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Raising Sand Radio (www.raisingsandradio.org), MotherSpeak (www.motherspeak.org) and author of the book Mothers Speak about War and Terror (www.mothersspeakaboutwarandterror.org).
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Susan Galleymore is the author of Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak about War and Terror, sharing the stories of people in Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and U.S. [Pluto Press 2009]. She is also host and producer of Raising Sand Radio (www.raisingsandradio.org) a former counselor on the GI Rights Hotline, founder of MotherSpeak (www.motherspeak.org) and and itinerant artist illustrating the effects of war in the Families of War Series. She lives in California and South Africa and has traveled fairly extensively in the Middle East and southern Africa. She focuses on the intercultural issues, war, and the environment.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 25, 2010 The Green Mayor has Toxic Sludge on his Hands
Gavin Newsom's reputation as "the green mayor" is going down the drain, contaminated by the toxic sludge on his hands.
With Mayor Newsom's blessing, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission distributed 80 tons of "organic biosolid compost" to city residents, community gardens, and the Parks and Recreation Department in 2007.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 21, 2009 Melissa - Raped! -- For Band of Buddies War Series
MELISSA stopped drinking water in the early afternoon so she didn't have to walk to the latrines after dark. Women were being raped by members of their own battalion and she didn't want to risk that. She knew the risk of dehydration in 120 degree heat but " raped by fellow troops? Wasn't going to happen to her.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 6, 2009 Global Connections and the Arc of War
The lawsuit against KBR includes burn pits in Afghanistan. It is likely that the wave of deformities in Afghan newborns will go undetected for a longer period than they took to crest in Iraq since many Afghan babies are born at home and in remote regions. A new study by the U.S.-based independent charity Save the Children says 60 out of every 1,000 Afghan babies die; this is already one of the highest infant mortality rates...
SHARE Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Beauty and the Beast
Settlers Primary School in Austerville, South Durban holds the Guinness world record for the highest rates of asthma in a primary school anywhere in the world. It is located between the Engen and SAPREF oil refineries south of the port of Durban, South Africa. Engen is the second largest integrated oil company in southern Africa, after Sasol, and came about when Mobil sold its southern African operations to Gencor. ...
SHARE Wednesday, January 27, 2010 The Seamy Side of Coal-fired Power
South Africa has one of the heaviest carbon footprints in the world...and the World Bank is offering a US $5 billion loan -" the biggest ever to any African entity -" that ensures its footprint becomes even heavier. The World Bank, however, says the loan assists South Africa's electricity parastatal Eskom to "achieve financial stability, increase generation capacity and efficiency, and adopt a low carbon trajectory."
SHARE Saturday, January 27, 2007 Don't send your sons...
Susan Galleymore is the mother of a U.S. Army soldier, a counselor on the GI Rights Hotline, founder of MotherSpeak sharing the stories of mothers affected by war and co-founder of Courage to Resist supporting the troops who refuse to fight. She returned from Lebanon and Syria in January 2007.
SHARE Saturday, June 12, 2010 World Cup Soccer 2010: Shame on the Beautiful Game
Soccer fever rises. A billboard on the East Bay side of the California's Oakland/San Francisco Bay Bridge displays an animated advertisement with the FIFA logo announcing "RSA vs. Mexico, Friday 6:30am." The growing excitement makes even someone who elects to live sans a television cast around for a place to watch the sport referred to as the "beautiful game."
SHARE Sunday, April 4, 2010 The World Bank and the Four Horsemen of Climate Change: Apocalypse Now?
The World Bank votes on April 8 to loan South Africa parastatal, Eskom, $3.75 billion for a new coal-fired power plant.
A look at the coal industry and the "four horseman of climate change" that influence it.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, May 28, 2010 It is "Perfectly Safe: It just Kills Plants"
The Fifth Agent Orange Justice Tour ended recently. It focused national attention on grass roots and legislative efforts to achieve comprehensive assistance to victims in Vietnam, to the children and grandchildren of U.S. veterans, and to Vietnamese-Americans.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Compost: the highest tech method to preserve our planet and our health
Robert Reed of San Franciso's Recology, one of the largest composting and recycling employee owned organizations in the country, is with us for the first half of the show. Then soil scientist and agronomist, Bob Shaffer shares the known secrets of composting and recognizes the secrets of humus that no one really knows.
Interviewed by Susan Galleymore for Raising Sand Radio: http://www.raisingsandradio.org
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Obama, Stop Building Nuclear Weapons
Takashi Tanemori stands on a makeshift stage on the back of a truck near Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California. His formal traditional Japanese dress and his silver hair riffles in the chill morning breeze. His voice is clear over the roars of large trucks passing.
"I came to the United States forty years ago to avenge the death of my family killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima."
SHARE Friday, May 4, 2007 Resistance R Us - Then ... and Now
A view of the forces of resistance within the military today with comparisons to resistance during the Vietnam war era.
As a counselor on the GI Rights Hotline, I know that, for every GI in the news refusing to fight, there are thousands more GIs quietly saying "no" to this war.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 5, 2009 Open your Heart to the System that is War
We've come a long way, as a nation, toward a more sophisticated understanding of war.... We've also added a concept to our national consciousness that was all but missing eight years ago: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
When Major Nidal Hasan pulled the trigger so many times in Ft. Hood on November 5, 2009 there was national outrage, shock, and horror. A picture slowly formed around the man who could do such a thing....
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, August 6, 2010 Confronting a Mindset: "Bombing Hiroshima was Right"
Imagine the power to erase, in nine seconds, more than 200,000 human beings and everything surrounding them within a two mile radius. Then imagine that power magnified many times over. Then understand that We, the People, are represented by those who are capable of destroying far more people and property in less time. For, according to President Bill Clinton "nuclear weapons are the cornerstone of the policies" of U.S...
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 30, 2010 The US Navy: War Games under Americans' Radar
After the public comment period ends on October 11, 2010, the Navy will conduct a plethora of war exercises along 122,400 nautical miles of air, surface, and subsurface space in Northern California, Oregon, and Western Washington.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 17, 2009 Support the Troops? Or Support The Enforcer?
That my son and many others like him are proud of their military service does not mean that the US military is not the enforcer for US foreign policy. Nor does it mean that the US military is not the instrument used to pacify populations and make their lands compliant to US corporate penetration.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 27, 2009 A View from the Faultline
I met a Birther! Here, in the San Francisco Bay Area. My small island town is a mix of people and, until 1997, was home port to one of the largest naval fleets in the Pacific. Many of those who worked on the naval base still live here. Nevertheless, I was surprised to find a real, live person who seriously believes that Barack Obama was born in Mombasa ...and that his presidency will last only one year.
SHARE Saturday, January 30, 2010 Goodbye Guinea Fowl, Hello Truck Stop
This week I learned that the land I grew up on in Cato Ridge, South Africa, will be a truck stop as of mid-February 2010. Each day after that up to 32 trucks with trailers, those eighteen wheelers that terrify motorists as they race along the N3, will drive over the land where once stood our horse stables, pigsties, and my grandfather's cow shed.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 22, 2009 The Tea Party as Good Beginning
My "left-leaning" friends had persuaded me that "right-leaning" folk are successful at spreading their message because they know they how to tow the party line, how to follow, and how to obey. And that this is unlike those of us on the "left" who march to our own tune, squabble for meager media attention, and splinter off to form smaller and less effective groups when challenges arise.
SHARE Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Bob: Burned in Combat - Family of War Series
BOB had been completely surprised by the car that came outta nowhere and rammed into the Bradley Fighting Vehicle! All hell had broken loose.
The bomber dude must have been sitting on a huge pile of explosives because the impact killed our tank commander right off and hurt two of our guys, one of them burned even worse than Bob".
SHARE Saturday, October 31, 2009 Luis - Corporate Warrior: Family of War Series
LUIS was on his way to Ramadi for his brigade's combat patch ceremony when he started wondering again if the War on Terror really was a war for oil.
My art work expresses the horror faced by families of those injured in war. And I hold that the suffering of Iraqis and Afghans- and so many others - is not yet receiving much attention. Feel free to comment on the symbols used here.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 3, 2010 Confessions of a Military Mom
In America, Mother's Day falls on May 9 this year. In Palestine, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon it fell on March 21, and in Afghanistan it fell on March 8, where it is also celebrated as the first day of spring. Israel forgoes Mother's Day in favor of Family Day, celebrated on February 14 this year.
I take an interest in these countries because, while my son served in the US Army, I visited them....
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 9, 2009 No surprise on the House's support of Ros-Lehtinen/Berman resolution
Oy vey! So, what's new? Ros-Lehtinen/Berman resolution 867 passed: 344-36.
That it did so with such a wide margin is a bit unsurprising...certainly craven...and shameful. After all, this nonbinding resolution merely urged Obama and Clinton to oppose unequivocally any endorsement of the Goldstone report. If ever there's a time to placate the progressive population...
SHARE Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Jerry and Candy - Family of War
I create pieces for the Family of War Series as I find that art and images are an effective way to express and communicate with those who don't read much or are overwhelmed by what they read. My sculpture coupled with a story uses the human face to encounter the horror faced by families of those injured in war. And I hold that the suffering of Iraqis and Afghans- and so many others - are not yet receiving much attention.
SHARE Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Daniel - Deployed! Band of Buddies War Series
DANIEL was on the radio at a FOB near Ramadi and Fallujah when the engineer unit called in a “sit repâ€: several men had been hit by an IED explosion. Three were dead and two expectant, meaning they wouldn't survive.
SHARE Thursday, December 3, 2009 Wanted: Vaccine and a Cure
December 1 is World AIDS Day. Populations of the United States and Europe no longer experience the panic that accompanied the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the 1980s. In sub-Saharan Africa, however, HIV/AIDS is an ongoing emergency that results in hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.
SHARE Friday, October 30, 2009 Business as Usual
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert just ended what he may have hoped would be a victory lap speaking around the United States. Meanwhile, fundamentalist settles prevented Palestinian school children from the villages of Tuba and Maghayir Al Abeed were prevented from attending school in At-Tuwani.
SHARE Wednesday, February 3, 2010 A Dearth of Imagination Leads to Wasting Perfectly Good Waste
Informal waste pickers fight for the right to recycle perfectly good waste from South Africa's dumps and landfill...and are abused for it. This is a lack of imagination on the part of governments. And ours in the US is part of the problem, not the solution.
SHARE Friday, November 6, 2009 Ryan, Recruited! - Band of Buddies Series
RYAN had talked non-stop over dinner about the military recruiters in his high school"and the cool free stuff like t-shirts and video games! They said he could be a helicopter pilot and get a job anywhere. His little brother said helicopters were cool" His sister said a friend's boyfriend died in Afghanistan. She was dumb -- the recruiters said he wouldn't even have to go to combat!