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Social worker, sociologist, activist, husband, father, grandfather, friend (h/h/h). Please see my free substack Speaking from the Heart at https://michaelalandover.substack.com for essays, reviews, news beats and my other works section.
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Fresh from No Kings demos, it is off to NASW in Chicago. Let's design "needs talks" with clients and communities about injustice, basic needs and aspirations, liberation and flourishing oxfordre.com/socialwork/d.... Also see 2023 version and open access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I attended No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Mentor, Ohio” there will be more! Sign up! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “🚨 Hands off Our Republic: An Emergency Rally in Defense of Our Rights, Our People & Our Democracy 🚨” - sign u www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

3/21/25: Link to Carlson interview with Witkoff to michaelalandover.substack.com/.../peace-wi.... and michaelalandover.substack.com/.../russian.... I recommend full youtu.be/acvu2LBumGo?.... Only comment: He is very dangerously wrong to think Iran and Hezbollah are now unable to do damage to Israel.

On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/7H0goxfH

Webinar for/with federal workers from Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper in Colorado: youtu.be/XDLsVMVTuAY?.... A title might be: the cost of chaos.

Our Common Enemy : Totalitarian Theocratic Patriarchal Power Brokers: Time to name the enemy we see here, there, everywhere. michaelalandover.substack.com

Join us in Cleveland next week 3/6 at 7:00pm: act.jstreet.org/signup/possi...

Please join me 3/6, at 7:00 pm. www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_n.... The event is free & public but to register, visit shorturl.at/fRNWx. The Mandel JCC is at 26001 S.Woodland Road. A J Street supporter since early in its founding, I am on the host committee for this event.

Tell it Jane! I once picked Jane up at the Detroit airport to bring her to the Hill St. house in Ann Arbor to meet with young activists in the late 60s. And she's still at it! Fight ageism and ableism and practice empathy with a Big Tent! youtu.be/Z_v0NJ8_8ps?...

Thom Hartmann's Substack piece on voter suppression's subtext to target married women is a must read! hartmannreport.com/p/the-gop-ta... We need to pass automatic voter registration, likely ironically, in Georgia, in every state. But this SAVE act passed the House last year!

Please see the updated About section of Speaking from the Heart, Michael Alan Dover, Editor and Publisher! michaelalandover.substack.com/about. I hope you will consider subscribing. Updates to my beats do not produce emails, only new essays and occasional Notes.

Resistance Fair Sunday in Cleveland. See more info and a list: www.clevelandheightsdems.com. I would prefer we call things Opposition Fairs; opposition to injustice, opposition to war, etc. But this worked! Very heartening. vimeo.com/1054869202

Don't panic. Take action! #SocialWorkers: Here's what you can do. #NASW #Trump #ExecutiveOrders

3/6 7PM in Cleveland. Join with Possibilities for Peace: A Dialogue Between an Israeli and a Palestinian act.jstreet.org/signup/possi...

For my comments on a valuable piece about the current state of Phase 1 of the ceasefire, by former J Street CLE guest Ilan Goldenberg, see this note and if no longer at top, please scroll down. substack.com/@michaelalan...

I'm blown away- huge thanks and gratitude to everyone who has subscribed to my substack. In just 18 days, we've become an official substack bestseller with over 1000 paid subscribers. New entry coming tomorrow on the Supreme Court's trangender case: harrylitman.substack.com

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As Dr. King's birthday approaches, and I think of the imminent risk to immigrants and refugees, I would like to share my op-ed from last fall. therealdealpress.com/2.0/index.ph...

I posted J Street's news roundup for today. A better link is this, to the roundup home page, with the latest at top. I have it as a tab in my browswer that opens daily. Without doubt the best sources of news related to Middle East Peace with Justice, in my view. jstreet.org/news-roundups/

J Street's indispensable dailiy news roundup: jstreet.org/news-roundup.... Also updates to my substack's Middle East Peace with Justice post in my Beats section, with a Zotero database report of items I've read since 10/07/23 and a YouTube playlist. jstreet.org/news-roundup...

Hello Bluesky! Please join me in my two missions: fix the messaging and brand of the Democratic Party through reframing, and do an end run around money in politics by building real political capacity in communities. Also, please subscribe to my newsletter! 💙 reframingamerica.substack.com

A valuable analysis.

I have just discovered a link on the J Street website where you can sign-up to receive nearly daily News Roundups, not just about J Street but news relevant to Middle East Peace with Justice, the subject of of the Beats sections on my substack: jstreet.org/news-roundups/.

We may be looking at a coming confederacy of dunces and not a fascist state. thecoopscoop.substack.com/p/coop-scoop...

Trump Does Not Have Mandate talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-d...

We must encourage our Congressional representatives to sign-on to an important letter to President Biden issued by 3 members of Congress, asking him to make good on his prevoius withhold certain offensive weapons & address the worsening humanitarian disaster in Gaza. act.jstreet.org/sign/congres...

Time for an Israeli Unilateral Ceasefire! www.cleveland.com/opinion/2024... I'm hoping to be proven wrong wrong; that formal ceasefire in Gaza is coming any day. But no reason Israel can't just stop and see what happens! Nothing else has worked, and I'm not the only one saying it.

Let's study UN SC Resolution #2735 and see why it needs to be implemented immediately, starting with Phase 1 or with Phase 1 and 2 simultaneously. tinyurl.com/UNSCResoluti...

My first Blue Sky hashtag; #https://tinyurl.com/UNSCResolution2735 Read it! Time to demand Israel just stop, with a unilateral ceasefire under the Phase 1 provisions. Let's take it a step at a time and jump start Phase 1 with a unilateral ceasefire now! portside.org/2024-11-27/u...

Couldn't help saying something more, it is good therapy (for me). I'm trying to follow this guideline: "Let my fingers do the talking," so if you see my yapping too much, reminde me ok? open.substack.com/pub/michaela...

I've actually carefully read Maurice's Reds, the culmination of decades of research, and learned a lot about left and US history.