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The rising threat to free speech, Muslim-Christian dialogue, and LGBTQ+ advocacy.\n\n\n\n\nJohn Shuck\u2019s guests include Jeremy Rothe-Kushel.\xa0Nicole Correri, and Brett Webb-Mitchel.\n\n\n\n\n**I will also be speaking with Lyn Neeley about the action Saturday in Portland\xa0Against U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad.**\n\n\nSaturday, April 14, 1 PM, Rally: Waterfront Park, Battleship Memorial (Naito pkwy, Oak & Pine). March to Saturday Market.\n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy Rothe-Kushel\xa0talks about being\xa0arrested\xa0in a\xa0library\xa0for simply exercising his free speech rights. Charges against him eventually were dropped. The librarian who defended him also was arrested, injured, and ultimately, acquitted. \xa0We will discuss free speech and public spaces.\nNicole Correri\xa0is the pre-eminent\xa0Shia speaker\xa0in North America. She will be talking about the legacy of Imam Husayn and her work in Muslim-Christian relations.\nBrett Webb-Mitchell\xa0is an openly gay Presbyterian minister and pastor of\xa0Community of the Pilgrims Presbyterian Church\xa0in Portland. He has just been named the LBGTQ+\xa0Advocacy Coordinator for the Oregon-Idaho Conference of the United Methodist Church.\n\u2014\nBios:\nJeremy Rothe-Kushel has a background in politics \u2013 from local to international, officeholder to activist \u2013 with experience in community organizing, mediajamming, documentary journalism and consensus-building in deep politics, economics and ecologics. Jeremy aims to coalesce a partisan-transcendent and permaculturally-informed #FullSpectrumPopulist #IntegralPolitics from the #RadicalMiddle with a #WeThePeoplePlatform and #CoalitionCabinet.\nHe is working on a documentary project titled \u201cSeptember Eleventh Uncoverage\u201d based on a decade of his investigative research, activism and experience of covering and uncovering the 9/11 cover-up.\nRothe-Kushel has put public figures across the political spectrum \u201con the record\u201d about vital issues that are often controversial and always emancipatory. Some of his journalistic encounters include Michael Hayden, John Yoo, Joe Biden, Eric Holder, Mike Pompeo, Kris Kobach, Ron Paul, Alex Jones, Jay Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Jill Stein and Amy Goodman.\nJeremy has a working background in permaculture design and implementation, and future-roots music production, performance and education. \xa0While at Williams College completing his B.A. in Religion, he founded and over the next decade taught an original approach to musical education called \u201cHipHop Empowerment\u201d, with students of diverse ages and backgrounds from the Bronx to Boston, Southern Vermont to South Los Angeles.\nAlthough he believes that well mineralized and microbialized, high-carbon humus might help solve most humanity\u2019s problems, Jeremy currently sees that the \u201cinvisible domain\u201d of politics, culture, multimedia, law, deliberative deep democracy and cooperative startup economics contains key elements to assemble and strategic means necessary to that \u2018soilutionary\u2019 end.\nYou can hear Jeremy on No Lies Radio\xa0and on the\xa0Pacifica Radio Network:\xa0False Flag Weekly News and\xa0Antedote.\n\u2014\nNicole Correri, the preeminent female Shia speaker in North America, considers herself a student of Islam and a follower of the Ahl al-Bayt (as). Before graduating with Honors in M. Ed. in Counseling from George Mason University, she received her B.A. in Psychology, Minor in Early Childhood Education from George Washington University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She is a member of numerous academic honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa.\nNicole is a powerful public speaker who motivates her audience to embody Islam in practical, relevant, and meaningful ways. \xa0With her solid academic background and passion for the religion, she brings a unique perspective to her audience with the goals of inspiration, education, and transformation. \xa0Her work stems out of the gap she felt and observed for the English speaking Muslims in the West to make sense of religion in their context and \xa0lived realities. \xa0She is interested in an intellectual and inspirational approach to faith and articulates a practical theology with a sensibility for social, gender, and ethical justice. \xa0Nicole is also committed to inter and intra-faith work, cultivating our shared humanity and bringing people together for the common good. \xa0She continues to study Arabic with the Fawakih Institute since 2012 and as of Spring 2016 will be finishing up her Master\u2019s degree in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary and has been accepted into the Ph.D. program in the Religion Department at Boston University.\n\u2014\nBrett Webb-Mitchell ,\xa0LGBTQ+ Advocacy Coordinator for the Oregon-Idaho Conference of the United Methodist Church\nHe was an assistant professor of Christian nurture at United Methodist founded Duke Divinity School and now serves as an ordained pastor serving Community of Pilgrims Presbyterian Church in Portland. In addition to this, he\u2019s written several books on the topics of human sexuality, Christian growth and what it means to be a gay parent. Book titles include: \u201cPracticing Pilgrimage: Beyond Accessibility\u201d and \u201cFollow Me: Christian Growth on the Pilgrim\u2019s Way.\u201d Webb-Mitchell and his partner, Dan, have been together for 22 years, have two adult children and one grandchild on the way.