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VINICIUS JATOBA

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VINICIUS JATOBA was selected by
Granta as one of the Best of Young Brazilian Novelists in 2012. Since then
he has had stories published in English, French, Spanish and German. He is
also a prize-winning dramatist. He recently spent a year in Paris as the recipient of the prestigious Icatu Prize
for Arts, where he worked on his new novel, Enchantment Road. He is working
on a new work of narrative
nonfiction commissioned by The Antidote, the print edition of TheTrumpAntidote.com. Jatoba will
be teaching a fiction writing
workshop for Paris Writers Retreat
later this year.



JANINE DIGIOVANNI

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JANINE DI GIOVANNI, Middle East
Editor of Newsweek and contributing
editor of Vanity Fair, has been cited
as "the finest foreign correspondent of
our generation." She became an
Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University
in recognition of her work on violence
and war and the trauma it brings to
society, and has been named as one of
the 100 most influential people
reducing armed conflict by Action on
Armed Violence (AOAV).  She is the
author of a new book, "The Morning
They Came For Us:  Dispatches From
Syria." The documentary "Seven Days
in Syria" focuses on her investigative
work.



MICHAEL GELLERT

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MICHAEL GELLERT is the author of "The Fate of America," "Modern Mysticism," "The Way of the Small," and, forthcoming in 2018, "The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey." He lectures widely on psychology, religion, and contemporary culture. Michael was educated in rabbinic Judaism, studied theology at Loyola College in Montreal, and trained with the renowned Zen master Koun Yamada in Japan for two years. He also studied with Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto. A Jungian analyst, he was formerly Director of Training at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, where he is currently a research instructor.

WENDY GOLDMAN ROHM

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WENDY GOLDMAN ROHM, founding editor of The Trump Antidote, is a New York Times best-selling author, editor, journalist and literary agent. Her books have been published in 14 languages worldwide, and she has been a features editor, managing editor, contributing editor and correspondent for numerous magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times Syndicate International, Financial Times, Wired, The Atlantic, Tina Brown's Talk magazine, Chicago Tribune, Vogue, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Playboy, and many others. Rohm worked as an investigative journalist for many years. She's written for film and stage under a nom de plume, and is working on her fifth book. She hosts writers workshops globally, inspired by the series of honorary Masters Teas she held at Yale, nurturing emerging and published authors.

JAKE LAMAR

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JAKE LAMAR is the author of a
memoir, six novels, numerous
essays, reviews and short stories,
and, most recently,
a play. He is a recipient of
the Lyndhurst Prize (for his first
book, Bourgeois Blues), a prestigious
Centre National du Livre grant (for
his upcoming novel Posthumous),
France's Grand Prix for
best foreign thriller (for Nous
Avions un Rêve
, the French
translation of his novel The Last Integrationist), and a Beaumarchais
grant for his play
Brothers in Exile. Born and raised in
the Bronx, New York, he graduated
from Harvard and spent six years
writing for Time magazine.

ALISS TERRELL

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ALISS TERRELL grew up in a Washington, D.C. suburb. She started learning French and Russian in kindergarten. While in college, she earned scholarships for summer study at the University of Saint Petersburg, Russia and the Bryn Mawr Program in Avignon, France. Graduating from Rutgers, she received a Fulbright for her M.A. at La Sorbonne, following that with a degree in Holistic Psychology from l’Institut OSE, Paris. She's written for Promostyl, Paris and pieces about children to LEADER Magazine, NY.  Her lyrics, music and voice have graced TV programs, films and live productions, including the Nelson Mandela musical Soweto. As a singer-songwriter, she's recorded for Virgin, Polydor and Gaumont. Aliss starred in a rap video on Red Square, “Life is Kife.”

MELKER GARAY

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MELKER BENT-INGE GARAY (born in Tocopilla, Chile), is a Swedish author. Born to a Swedish father and Chilean mother, the family moved from Chile
to Sweden in 1970, just prior to the
Chilean Revolution in 1973. His
writing revolves around theological, existential and philosophical topics. Garay debuted in 2008 with his novel The Verger (published by Norlén & Slottner).
The Verger has been translated into several languages. In 2009, he became
a member of the Swedish Writers' Union, and in 2012, he was elected as member of Svenska PEN, the Swedish link to the International PEN literary organisation. In 2014, Garay was
elected to the Chilean Writers'
Society.

TAMMY STONE

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TAMMY T. STONE is a Canadian writer, editor and photographer currently living in Japan. She is the author of two poetry collections, Formation: Along the Ganges and Back Again (2015) and Little Poems for Big Seasons (2016). Her narrative work has been widely published and anthologized, and she has contributed as writer and editor to several collections of poetry by women. She has written columns for elephant journal and The Tattooed Buddha, focused on wellness, spirituality and the arts. With a Bachelor of Journalism and a Master of Arts in film, she worked as a film programmer before beginning extensive travels in Southeast Asia, India and Japan, where she is exploring the convergence of meditation, story-telling, and empowerment through the written word.

In This Issue:

"With all its so-called freedom, America has not been able
to generate a society that, through its public discourse and the education of its citizenry, can even recognize much less free itself from the tyrannical addictions that grip it."
--Michael Gellert, The Fate of America


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VOICES:

THE FATE OF AMERICA
America in the Third Millennium
By Michael Gellert

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POINT OF VIEW:

MR. TRUMP AND MR. CREOSOTE
By Jake Lamar


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CULTURE:

THE ARTIST & SOCIETY
On Responsibility and Art
By Albert Camus


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INTERVIEW: David Gershon
SOCIAL CHANGE 2.0 AND BEYOND
By Aliss Valerie Terrell

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REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK:

 THE ROAD TO SYRIA
By Janine di Giovanni


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SHORT FILM:

THE MACHINE
By Melker Garay




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POETRY:
VOICES OF RESISTANCE
Allen Ginsburg et al.


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INTERVIEW: Rha Goddess
THE SOCIAL JUSTICE ARTIST
By Aliss Valerie Terrell


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FICTION:

THE PARROT
By Melker Garay

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INTERVIEW: Gail Straub

A NEW ERA FOR CREATIVE CHANGE
Gail Straub's Visionary Approach
By Aliss Valerie Terrell



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FICTION:
TWO MAPS
By Tammy T. Stone


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INTERVIEW: Audrey Noeltner
THE URBAN FREEDOM FIGHTER
By Aliss Valerie Terrell




What we're reading:

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Suketu Mehta on Bombay's Trump



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The Atlantic on Obama's Record


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Amnesty International: Write for Rights

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Elizabeth Warren confronting corporate fraud and greed

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Protest March in Paris, November 2016. Photo by Wendy Goldman Rohm, copyright 2016, The Trump Antidote.
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Anti-Trump protest in Paris, November 15, 2016. Photo copyright 2016, The Trump Antidote.

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