New American Dream Radio Show -- Guests Ava Bird & Frank Cordaro -- 8p EST

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This from Chuck Gregory in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.:

In about an hour, our first show will be underway. Join us at http://theshow.newamericandream.info at 8 p.m. EST. If you miss the live stream, we'll be putting a recording up on the site soon.

From the site:

Our shows will always be archived on this site, as well as on the Black Op Radio site and World News Trust. We’re just getting started (first broadcast February 3, 2011) so please bear with us if you find anything that doesn’t work.

We’d love to have you sign up for our newsletter (there will be a form for it shortly). Once a week you’ll get a reminder about the show, with the list of guests.

Tonight's guests:

Our first guest poet, AVA BIRD of Berkeley, California.

She is an activist writer, a raw food chef and a divine seeker of sustainable living.

She looks forward to the new American Dream!

Ava Bird is the author of two new, combustible, edgy and hilarious books of poetry and prose:

“Rage Against The War Machine!”

&

“The New Now”

… soon to be released by Beatitude Press of Berkeley.

For copies, please write to Ava at [e-mail]

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FRANK CORDARO

Frank Cordaro is a lifetime career activist for peace and justice. He currently resides in Des Moines, Iowa, as a member of the Des Moines Catholic Worker (DMCW) community www.DesMoinesCatholicWorker.org providing daily hospitality to needy people. Cordaro helped found the DMCW in 1976.

From 1985, to 2004, Cordaro served as a parish Catholic priest in rural south west Iowa. During these years Cordaro continued his peace and justice work both locally and nationally. Through out his parish ministry years Cordaro subscribed to a long tradition of civil disobedience as a model and means for effecting social change. Particularly, he identified with the Berrigan brothers, Dan and Phil, and their direct action approach to peacemaking, based on a biblical Jesus, who was a radical, nonviolent, egalitarian reformer, acting his way to the Cross and inviting others to do the same. He resigned from active priestly ministry in Aug of 2004.

After serving a six month sentence for a May 1998 God’s of Metal Plowshares witness Cordaro moved back into the DMCW Community. http://www.craftech.com/~dcpledge/brandywine/plow/webpages/GODSOFMETALPLOWSHARES.htm

In 2004 he helped established the Phil Berrigan Catholic Worker House for Peace and Justice as part of the Des Moines Catholic Worker community.

Along with other DMCW community members, Cordaro has organized public programs and events designed to raise the awareness of the local community and others across the country to the values of nonviolent direct action and community responsibility. He has helped organize and participated in local and regional actions.

In recent peace campaigns, Cordaro has been arrested eight times in the Des Moines area protesting the current war in Iraq and served two 30 day jail sentences in Dec 2004 and Oct 2007. He last crossed the line at Offutt AFB, home of STRATCOM, the Strategic Nuclear and US Military Space Commands on Dec 28th of 2005 at the conclusion of an annual Feast of Holy Innocents Retreat and served six months of jail time in 2006. He was arrested the last two years at STRATCOM’s annual “Space Weapons Bazaar” held in Omaha

Cordaro and the DMCW Community have also added healthcare reform as a focus for their nonviolent resistance and started the Insurance Profits Make Us Sick campaign in Iowa doing a weekly vigil at the headquarters of Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and getting arrested there last July and served three days in jail after being found guilty of trespass last Nov.

He has served over 5 years of jail and prison time for his acts of civil disobedience.

Since leaving the active ministry, Cordaro has refocused his energy and is working full time on peace and justice concerns and is preparing a collection of his writings and sermons from the last 25 years.

Cordaro has been a guest lecturer in numerous forums for peace, has facilitated retreats and workshops. He is available to speak and facilitate retreats and workshops upon request.

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Biographical Information

Born:

Feb. 16, 1951, Des Moines, IA

Educational Background:

1969 Graduated Dowling High School, Des Moines, IA

1973 BA, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

1976 Masters of Divinity, Aquinas Institute of Theology, Dubuque, IA

1983 – 85 Major Seminary, St Johns University, Collegeville, MN

Professional Background:

1976 Co-founded the Des Moines Catholic Worker

1985 Ordained priest in the Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, IA

1985 – 04 Parish priest to 18 SW Rural Iowa communities.

Current Residence:

Phil Berrigan CW House

713 Indiana Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50314

[phone] www.DesMoinesCatholicWorker.org

FC’s personal page link http://desmoinescatholicworker.org/frankcordaro.html

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1. Your post and your site/show would probably be more

appealing if you gave a short statement about your mission and the kind of content you will be presenting.

Right now, I have no idea other than by inference from the sites you link to.

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2. Thanks -- I Agree

This is all Chuck sent to me. I'll see if I can at least find out today's guests.

Cheers

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3. Tonight's Guests: Ava Bird & Frank Cordaro

See the updated OP for more info.

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4. There you go!

Thanks. Looks good.