Open Source is “an American conversation with global attitude.” It was the first podcast and now it’s a weekly show on . WBUR, broadcasting Thursday nights at and Sundays at pm. Drawing on roots in Boston, they remind us why the city has been the capital of ideas in the United States since the heyday of Emerson and Thoreau. They’re an independent production company funded by grants, gifts and donations.
The Lakota are the freedom loving people from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have suffered from cultural and physical genocide in the colonial apartheid system they have been forced to live under. They are continuing the work that they were asked to do by the traditional chiefs and treaty councils at the first Indian Treaty Council meeting at Standing Rock Sioux Indian Country in 1974.
“Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life” Frederick Douglass
Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a moral duty to avoid allowing a government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated to write this essay by his disgust with the U.S. system of enslavement and the illegal land grab commonly referred to in the U.S. as the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México (U.S. intervention in Mexico).
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