if they ever discovered how they came to such a desolate place in life.
In KGB we hear from his victims in El Salvador, Panama, prison, jail visiting rooms.
In KGB we have a pronounced preference for the poor, as it should be.
I am not for killing.
I only wish the same were true for George H.W. Bush.
From KGB, first published 2001:
The jail squatted beneath the Woodbury County courthouse, invisible as a good boy to those walking outside, known only for the white vans disappearing into the yawning jaws of the off-white overhead door to the enclosed parking lot.
Each week day morning the door would groan and open, just enough for the van to reappear to take inmates up the street to the federal courthouse.
Those prisoners needing to appear in county court would walk. They would crowd handcuffed and shackled into the elevator in the jail front lobby with two guards for the ride up two floors.
The door would open into the world of color, people in a hurry, people whose days "flew by." People with smiles on their faces, people with faces serious about nothing.
The door would open and reveal the load of orange men with scraggly, matted hair, men with no reason to shave, who had just walked into a department store holding the hand of a little girl and the girl asked the sleeping man what she could have and he said, nothing, and he woke up in jail with real tears coming down his cheeks.
The door split in two and revealed to the hurried people a crowded little room of orange men who were the reason for the huge building of marble and concrete and stone and hardwood.
These almost-men with their bowed heads and tangled hands propped in front of their waists like they were hiding a wet spot shuffled crossway over the lanes of traffic with difficulty, like passing through a cornfield against the rows.
Two brown men stood on the sides of the orange men, keeping them from the hurried people who carried papers concerning the lives and children of the orange men.
In three seconds, four, the orange and brown men slipped inside the lonesome door that led to the damp holding tank outside the rear courtroom door.
Above the stomach-clenching courthouse, after the orange men had been locked in yet another small room, an eagle played on the waves of heat rising from the small city. She dipped and lowered her wings and never worried about being spotted. The focus of the ground creatures was down.
The eagle admired the town square pattern around the courthouse, the row of barbershops and salons: Sam's Shop, Wave This, the corner grocery store, bookstore, city offices, Wilbur Aalf's Library, and five banks.
The eagle let the heat from the downtown mid-day traffic take her up another whoosh! She saw the schools, public on the east side and Catholic downtown. The eagle loved to admire her black and white feathers in the sun and her face reflecting in the wing mirror, so far above the ground.
The ground.
The eagle imagined Sioux City as a place for bovine types, carpenters, salesmen and ministers who held only shared thoughts, when they told each other what they thought, they always already knew.
These people. Such times.
Just lucky to be able to be able to soar above all that.
The smell from the wiener factory, sweet like burnt molasses over manure pancakes, kept the eagle from the south edge of town. She climbed a winding staircase.
The motion below slowed and slowed until it stopped.
"Changing the inhumane way this world is run requires massive awareness of these horrible realities.
"All people, especially US citizens, must know what their gov
ernments have promoted and the crimes against humanity they have committed supposedly in the interests of their nation and their citizens.
"Awareness must lead us to action. It is everyone's moral obligation."
Huacariz Prison
Cajamarca, Peru
"Love in action has the answer."
"The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts."
... from Iowa Terror
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! God Bless America.
Howya doin'? Let me catch my breath.
I'm deployed with the guys on one of the silver metal benches outside the city swimming pool.
We're watching.
For terrorists.
They can't swim.
Dead-dog giveaway.
It is also late in the summer, and I suppose the moms have those el primo tans, as well as the life-guards in their one-piece red suits and those whistles that dangle like necklaces.
We — that would be myself, Don, Milt, Al, Fred — we are the newly formed municipal special forces team: Total Information Terror Surveillance.
We have been duly organized and chartered and deputized I think, by the city council, to guard against terrorists, beginning this month and running through the school year, is how I understand it.
Don came up with this idea to come here. The pool's open up to Labor Day.
He says "why do you think they call them wetbacks?"
And the rest of us had to admit it made perfect sense.
And then of course everybody knows, Arab-types will often position towels on their heads.
Lots of towels around here today.
Al's got four in his lap, won't give any out to anybody, "without good reason," he says.
It's hot today, big crowd, lots to watch, keep track of, monitor, observe.
Sometimes we get soaked. We're pretty close to the action. We act like we like it that way.
Al's got the beeper in case we need to call for backup towels. His wife's home most of the day.
Tomorrow she's got shit to do.
By now the lifeguards don't wear that white stuff on their noses, everything au naturel.
We've got sunglasses from the Ben Franklin store, orange terror vests and shorts, and special "Homeland" orange hardhats. That was Al's idea. They came from the state highway maintenance shed from the big patch job they had last summer out by the Go-Kart track. If it gets too hot ... well, Don's going to ask a councilman who's his neighbor if we can take them off while the pool has rest break, get
some breeze.
Some ladies get up quick when they are napping on their stomachs and they get splashed, and maybe they have that one string not tied ... Milt had to go home early yesterday.
It gets to a guy ... this work is not for everyone.
And we've each got a terror whistle on a string around our necks.
Fred blew his, loud, for about a minute straight just a few minutes ago when Mrs. de Champlain walked past on her way to the water fountain. I don't think he even knew he was doing it.
Some days it's about all a guy can do not to blow the damn thing all day long.
Don keeps his in his mouth all the time, like a referee. Does not move, scratch, nothing.
He loves freedom that darn much. He is so dedicated, an inspiration to us all.
It's what we need at times like these.
We need guys with things in their mouths — hamburgers, beer bottles, spoons, straw.
Girls too.
Girls and guys and dogs and cats with stuff stuck in their mouths staring.
Looking blankly over the prairie, into space, across the living room, the kitchen table — keeping an eye out — if we are truly to be free.
Free of knowing, caring.
About anyone but ourselves.
Of the true nature of our government or the history of our country.
Free. Free. Free!
Thank God Almighty.
Okay, well, nothing happening here at the moment.
Look out ... cannonball. God Bless the USA.
Go about your day.
I got this.
The Truth, New Hampshire
Writer's Cooperative, 2004
From "The Truth," published by Writers Publishing Cooperative of New Hampshire.
And I Laugh
There's a photo on the Internet that makes me laugh.
A little brown boy holding a silent scream forever in four-color.
The horrified little fellow now has no arms or legs, or brothers, sisters or parents, and I laugh out loud.
I laugh at the Marines, being all they could possibly be in God's creation, at their tough-man commercials. The Army of One. What a hoot.
The rough-guy coaches and players who let this boy die — what comedy watching them feel strong while letting the real battles be fought by little guys with sticks and bicycles.
The boy has a bandaged head.
He looks so scared his hair might turn white, as in a Hitchcock film, and it sort of makes me chuckle.
I laugh at the ministers here in town and here on this TV saying bless our troops as they defend our freedom.
I laugh at the ministers here in town and here on this TV saying bless our troops as they defend our freedom.
I laugh at the well-schooled and coifed newspaper columnists with their earnest close-cropped photos in four hundred papers read by forty million people in forty million cities.
And I laugh.
The boy is flat on his back on dirty cement, with his stubs hastily wrapped in Ace bandages, surrounded by the world trying to get a look, by photographers and people on their way to work and out to dinner.
We are nothing.
Because this boy now has no arms.
No legs.
Nothing we will do today will mean a thing because we have ripped the arms and legs from this boy as if he were a fly and we are us.
This boy who could be my boy, lying there at the feet of the world and the world looking the other way.
Goddamn us.
Give us what we deserve.
If you are a just God, rain down fire and hell upon our heads. Lightning bolts upon our backyard decks and rivers of excrement down our smooth, well-scrubbed streets.
Please, dear God we pray.
When I awoke this morning I thought it essential to the world order and being right, and a good person, that I shave, help out with the dishes, be on time, and drive on the right side of the road.
Do a good job. Be pleasant.
But now I just can't stop laughing.
The world thinks it still matters, and that's kind of funny in a way.
There, the flag flying over the Catholic elementary school and the yellow ribbons tied to the light poles on both sides of Main Street.
Stray cats wearing yellow ribbons around their necks, roaming the night, looking both ways before crossing the street, as if it mattered.
You are never so wrong as when you damage a young boy.
We sit down here like the Who's in Whoville celebrating the coming of War Season while this boy lies on the cold floor.
Tee. Hee-hee.
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On the Westside, on Seventh Avenue, a child lay in the street, on its side, motionless. His mother sat on the edge of the road holding the other one.
Next to the mother stood a cardboard cutout of a smiling man with black hair in a white shirt rolled to his elbows and a bright red tie, gesturing with thumb tucked inside pointer finger.
A tape recording played from the cutout:
We will take on the complicated problem of coordinating summertime lawn watering schedules; we will stop pre-dawn jaywalking by exercisers. Vote for me and help Homeland. My party is dedicated to doing whatever it takes to bring justice and peace and prosperity!
Sweat dripped down the cardboard candidate.
An F-16 Perpetrator, with a Sun God flag on its side, roared, still in the distance, and then appeared. In the same instant it dropped its bombs expertly on the house across the road, which exploded and caught fire.
The mother leaned and reached to grab the arm of the child in the street with blood running out its anus, and dragged it closer to her.
Lions yawned in the grass nearby and Raga music drifted down the block.
Down the road came a shining red pickup full of men and women. On the sides were magnetic signs: Pastors LOVE Dick
The ministers chanted and sang and fellowshipped as F-16s, zooming at treetop level, tore up the neighborhood with machine gun fire.
The preachers pointed at the mother struggling to feed one child while pulling her older one out of the path of the oncoming religious leaders.
"God loves you, child," they shouted.
What do you
think about
the whisper
and the look?
The Whisper
The Look
The defining moment of a generation.
What does it mean?
What's happening?
Is this a great country?
Or what?
What is Andy Card saying
to George W. Bush
at Booker Elementary
the morning of Sept. 11, 2001?
Did he say, "America is under attack."
Did he say, "the second plane has hit."
What does the look say?
Is he surprised?
Is he frightened?
Is he acting?
Is he playing his role?
Is he gathering himself
for the steely resolve
needed to lead a nation at war?
A Lone Striker
by Robert Frost
The swinging mill bell changed its rate
To tolling like the count of fate,
And though at that the tardy ran,
One failed to make the closing gate.
There was a law of God or man
That on the one who came too late
The gate for half an hour be locked,
His time be lost, his pittance docked.
He stood rebuked and unemployed.
The straining mill began to shake.
The mill, though many-many-eyed,
Had eyes inscrutably opaque;
So that he couldn't look inside
To see if some forlorn machine
Was standing idle for his sake.
(He couldn't hope its heart would break.)
And yet he thought he saw the scene:
The air was full of dust of wool.
A thousand yarns were under pull,
But pull so slow, with such a twist,
All day from spool to lesser spool,
It seldom overtaxed their strength;
They safely grew in slender length.
And if one broke by any chance,
The spinner saw it at a glance.
The spinner still was there to spin.
That's where the human still came in.
Her deft hand showed with finger rings
Among the harplike spread of strings.
She caught the pieces end to end
And, with a touch that never missed,
Not so much tied as made them blend.
Man's ingenuity was good.
He saw it plainly where he stood,
Yet found it easy to resist.
He knew another place, a wood,
And in it, tall as trees, were cliffs;
And if he stood on one of these,
'Twould be among the tops of trees,
Their upper branches round him wreathing,
Their breathing mingled with his breathing.
If — if he stood! Enough of ifs!
He knew a path that wanted walking;
He knew a spring that wanted drinking;
A thought that wanted further thinking;
A love that wanted re-renewing.
Nor was this just a way of talking
To save him the expense of doing.
With him it boded action, deed.
The factory was very fine;
He wished it all the modern speed.
Yet, after all, 'twas not divine,
That is to say, 'twas not a church.
He never would assume that he'd
Be any institution's need.
But he said then and still would say,
If there should ever come a day
When industry seemed like to die
Because he left it in the lurch,
Or even merely seemed to pine
For want of his approval, why,
Come get him — they knew where to search.
Let's Build The U.S. Peace Memorial
by Del "Abe" Jones
We have memorials for heroes
Who have fought in wars and died
For great generals and others
To express our nations pride.
From the American Revolution
Until the wars we fight today
Where we honor those people
For, the ultimate price, they pay.
We have statues of politicians
And the leaders of our land
Monuments for almost everything
Some small, some huge and grand.
They are made of stone — cast in bronze
Carved in mountainsides and wood
Some are fanciful, some somber
As we celebrate all those, we should.
But, if you just think about it
And if you search, everywhere
You will see that one is missing
And sadly, so many don't seem to care.
Where do we credit all those folks
Who stand for peace and good will
Who speak out against those wars
That maim, destroy and kill?
Where do we credit all those folks
Who stand for peace and good will
Who speak out against those wars
That maim, destroy and kill?
Some will say, "It's unpatriotic!"
To try to find a different course
To resolve the worlds conflict
With sane and rational discourse.
"They don't support the troops!"
"They want to give up and surrender!"
"They don't want to fight for freedom!"
"It's just passive words, they tender!?
That could not be further from the truth
It's because, they, honestly do care
What's wrong with peaceful resolution
Especially, when it is just and fair?
Let us all honor those peacekeepers
Who would strive to find a better way
To resolve the worlds differences
And end, the terrible price we all pay.
They deserve their own monument
For their valiant fight against all war
Striving for world peace and freedom
Isn't that, what America stands for?
So, let's build the US Peace Memorial
For people of the world to come and see
The people of our nation, long for peace
Across every land, where all live free.
Del "Abe" Jones
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"Guests of the Nation"
by Mike Palecek
From "Guests of the Nation"
In the weeks leading up to 911 Bush and Cheney were at Bush's ranch.
They were doing the final stages of planning.
Bush is not a genius, but if he has lines to rehearse,
the dumb fuck can act.
He knew what was going on.
He was performing in a play produced by his father and his father's friends,
also his friends, by now.
Plausible deniability,
don't they call it?
Cheney is in the bunker talking to him and her, directing this and that.
If he gets caught there, they don't all get caught.
George Senior spent the night before in the White House,
talking about fishing and golf.
He then had a meeting the next day with Bin Laden's brother.
Warren Buffet has a meeting that morning at Offutt AFB
with a bunch of executives from the World Trade Center
who would have died that morning otherwise,
and then George Junior ends up there later in the day,
obviously by random choice.
This day was in the works for years, while Clinton was in office.
They worked and planned every day for years.
Nothing about it was random.
You believe that?
"Why didn't anyone talk?"
Bill sat up in his chair,
uncrossed his legs, now laced
his big, basketball-palming
hands behind his ol' nappy white head.
How do you explain it?
You know that I can only guess, don't you, I said.
You understand we're just talking here, before all this ends unfortunately.
Some know, some don't, some are following orders,
duty, honor, all that crap.
The big boys.
Well, they are focused, on the target, like a laser, have been their whole lives.
What would you do if you had the actual chance to rule the world?
What if that apple was right before your eyes and all you had to do was pick it?
Would you?
How do you understand it?
If honesty and righteousness and piety
had not ruined these guys' career by now,
it was not going to at this point.
They made their peace with whomever long ago.
Just like every body.
What keeps you from walking down to the bank and taking out all the money in savings and give it to the guy begging on the corner that you see every morning?
Try to grasp it.
You can't.
Just like trying to understand heaven and forever and ever and ever.
I don't know.
But you don't do it. You didn't do it yesterday morning, or this morning, and you won't do it tomorrow morning.
You won't ever.
Now Ron crossed his arms across his chest.
I could feel his thoughts pressing on my chest like my grandpa's heart attack.
I pointed a finger at him, put the thumb up, cocked and fired, twice.
The killing.
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*Anyone considering risking arrest
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The Des Moines Catholic Worker announces The Iowa Healthcare Action
that will take place July 25-27, 2009, in Des Moines, Iowa.
The event is part of the "Insurance Profits Make Us Sick"
Campaign that began in March.
The event brings Dr. Margaret Flowers as its keynote speaker on
Sunday, July 26, 7:30 p.m. at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Des
Moines. Dr. Flowers, a Baltimore-area pediatrician is co-chair the
Maryland chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. Flowers
was arrested May 5, 2009, when they tried to persuade the Senate
Finance Committee to include Single-Payer in Healthcare Reform
considerations. Her actions led to her ultimately testifying as an
expert witness on Single-Payer at a Senate roundtable forum on June
The 3-day event will culminate in a Rally followed by a direct-action
at Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Headquarters in Des Moines.
*Anyone coming from out of town
and need housing
contact the DMCW for
*Anyone considering risking arrest on Monday must attend the Monday
morning Action Planning and Training session at the Berrigan House.
For more details go to:
Tentative Schedule
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
American Healthcare Crisis -Slideshow presentation by Mona Shaw
Berrigan House, 713 Indiana Avenue, Des Moines
Sunday, July 26, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Keynote Address by Margaret Flowers
Highland Park Presbyterian Church, 321 Euclid Ave Des Moines, IA
Monday, July 27, 2009
Action Planning and Training, 8:30 a.m. - Noon
Berrigan House, 713 Indiana Avenue, Des Moines
Rally and Action, 1:00 p.m.
Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Locust Street and 6th Avenue, Des Moines
For more information contact:
Mona Shaw, firstname.lastname@example.com
Frank Cordaro, email@example.com
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Or phone: 515-282-4781
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713 Indiana Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50314
Really go to: http://www.
The 3-day event will culminate
in a rally followed by a direct-action
at Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
Headquarters in Des Moines.
*Anyone considering risking arrest
on Monday must attend the Monday
morning Action Planning and Training
session at the Berrigan House.
Go to: http://www.
The Des Moines Catholic Worker announces The Iowa Healthcare Action
that will take place July 25-27, 2009, in Des Moines, Iowa.
The event is part of the "Insurance Profits Make Us Sick"
Campaign that began in March.
The event brings Dr. Margaret Flowers as its keynote speaker on
Sunday, July 26, 7:30 p.m. at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Des
Moines. Dr. Flowers, a Baltimore-area pediatrician is co-chair the
Maryland chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. Flowers
was arrested May 5, 2009, when they tried to persuade the Senate
Finance Committee to include Single-Payer in Healthcare Reform
considerations. Her actions led to her ultimately testifying as an
expert witness on Single-Payer at a Senate roundtable forum on June
The 3-day event will culminate in a Rally followed by a direct-action
at Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Headquarters in Des Moines.
*Anyone coming from out of town
and need housing
contact the DMCW for
*Anyone considering risking arrest on Monday must attend the Monday
morning Action Planning and Training session at the Berrigan House.
For more details go to:
Tentative Schedule
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
American Healthcare Crisis -Slideshow presentation by Mona Shaw
Berrigan House, 713 Indiana Avenue, Des Moines
Sunday, July 26, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Keynote Address by Margaret Flowers
Highland Park Presbyterian Church, 321 Euclid Ave Des Moines, IA
Monday, July 27, 2009
Action Planning and Training, 8:30 a.m. - Noon
Berrigan House, 713 Indiana Avenue, Des Moines
Rally and Action, 1:00 p.m.
Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Locust Street and 6th Avenue, Des Moines
For more information contact:
Mona Shaw, email@example.com
Frank Cordaro, email@example.com
Renee Espeland, email@example.com
Tracy Robson, email@example.com
Or phone: 515-282-4781
Phil Berrigan CW House
713 Indiana Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50314
Really go to: http://www.
The 3-day event will culminate
in a rally followed by a direct-action
at Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
Headquarters in Des Moines.
*Anyone considering risking arrest
on Monday must attend the Monday
morning Action Planning and Training
session at the Berrigan House.
Go to: http://www.
The Des Moines Catholic Worker announces The Iowa Healthcare Action
that will take place July 25-27, 2009, in Des Moines, Iowa.
The event is part of the "Insurance Profits Make Us Sick"
Campaign that began in March.
The event brings Dr. Margaret Flowers as its keynote speaker on
Sunday, July 26, 7:30 p.m. at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Des
Moines. Dr. Flowers, a Baltimore-area pediatrician is co-chair the
Maryland chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. Flowers
was arrested May 5, 2009, when they tried to persuade the Senate
Finance Committee to include Single-Payer in Healthcare Reform
considerations. Her actions led to her ultimately testifying as an
expert witness on Single-Payer at a Senate roundtable forum on June
The 3-day event will culminate in a Rally followed by a direct-action
at Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Headquarters in Des Moines.
— Howard Zinn
It's been
a long road.
From a stolen election, to a government-planned attack on Sept. 11 2001, to two invasions based on lies, based on power, on money.
What else?
To a murdered Senator, the one standing in their way, who would not be moved.
We didn't want it to come. We marched. We e-mailed, we sang, we wrote, we got arrested.
But it came anyway.
And it is still here.
The New American Dream is a "Yellow Ribbon Free Zone."
We do not support the troops.
We do not support fighter planes flying over the Super Bowl.
And why "The Star Spangled Banner?"
Steve Earle's "F The FBI" is actually a song more in line with a free nation, a nation that at least wants to be free.
Let the children sing that to start each school day and we've at least got a start.
The troops are not defending our freedom. They are thugs for the empire.
We heard all about "putting a boot up their ass" from Toby Keith.
He's a brave man, to encourage other men to kill men, women and children — for no reason.
The real patriots were the Dixie Chicks. We all know that now.
Why didn't we know it then?
Are we idiots?
Are we evil? Are we a virus with shoes, as Bill Hicks suggested?
Just asking.
Protesters protect our freedom.
That's the truth.
Think Medea Benjamin not John McCain.
A hero does not drop bombs on people who are trying to live their lives.
"My dad died for that flag."
"Really? I got mine at K-Mart."
— Bill Hicks
is a New American Dream
Something we can finally be proud of.
Not based on greed, killing, torture, prisons — keeping others poor so that we may be rich.
That is not who we are.
Is that who you feel you are?
It's not.
We are much, much better than this.
Much better than the rich people we have chosen, for some reason, to lead us.
We need to be open to a new way of seeing things.
Let us wipe the sleep from our eyes — the be-all-you-can-be military advertising lies, the lies of politicians, the fantasy found in our high school history books.
Oswald did it? Sirhan did it?
Oklahoma City was done by McVeigh alone?
The fire, coming out of the tanks at Waco?
See that?
And you still believe our President and Attorney General and FBI did NOT burn children alive — on purpose?
The World Trade Center Towers collapsed from the fire? And one of them was not even hit by a plane?
Sadaam had weapons of mass destruction?
We believe it because Colin Powell told us so?
C'mon ... Teachers, priests, ministers, coaches, parents, please start telling the truth.
We can handle the truth. In fact, without the truth, we cannot live.
We will die.
Slowly, and then all at once.
We will collapse and that will be that.
It will be over.
A dusty pile of rubble and Ho Ho's and lies.
We need inspiration, something to foster a desire to drive way across the country just to soak it all in — rather than just a desire to leave the country and escape the tired predictability and hordes of American idiots.
We need a new dream, something real, solid to believe in.
Truth in our history books.
Bread on the table of the poor.
There really, honestly, are truths and riches out there we have not yet imagined, growing this moment in the fertile minds of those who will lead us.
[Green Day]
It's an amazing time to be alive.
We survived Kate Smith on the radio.
We survived Bush, though not all of us.
It's morning, time to wake up.
There are no longer any questions we cannot ask.
Nothing about our country we are not allowed to know.
We are Americans.
This is our country.
This morning we take it back — from the CIA, the military, the bosses, the Warren Commission, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, the 9/11 Commission.
Our children will study lies no more.
Did George W. Bush, his father, his father's friends, actually steal the elections of 2000 and 2004?
And, if they did that ... why would they ever stop ... at anything?
Just asking.
Did George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Condoleeza Rice, John Ashcroft, Paul Wolfowitz, Colin Powell, et al. conspire to commit murder and treason in the 9/11 attacks, in order to again be able to lie about anthrax, uranium and WMD, and torture — in order to attack Iraq, and make millions, billions of dollars?
We want to know, we need to know, we deserve to know who killed Bobby, Martin, JFK, Wellstone.
Did we land on the moon? Is Bigfoot real? How about UFOs?
C'mon, there are no wrong questions, remember? No secrets in anyone's land of the free.
How do we explain to our children how the war on drugs goes with "this Bud's for you?"
Prisons, poverty, trees, wind power — we can talk about all of it — because we are Americans again.
We are not the subjects of the FBI or CIA or the U.S. Army or Wall Street.
We do not torture, kill children, bomb, rape, mutilate. We are Americans.
We are Americans.
Why is Leonard Peltier in prison?
Why did we fund death squads in El Salvador? We overthrew elected governments in Chile, Iran, Guatamala? Really? Why?
We deserve to know. We need to know. We have to know.
So that we may tell the world.
We are Americans.
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
— Thomas Paine
Argo: What's the extent of the conspiracy and why is the government so desperate to keep the truth from the American public?
Mort Sahl: We have determined that elements of the Central Intelligence Agency planned the execution and killed the president. Lee Oswald attended those meetings planning it. He was the only non-CIA man at the meeting.
And he worked for the FBI … we still later find Oswald saying, "I was a patsy," in the Dallas Police Station. The "elements" are in the Central Intelligence Agency.
They don't want to lose their power. And they don't want to fall.
It has become government by hoodlum.
And I don't blame them. If I were them, I wouldn't want to fall, either. I would pull out all the stops, as they have.
Argo: Why is the truth about the assassination of President Kennedy the last chance of America for its survival?
Sahl: Because the evidence developed by District Attorney Garrison indicates that certain people had to take President Kennedy's life in order to control ours. In other words, as Richard Starnes of the New York World-Telegram said, the shots in Dallas were the opening shots of World War III.
There's been a great change in this country since Kennedy. I'm afraid a great deal of hope was interred with his remains.
She has to hang on through a period of the military and the CIA with a blank check trying to sell fascism.
Argo: What is the long hard night that America must go through you've spoken of?
Sahl: She has to hang on through a period of the military and the CIA with a blank check trying to sell fascism.
If she can hang on long enough, Americans may yetlive in the country in which they were born. And that is the country structured by Tom Paine and Tom Jefferson.
Argo: What is the renaissance following this long, hard night that you also spoke about?
Sahl: We'll start pursuing the American dream again. I don't know if we'll ever realize it, but we're supposed to have the right to pursue it. And that's what this country is. It's an active exercise in man reaching his upper limit, as they used to say in the math department.
And the renaissance will be that a groundswell of public opinion will flush out the rascals because the CIA has infiltrated every area of our national life.
I'm afraid the country they subverted best was the United States … be they in the various right-wing churches or the Dallas Police Department.
— Perry Adams of The Argo interviews Mort Sahl at "The Hungry i" in San Francisco, Monday, March 18, 1968
From Jim Douglass, author of "JFK & The Unspeakable"
"Unless we have an awareness of Kennedy's story, this story will be repeated, and I mean repeated in the worst consequences of Obama being assassinated, or being pushed very, very hard by advisors for war into decisions that he either has to resist at the risk of his life or has to carry out at the risk of everybody else's life. ...
"If we walk around with some kind of idea that Barack Obama is going to save the world,
that's a bunch of nonsense."
— Jim Douglass
"If we walk around with some kind of idea that Barack Obama is going to save the world, that's a bunch of nonsense. That cannot happen except through an understanding ... a redemption of us as a world from the powers of violence, and of war, and of oppression, and of manipulation, and of lying, as the CIA, and our propaganda forces, has been doing for decades.
"If we're going to be liberated from those forces, that's up to us. Obama can't do it as the President of the United States. It has to be a movement, an international movement.
"And especially a movement of consciousness of the past, and education, on what really happened to John F. Kennedy, so that it is not repeated. I believe it will be repeated, unless we understand and educate ourselves about the past, and we are way, way short of that right now."
Black Op Radio
North Tower Collapsing [psst ... exploding ... don't tell any body]
Bart Sibrel Moon Hoax Interview
The Apollo 11 Post-flight interview
Why aren't these guys happy? If they are not happy about being the first men on the moon, just what would make these guys happy? If only kiwi-strawberry had been invented back then.
Did the moon suck?
Maybe, just maybe — maybe they didn't actually land on the moon?
Maybe they are ashamed? Afraid?
Just asking.
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Bigfoot Research Organization
The American Dream & War
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Jack Ruby I
Jack Ruby II
"There are things we don't or can't understand. A reasonable man, a healthy man ... a sane man ... when he encounters the inexplicable ... forgets about it."
— Maurice Minnifield, Northern Exposure
"Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon."
"They say dreams are the windows of the soul — take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts."
"Today, a belated apology to the much maligned Chicken Little. It turns out you were right — the sky is falling. The National Space Administration informs us that Uncle Sam's Com-Sat 4 satellite is in a rapidly decaying orbit. That's their way of saying a ton of angry space trash is heading back home at fifteen thousand miles an hour.
"To that unsung triceratops and all its kin,
here's a song for you ..."
"What does that make me think of?
"Makes me think of a triceratops, innocently munching a palm frond when out of the sky, whammo, a meteor sucker punches old mother Earth. Next thing you know, that triceratops, along with a hundred and seventy-five million years of dinosaur evolution, is nothing but history.
"To that unsung triceratops and all its kin, here's a song for you ..."
— Chris In The Morning
Northern Exposure
"But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
We're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more."
— John Prine
"It's a happy enchilada, and you think you're gonna drown."
This is not 'Nam. This is bowling, there are rules.
The New American Dream
Be the first to answer correctly and win a used T-shirt from a recent Palecek book tour:
To open the movie, The Dude is in Ralph's, purchasing an item to make White Russians. He writes a check for sixty-nine cents.
What is the date on that check? ...
This act of aggression will not stand, man.
It can be a natural, zesty enterprise.
New shit has come to light.
You guys are not privy to all this new shit, but that's what you pay me for.
Careful man, there's a beverage here.
Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man.
"Now Showing In The Basement Bunker"
by Konspiracy Knute
New American Dream
arts & entertainment editor
The Edukators
Texas Love Song
The Logical Song, by Supertramp
Dreamer, by Supertramp
Lives in the Balance, by Jackson Browne
The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., with Dick Gregory & Mark Lane
The view from Iowa
by Mike Palecek
From the front book jacket:
From the conclusion:
... the boundaries of permissable
thought are staked out and enforced.
Catholic Worker Demonstration
at Offutt Air Force Base
Dec. 28, 2008
And here.
Joe Coffee's Revolution
I like Joe Coffee because it tells the truth about the Democratic Party and about farmer revolutionaries and farm kitchen tables.
Still available from Amazon.
I like Twins because it talks about a prison burning and about the Twin Cities, which I love, and about robbing Twin Cities banks to give the money to the poor on Hennepin Ave.
Two twin brothers, one a revolutionary priest, the other the warden of the local federal penitentiary, battle in the streets and from the rooftops. It's a sibling rivalry, rich vs. poor, yuppies against the gangs of the ghetto, the Kiwanis Club meets the prison yard weightlifters. It's walleye sizzling in the crisp north woods air and dirty diapers in the gutter. It's food on a stick, a seat on the third-baseline, and halftime mud wrestling between Dorothy Day and Mary Tyler Moore, in this one-of-a-kind American metropolis.
A Portion of "Twins"
"I bring it up because it is what is on my mind.
Many of you do not remember John Kennedy, many of us remember nothing but.
"Where do these thoughts of John Kennedy, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King Jr. come from? All mortal men, surely sinners. But in my mind heroes, just as Jesus is a hero of mine. And to be a hero of mine you have to do one thing."
"Don't seek to live so damned long that you finally have to be unplugged. Make the bastards come get you — make their terrible plans, hunt you down and fill you full of holes, just as they did our Lord Jesus Christ.
Mars put up his crooked right pointer finger, the finger that had been stomped on. He held it over his head and out toward the congregation.
"You have to go and get yourself killed."
He held the finger in the air until it became the focus of the room. Couples with their arms inter-locked on the pew behind the heads of their children stared at the finger. Mars meant to be pointing straight up, toward the ceiling in exclamation,
when actually his finger was more of a comma.
"You can't score six touchdowns on one night and be my hero."
Mars spoke loudly, pausing, turning this way and that, using all of his homiletics textbook skills.
"You cannot have twenty-inch biceps and thirty-inch waist and be my hero."
He stopped and estimated three seconds, impatient to keep going.
"You cannot go to work each day and pay your bills and keep your kids in college and your wife happy and play errorless third base for the church softball team and be my hero."
He put his hand down as parenthesis.
"I see these guys who drive their little cars into the lot at the elevator every morning and leave every night. They do this without fail for ten years, twenty years, thirty years. Maybe forty years! They drive in each morning at the same time, they leave at the same time. Same route, look the same way before turning, park the car in the same spot at work, same place at home.
"Now, to some people that image is one of supreme heroism, the loyalty, the work ethic, the steady nature of the man going to work each day, earning his daily bread for his family, that they may prosper and live and grow and also maintain their routine.
"I am weird. I see it as cowardice. I really do, and I know some of you are going to have trouble with that. That's okay. I see it as immoral, boorish, dull behavior.
Because you see during those years that man is going to work, maintaining a certain lifestyle, people around the world are dying, from poverty, from war, what have you. And on some of those days that man is going to work and coming home
while his country is at war, outright bombing people in other countries and they are dying. And yet.
And yet he parks in the same spot, goes home at the same time.
"That is nothing unusual. His parents, wife, children and friends expect nothing less. But is it the Christian response? Hardly."
"Make ... the ... sons of bitches kill you."
He leaned forward and whispered like the Godfather.
Now Mars did not care if they liked him.
The bones of his jaws showed like ripples in the water portending a shark below.
He made direct eye contact with three people, as he had been taught, not long enough to confront, but enough to show he was not afraid.
"Don't seek to live so damned long that you finally have to be unplugged. Make the bastards come get you — make their terrible plans, hunt you down and fill you full of holes, just as they did our Lord Jesus Christ.
"And take that chance. The chance taken by Jesus the skinny guy with no money, no family, no friends, no career — no papers or books published — with only this one desperation shot at redemption, with one card to play that might mean he
would ever amount to something.
Take the chance that God is God."
He pushed his papers together, looked up like Walter Cronkite at the end of the newscast, and smiled.
"Now, let us pray."
Lloyde England and his taxi cab, near the Pentagon, Sept. 11, 2001
The Pentacon, "The Eye of The Storm"
[view here]
On this video on this website, two citizen investigators speak to cab driver Lloyde England, who claims his taxi was hit by a light pole that was sheared off by the plane that hit the Pentagon, even though witnesses say the plane's actual flight path was not where England's taxi was sitting with a hole in the windshield.
This dialogue with an interviewer seems to suggest that England was part of the plot, or has knowledge about the plot beyond what he has thus far revealed.
Why isn't Katie Couric talking to Mr. England? Could it be that Couric and Rather et al are not real reporters, but CIA or NSA agents?
Just asking.
Just asking.
England: "You gotta understand something. When people do things and get away with it, you…eventually it's gonna come to me, and when it comes to me, it's gonna be so big, I can't do nothing about it."
England: I wasn't supposed to be involved with this, this is too big for me, man, this is a big thing. This is a world thing happening, I'm a small man…I'm not supposed to be involved in this. This is for other people, people who have money and all this kind of stuff.
Interviewer: Your point that these people who have all the money…
England: This is their thing.
Interviewer: This is their event.
England: This is for them.
Interviewer: Meaning they're doing it for their own reasons…
England: (with conviction) That's right. I'm not supposed to be in it.
Interviewer: They must have planned it.
England: It was planned.
England: You know what history is? It's not the truth. It's "his story." Has nothing to do with the truth.
"We'll know our disinformation program is
complete when everything
the American public believes is false."
— William Casey, CIA Director
(from first staff meeting, 1981)
"You will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free."
— Carved into the marble entrance to CIA Headquarters
New American Dream
Suggestion Of The Week:
Blow Up Your TV.
Throw Away Your Paper.
And use the time you save listening to these people instead.
Bob Mcilvaine Donna Marsh O'Connor
at Webster Hall 9/11 Symposium, West Hartford, Conn.
John Judge Richard Gage / [here]
David Ray Griffin
Interview from Lucerne, Switzerland
May 7, 2009
* the Bush Administration involvement
in the attacks on America on Sept. 11, 2001
* The many violent deaths of witnesses
to the John F. Kennedy assassination
* the deaths of the 60-some people on the Pine Ridge reservation during the reign of terror by goon squads, death squads — like those we also sponsored in El Salvador — around the time of the Wounded Knee and Oglala events
* the death of journalist Gary Webb
* the death of Mike Connell
Marcin Bondarowicz
Marcin is a professional Polish painter and illustrator.
He lives in Poland as a freelance artist. He regularly
publishes his cartoons on several websites and collaborates
with a wide range of renowned magazines and newspapers.
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If an album's normal gestation period were nine months, you'd have to wonder what kind of kinkiness was going on in the Memphis music scene last November. In addition to the Reigning Sound's latest, Time Bomb High School, there are new releases from Viva L'American Death Ray Music, Davey & the Cool Jerks, Timothy Prudhomme, and Yamagata all hitting the racks this week.
Viva L'American Death Ray Music, the band formerly known as American Death Ray (and, before that, simply Death Ray), have just released their second full-length of the year, Smash Radio Hits. Eight songs of New York-inspired funk and grind, Smash Radio Hits is a far-superior product than their debut, sonically and stylistically. On tunes like "Miss America (What Goes On)" and "Baby Lightning," the band sounds like an updated Modern Lovers -- fun and just a little freaky.
Jack Yarber, on the other hand, prefers the simpler things in life. Yarber produces some wailin' chords on Davey & The Cool Jerks' debut, Cleaned a Lot Of Plates In Memphis, which, like Smash Radio Hits, is available from Sympathy For the Record Industry. But similarities end there: Davey & the Cool Jerks (Dave Boyer, Forrest Hewes, Yarber, and Scott Rogers) play solid, straightforward rock-and-roll that hearkens back to the days of Boyer and Hewes' stint in the Neckbones. Look for CD-release parties from both Davey & the Cool Jerks and Viva L'American Death Ray Music later this month.
Meanwhile, Fuck frontman Timothy Prudhomme has a new CD out on Smells Like Records. With the Hole Dug, recorded over the past year at Easley-McCain Studios, features a stellar lineup, including studio owners Doug Easley and Davis McCain, the Reigning Sound's Greg Cartwright and Alex Greene, and former Memphian Megan Reilly. It's a gentle album full of understated, majestic melodies, Prudhomme's whispered vocals drawing you in deep. Prudhomme rarely plays live, so make plans now to catch him Friday, August 9th, at the Hi-Tone with Dearest Darlin'.
Leave it to Yamagata to kick it up a few notches. Connect, their second album, fuses hard rock and jazz into a funky new hybrid that lends itself well to the jam-band scene. Drawing from such disparate influences as Pink Floyd and the Beastie Boys, Connect is sure to take Yamagata to new heights. You can connect with the group yourself at their CD-release party Friday, August 2nd, at the Lounge.
The Center For Southern Folklore is also hosting a party this weekend -- a birthday celebration for blues pianist Mose Vinson, who turns 85 on Saturday, August 3rd. Best known for his accompaniment on James Cotton's 1954 Sun sessions, Vinson has been a Memphis piano institution for more than half a century. He got his start in church, playing the ivories at morning services. After a chance meeting with Sunnyland Slim, Vinson moved to Memphis from Mississippi in 1932. He became a fixture on Beale Street, playing local juke joints and parties before hooking up with Sun producer Sam Phillips in the early '50s.
After cutting some sides of his own (unreleased until the 1980s), Vinson continued on the juke-joint circuit, occasionally doing session work (Cotton's "Cotton Crop Blues" benefited from Vinson's piano rolls), until he disappeared from the scene in the late '60s. In the early '80s, the pianist established himself as the resident barrelhouse star of the Center For Southern Folklore. Vinson will blow out his candles at 8 p.m.
Ready for a road trip? Put the top down and cruise over to Monticello, Mississippi (just south of Jackson), this weekend for the 4th Annual Montipaloosa Music Festival. An event similar to the Bonnaroo Music Festival recently held in Manchester, Tennessee, the Montipaloosa promises 46 jam bands on three stages for the three-day event. Headliners include regional favorites The North Mississippi Allstars, The Charlie Mars Band, Ingram Hill, and The Kudzu Kings. More than 5,000 fans are expected to converge on Atwood Water Park (located on Highway 84 East) for the weekend, where RVs and tents are welcome. Alcohol is allowed at the festival, but it's BYOB. Montipaloosa kicks off at 3:30 p.m. Friday, August 2nd. Ticket prices are $20 for a day or $30 for a weekend pass. See Montipaloosa.com for more information.
recently, the city lost another great musician: Bluesman Manuel Gales, aka Little Jimmy King, died on Friday, July 19th, of an apparent heart attack. He was just 34 years old. Memphis-born and -raised, Gales frequently performed with his brothers Eric and Eugene and toured for six years with blues great Albert King, who adopted the left-handed guitarist as his protégé.
After Albert's death, Gales reinvented himself as Little Jimmy King in homage to both Albert and fellow southpaw Jimi Hendrix. He also took on Albert's searing, soul-blues guitar style, recording four albums for Rounder Records' Bullseye Blues label. Gales' last release, Live At Monterey, captures him at the top of his game: Tracks like Willie Mitchell's "Living In the Danger Zone" and "It Ain't the Same No Mo" burn with natural aplomb. Gruff and self-assured, Gales rips through the latter like a red-hot tommy gun on its last round of ammo. Touted by contemporary blues fans as the successor to Albert King's throne, Gales will certainly be missed.
Andria Lisle covers local music news and notes each week in Local Beat. You can e-mail her at email@example.com.
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A huge shout out goes out to TEOTW Ministries for this find. It is the "missing link" that ties together a ton more evidence that points to the FACT that black people in America are the Israelites of the Bible. It's stuff like this that keep false teaching cowards like Vocab Malone from debating the evidence. The following evidence was published in 1985. This confirms that the belief that black people are Israelites IS NOT NEW… it has been around at least the last 119 years.
UPDATE: Facebook has already blocked me from sharing this post to any FB groups for 24 hours. They don't want this info being spread because there's no more denying who we are. Please share and help wake up more of our people.
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Beveridge wants Dogs to keep 'knocking over fences'
BULLDOGS coach Luke Beveridge admits he's still not sure what kind of finals campaign is best.
You would reckon he will have a better idea tonight when Geelong hosts Sydney at the MCG, ahead of his team's own preliminary final with GWS tomorrow.
With the introduction of the pre-finals bye, it has meant the victorious qualifying finalists get two weekends off instead of one during the home stretch.
The last time there was a similar situation was in 1990 when the final five was still operating. Essendon sat out the first week of the finals as minor premier and then the second while Collingwood and West Coast replayed their qualifying final.
The Bombers would be thrashed by the Magpies in both the semi-final and grand final.
A year earlier, Hawthorn got the first and third weeks off, before holding off a barnstorming Geelong in the premiership decider.
Tonight the Cats will play just their second game in 27 days, tomorrow the Giants their second in 28. The Swans and the Bulldogs meanwhile have had a couple of tough back-to-back hit-outs.
"Really, I'm not sure," Beveridge said yesterday when asked what he thought was the better approach to the penultimate week.
"Time will tell. Maybe it's a combination of so many things - the maturity of your group, the need for games under your belt, how sore your players have been.
"We've got a little bit of continuity, because we've only had the one break, but time will tell. I'm sure that the opposition have trained in a fashion that has prepared them well for Saturday and I'd imagine there's just not excuses for either side of it."
Beveridge probably wouldn't change a thing for his side, however, as it has swept aside West Coast and Hawthorn on the back of winning the contested ball 162-139 and 161-111, respectively.
Beveridge said there had always been "a very healthy and strong belief" among the playing group that has only grown stronger when "you keep knocking over the fences in front of you".
"I think our midfield over the last two weeks have dominated the games in a really even spread," he said.
"If we can get that again it's going to really help us.
"I think it's quite a common thing to want midfield dominance, but it doesn't necessarily win you the game.
"You've got to get it done on the scoreboard and defend well, but I think it's going to have a big say again."


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Ho'oponopono, forgiveness and gratitude sets you freeHo'oponopono, forgiveness and gratitude sets you free
Published: April 28, 2015
This last visit to Mexico was very special, as usual.
First, I had the possibility to present for the first time in Veracruz, and then in Mexico City, I had the opportunity to be in a women's prison, where 80 sentenced women chose to attend my presentation.
I'm still processing that experience, because it changed me.
I always tell you that I don't prepare myself, and that I come from inspiration, right? Now I can confirm more than ever that this is true. The inspiration I got at that moment I was talking to them, was unbelievable. I was amazed myself, of the things I was telling them. Dr. Ihaleakala used to say: "We just show up, to see what it is going to be said and to learn". Definitely!
I have a lot to share about this. I will write about it soon, because this experience really changed my life. What happened there was magical, and their principals told us that the day after, they were joking. That maybe the recruits had escaped, because they couldn't believe the silence and peace they could feel in the place. They couldn't believe how quiet it was.
Forgiveness and gratitude will change your perception, so you can see with the eyes of Love and set yourself FREE. This is why I chose this as the theme for our monthly Q&A class. "See you" this Wednesday? Aren't you looking for more happiness and peace in your life?


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- No sunscreen at school unless you have a written note. That's according to a strange law across the nation preventing some kids from having sunscreen at school.
It's all because the FDA considers sunscreen a drug.
In Indiana, the decision is left to individual school districts on allowing children to bring sunscreen to school. Most allow it, but only with written notes from a doctor or parent.
IU Health Dermatologist, Dr. Melanie Kingsley said it can take just five minutes for some kids to develop sunburn.
"Even one blistering sunburn in childhood or adolescence doubles the risk of developing melanoma later in life," she said.
Dr. Kingsley said it's important to parents to apply sunscreen on their children before they go to school, but also important for kids to have the options to apply more sunscreen throughout the day.
"If they're out there for more than 2 hours, reapply after 2 hours, because the sun will break down the sunscreen after 2 hours. It won't be effective any longer," explained Dr. Kingsley.
At Indianapolis Public Schools, their policy is in place to protect children with allergies to the chemicals in sunscreen.
"We treat sunscreen just like we treat any other type of medication. The student brings it to school. They take it to the nurses office. They bring it along with a signed parent consent form and then if they need to utilize that sunscreen, they go to the nurses office they go to the nurses office just like they would for any other medication," explained IPS Spokesperson, Carrie Cline Black.
At Hamilton Southeastern Schools, students can keep sunscreen with them or in their backpacks as long as they have a note from their parents and if their teachers are aware.
Most other school districts require a written note from a parent or doctors office and for the sunscreen to be kept in a nurse's office.
There's some concerns that kids might not adequate access to sunscreen if it's kept inside, especially during field trips and field days.
"I think a lot of parents send their kids to school and they don't really realize how much sun exposure they have. Even 15 minutes a day of recess is additive, every day their doing that, so that's sun damage that continue to build upon," said Dr. Kingsley.
Other states like Washington, Utah, and New York recently passed legislation allowing kids to use sunscreen at school without notes from their parents or doctors. There's a possibility Indiana lawmakers will look at that issue next year.
If you have questions about the policy at your child's school, contact their school district.


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text: Out and About A preview of the upcoming weekend's arts activities in Central Illinois with your host, Jenn Gordon of Arts Partners of Central Illinois. Made possible in part by Bradley Theatre Production Puts Phones Center Stage By Nathan Irwin • Feb 23, 2018 This week, our guests are Sarah Salazar-Martin and Trevor Bety. They're the director and assistant director, respectively, of "Dead Man's Cell Phone" at Bradley University Theatre. The play tells the story of a woman who answers a stranger's phone, and finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into that man's life. Along the way, it explores issues of connection, isolation and intimacy. Salazar-Martin and Bety say that those themes have particular resonance for a generation that has grown up with smart phones and their promise of instant, ubiquitous communication. Corn Stock Theatre Presents "The Curious Savage" By Nathan Irwin • Feb 16, 2018 This week, we're talking about Corn Stock Theatre's production of "The Curious Savage," with director Kerri Rae Hinman Ryan and actress Helen Engelbrecht. They both talk about the message of the play, and about the cast's work to embody that message in their performances. It's Hinman Ryan's directorial debut, and it's a show that has a particular significance for her. Corn Stock is also featuring local charitable organizations during the run of the play. "The Curious Savage" continues tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday at the Corn Stock Winter Playhouse in Peoria. Barry Cloyd Returns for Concert at Forest Park Nature Center By Nathan Irwin • Feb 9, 2018 Barry Cloyd Our guest this week is singer/songwriter Barry Cloyd. He's presenting a concert tomorrow night at 7:00 at the Forest Park Nature Center. It's part of their "Songs from the Woods" concert series. This has become an annual event for Cloyd - he refers to it as his "home concert," and uses it an as opportunity to reunite with other musicians he's worked with for years. He says this concert will include plenty of new songs. He also talks about why he values the Forest Park Nature Center, both as a performance venue and as a source of inspiration for his music. "Sunset Boulevard" Opens at Peoria Players Theatre By Nathan Irwin • Feb 2, 2018 This week, we're talking about Peoria Players Theatre's production of "Sunset Boulevard" with director Steve Bortolotti, and with Cheri Beever, who plays Norma Desmond. The musical is adapted from the 1950 film, and tells the story of a faded silent-movie star hoping for a dramatic comeback in Hollywood. The score is by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Beever and Bortolotti talk about the opportunity to finally bring this musical to a central Illinois audience, what the show has to say about the entertainment industry, and about the complex characters who inhabit the story. ICC Presents Art Exhibit, "Flora and Function" By Nathan Irwin • Jan 26, 2018 Our guests this week are are Jennifer Costa and Steph Van Doren. Their work is featured in the exhibit, "Flora and Function," now on display at Illinois Central College. They each talk about their own work, how their chosen media complement and contrast one another, and the process of curating the exhibit. "Flora and Function" continues through February 9th in Gallery 336B at the ICC campus in East Peoria. "Leaving Iowa" Presents Humorous and Heartfelt Take on Family Vacations By Nathan Irwin • Jan 19, 2018 We're talking with Chris Peterlin. He's directing Corn Stock Theatre's production of "Leaving Iowa." It's a "memory play," in which writer Don Browning goes on a road trip to scatter the ashes of his late father, with multiple flashbacks to a fateful family vacation. The play was written by two alums of Bradley University; this production is the first time it's been presented in central Illinois. Peterlin talks about the emotional tone of the play, and about the challenges of staging the multiple scenes that take place in the family car. The Penguin Project Presents "Mary Poppins, Jr." By Nathan Irwin • Jan 12, 2018 The Penguin Project This week, we're talking with Andrew Morgan about The Penguin Project and their production of "Mary Poppins, Jr." Now in its 14th year, The Penguin Project was created to give young performers with with special needs and disabilities the opportunity to participate in theatrical performance. Their model has now been replicated by dozens of other companies across the country. Their work was also recently recognized with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award. Heartland Festival Orchestra Greets the New Year with "That's Amore" By Nathan Irwin • Jan 5, 2018 Heartland Festival Orchestra This week, our guests are David Commanday, Artistic Director of the Heartland Festival Orchestra; and soloist Sal Viviano. The HFO kicks off 2018 with a concert, "New Year's Greeting - That's Amore." Inspired by the Vienna Philharmonic's tradition of New Year's Day performances, this concert blends classical and popular repertoire. The musical traditions of Italy will be front and center -- represented by operatic works from Puccini and Rossini; and by the music of Italian-American singers Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Time Gallery Presents Exhibit of Rolan Johnson Christmas Cards By Nathan Irwin • Dec 22, 2017 This week, we're talking Dawn Maloney from the Time Gallery in East Peoria. Their current exhibit features a collection of mosaic Christmas cards by Rolan Johnson. The oversized cards were screen-printed, and sent to a limited number of recipients over a span of about 30 years. Maloney talks about the meticulous process that went into creating the cards, and about the subject matter they depict. The exhibit will be on display through December 29th at the Time Gallery. 201 Clock Tower Drive in East Peoria. Peoria Symphony Concert Offers "Winter Dreams" By Nathan Irwin • Dec 15, 2017 Peoria Symphony Orchestra Conductor George Stelluto and Concertmaster Marcia Henry Liebenow are with us this week to talk about the next concert with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra. The concert is called "Winter Dreams," and it offers musical reflections on the season by Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Max Bruch and others. Peoria Players Heads "Home for the Holidays" By Nathan Irwin • Dec 8, 2017 Peoria Players Theatre This week, we hear from Mary Keltner. She's directing "Home for the Holidays," which opens next weekend at Peoria Players Theatre. The production is a holiday-themed musical revue, featuring familiar music of the season, dance and variety acts. It's built around a script that tells the story of one family over the course of several decades, and how they celebrated the holidays over the years. Some of their stories are drawn from the real-world experiences of Keltner's production team. Corn Stock Presents "Gifts of the Magi" for the Holiday Season By Nathan Irwin • Dec 1, 2017 Our guest this week is Eric Ewan. He's directing "The Gifts of the Magi," which opens tonight at Corn Stock Theatre. The show is a musical adaptation of two short stories by O. Henry, both of which revolve around the winter holidays. Ewan characterizes it as an ensemble production, with a cast of just six performers. Two of those function as a sort of chorus, and help bridge the two narratives. He also talks about the musical itself. Though it's more than 30 years old, it's a bit less well-known and has been infrequently performed in the area. Bishop Hill Hosts Holiday Arts and Shopping Events By Nathan Irwin • Nov 24, 2017 This week, we're talking with Kim Thrush about some of the holiday events coming up in Bishop Hill. Those include the village's Julmarknad (or Christmas Market), this weekend and next; and "Lucia Nights" the weekend of December 8th and 9th. The events are intended to showcase the businesses and artists in Bishop Hill, and to celebrate the village's unique Swedish heritage. Hands-on activities and events for children are also heavily featured. The Juhlmarknad events run November 24-25, and December 2-3 in Bishop Hill. "Lucia Nights" will be December 8th and 9th. Judy Page Brings Jazz Standards to "Jazz Night in the Heights" By Nathan Irwin • Nov 17, 2017 Our guest this week is jazz vocalist Judy Page. She's the featured performer in this month's "Jazz Night in the Heights" event, sponsored by the Central Illinois Jazz Society. Page talks about some of the ensembles she's been associated with, about being drawn to the jazz standards of the 1920s and 1930s, and the advantages of working with many of the same musicians over a long period. "Jazz Night in the Heights" begins Sunday night at 6:00 at the Trailside Event Center, at 4416 North Prospect Road in Peoria Heights. Project 1612 Presents Pop-up Art Exhibit - This Weekend Only By Nathan Irwin • Nov 10, 2017 This week, we're talking with Jessica Bingham, co-founder of Project 1612; and with artist Chintia Kirana. Kirana's art is featured in a two-day exhibit, Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. She will also be discussing her work from 1 to 2 on Saturday. She talks about some of the inspirations behind her work, and about choosing and curating the pieces that comprise this exhibit. "The Glass Menagerie" Now On Stage at Corn Stock Theatre By Nathan Irwin • Nov 3, 2017 Corn Stock Theatre Our guest this week is Amy Glass. She's directing "The Glass Menagerie," which continues this weekend at Corn Stock Theatre's Winter Playhouse. Glass says she was drawn to the show for the family dynamics it depicts, and for the theme of escape which is present in each of the central characters -- and which continues to have resonance in 2017. The play is a "memory play" in which narrator Tom Wingfield appears in the main story, and reflects on it as narrator years later. Glass talks about using lighting and staging to define the two spaces. Bradley Theatre Opens Its Season with "Little Women" By Nathan Irwin • Oct 27, 2017 Scott Kanoff and Susan Somerville Brown are with us this week, to talk about the Bradley University Theatre Department's production of "Little Women." It's a musical adaptation of the well-known novel, and Kanoff describes it as perhaps the department's most ambitious undertaking. After staging several rock-oriented musicals in the past few seasons, the department wanted its students to experience a more traditional musical this year. They were also looking for a show that offered multiple prominent roles for female performers. PSO Goes Hollywood With "La La Land" By Nathan Irwin • Oct 20, 2017 This week, we're talking with George Stelluto, conductor of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra. Their next concert represents a departure for the orchestra; they will playing live to accompany a screening of the film "la La Land." Stelluto talks about what concert-goers can expect from the performance, and about the different demands this concert places on him and the orchestra. He also explains the "click track" which keeps the musicians and the film in sync. The Peoria Symphony Orchestra presents its next concert Saturday night at 7:30 in the Peoria Civic Center Theatre. Peoria Players Presents Spooky Ghost Story with "The Woman In Black" By Nathan Irwin • Oct 13, 2017 Peoria Players Theatre This week, we're talking with Susan Hazzard. She's directing "The Woman In Black," now on stage at Peoria Players Theatre. It's her directorial debut, and she talks about why she chose it as her first production. She also talks about working with the small cast of three actors, about the technical elements that create a mood of suspense, and about the effect she hopes the production will have on audience members. "The Woman In Black" continues with performances tonight, tomorrow night, and Sunday at Peoria Players. Out and About: Citywide Celebration of Women in the Arts By Jen Gordon • Oct 6, 2017 Arts Partners of Central Illinois This week, Jen Gordon showcases the Citywide Celebration of Women in the Arts with two special guests. First, we'll chat with Kristan McKinsey, director of the Illinois Women Artists Project about the life, legacy and works of creative women artists. We'll also learn more about project's upcoming symposium at Bradley University. Riverfront Museum Opens Exhibit Showcasing Regional Artists By Nathan Irwin • Sep 29, 2017 Peoria Riverfront Museum This week, Nathan Irwin is talking with Zac Zetterberg from the Peoria Riverfront Museum. Their new exhibit, "Emergence: The National Arts of Central Illinois" features works by Central Illinois artists of national and international stature. He talks about how the idea for the exhibit developed, and about collaborating with artists and educators in the region to curate the show. There's also a lecture series that will run in conjunction with the exhibit. Peoria Symphony's 120th Season Opens With "Reflections" By Nathan Irwin • Sep 22, 2017 Our guests this week are George Stelluto, conductor of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra; and Gary Roberts, President of Bradley University. The Peoria Symphony begins it's 120th season this weekend. They talk about the shared history of the orchestra and the university (which celebrates it's own 120th anniversary this year). The concert recognizes other notable anniversaries, of Johannes Brahms and Leonard Bernstein. MAXAM Building Presents Its Fall Art Show By Nathan Irwin • Sep 15, 2017 This week, we're talking with Kip Strasma and artist Preston Jackson. The MAXAM Building is presenting its Fall Art Show, featuring the work of Central Illinois Artists. Jackson is one of the artists whose work will be on display. They talk about the initial decision to identify a potential art venue in the building, and about its proximity to places like the Contemporary Art Center and the Peoria Riverfront Museum. Many of the works in this show are designed to encourage interaction between the art (or the artists) and the observer. "Hunchback of Notre Dame" Opens Peoria Players' Season By Nathan Irwin • Sep 8, 2017 Peoria Players Theatre Our guests this week are Dave Montague and Vicky Snyder. They're playing Frollo and Esmeralda (respectively) in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" at Peoria Players Theatre. Snyder and Montague talk about their roles, and some the themes of the show. They also praise the score, and expect that audiences will be impressed by the show's costumes and set. Peoria Players Theatre opens its 99th season with "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." It opens tonight, and performances continue through Sunday, September 17th. HFO Season Gets Underway with Beethoven's Ninth By Nathan Irwin • Sep 1, 2017 David Commanday, conductor of the Heartland Festival Orchestra, is with us to talk about the concert that opens the orchestra's ninth season. Fittingly, the program includes Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Commanday says it's the culmination of Beethoven's symphonic works, and it includes the well-known "Ode to Joy," with its themes of freedom and universal brotherhood. Corn Stock Season Closes with "Thoroughly Modern Millie" By Nathan Irwin • Aug 25, 2017 Corn Stock Theatre Bryan Blanks is the director of the musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie," which closes the summer season at Corn Stock Theatre. He describes it as a high-energy show, that's appropriate and fun for all ages. Set in the Flapper era of the 1920s, it tells the story of a young woman who sets out for New York City to marry for money. Blanks talks about the music of the show, which hearkens back to the jazz age, and the intense, tap-driven choreography. Prairie Center Hosts Exhibit of Work By Past Resident Artists By Nathan Irwin • Aug 18, 2017 The Prairie Center of the Arts is hosting its 4th Regional Alumni Art Exhibition. It features the work of 28 artists -- all alumni of the Center's residency program. We spoke with Barb Hoffmann and Michael Gilbert, two current residents. They talk about what the residency program has meant for them, and how it has enhanced their work. We also discussed a few of the works included in the exhibit, representing multiple styles and media. Ignite Peoria Showcases Area Performers By Nathan Irwin • Aug 11, 2017 We talk with Kelleen Nitsche and Sarah Marie Dillard about this year's Ignite Peoria event. Nitsche is the coordinator of the main performance stage, which features appearances from local performing arts groups -- theatre, dance, even magic. There are also musical theatre and improv workshops for young performers, and a "ticket booth" with special offers from area performers. "Bring It On" opens at Peoria Players Theatre By Nathan Irwin • Aug 4, 2017 Nyk Sutter and Sandra Iadipaolo are the co-directors of "Bring It On: The Musical," the summer youth production at Peoria Players Theatre. The show features music by Lin-Manuel Miranda (of "Hamilton" fame) and demands a range of dance, cheerleading and tumbling from its cast. They talk about adapting their rehearsal process to those needs, the elements of the show that they found to be universal, and about the challenges (and rewards) of working with a cast of 14- to 20-year-olds. "Bring It On: The Musical" continues Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Peoria Players. Tazewell County's "Fourth Friday" Showcases Local Arts and Businesses By Nathan Irwin • Jul 28, 2017 Leigh Ann Brown and Kelly Scarfe are in the studio this week to talk about the Tazewell Art Loop, held the fourth Friday of every month. Similar to First Fridays, the event offers opportunities to meet local artists, tour their studios and see works in progress. The Tazewell event also highlights locally-owned businesses. The organizers have developed walking tours for four participating communities: Morton, Tremont, Delavan, and Pekin. Pages« first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last »


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Essential Oil Christmas Workshop with Laura Hoy & Heather Hardy
- Venue: The Edge Community Centre, 85 Pankhurst Avenue, Brighton, BN2 9AE, UK.
- Date: Sunday 7th December 2014
- Time: 10am-12.30pm
- Cost: £25
- Discount: £20 if you book and pay by 1st December
- Price includes a pot of balm and edible treat to take home (both made by you), morning tea, snacks and a hand massage.
A fun, festive and practical workshop open to all. We will be sharing how you can use essential oils to support yourself to nurture, cherish and adore your self in day to day life. This is especially important around this time of year as we can get so caught up in the rush and stress of Christmas. This morning workshop will be a chance to focus and care for yourself, offering practical tips to bring support though out the crazy month of December and beyond. We will be making a balms for you to use on your body (these can be tailored to you personally), some edible snacks flavoured with essential oils (to take home too), and giving and receiving hand massages.
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Read this fantastic blog exposing Christmas and it's effects on our health: The Silly Season and its effects on Health
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Metallica: Games are "fucking way cool"
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich enjoys games. They help him connect with his kids.
"It's fucking way cool," he said in this Rolling Stone interview. "Our kids love playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band. It's awesome. There's something really positive coming out of video games. It's so cool to sit there and have your kids talk to you about Deep Purple and Black Sabbath and Soundgarden."
Ulrich was talking at a signing day in California last week, at which he was signing lots of Guitar Hero controllers. More through the link.


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ViCU Plans June Groundbreaking for Arts Center; Name to Honor Markel Corp. Gift
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Virginia Commonwealth University will break ground next month on its new Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA). Billed as a combination exhibition and performance space., the 43,000-square-foot facility will include a laboratory and incubator of visual art, theater, music, dance and film.
Scheduled to open in 2016, the ICA will be located within Richmond's newly designated Downtown Arts District, atBroad and Belvidere streets. The project will be mostly primarily funded. VCU officials said in a statement that the school has raised nearly $31 million toward its $35 million goal. A $20 million endowment campaign is also under way.
Markel Corp., the Richmond-based financial services company, has made a generous donation to the project. In recognition, the VCU Board of Visitors voted to name the new building the Markel Center.
Steven Holl Architects designed it with dual entrances, one facing Richmond, the other facing the VCU campus. A double-height "forum" will be located at the heart of the building. Three levels of galleries will radiate from the forum in a forked arm-like configuration. The building's exterior will feature walls of pre-weathered, satin-finish zinc as well as clear and translucent glass, allowing natural light to enter during the day and radiate out at night.
"The ICA will be vital to the creative ecology of VCU and the community," said VCU President Michael Rao, in a statement. "Creative problem-solving skills are essential in our world today and this institution will bring new resources to our students and faculty working across the university, the nation and the globe."
"This institute will also be a significant beacon in Richmond in terms of economic and cultural development and bringing the arts community from around the world to our great city," Rao added. "The ICA will help put Richmond on the global map as an arts destination."
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The ordinance was passed unanimously by the Anaheim City Council on Tuesday in a move that's meant to protect children from registered sex offenders.
It makes it a misdemeanor for any sex offender to enter city parks. Violators will be punished with a fine of up to $1,000 and six months in jail.
The ordinance, which was developed and proposed by District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, will take effect in 30 days.


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The cat that got the cream
HIS Warwick visit may have come and "scone", but the grin on Tony Abbott's face showed how sweet the current ALP jam is for the LNP leader.
While Labor was talking a leadership ballot yesterday morning, Mr Abbott was en route to the Rose City to officially open the Grove Juice Factory at the Axis Industrial Estate. But it was K-Rudd's power play that had people talking and national media chomping at the bit.
Everyone may have been thinking about it, but Mr Abbott was not talking about Labor's leadership debacle going on in Canberra - while he was addressing the crowd gathered at the juice factory.
Even so, he had the open support of Grove Juice's Dick Estens who blasted the ALP and proclaimed Mr Abbott would be the next prime minister.
But Mr Abbott didn't remain tight-lipped for long - clearly basking in the ongoing "spectacle" of the ALP's power plays he took the opportunity to describe the party as a "shambles" in a media conference in the back office of the factory.
He said Australia "deserved better" and was "still a great country" but refused to give "political commentary" when asked if he thought Kevin Rudd would be the ALP's leader on Monday.
"Whatever happens Monday or next week it will be the faceless men pulling the strings," he said.
He said the only way to have a government without "dodgy backdoor deals" was to call an election.
But pressed as to why he would not call a vote of no confidence, Mr Abbott said it should be left up to the people who formed the leadership - the independents. He avoided answering questions about whether he had spoken to the independents.


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The Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has launched an investigation into the claims of a "toxic culture" on set of America's Got Talent (AGT), following Gabrielle Union's exit from the show.
A spokesperson for the performer's union sent a statement to Variety on Sunday night, saying, "We take issues of workplace health and safety very seriously. We immediately reached out to Ms. Union's representatives when these reports came to light."
"It is our practice to work closely with members who reach out to us and their representatives in instances like this, as that usually affords the best protection and best resolution for the affected member," the statement continued.
READ MORE: Celebrities rally around Gabrielle Union following 'America's Got Talent' exit
"For certain matters, our investigation and enforcement needs to happen independently and we are prepared to handle this issue accordingly, as warranted. Our enforcement action is usually handled confidentially to protect the member involved, and we typically do not publicize these matters unless the member requests that we do so," the spokesperson for SAG-AFTRA added.
"While we have taken steps to investigate this matter, we have nothing to report now."
On Sunday, a joint statement was released from NBC, FremantleMedia, which produces the show, and Simon Cowell's entertainment company Syco regarding Union.
"We remain committed to ensuring a respectful workplace for all employees and take very seriously any questions about workplace culture," the groups' statement read.
"We are working with Ms. Union through her representatives to hear more about her concerns, following which we will take whatever next steps may be appropriate."
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In late November, it was announced that Union and Julianne Hough would not be returning to AGT next season. Days later, Variety published a report claiming there was a "toxic culture" on the set of AGT.
According to Variety's report, Union had concerns over offensive incidents that happened on set.
The report alleged that both judges were subject to "excessive notes" about physical appearance and claimed that AGT had a culture of toxic, racist jokes.
Multiple people on set were upset by the joke, Variety reported, and Union reportedly urged producers to report the joke to the human resources department.
Variety also quoted multiple unnamed sources saying Union was told several times that her hairstyles were "too black" for the singing competition show.
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The article also claimed that Union expressed concerns over an incident during auditions in which she believed a white male performer crossed a line in portraying people of colour.
According to another report, published by Vulture, Union was "perceived as 'difficult' by Simon Cowell and his team of producers" after voicing concerns about "perceived racist incidents, Cowell's habit of smoking indoors, and attempts to keep the show from misgendering contestants.
On Sunday, Union quoted a tweet that outline the three steps in "a solid apology."
"This! This! And THIIISSSSSSS!!!!!!," Union added.


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Transport? Trams stop outside Whitley College at STOP 15 on Route 19 to North Coburg from Flinders Street Station.
Date: Saturday July 13th
Time: 1pm - 5pm
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