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Joe Arruda
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Father. Husband. Folkie. Actor. Peacenik. LGBTQIA+ Ally. Indie Hip-hop head. Wizard.
This Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Get your tickets here: yourtheatre.org/wp/
July 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The Supreme Court just ruled that Trump can deport people to countries they’re not from. He can now deport you to a gulag in Russia or Saudi Arabia if he wants to.
June 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa by @wearedelasoul.com is song that dropped in '91 that was truly ahead of its time. Tackling DV/SA and believing women long before it was mainstream topic. Great example of what hip hop can be a vehicle for 🕊 Thank You Dave 🕊

youtu.be/1mB0IBiLQMQ?...
De La Soul - Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa (Official Audio)
YouTube video by DeLaSoulVEVO
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June 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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This is some real horseshit. If you want to know how bad it gets when sport stadiums go from staging centers to detainment camps look no further back in history than Chile 1973. ☠️ #la #abolishice
Dodger Stadium Doubles as ICE Deployment Depot
June 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.
June 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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New Bedford's Vacant Property Development Manager Jordan Latham works with property owners and heirs to get empty homes back on the market in a city struggling with a severe #housingshortage
How New Bedford is reviving vacant properties - The New Bedford Light
Vacant Property Development Manager Jordan Latham works with property owners and heirs to get empty homes back on the market.
newbedfordlight.org
June 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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BREAKING: In what may be the largest single #immigrationraid in New Bedford since January, federal agents detained five to eight Mexican men Thursday on their way to work in the building trades.
newbedfordlight.org/mexican-work...
Mexican workers arrested in immigration raid in New Bedford’s South End - The New Bedford Light
Five to eight Mexican men on their way to work in the building trades were detained Thursday, an immigrants’ advocate says.
newbedfordlight.org
June 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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OPINION: New Bedford has the opportunity to show it is a city of respect, inclusion, and #humanrights. The community is ready to build bridges and work together, but we need our leaders to take that first step, writes Paulina Fuenzalida-Guzmán. #safezone
Opinion: New Bedford urgently needs a Safe Zone Resolution - The New Bedford Light
New Bedford has the opportunity to show it is a city of respect, inclusion, and human rights. The community is ready to build bridges and work together, but we need our leaders to take that first step...
newbedfordlight.org
June 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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☀️The Families Left Behind: The wife of an immigrant arrested after #ICE agents smashed his car window in New Bedford at first withdraws from her community, but then finds her voice ⤵️
newbedfordlight.org/first-shock-...
☀️ See the Light's full five-part report⤵️
newbedfordlight.org/after-the-ic...
Wife of detained New Bedford immigrant says her community helped her - The New Bedford Light
The wife of an immigrant arrested in a violent ICE operation at first withdraws from her community, but then finds her voice.
newbedfordlight.org
June 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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My fortune cookie is mocking me.
June 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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“The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine...” – Woody

Text: Collected in “Pastures of Plenty,” ed. Marsh & Leventhal.
June 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Happening at Your Theatre on William St. #newbedfordma #nbma
June 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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The refugees were admitted to the U.S. after an executive order from President Trump, and under an expedited and unconventional process for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.
First Afrikaners arrive in U.S. under radically reshaped refugee program
The refugees were admitted to the U.S. after an executive order from President Trump, and under an expedited and unconventional process for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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I went looking through my archive to references (ca. 1970-2000) in the US press to "white genocide" in Africa. With only one exception, every single one I could find appeared in neo-Nazi publications, like this one from December 1975. CB Baker was a protege of GL Rockwell and Willis Carto.
May 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Somewhere around $6 of benefit for the economy for every $1 spent on SNAP. It’s one of best ROIs of government spending.
This is the reminder that SNAP makes money because ensuring people have enough to eat is a basic economic multiplier
May 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Over the weekend I put together a simple video for this song I made a couple years ago.

youtu.be/CSyxvAonvD8
distant transmission
YouTube video by observation team
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May 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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"I'm convinced that if the world survives these dangerous times it will be tens of millions of small things that do it. Keep on!" ~ old Pete (Seeger)
#keepon #peteseeger
January 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Or a Pete Seeger...
January 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo:

“This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”
The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”
Photo by Al Aumuller, via Wikimedia Commons Like another famous Okie from Muskogee, Woody Guthrie came from a part of Oklahoma that the U.S. government sold during the 1889 land rush away from the Qua...
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January 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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if you "broke out" as an artist in 2024, i salute you.

If you started in 2024… wow!

it was the hardest professional year for myself and a number of my colleagues.

but we don't quit, we update the formulas and get back to work!

keep on.
January 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Welcome to post-reality America. I really wish this was the one that actually happened.
January 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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January 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM