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Reel Time with Richard Ades: Mobility-impaired Norwegian discovers life, love through gaming

This article first appeard on Reel Time with Richard Ades

Growing up with a degenerative muscular disease, Mats Steen found it harder and harder to take part in everyday life. As a result, the young Norwegian spent most of his time playing…

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Join the World, not the U.S. Empire

https://worldbeyondwar.org/join-the-world-not-the-u-s-empire/

Remarks upon acceptance of Real Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, Norway, November 10, 2024.

It’s wonderful to be here with many of you whose work I’ve known but whom I’ve rarely if…

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The Mourning After: GREEP Zoom #198

We begin our special Thursday zoom with poetry from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN.

Host Harvey “Sluggo” Wasserman recounts the astounding 2004 comeback of the Boston Red Sox to end the 86-year “Curse” of not having won a World Series since 1918…

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People who have been deported

They lived through Trump 1.0

There are a lot of news articles speculating about what could happen to immigrants under a Trump 2.0 administration. Let’s hear some first-hand accounts of what did happen during Trump’s first term. These are the family separations…

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