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What if prison could become a place where justice is restored rather than denied? In this episode, Alexander McLean, founder and CEO of Justice Defenders, shares how legal education is transforming prisons into places of learning, leadership, and service. Discover how empowering incarcerated people and prison staff with legal knowledge is expanding access to justice and reshaping justice systems from the inside out.

Melanie Kaplan, spent years investigating the story of how beagles have been bred and used in the name of research. This, after adopting her rescued "lab dog" Hammy. Her love of Hammy and the end of her work resulted in her book, Lab Dog - A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research

Daniel Horan wrote that Merton "... has been remembered as a spiritual writer, a mystic, a monk, a poet, a social critic, a champion of justice, an artist, a proponent of Christian nonviolence, and someone whose literary output was simply extraordinary." Join us as we learn about the remarkable life and work of Thomas Merton.

Join us as we talk to Robin Lively Summers about No Kings 3 and the other work that Indivisible Asheville is currently involved in. Indivisible Asheville is an all-volunteer nonprofit committed to fighting extremism and building a representative democracy for all.

Part 2: Philip Goldberg joins us again to go deeper in the topic of karma and his book, Karmic Relief - Harnessing the Laws of Cause and Effect for a Joyful, Meaningful Life. Philip shares more insight about what is seen as a basic law of the universe and known in different ways - the law of cause and effect, an eye for an eye, for every action in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction.