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Dan Godston
@dangodston.bsky.social
husband & father, educator & writer
Pavement says, “No More Kings” youtu.be/KoJ2tOaqML0?si=ZQIAjzEeYjXaStQc
No More Kings
YouTube video by Pavement - Topic
youtu.be
June 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Abolish ICE. Abolish the DHS.
ICE raided LA elementary school in an attempt to kidnap small children.
June 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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LAPD Won’t Do Immigration Enforcement — But Will Shoot You With Rubber Bullets for Protesting ICE
theintercept.com/2025/06/10/l...
LAPD Won’t Do Immigration Enforcement — But Will Shoot You With Rubber Bullets for Protesting ICE
LA’s sanctuary laws ban cops from helping ICE in most cases. But the LAPD was out in full force repressing protests against the raids.
theintercept.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It was amazing to walk around at Cahokia Mounds State Park, to think that Indigenous people founded and built a huge urban settlement with dozens of platform mounds here a millennium ago.
May 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Miles Davis statue and mural in Alton, IL. I’d driven downstate last Fri to attend my graduate commencement at McKendree U, wanted to stop in Miles’ hometown
May 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
We invite you to join WLP during its next Session on Listening—Tuesday, April 22nd (10 pm UTC+0 / 5 pm UTC-5). What can be done to cut through the noise of today’s world? How do we find truth and understanding amid the chaos? Register for this program at linktr.ee/worldlistening
April 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“…I’m just not telling them what to do. You can interpret it however you want, but you know the basic idea of what it means, the basic idea of what all these signs and gestures mean, and you have to interpret it in every moment.” — Butch Morris bombmagazine.org/articles/199...
April 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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April 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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📢 Would you like your field recordings to be heard at the iconic Barbican Centre in London? We’re hosting an exclusive call for our community to provide the recordings for a new commission as part of the Feel The Sound exhibition.

Submit recordings by 30 April 📆 citiesandmemory.com/observatory-...
Observatory Station: open call from Cities and Memory & Barbican
Observatory Station is an open call for field recordings for a brand new installation at the Barbican Centre in May 2025.
citiesandmemory.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Lynda Barry’s “Syllabus” is fantastic
April 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Imagine if laws were passed based on what can empower people and make communities safer, rather than what profiteers and revanchist nuts want
imagine
Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!?

Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
April 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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We’re joined by @stephenwalt.bsky.social discussing the unravelling of the US as the world's strongest economy is now an international outlier following an exodus of investors which has driven down the dollar as Brand America faces growing boycotts around the globe. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...
How to Ruin a Country
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex
soundcloud.com
April 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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🍺🎙️ *Against the Law: Inside Trump's Attack on Law & Lawyers* Live panel discussion hosted at Hideout. This month, Show Up Chicago features Ed Yohnka of ACLU of IL and Professor Sheila Bedi, Community Justice & Civil Rights Clinic at Northwestern U law school. Monday, April 28th, 7 pm. Info/Sign-up:
Show Up Chicago · Indivisible Chicago
The Blue Beginning chapter of Indivisible Chicago hosts this monthly community gathering/panel show/happy hour at Chicago's most highly evolved saloon. This month our guest speakers are **Ed Yohnka,**...
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April 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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NAISA is pleased to launch its 2025 Call For Submissions on the theme “Sound Culture.”
Deadline May 31, 2025.
Categories: Sound Art/Electroacoustic, Sound+Image, Radio/Transmission Art, Interactive Installation
naisa.ca/opportunitie...
NAISA Call for Submissions | New Adventures in Sound ArtNAISA Call for Submissions – New Adventures in Sound Art
naisa.ca
March 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
getting ready #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
WLP seeks practitioners to submit proposals for the Official 2025 World Listening Day Theme — one that cuts through the noise of today’s world, which encourages deep listening, meaningful communication and empathy. Have an idea? Submit it at the link below! worldlisteningday.org/wld25/
March 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
You're invited to join WLP for its next Session on Listening -- "Field Recording and Electronic Music -- with Detroit-based sound artist Rebecca Goldberg: Tuesday, February 18th (11 pm UTC 0 / 5 pm UTC-6). Register for this program at linktr.ee/worldlistening
February 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Let’s put that deranged ketamine addict in one of his rockets, send him on a one way trip to Mars so he can colonize it. He wants to be emperor — let him be emperor of Mars
February 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
“A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines, because they displeased him…” — Rod Serling youtu.be/QxTMbIxEj-E?...
The Twilight Zone (Classic): It's A Good Life - A Very Bad Man
YouTube video by The Twilight Zone
youtu.be
February 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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These are excerpts from a very different dream speech from MLK, Jr. He says a lot here, July 4, 1965.
January 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I’m gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
— Woody Guthrie
youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa...
youtube.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Charlottesville Jazz Society & WTJU present the 2025 Mingus Awareness Project @ The Front Porch on Feb. 2nd — with The Adam Larrabee Trio & John D’earth Quintet
January 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Join the call! We're looking for sound artists & musicians to take part in our biggest project of 2025, Sonic Heritage!🏛️

Remix and reimagine 200+ field recordings of amazing UNESCO World Heritage sites & explore the role sound plays in the world's most famous sights.
citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights
Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.
citiesandmemory.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
You're invited to join us during our next Session on Listening -- Exploring Sound Underwater with Joshua Sam Miller -- on Tuesday, January 28th (11 p.m. UTC+0 / 1 p.m. UTC-9. Register @ linktr.ee/worldlistening
January 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM