Michael Alan Dover
@michaelalandover.bsky.social
Social worker, sociologist, activist, husband, father, grandfather, friend (h/h/h). Please see my free substack Speaking from the Heart at https://michaelalandover.substack.com for essays, reviews, news beats and my other works section.
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/...
Human Needs: Overview
"Human Needs: Overview" published on by NASW Press and Oxford University Press.
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June 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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/...
I attended No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Mentor, Ohio” there will be more! Sign up! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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...
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June 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I attended No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Mentor, Ohio” there will be more! Sign up! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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...
🚨 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...
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April 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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.
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March 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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.
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
Join me on April 5th
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March 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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
Webinar for/with federal workers from Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper in Colorado: youtu.be/XDLsVMVTuAY?.... A title might be: the cost of chaos.
Bennet, Hickenlooper, Panel of Experts Host Webinar for Colorado Federal Workers
YouTube video by Senator Michael Bennet
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March 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Webinar for/with federal workers from Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper in Colorado: youtu.be/XDLsVMVTuAY?.... A title might be: the cost of chaos.
Our Common Enemy : Totalitarian Theocratic Patriarchal Power Brokers: Time to name the enemy we see here, there, everywhere. michaelalandover.substack.com
Speaking From the Heart: Essays, Reviews, News & My Beats | Michael Alan Dover, PhD | Substack
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March 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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...
Possibilities for Peace: A Dialogue Between an Israeli and a Palestinian
Join Nadav Tamir, Executive Director of J Street Israel, who will be in discussion with Palestinian peace activist Ezzeldeen Masri, the US Director of Outreach for the One Voice Movement. They will di...
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February 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Join us in Cleveland next week 3/6 at 7:00pm: act.jstreet.org/signup/possi...
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.
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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.
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
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February 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Please join me 3/6, at 7:00 pm.
www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_n....
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.
www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_n....
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.
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?...
Jane Fonda: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | The 31st Annual SAG Awards
YouTube video by Netflix
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February 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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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February 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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!
Please see the updated About section of Speaking from the Heart, Michael Alan Dover, Editor and Publisher! michaelalandover.substack.com/about. I hope you will consider subscribing. Updates to my beats do not produce emails, only new essays and occasional Notes.
About - Speaking From the Heart: Essays, Reviews, News & My Beats
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...
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February 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Please see the updated About section of Speaking from the Heart, Michael Alan Dover, Editor and Publisher! michaelalandover.substack.com/about. I hope you will consider subscribing. Updates to my beats do not produce emails, only new essays and occasional Notes.
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
Cleveland Heights Democrats
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February 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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
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January 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
3/6 7PM in Cleveland. Join with Possibilities for Peace: A Dialogue Between an Israeli and a Palestinian act.jstreet.org/signup/possi...
Possibilities for Peace: A Dialogue Between an Israeli and a Palestinian
Join Nadav Tamir, Executive Director of J Street Israel, who will moderate the discussion with Hiba Qassas, founder of the Principles for Peace Foundation, who brings 18 years of experience at the Uni...
act.jstreet.org
January 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
3/6 7PM in Cleveland. Join with Possibilities for Peace: A Dialogue Between an Israeli and a Palestinian act.jstreet.org/signup/possi...
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...
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I am sharing here the link to the United Nations security council resolution 2735 which no one seems to want to talk about specific...
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January 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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...
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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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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 ...
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December 8, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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:
harrylitman.substack.com
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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...
Speaking from the Heart: Lessons from Dr. King’s Drum Major Instinct Sermon
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January 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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...
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 Roundups Archive - J Street
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January 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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/
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...
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...
News Roundup for January 3, 2025 - J Street
More Than 40 Dead in Strikes on Gaza City, Civil Defense Says
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January 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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...
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...
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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
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.
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November 19, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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
A valuable analysis.
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
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.
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December 27, 2024 at 7:05 PM
A valuable analysis.
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/.
News Roundups Archive - J Street
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December 26, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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/.
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We may be looking at a coming confederacy of dunces and not a fascist state. thecoopscoop.substack.com/p/coop-scoop...
December 22, 2024 at 2:46 AM
We may be looking at a coming confederacy of dunces and not a fascist state. thecoopscoop.substack.com/p/coop-scoop...