Michael Alan Dover

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/...

NO KINGS Mentor, Ohio · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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

🚨 Hands off Our Republic: An Emergency Rally in Defense of Our Rights, Our People & Our Democracy 🚨 · Mobilize The Trump regime is now in open defiance of the Supreme Court — ignoring its orders, illegally deporting legal residents, and revoking student visas to silence dissent. To date, dozens of students f...

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.

Join me on April 5th

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

YouTube video by Senator Michael Bennet Bennet, Hickenlooper, Panel of Experts Host Webinar for Colorado Federal Workers

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

Speaking From the Heart: Essays, Reviews, News & My Beats | Michael Alan Dover, PhD | Substack To view, click Read Without Subscribing button. All subs and follows are free; no paid subs or tip jar. Click Home to on right to Other Work (op-eds, academic publications). You can reach me at michae...

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...

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J Street, OneVoice Movement officials to discuss ‘Possibilities for Peace’ The Mandel Jewish Community Center in Beachwood will be one of seven sites in the United States to host a discussion aimed on fostering a peaceful resolution to the decades-long

Please join me 3/6, at 7:00 pm.
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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.

YouTube video by Netflix Jane Fonda: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | The 31st Annual SAG Awards

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!

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Cleveland Heights Democrats

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...

Michael Alan Dover on Substack https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n24/165/11/pdf/n2416511.pdf I am sharing here the link to the United Nations security council resolution 2735 which no one seems to want to talk about specific...

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...

Talking Feds Substack | Harry Litman | Substack TALKING FEDS Substack with Harry Litman is a series of dispatches from the front of a constitution in crisis; Litman explains how the maneuvers of Trump and his circle transgress constitutional norms ...

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:
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Michael Alan Dover on Substack I heard a Torah Study talk by Rabbi Robert Nosenchuk of Mishkan Or yesterday on Dr. King’s sermon and on Exodus Chapter 1 and civil disobedience of the Midwives. Rabbi Roger Klein also spoke on Dr. Ki...

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Speaking from the Heart: Lessons from Dr. King’s Drum Major Instinct Sermon The Real Deal Press Twitter (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s);...

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...

News Roundups Archive - J Street

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/

News Roundup for January 3, 2025 - J Street More Than 40 Dead in Strikes on Gaza City, Civil Defense Says

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...

Reframing America | Antonia Scatton | Substack Changing the way the American Left engages in the public debate. Click to read Reframing America, by Antonia Scatton, a Substack publication.

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

I'm all in for Reframing America, thanks for your work.

A valuable analysis.

We need all the help we can get, thanks Antonia for substack.

News Roundups Archive - J Street

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/.

Speaking From the Heart: Essays, Reviews, News & My Beats | Michael Alan Dover | Substack To view, click Read Without Subscribing button. All subs and follows are free; no paid subs (tip jar in future). Press Home for Essays and links on lower right to Other Works. Comments welcome to mich...

Oh my, after a week of thinking my own michaelalandover.substack.com could somehow magically change the world or at least my own mood, Marc presents by far the best account of the week's developments, including coining the term MUMP administration. If you don't want the MUMPs, forward it.

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 This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.”…

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