April 17, 2025

[image: image.png] opening thoughts:1 To every Jew in America: Rise up now!!!Trump has begun the move to construct concentration camps…I grew up in a Jewish Italian neighborhood and was remind by my neighbors that we should never forget, never again. It is returning and your collective voice is needed now-at this very moment! [image: bafkreihkbyvn7beym3akmawk6ch6vftygugskgnsaswsevusptvkifoa6a.jpg] opening thought part 2: Maine’s Governor Janet Mills is channeling US Senator Margaret Chase and her 1950 Declaration of Conscience speech aimed at Senator Joe McCarthy -Joe is to Donald as Margaret is to Janet. I could not be prouder of. her courage and her convictions
Part one: Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-blue-shield-louisiana-insurance-lawsuit-breast-cancer-doctors author: T. Christian Miller Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter dedicated to accountability, transparency and data-driven journalism.
Part two: We begin this conversation with the knowledge that this week is Black Maternal Health Week (4/11-17), so the conversation couldn’t be more timely: blkmaternalhealthweek.com/
The Nation’s Senior editor *Regina Mahone*, coauthor, with We Testify Founder Renee Bracey Sherman, of *Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve*, is available for interview to discuss the storytellers putting the struggle for reproductive freedom into action across the country. In “*Abortion Bans Upended Their Lives — Now They’re Fighting Back, <www.thenation.com/article/activism/abortion-in-america-storytelling/>** One Story at a Time <www.thenation.com/article/activism/abortion-in-america-storytelling/>* ,” www.thenation.com/article/activism/abortion-in-america-storytelling/
Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/>Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, concentration camps, Governor Janet Mills, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, Propublica, T. Christian Miller, The Nation, Regina Mahone, abortion post Dobbs, Black Maternal Health week