Derrick Jensen Resistance Radio archives

Sortable and searchable list of Derrick Jensen's Resistance Radio audio interviews with activists.
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2021-10-17 Max Wilbert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhpjdqqIM_g&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Max Wilbert is a writer, organizer, and wilderness guide. A third-generation dissident, he came of age in a family of anti-war and undoing racism activists in post-WTO Seattle. He is the editor-in-chief of the Deep Green Resistance News Service. His latest book is the Bright Green Lies. His first book, an essay collection called We Choose to Speak, was released in 2018. He lives in Oregon. Today we talk about actions against a proposed lithium mine in Nevada. max-wilbert6.jpg
2021-10-10 Justin McAffee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44fmtCvlvoc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Justin McAffee produced his first short film Great Basin Water Protectors, about an indigenous people’s prayer run and a water pipeline that threatened a large area of rural Nevada. He is currently working on a film series, Desert Apocalypse, about the assault on the Mojave and Great Basin in Nevada, one of the largest intact ecosystems in the lower 48 states. He resides in Nuwuvi, occupied Southern Paiute lands in Southern Nevada. justin-mcaffee.jpg
2021-10-03 Amie Ichikawa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDdvIRY_Hho&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Amie Ichikawa was formerly incarcerated in California. She recently founded the nonprofit organization Woman II Woman inc. This organization was originally created as a resource hub for reentry services but has become much more after California’s SB132 “The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act” which has allowed gender self ID in prisons creating an unbelievable violation of human rights. amie-ichikawa.jpg
2021-09-26 Ralph Bloemers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsTVYoxlqlI&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Ralph Bloemers has been working on forest fire and climate issues for about 25 years. His work focuses on communities in Oregon, Washington, and California. He has spent thousands of hours in burned landscapes, documenting wildlife and forest regeneration. He’s a documentary filmmaker, environmental lawyer, and advocate for living with fire on the land. ralph-bloemers.jpg
2021-09-19 Tony Povilitis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVn6BSkPlTU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Tony Povilitis is a wildlife biologist, conservation activist, and founder of Life Net Nature, a "mom and pop" nonprofit devoted to wildlife research, voluntarism, and advocacy. For more than a half century, Tony has witnessed ongoing destruction of wildlife and nature in numerous countries. His conclusion: Efforts to mitigate human impacts have fundamentally failed. The only sane way forward is to vastly scale down humanity's exploitation of nature, consumption, and population.

His book Slipping through our hands, imperiled wildlife of the Greater San Juans appeared in 2000. You'll hear more about his background as he explains how that book came about.

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2021-09-12 Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEfhFqlG34I&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein are evolutionary biologists who have been invited to address the US Congress, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Education, and have spoken before audiences across the globe. They both earned PhDs in Biology from the University of Michigan, where their research on evolution and adaptation earned awards for its quality and innovation. They have been visiting fellows at Princeton University, and before that were professors at the Evergreen State College for fifteen years. They resigned from Evergreen in the wake of 2017 campus riots that focused in part on their opposition to a day of racial segregation and other college “equity” proposals. They cohost weekly livestreams of the DarkHorse podcast.

They are the co-authors of a new book: A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life.

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2021-09-05 Alice Friedemann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw1zSCXojrg&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Alice Friedemann, the granddaughter of two scientists, is genetically predisposed to do extensive research and exhaustive reading. Much of this was accomplished as she read while walking 10 miles round-trip between home and office. She was a systems architect and engineer for over 25 years. She retired from Dilbert Land to devote more time to science writing on energy, ecology, climate change, whole grains, agriculture, infrastructure, pollution, and too many other topics to list (see her website).

The past few years she has come to see that fossil-fueled western civilization will likely collapse from dozens of factors. Especially oil, the master resource that makes all others possible. Especially in transportation since heavy-duty trucks, locomotives, and ships depend on diesel fuel. Manufacturing is also completely dependent on the high heat fossil fuels can generate to make cement, steel, microchips, glass, ceramics, bricks and other essential products.

Today we talk about her new book Life After Fossil Fuels.

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2021-08-29 Maria Polaris & Kris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiCvoyjz_7c&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Kris is a parent of an 18 year old desisted daughter.  She got involved in the gender-identity fight 3 years ago when her daughter declared she was really a boy and declared a new name and pronouns.  A life-long lefty, she had no idea what was really happening with transgenderism and gender-identity.  Despite the fact that her child has desisted, she continues to work to provide information and resources, through Cardinal Support Network, for other parents who are suffering.

Maria Polaris is a mother of a transgender, sometimes non binary identifying runaway daughter who has partially transitioned and is viewing life only through a transgender lens. This event fueled her search to find out why this happened and where the influences originated. She has connected with many parents who have had the same experience at the hands of a local gender clinic, many are themselves doctors, psychologists and even lawyers.  Together they searched for evidence that would help them support her and love her without necessarily agreeing as they wait for her brain to fully develop. They found nothing substantial, except for the Danish study that concluded post transition, the suicide rate increased by 19 times post transition.  Maria has traveled to Baltimore to speak to the Catholic Church officials, to Washington D.C. to share her story with the hope of warning government officials, educators, and anyone who will listen that a medical catastrophe is taking place and it is imperative that these children and vulnerable adults be protected. Through www.parentsofrogdkids.com, Maria was introduced to Kris.  Maria is a conservative who loves nature, connecting people and recruiting like-minded citizens who will tell their stories in an effort to get better long term, healthy outcomes for these kids.  After she met Kris, together as mothers, they have become friends in a gender battle that will have many casualties.  The website is set up to help parents like us get our children the help they need, recruiting therapists, doctors and lawyers who will defend these kids' right to healthy, sexually functioning bodies as adults.

Cardinal Support Network is an Ohio-based parent and caregiver support network for those with loved ones who have been taken in by the gender identity juggernaut. We provide scientific, fact-based information about the medical harms of transition; we provide parent partners so that when you need help, you can call, email or meet up with someone else who understands what you're going through; and, we are working to provide support for detransitioners in the area.  Additionally, we are working on legislation to help reverse the rule that disallows providing standard therapy for gender-confused young people.

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2021-08-22 Diane Wilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW7J2Ii1uxU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Diane Wilson is a mother of five, a fourth-generation shrimp boat captain, and an environmental activist. She has been fighting to save the bays on the Texas gulf coast from chemical and oil development for the last 30 years. diane-wilson.jpg
2021-08-15 Andreas Roos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVWlb7QA0cc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Andreas Roos is a researcher and activist working to understand, expose, and challenge the environmentally destructive logic of industrial technologies. He recently defended his dissertation in the field of Human Ecology at Lund University (Sweden) entitled Renewing power: Including global asymmetries within the system boundaries of solar photovoltaic technology. The book deals with the mismatch between the conventional expectations of solar technology and the not so promising ecological reality of massively increasing the world’s solar capacity. Andreas has also done research on the promises and perils of information and communications technologies and compared energy flows in industrial vs. non-industrial food systems. andreas-roos.jpg
2021-08-08 Mark Boyden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaxLvO_tfjo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Mark Boyden is Director of the StreamScapes Project, which over the past thirty years has worked with communities across Ireland to celebrate Salmon and the wider Biodiversity that is all dependent upon high water quality; as well as raising awareness of the impacts that we have on water, species, and habitats through our pursuit of livelihood, recreation, and domestic management. mark-boyden.jpg
2021-08-01 Ben Marshall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgiQ0RKixik&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Ben Marshall is a 'reluctant activist' and Chair of a community group called SOLVE - Supporting Our Loongana Valley Environment.  In their remote Tasmanian mountain valley, they’re politically diverse, but pro-action on climate - though they find themselves in the unexpected position of fighting what appears on the surface to be a good thing, the renewables industry. They didn't expect this to happen when they first objected to a huge transmission line through their beautiful valley, but then found out the realities of politics, and of the corporatisation of the transition from fossil fuels. SOLVE.png
2021-07-25 Kara Dansky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Dhjbschg0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Kara Dansky is a feminist and an attorney. She serves on the steering committee of the U.S. chapter of the Women’s Human Rights Campaign and chairs the Women’s Human Rights Campaign’s Committee on Law and Legislation. You can read more about her at karadansky.com kara-dansky.jpg
2021-07-18 LuAnne Kozma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-1YvnwO9yQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q LuAnne Kozma, from northern Michigan, has been involved in a statewide grassroots effort to bring a proposal to ban fracking and frack wastes statewide to the ballot. She co-founded the group "Ban Michigan Fracking" and the ballot group "Committee to Ban Fracking in Michigan," which has been going around the state talking with people one-on-one about the dangers of fracking and frack wastes and why we need to ban the practice. luanne-kozma.jpg
2021-07-11 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9wSEewki1k&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.

Today we talk about wolverines.

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2021-06-27 Four Arrows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9XLXg1DMPQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa), whose Anglo name is Donald Trent Jacobs, is a professor at Fielding Graduate University and formerly the Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was selected by the Alternative Education Resource Organization as one of 27 visionaries in education, he received the Martin-Springer Institute Moral Courage Award for his Indigenous-based activism, and was involved in creating first the Marine No Take Zone on Pacific Coast of Mexico. He is an American Indian activist and author of 21 books and numerous articles and chapters about Indigenous worldview applications to contemporary world issues.

His most recent book is Sitting Bull's Words for a World in Crises. In it he shows readers how to use the "CAT-FAWN connection" to move from dominant to Indigenous ways of understanding our place in the world, a technique Dr. Michael Fisher refers to as a "dehypnotizing technology" in his biography entitled Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows* which was published recently.

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2021-06-20 Yasi Gerami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyzOuEuGp_Q&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Yasi Gerami is an Iranian-Canadian artist, founder of Bluearth Films, and a world wanderer. She was born in Shiraz, Iran and is based in Toronto, Canada. Her enthusiasm in topics such as socio-political justice for world refugees and women's rights nominated her two short documentaries Away From The Walls and A Day With Lev at The CineSiege Film Festival. She edited Rice Balls in the same year which was also nominated at The CineSiege Film Festival. Yasi is the editor of the award-winning short documentary Guerilla.

Yasi’s first feature length documentary, Sustenance, is about food's journey around the world, exploring controversies revolving around food and its interconnectedness with justice, climate change, and sustainability.

Yasi co-produced her second feature documentary, Age of Iron, with her brother Davoud. Age of Iron takes viewers on a journey through Asia in its poetic critique of global capitalism, dissecting the system's inherent byproducts along the way: exploitation of the masses in the political South and alienation of the masses in the affluent North.

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2021-06-13 Dan Kovalik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX0bnXbwqQw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dan Kovalik is an American human rights, labor rights lawyer and peace activist. He has contributed articles to CounterPunch, The Huffington Post and TeleSUR. He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Today we talk about his new book Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture. dan-kovalik.jpg
2021-06-06 Graham Linehan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82d2ov0EY4o&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Graham Linehan is an Irish television comedy writer and director who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a string of successful television comedies. He is best known for creating or co-creating the sitcoms Father Ted, Black Books, the IT Crowd, and Motherland.

Today we talk about trans grooming of children and society.

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2021-05-30 Michelle Lute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcY8vZPo--0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Michelle Lute is a conservation scientist and advocate with fifteen years’ experience in biodiversity conservation on public and private lands around the globe. She dedicates her professional life to promoting human-wildlife coexistence through effective public engagement, equitable participatory processes, and evidence-based decision-making. Michelle holds a PhD in wildlife management from Michigan State University, an MS in animal behavior and ecology from the University of Notre Dame, and a BS in geography and environmental science from Valparaiso University. michelle-lute.jpg
2021-05-23 Melissa Amarello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbZDveEmcZw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q After more than a decade working on the conservation of reptiles in the American southwest, Melissa Amarello co-founded Advocates for Snake Preservation in 2014 to change how people view and treat snakes. She holds a Masters in biology for her studies of rattlesnake social behavior. melissa-amarello2.jpg
2021-05-16 Jedd Lefthander & Ja Reyalidad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xljaCQsuvVo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Ja Reyalidad, currently located in Archipelago so-called-Philippines is a community organizer, promoting the idea of non-violent direct action and community defense. He also runs an autonomous space he calls Pirate Studio, where he creates and produces short films or documentaries, does podcasts, runs a community library, offering free workshops or skills sharing, practicing growing his own food, to breed radical consciousness and promote creative resistance.

Jedd Lefthander is a member of the local coalition called Negros Environment Watch, Food Not Bombs, in Bacolod City.

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2021-05-09 Skylar Wilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTxJnOjs53w&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Skylar Wilson is a wilderness guide, eco-activist, and ceremonial facilitator with over twenty years of experience facilitating connections within the more-than-human world. Skylar is the cofounding director of the Order of the Sacred Earth and author of the book: Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action with Matthew Fox and Jennifer Berit Listug. He leads Earth-based, participatory, peer-to-peer ceremonies and mentoring programs for teens and adults, including a Soul Initiation group for men and the Cosmic Mass. Email: skylarwilson@gmail.com or visit: www.orderofthesacredearth.org skylar-wilson2.jpg
2021-05-02 Laura Cunningham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcTkJj26JVE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Laura Cunningham is an artist-naturalist, author, and biologist, who also co-founded a conservation organization, Basin and Range Watch that works towards saving the California and Nevada deserts. She is the author/illustrator of the extraordinary book A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California.  Today we talk about California condors. laura-cunningham2.jpg
2021-04-25 Ralph Waldt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUVdJbyTQZE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Ralph Waldt is a naturalist and author. He spent nearly two decades working for The Nature Conservancy as an interpretive naturalist in Montana and Arizona. Now semi-retired, Ralph lives along the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona, where he continues to speak and write on behalf of the land and its life. He is the author of a new book on the San Pedro River, called The Life of the San Pedro River. This book is available through links at his blog. ralph-waldt.jpg
2021-04-18 Vaishnavi Sundar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEWs5ReJtAU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Vaishnavi Sundar  is a self-taught filmmaker, writer, and grassroots activist. She is from Chennai, the south of India. Her last film "But what was she wearing?" gave her the title of " canceled feminist." Even though that is India's only film on the topic that covered voices from women across caste, class, region and religious differences, it was cancelled on the basis of Vaishnavi's political opinion that men shouldn't be in women's sex segregated safe spaces. When she is not filming or writing scathing rebuttals to liberal feminist drivel, she is busy logging all things WTF on her new VLOG channel on youtube. Her most recent film, released January 29, is called Dysphoric. vaishnavi-sundar2.jpg
2021-04-11 Diana Johnstone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWemljuSa6I&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q A native of Minnesota, raised in New Deal Washington, Diana Johnstone has spent more than half her life in Europe as a political observer and journalist, working for Agence France Presse, for In These Times as European Correspondent, and as press officer for the Green Group in the European Parliament. She holds a BA in Russian Area studies and a PhD in French literature. She is author of three books including Fools Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions., and coauthor with her father, Paul H. Johnstone, of From Mad to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning diana-johnstone2.jpg
2021-04-04 Will Falk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKCWeg52gQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Will Falk is a biophilic writer and lawyer. The natural world speaks and Will’s work is how he listens. He believes the intensifying destruction of the natural world is the most pressing issue confronting us today. His first book is "How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me." You can follow Will’s work at willfalk.org.  And you can follow the Thacker Pass campaign at protectthackerpass.org will-falk4.jpg
2021-03-28 Jennifer Bilek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwW_UF2fGP4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jennifer Bilek is an artist, a journalist and an activist working for the liberation of women in society, as well, the protection of children and the planet. She has been researching the money and power behind the trans lobby since 2013 and is author of The 11th Hour Blog, which covers her research. jennifer-bilek.jpg
2021-03-21 Heidi Perryman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykpa6Jjo5CM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Heidi Perryman is a child psychologist who became an “Accidental beaver advocate” when a pair moved into Martinez California. The city was concerned that their dam would cause flooding and recommended trapping. She formed the group “Worth A Dam” to find solutions and educate the community about their benefits. heidi-perryman.jpg
2021-03-14 Josh Slocum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2zuiEXenx0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Josh Slocum is the host of the new podcast Disaffected, which examines the role of abuse dynamics in society and politics. He believes that the personality disorders behind domestic and family abuse are becoming normalized on the American left, and have put us all in a relationship of domestic abuse with social justice activism. josh-slocum.jpg
2021-03-07 Bill Plotkin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvP4p547Gis&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Bill Plotkin, PhD. is the author of The Journey of Soul Initiation. As a depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and founder of western Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute, he has led thousands of women and men through nature-based initiatory passages. His previous books include SoulcraftNature and the Human Soul, and Wild Mind. He lives in Durango, Colorado and you can visit him online at https://www.animas.org. bill-plotkin.jpg
2021-02-28 Kara Dansky & Amy Sousa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1-Hpi9rE1w&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Kara Dansky is a feminist and an attorney. She serves on the steering committee of the U.S. chapter of the Women’s Human Rights Campaign and chairs the Women’s Human Rights Campaign’s Committee on Law and Legislation. She is currently coordinating the Women’s Human Rights Campaign’s plan to present a panel at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Amy Sousa is a theater educator, director, and long time radical feminist. She has been outspoken in the defense of women's rights through social media, youtube, and writing. kara-dansky-amy-sousa.jpg
2021-02-21 Susan Hawthorne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZCOiDzLWHw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr Susan Hawthorne is an Australian radical ecofeminist lesbian. She joined the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1973 and it changed her life for the better. She is a poet, novelist and feminist theorist with degrees in Philosophy, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and a PhD in Women’s Studies/ Political Science. She is the author of nine collections of poetry, three works of fiction and five non-fiction books. Her books have been translated into five languages. She has worked in publishing for more than thirty years and is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at James Cook University, Townsville.

She lives in tropical Queensland surrounded by wildlife (cassowaries, goannas, wallabies, lots of butterflies) and lush vegetation. Her most recent book is Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy.

Learn more at:
http://www.spinifexpress.com.au/
https://www.facebook.com/spinifexpress/
https://twitter.com/spinifexpress

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2021-02-14 Chris Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZwPIDbWwo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Chris Jones leads the river and beaver restoration programme for Beaver Trust, helping communities to develop projects that will recover biodiversity and build climate resilience. He is a farmer and ecologist based in Mid Cornwall. He has worked as a policeman in Africa, as a forester in SW England, as a drilling fluids engineer in the North Sea, Middle East and Africa, and as a theme running throughout as a farmer in Cornwall. He has been interested in the idea of reintroducing beavers to the UK for many years, and has been practically involved setting up and running the Cornwall Beaver Project with Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Exeter University since 2014. chris-jones.jpg
2021-02-07 Esther Figueroa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAE0FyIZ_Ms&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Esther Figueroa Ph.D, is a Jamaican independent film maker, writer, educator and linguist with over thirty five years of media productions including television programming, documentaries, educational videos, multimedia and feature film. Her activist filmmaking gives voice to those outside of mainstream media and focuses on the perpetuation of local and indigenous knowledge and cultures, the environment, social injustice, and community empowerment.

Figueroa’s films are screened and televised all over the world and taught at numerous universities. They include Jamaica for Sale (2009), the award-winning feature documentary about tourism and unsustainable development. Her latest feature documentary Fly Me To The Moon (2019) is about modernity and the global aluminum industry. She recently created and co-hosted GEFF 2020, the first online film festival focused on global extraction. Her environmental novel Limbo (2013), was a finalist in the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards for Multi-cultural Fiction.

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2021-01-31 Fiona Corke & Lierre Keith & Deanna Meyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXIGpDcpE8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Beneath & Beyond all of our beliefs, our social structures
Beneath & Beyond who we believe we are
Beneath & Beyond our questions are answers

… if only we knew how to really listen.

We use Derrick & Fiona's recently released Beneath & Beyond project to discuss ourselves and our place in the world and in the lives of others both human and nonhuman.

Lierre Keith has been a radical feminist for forty years. She is the author of six books. The seventh, Bright Green Lies, will be out the end of February.

Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist and a board member of Deep Green Resistance, Prairie Protection, and the executive director of Prairie Protection Colorado. She has a goat and chicken farm, grows organic vegetables year round and lives with a beautiful forest and mountain meadows now filled with the jump yip of prairie dogs from a colony she helped save. She spends her time connecting with the land and fighting for her beloved.

Fiona Corke is an Australian actor, wildlife advocate and activist who has been campaign and creative director for the Australian Society for Kangaroos since 2008. She is also the creator and cofounder of Wildlife Safe Certification Trademark.

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2021-01-24 Max Wilbert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxnT3nJik3s&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Max Wilbert is a writer, organizer, and wilderness guide. A third-generation dissident, he came of age in a family of anti-war and undoing racism activists in post-WTO Seattle. He is the editor-in-chief of the Deep Green Resistance News Service. His latest book is the forthcoming Bright Green Lies. His first book, an essay collection called We Choose to Speak, was released in 2018. He lives in Oregon.

Today we talk about actions against a proposed lithium mine in Nevada.

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2021-01-17 Jonathan Latham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7md_kNgK4jk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jonathan R Latham, PhD is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering. Dr Latham talks frequently at international events and scientific and regulatory conferences on the research conducted by the Project. He has written for Truthout, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, Resilience, and many other magazines and websites.

Today we talk about the article, “The Biosecurity Myth That Is Destroying Small Farming.”

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2021-01-10 Cayte Bosler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fs3DP2-JlA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Cayte Bosler is an investigative environmental journalist and a graduate student at Columbia University. She researches solutions for protecting biodiversity and has worked with land-based communities and wildlife defenders throughout Latin America. Her interest is in chronicling community-led resistance to exploitation and ecological abuse to inspire resistance elsewhere. Today we talk about whales. cayte-bosler.jpg
2021-01-03 Chris Hedges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3R66-5102w&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Chris Hedges is a New York Times Pulitzer-prize winning war correspondent who for two decades covered conflicts in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He returned to the United States to become a powerful social critic and critic of capitalism, and is the author of a dozen books, including War is a Force that Gives us Meaning; Death of the Liberal Class; and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. He is a columnist for Scheerpost and is the host of On Contact on RT America. chris-hedges4.jpg
2020-12-20 Graham Linehan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm11xkdIo00&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Graham Linehan is an Irish television comedy writer and director who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a string of successful television comedies. He is best known for creating or co-creating the sitcoms Father Ted, Black Books, the IT Crowd, and Motherland. graham-linehan2.jpg
2020-12-13 Diana Johnstone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QioKBclzLbM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Diana Johnstone, Ph.D. is a native of Minnesota, raised in New Deal Washington. Diana Johnstone has spent more than half her life in Europe as a political observer and journalist, working for Agence France Presse, for In These Times as European Correspondent, and as press officer for the Green Group in the European Parliament. She holds a BA in Russian Area studies and a PhD in French literature. She is author of three books including Fools Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions., and coauthor with her father, Paul H. Johnstone, of From Mad to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning. diana-johnstone.jpg
2020-12-06 Samira Agnihotri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8arYWKx5_Vc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Samira Agnihotri has worked in the Biligiri Rangan Hills in south India from 2005 when she began to study birdsong while pursuing a Master's degree in Wildlife Biology and Conservation from the National Centre for Biological Sciences. She then studied vocal mimicry in racket-tailed drongos, walking through the forests with a mike and recorder, and obtained her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science. She followed up her research on drongos as a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Studies.

She is keenly interested in the traditional ecological knowledge of the Solega people and has dabbled in ethno-ornithologies, collaborating with linguist Dr. Aung Si, and is intent on documenting Solega knowledge and oral histories. Samira is also interested in nature education, and in exploring different ways to popularise the ecological sciences as well as encourage and aid the preservation of traditional knowledge systems. Samira is a member of Punarchith, a collective that works with farmers and rural youth. Currently, she works at the Office of Communications at IISc.

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2020-11-29 Skylar Wilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVcSkwnP0FE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q  Skylar Wilson is a 33-year-old wilderness and meditation guide who founded Wild Awakenings and leads inter-cultural ceremonies. For more information and to get involved, visit orderofthesacredearth.org skylar-wilson.jpg
2020-11-22 Nisarg Prakash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnLKePPcmK4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Nisarg is a wildlife biologist studying otters in India. He's walked and paddled along streams and rivers for close to a decade, and hopes to do the same for the rest of his life. He believes the lives of otters, the river and his own life are inextricably linked, and uses otters and rivers to talk about larger environmental issues and also his own struggles with mental health. He lives in the city of Bangalore with his dog Noah who is as close to wilderness as he can get while in the city. cauvery-river.jpg
2020-11-15 Amir Amirani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs3X5e7eIwE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Amir Amirani is the director/producer of We Are Many. The never-before-told story of the largest demonstration in human history, and how the movement created by a small band of activists changed the world. Amir is a film-maker with a strong track record of work for some of the most respected series of the BBC. amir-amirani.jpg
2020-11-08 Dan Gretton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EChpvqA36pY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dan Gretton is a writer, activist and teacher. In 1983 he co-founded the pioneering political arts organisation Platform, in Cambridge, where he studied English literature. As well as working with Platform over many years on the human rights and environmental impacts of corporations, he has also developed radical initiatives in adult education and has lectured internationally on the subject of the "desk killer"™. After more than a decade of research, aided by a major award from the Lannan Foundation, he embarked on the writing of I You We Them. He currently divides his time between north-west Wales and east London, where he shares his garden with a family of foxes. dan-gretton.jpg
2020-11-01 Sarah Killingsworth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sGsWpfFadE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Sarah Killingsworth is a Northern California-based conservation photographer and a Wildlife Educator with Project Coyote. A frequent public speaker about coexistence with wildlife, her photography has been published in both local and national media, in print and online.  You can check out her photos on IG @skwildlifephotos or at her website. sarah-killingsworth.jpg
2020-10-25 Jonathan Latham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4YmC9AelP0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jonathan R Latham, PhD is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering. Dr Latham talks frequently at international events and scientific and regulatory conferences on the research conducted by the Project. He has written for Truthout, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, Resilience, and many other magazines and websites.

Today we talk about golden rice.

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2020-10-18 Laura Cunningham & Kevin Emmerich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lqdZ6Dm_u8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Laura Cunningham is an artist-naturalist, author, and biologist. Kevin Emmerich is a biologist and former National Park ranger. They co-founded a conservation organization, Basin and Range Watch that works toward preserving the last non-destroyed regions of California and Nevada deserts. basin-range-watch.jpg
2020-10-11 Katie Singer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG9voEWZ4Dc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Katie Singer's last book, An Electronic Silent Spring, reports on the effects of electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones, WiFi and cellular antennas on wildlife and public health. Her current work focusses on the Internet's energy use, extraction demands, greenhouse gas emissions, toxic waste and worker hazards. Katie spoke about the Internet's footprint at the United Nations' 2018 Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation. In 2019, she spoke on a panel with Dr. James Hansen about the Internet's impacts on climate disruption.

Her websites are www.ourweb.tech and www.electronicsilentspring.com

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2020-10-04 Skip Rotstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82G-Qx_pSlc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Skip Rotstein is a retired high school Biology teacher. He is the Conservation Chairman of Friends of El Moro Elfin Forest in Morro Bay, California. He has participated in the restoration and maintenance of this 90 acre Pacific Coastal Scrub Preserve for the last seven years. skip-rotstein-elfin-forest.jpg
2020-09-27 Carmine Leo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-iYlAG7EVs&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Carmine Leo is the owner of LifeCoaching.com and maintains a thriving practice providing organizations, teams and individuals with an evidence-based methodology to develop emotional intelligence and emotional self-management skills through coaching and training. Over the last twenty years he has successfully coached hundreds of clients - from single moms to CEOs, from combat-vet Marines to artists, musicians, and writers, from rocket scientists to permaculture communitarians - as well as working with clients within organizations such as Apple, Google, Raytheon, NASA, IBM, Onsemi, General Atomics, The Washington Post, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and many others. Carmine was a co-developer - in collaboration with Pam Leo - of the parenting workshops, "Meeting the Needs of Children" which in 1995 were published as Pam's seminal book, "Connection Parenting." carmine-leo.jpg
2020-09-20 Will Falk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlbd1N57pEE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Will Falk is a biophilic writer and lawyer. The natural world speaks and Will’s work is how he listens. He believes the intensifying destruction of the natural world is the most pressing issue confronting us today. His first book is "How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me." You can follow Will’s work at willfalk.org.

You can follow his writing about the Ohio River at theohioriverspeaks.org. This writing about the river will when he finishes it become his next book. You can support his efforts at Help to Amplify the Ohio River’s Voice.

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2020-09-20 Patrick Donnelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJlKfUAggM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Patrick Donnelly is Nevada state director at the Center for Biological Diversity and lives in the Mojave Desert on the edge of Death Valley. He has been involved in desert conservation for 17 years, including leading desert tortoise habitat & wetlands restoration projects, engaging local communities to achieve permanent protections for over two million acres of public lands in the California desert, and now advocating for Nevada’s biodiversity and climate statewide. His work takes him from Las Vegas to Reno to Elko and all points between, whether lobbying in a suit or tromping through a desert marsh in muckboots. patrick-donnelly2.jpg
2020-08-30 Vaishnavi Sundar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-DboZiE104&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Vaishnavi Sundar is a self-taught filmmaker, writer, and grassroots activist. She is from Chennai, the south of India. Her last film "But what was she wearing?" gave her the title of " canceled feminist." Even though that is India's only film on the topic that covered voices from women across caste, class, region and religious differences, it was cancelled on the basis of Vaishnavi's political opinion that men shouldn't be in women's sex segregated safe spaces.

When she is not filming or writing scathing rebuttals to liberal feminist drivel, she is busy logging all things WTF on her new VLOG channel on youtube.

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2020-08-23 Osprey Orielle Lake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TjtYJiieE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of the Women Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, Serves on Executive Committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, Author of award winning book Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. osprey-orielle-lake.jpg
2020-08-16 Katie Singer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbcS-kdLCcE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Katie Singer's last book, An Electronic Silent Spring, reports on the effects of electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones, WiFi and cellular antennas on wildlife and public health. Her current work focusses on the Internet's energy use, extraction demands, greenhouse gas emissions, toxic waste and worker hazards. Katie spoke about the Internet's footprint at the United Nations' 2018 Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation. In 2019, she spoke on a panel with Dr. James Hansen about the Internet's impacts on climate disruption.

Her websites are www.ourweb.tech and www.electronicsilentspring.com

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2020-08-09 Fiona Corke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-mRS0hEieg&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Fiona Corke is an Australian actor, wildlife campaigner and activist. For 12 years she has volunteered as Vice President for the Australian Society for Kangaroos raising awareness of the beauty and also the cruel fate of kangaroos slaughtered for damage mitigation by farmers and government departments and the commercial kangaroo industry for their meat and skins.In 2007 Fiona cofounded the Macedon Ranges Wildlife Network, where she lives. The network is actively involved in wildlife rescue, wildlife care and rehabilitation and raises awareness of the risks and threats wildlife faces from human interaction and imminent development.

Today we talk about Wildlife Safe Trademark Certification.

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2020-08-02 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AySq1L5FD8g&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. george-wuerthner11.jpg
2020-07-26 Max Wilbert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EYiNDob_7o&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Max Wilbert is a third-generation organizer who grew up in Seattle's post-WTO anti-globalization and undoing racism movement. He is a co-founder of the group Deep Green Resistance and longtime board member of Fertile Ground, a small, grassroots environmental non-profit with no employees and no corporate funding. His first book, a collection of pro-feminist and environmental essays, was recently released. It’s called We Choose to Speak, and Other Essays.

He is also the co-author of the forthcoming book Bright Green Lies (with Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith) which looks at the problems with mainstream so-called "solutions" such as solar panels, electric cars, recycling, and green cities. The book makes the case that these approaches fail to protect the planet and aim at protecting empire from the effects of peak oil and ecological collapse.

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2020-07-19 Stephen Jenkinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iR5olw_pHg&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Stephen Jenkinson is a culture activist, teacher, author and ceremonialist. He is the author of numerous books, including Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble and Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul. stephen-jenkinson.jpg
2020-07-12 Jill Robinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTqGjm2Ah4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jill Robinson has been a pioneer of animal welfare in Asia since 1985, widely recognised as the world’s leading expert on the bear bile industry, having campaigned against it since 1993. UK born, Jill arrived in Hong Kong in 1985 and spent 12 years working for the International Fund for Animal Welfare. She founded “Dr Dog” in 1991, the first animal-therapy programme in Asia. More than 1,000 dogs have since qualified as "therapists", visiting hospitals, disabled centres, schools and elderly homes in cities across Asia.

In 1993, a visit to a “bear farm” in China defined Jill’s future. Exposing the plight of endangered Asiatic black bears cruelly farmed for bile extraction, Jill embarked on a journey to end the practice. In 1998, she founded Animals Asia, an organisation devoted to ending bear bile farming in China and Vietnam and bring about long-term change for animals by promoting compassion and respect. Today, Animals Asia has rescued over 600 bears, caring for them at its award-winning bear sanctuaries in China and Vietnam, and has signed a formal agreement with the Vietnam government to end bear bile farming by 2022.

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2020-07-05 Vince Emanuele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kStz0WWjel4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Vince Emanuele is a writer, activist, and combat veteran who currently lives in Michigan City, Indiana, where he and Sergio Kochergin run a community-cultural space called P.A.R.C. - Politics Art Roots Culture. In 2006, Vince refused a third deployment to Iraq, left the United States Marines Corps, and joined the antiwar movement, working with antiwar military veterans and activists around the globe, including Iraqi and Afghan refugees.

Since then, he has spent the past 14 years working with a wide range of left wing political movements, including labor campaigns, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, local environmental campaigns, the Standing Rock Occupation, anti-prison campaigns, cultural projects, and the Bernie 2020 campaign.

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2020-06-28 Patrick Donnelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr-5w2ySO4o&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Patrick Donnelly is Nevada state director at the Center for Biological Diversity and lives in the Mojave Desert on the edge of Death Valley. He has been involved in desert conservation for 17 years, including leading desert tortoise habitat & wetlands restoration projects, engaging local communities to achieve permanent protections for over two million acres of public lands in the California desert, and now advocating for Nevada’s biodiversity and climate statewide. His work takes him from Las Vegas to Reno to Elko and all points between, whether lobbying in a suit or tromping through a desert marsh in muckboots. patrick-donnelly.jpg
2020-06-21 Dave Gardner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ4T6UuzscQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dave Gardner hosts two fascinating podcasts about sustainability—The Overpopulation Podcast about solving world overpopulation, and the GrowthBusters podcast about sustainable living and finding the cure for growth addiction. World Population Balance, the non-profit Dave heads, is launching the One Planet, One Child Billboard Campaign to demonstrate how we can solve the human overpopulation emergency humanely, voluntarily, and beautifully. dave-gardner.jpg
2020-06-14 Camilla Fox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-NZin1iuQ4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Camilla Fox is the founder and executive director of Project Coyote- a national non-profit organization based in Mill Valley, California that promotes compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife through education, science, and advocacy. She has served in leadership positions with the Animal Protection Institute, Fur-Bearer Defenders, and Rainforest Action Network and has spearheaded national, state and local campaigns aimed at protecting native carnivores and fostering humane and ecologically sound solutions to human-wildlife conflicts.

She is co-author of two books: Coyotes in Our Midst and Cull of the Wild and co-producer of the companion award-winning documentary Cull of the Wild ~ The Truth Behind Trapping and director and producer of KILLING GAMES ~ Wildlife in the Crosshairs—a documentary film released in 2017 with the aim of ending wildlife killing contests in the U.S.

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2020-06-07 Michelle Connolly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e5600Vgc8c&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Michelle Connolly is an activist who lives in Prince George, BC, the traditional territory of the Lheidli T’enneh Nation. She has spent much of her life exploring and experiencing natural forests, and has an educational background in forest ecology, although she is not a researcher and does not do science for a living. Michelle is part of Conservation North. michelle-connolly.jpg
2020-05-31 Clark Strand & Perdita Finn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMuh1gTUzdA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Clark Strand and Perdita Finn are co-founders of The Way of the Rose, an inclusive fellowship of friends dedicated to the Earth and to the Lady by any name we wish to call Her. Strand is the author of numerous books and articles on spiritual practices, including Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey and Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age. Finn is a former public high school teacher who designed the curriculum for the Urban Peace Academy in NYC and has written numerous books for teachers and children.

They live with their family in the Catskill Mountains.

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2020-05-24 Joan Maloof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKReoIZkINs&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Joan Maloof, Professor Emeritus of biology and environmental studies at Salisbury University, founded the Old-Growth Forest Network to preserve, protect and promote the country's few remaining stands of old-growth forest. She spends her time lecturing, writing, visiting forests, assisting private landowners, and supporting local groups trying to protect community forests from development. She is the author of four books about trees and forests. joan-maloof.jpg
2020-05-17 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPsaPJjAMEo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk arctic grayling. george-wuerthner7.jpg
2020-05-10 Michael Kellett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cozhan6fOkM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Michael Kellett is executive director of the New England nonprofit organization, RESTORE: The North Woods, which he co-founded in 1992. He has been involved in national park, wilderness, public land, and endangered species issues for more than 30 years. In 1994, he developed the proposal for a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods National Park, which laid the groundwork for the 2016 designation by President Obama of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. In Massachusetts, he has worked to protect Walden Woods and Henry David Thoreau's birthplace, and helped to develop legislation introduced in 2019, which would protect state conservation lands from logging and other development. michael-kellett2.jpg
2020-05-03 Jeff Gibbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pila-SBBk5M&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jeff Gibbs, is the director, writer, and producer of “Planet of the Humans" and was co-producer of “Bowling for Columbine” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.” He was born in Flint, Michigan. jeff-gibbs.jpg
2020-04-26 G.A. Bradshaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY9C-Tv7qHE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q G.A. Bradshaw is the founder and director of the Kerulos Center for Nonviolence (www.kerulos.org). She holds doctorate degrees in ecology and psychology and a master’s in geophysics and is the author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity (Yale University Press, 2009) and Carnivore Minds: Who these Fearsome Animals Really Are (Yale University Press, 2017). Her new book is Talking With Bears: Conversations With Charlie Russel (Rocky Mountain Books). ga-bradshaw.jpg
2020-04-19 Caitlin Roper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWfgJXcNFNw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Caitlin Roper is a feminist activist, writer and PhD candidate. She is also campaigns manager for Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, a grassroots campaigning movement challenging the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls in media, advertising and popular culture. caitlin-roper.jpg
2020-04-12 Boris Forkel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw16Vmui7MA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Boris Forkel is a radical environmentalist, social rights activist and subsistence farmer. With the books he publishes with his small press BabylonApocalypse he wants to inspire and encourage dissidents to break through an increasingly narrow public discourse and spread the seeds of decisive resistance and radical social change. boris-forkel.jpg
2020-04-05 Rupert Sheldrake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPJpZ0W0dhc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and the author of more than ninety technical papers and fourteen books, including Science Set Free. After studying at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, he worked in Hyderabad, India, as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, and lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Father Bede Griffiths.

From 2005 to 2010, he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon, UK. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce, with whom he has two sons. His new book is Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work. His website is Sheldrake.org

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2020-03-29 Rebecca Wildbear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMEyNRzVK8U&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Rebecca Wildbear is a river and soul guide who helps people tune in to the mysteries that live within the Earth community, dreams, and their own wild Nature, so they may live a life of creative service. She has been a guide with Animas Valley Institute since 2006 and is author of the forthcoming book, Playing & Praying: Soul Stories to Inspire Personal & Planetary Transformation. She also created Wild Yoga, a practice of worship, veneration, and advocacy for Earth. rebecca-wildbear.jpg
2020-03-22 Rom Whitaker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4bbXAaTSSds&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Rom Whitaker was born in New York City and came to India when he was seven. He is a herpetologist with hundreds of publications and co-founder of the Madras Snake Park, Andaman and Nicobar Environment Trust (ANET), and the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. In 1984 Whitaker won a Rolex Award for Enterprise for starting a snake venom Cooperative for Irula tribals and again in 2008 for his efforts to create a network of rainforest research stations throughout India. In 2005 he was the winner of a Whitley Award to found the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station in Karnataka, for the study of King Cobras and their habitat. To spread his messages Whitaker has made 30 documentaries for channels such as Nat Geo, BBC and Animal Planet and a children's feature film. For his work in wildlife conservation, he received the Government of India's Padma Shri Award in 2018. rom-whitaker2.jpg
2020-03-15 Ray Mjadwesch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i-oUK1rclDk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Ray Mjadwesch is a consulting ecologist, specializing in threatened species survey and management. 10 years ago he became interested in what was going on with kangaroos, after noticing a disparity in what we hear about (plagues) and what he was seeing during wildlife surveys (generally no kangaroos). On investigating the evidence he was dismayed to find continental decline in large macropod populations, and an obstinate refusal by the regulators to engage with the issues. ray-mjadwesch.jpg
2020-03-08 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lnqmHXuKb6k&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. george-wuerthner10.jpg
2020-03-01 Godwin Vasanth Bosco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuFIy9ur-SM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Godwin Vasanth Bosco is an ecologist based in southern Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris mountains, working to restore forests and grasslands. He has been conducting interdisciplinary research for the past 9 years, and is the author of the book Voice of a Sentient Highland. He is also an inventor, with 2 patents registered in Finland for alternative technology applications. godwin-vasanth-bosco.jpg
2020-02-23 Elke Duerr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4hlZ5lD1jk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Elke Duerr is a filmmaker, author, visual and oral story teller, fiber artist, photographer, workshop presenter, teacher and the founder of the nonprofit Web of Life Foundation, W.O.L.F. Elke is the recipient of numerous grants and filmawards. She loves to debunk myths and preconceived notions about our animals and natural world and revolutionize the way we see and experience nature. elke-duerr.jpg
2020-02-16 Tony Silvaggio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBh2_WPuZKQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Tony Silvaggio is an environmental sociologist at Humboldt State University. He is also the representative for the California Faculty Association that sits on the Humboldt/Del Norte Central Labor Council. He is also a board member of EPIC, Environmental Protection Information Center. He has decades of experience in grassroots environmental and social justice activism.

In this interview we discuss a threat to wildlife from a wind energy harvesting facility. Between the interview and its airing we had an environmental victory!

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2020-02-09 Mara Robbins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oDsNo5gJEk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Mara Robbins is a practicing poet, creator of ongoing narrative, project director for 1000 flags / 1000 waters and community organizer who now lives in Richmond Virginia after 40 years on the high plateau of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Floyd County, VA. She pulls over to move turtles out of the road, works daily to protect and cherish water, loves trees and cares for people who live in trees to defend what they love from 42-inch fracked gas pipelines. She also might hand you a sharpie marker and ask you to write poetry on her cargo pants. Her writing has appeared in Floyd County Moonshine, New York Quarterly, Nantahala, Real Simple, Still Journal and other eclectic publications. mara-robbins.jpg
2020-02-02 Darrell Geist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIclOus0dNc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Darrell Geist is habitat coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign, a position he’s worked in for 15 years. His  experience with the Yellowstone buffalo dates back to the early 1990s when he worked with Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers and videographer Mike Mease to publicize the state of Montana’s slaughter of these majestic wild animals. After graduating from college he migrated to Montana, a habitat he dearly loves, from his home state of South Dakota. darrell-geist2.jpg
2020-01-26 Kevin Emmerich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPzvjyevffc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Kevin Emmerich is a biologist and former National Park ranger. With Laura Cunningham, he co-founded a conservation organization, Basin and Range Watch that works toward preserving the last non-destroyed regions of California and Nevada deserts. kevin-emmerich.jpg
2020-01-19 Christopher Ketcham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h72PMsLEgDY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Christopher Ketcham is a freelance writer for Harper's, The New Republic, Vice, and many others. Today we discuss his new book  "This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West."  It's the product of ten years of research and travel across the public lands of the West. christopher-ketcham.jpg
2020-01-12 Rom Whitaker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BnbNPkXuvJM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Rom Whitaker was born in New York City and came to India when he was seven. He is a herpetologist with hundreds of publications and co-founder of the Madras State Park, Andaman and Nicobar Environment Trust (ANET), and the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. In 1984 Whitaker won a Rolex Award for Enterprise for starting a snake venom Cooperative for Irula tribals and again in 2008 for his efforts to create a network of rainforest research stations throughout India. In 2005 he was the winner of a Whitley Award to found the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station in Karnataka, for the study of King Cobras and their habitat. To spread his messages Whitaker has made 30 documentaries for channels such as Nat Geo, BBC and Animal Planet and a children's feature film. For his work in wildlife conservation, he received the Government of India's Padma Shri Award in 2018. rom-whitaker.jpg
2020-01-05 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zOrWsu0UqRw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. george-wuerthner.jpg
2019-12-29 Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8025OiUJ-QQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp is a Hawaiian cultural historian as well as the president of Indigenous Pasifika. He is also a published writer, blogger, podcaster, researcher and administrator of the Facebook group Hawaiian History and Culture--which is the largest history group on Facebook with more than 27,000+ members. In addition, he is currently the Secretary and Outreach Coordinator for Affirmative Action Committee of the Democratic Party of Hawai 'i. He is of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and Filipino (Ilocano and Kalinga) adam-keawe-manalo-camp.jpg
2019-12-22 Max Wilbert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss8_8MrZHRo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Max Wilbert is a third-generation organizer who grew up in Seattle's post-WTO anti-globalization and undoing racism movement. He is a co-founder of the group Deep Green Resistance and longtime board member of Fertile Ground, a small, grassroots environmental non-profit with no employees and no corporate funding. max-wilbert4.jpg
2019-12-15 Wendy Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixYiq0Z9LFc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Wendy Murphy is the Director of the Women’s and Children’s Advocacy Project at New England Law|Boston, where she also teaches sexual violence law. In addition, she is an impact litigator, specializing in the constitutional and civil rights of abused women and children. Her twitter is @wmurphylaw . The website for the Judicial Language Project is https://student.nesl.edu/centers/clsr_jlp.cfm wendy-murphy2.jpg
2019-12-08 Four Arrows & Darcia Narvaez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7mrGI7im2o&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Four Arrows is former Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College and currently a professor with Fielding Graduate University. Selected by AERO as one of 27 "Visionaries in Education." Author of Teaching Truly: A Curriculum to Indigenize Mainstream Education, selected by the Chicago Wisdom Project as one of the top 20 progressive education books. He is currently working on a UNESCO counter-hegemonic democracy book project. Darcia Narvaez is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on moral development and flourishing from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental and educational sciences. Dr. Narvaez's current research explores how early life experience influences moral character in children and adults. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association and is former editor of the Journal of Moral Education She has published more than 20 books, including Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing; Basic Needs, Wellbeing and Morality: Fulfilling Human Potential and Embodied Morality: Protectionism, Engagement and Imagination. Her recent book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award. She writes a blog for Psychology Today (Moral Landscapes ) and hosts the webpage EvolvedNest.org. four-arrows-darcia-narvaez.jpg
2019-12-01 Fred Wilcox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGUzcjY89-U&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Fred Wilcox is the author of eight books, editor of two, including Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange, and Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam. Wilcox is an environmental and anti-war activist, as well as an advocate for veterans. His most recent book is Shamrocks and Oil Slicks. fred-wilcox.jpg
2019-11-24 Will Falk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C236AF2g2-8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Will Falk is a biophilic writer and lawyer. The natural world speaks and Will’s work is how he listens. He believes the intensifying destruction of the natural world is the most pressing issue confronting us today. His first book is "How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me." You can follow Will’s work at willfalk.org. will-falk2.jpg
2019-11-10 Carmine Leo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iupcsu8FOQM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Carmine Leo is the owner of LifeCoaching.com and maintains a thriving practice providing organizations, teams and individuals with an evidence-based methodology to develop emotional intelligence and emotional self-management skills through coaching and training. Over the last twenty years he has successfully coached hundreds of clients - from single moms to CEOs, from combat-vet Marines to artists, musicians, and writers, from rocket scientists to permaculture communitarians - as well as working with clients within organizations such as Apple, Google, Raytheon, NASA, IBM, Onsemi, General Atomics, The Washington Post, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and many others. Carmine was a co-developer - in collaboration with Pam Leo - of the parenting workshops, "Meeting the Needs of Children" which in 1995 were published as Pam's seminal book, "Connection Parenting." carmine-leo.jpg
2019-11-03 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me3mjsOLq6w&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. george-wuerthner9.jpg
2019-10-27 Jonathan Latham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8PhT9czYcU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jonathan R Latham, PhD is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering. Dr Latham talks frequently at international events and scientific and regulatory conferences on the research conducted by the Project. He has written for Truthout, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, Resilience, and many other magazines and websites.

Today we talk about unexpected antibiotic-resistance in gene-edited cattle.

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2019-10-13 Melinda Tankard Reist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw72KhUKnvk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Melinda Tankard Reist is an author, speaker, media commentator, blogger and advocate for young people. She is best known for her work addressing sexualisation, objectification, harms of pornography, sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence against women. Melinda is author/editor of six books including Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (Spinifex Press, 2009), Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry (Spinifex Press, 2011, co-edited with Dr Abigail Bray) and Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade (Spinifex Press, co-edited with Dr Caroline Norma). An opinion writer, Melinda has appeared on ABC’s Q&A and The Gruen Sessions as well as many other TV and radio programs.

Melinda is co-founder of the grassroots campaigning movement, Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, exposing corporations, advertisers and marketers who objectify women and sexualise girls to sell products and services. An Ambassador for World Vision Australia, Compassion Australia, HagarNZ and the youth mentoring body the Raise Foundation, Melinda is also Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Culture and Ethics, Notre Dame University, Sydney. Melinda is named in the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the World Who’s Who of Women.

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2019-10-06 Michael Dowd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TkbPx0iy_Q&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Michael Dowd is an eco-theologian who has been traveling North America for eighteen years with his science writer and climate activist wife Connie Barlow, and who has spoken with nearly 3000secular and religious groups. michael-dowd.jpg
2019-09-29 Natasha Chart & Kara Dansky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb7wryHcD-U&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Kara Dansky is a radical feminist and an attorney. She joined the Women’s Liberation Front in 2015 and has been on the board since 2016. Kara contributes to all of WoLF’s legal advocacy. Natasha Chart is the chair of the board of directors of WoLF. She also has been on the board since 2016. dansky-chart.jpg
2019-09-22 Susan Hawthorne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCWeYNQ-jw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr Susan Hawthorne is an Australian radical ecofeminist lesbian. She joined the Women's Liberation Movement in 1973 and it changed her life for the better. She is a poet, novelist and feminist theorist with degrees in Philosophy, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and a PhD in Women's Studies/ Political Science. She is the author of nine collections of poetry, three works of fiction and four non-fiction books. Her books have been translated into five languages.

She has worked in publishing for more than thirty years and is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at James Cook University, Townsville. She lives in tropical Queensland surrounded by wildlife (cassowaries, goannas, wallabies, lots of butterflies) and lush vegetation. The publishing website is:
website: http://www.spinifexpress.com.au/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spinifexpress/
Twitter handle: @spinifexpress

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2019-09-15 Gail Dines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRFG0Enh4GU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr. Gail Dines is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Wheelock College in Boston. She’s the author of multiple books and articles, and has been described as the world's leading expert on the effects of pornography. She’s the author of the highly acclaimed Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (Beacon Press); and co-editor of Gender, Race, and Class in Media. Translated into four languages, Pornland is the basis of a documentary released this fall by Media Education Foundation. Dr Dines is president and CEO of Culture Reframed, a non-profit organization composed of academics, professionals and activists from a wide range of perspectives, that is dedicated to raising public awareness about the impact of pornography on children, youth and adults. Learn more about her work. gail-dines2.jpg
2019-09-01 Michael Kellett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7NJqvxMKsg&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Michael Kellett is executive director of the New England nonprofit organization, RESTORE: The North Woods, which he co-founded in 1992. He has been involved in national park, wilderness, public land, and endangered species issues for more than 30 years. In 1994, he developed the proposal for a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods National Park, which laid the groundwork for the 2016 designation by President Obama of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. In Massachusetts, he has worked to protect Walden Woods and Henry David Thoreau’s birthplace, and helped to develop legislation introduced in 2019, which would protect state conservation lands from logging and other development. michael-kellett.jpg
2019-08-25 Arun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7EY0zPpCxI&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Arun qualified as an engineer and worked in the engineering field for 6 years, living in a city. That experience drove him out of cities, mainstream life and thought. He took up teaching in a Krishnarmurti school and alongside sea turtle conservation. He has been a conservationist and teacher for the past 22 years. For the past 10 years he lives with his family on an organic farm, running an alternative school and an afforestation project along with a group of passionate individuals. arun.jpg
2019-08-18 Deanna Meyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNU6vG8uWTQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Deanna Meyer. She is a long time environmental activist and is a member of Deep Green Resistance and is also the founder and executive director of Prairie Protection Colorado. Meyer's work currently centers on the protection and preservation of prairie dog communities up and down Colorado's Front Range. Today we talk about bobcats, and efforts to ban their trapping. . deanna-meyer.jpg
2019-08-11 Christopher Ketcham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEvXsWWIstI&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Christopher Ketcham is a freelance writer for Harper's, The New Republic, Vice, and many others. Today we discuss his new book "This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West." It's the product of ten years of research and travel across the public lands of the West. christopher-ketcham.jpg
2019-08-04 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0yq5sYuM_A&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk about forest fires. george-wuerthner8.jpg
2019-07-28 Drew Harvell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_VznUbe8o0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Drew Harvell is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University and resident at Friday Harbor labs in Washington San Juan Islands. She is author of over 170 scientific publications and author of the award winning A Sea of Glass and just released Ocean Outbreak. Her research has taken her for the tropical waters of Hawaii to mexico to Indonesia, Australia and E Africa. Her current work is on ocean Health in temperate waters of Salish Sea. drew-harvell.jpg
2019-07-21 Wendy Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p-JI2grMNM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Wendy Murphy is the Director of the Women’s and Children’s Advocacy Project at New England Law|Boston, where she also teaches sexual violence law. In addition, she is an impact litigator, specializing in the constitutional and civil rights of abused women and children. wendy-murphy.jpg
2019-07-14 Tiokasin Ghosthorse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opuXorNuAkE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota. He has a long history with Indigenous activism and advocacy. He is the Founder, Host and Executive Producer of “First Voices Radio,” which has been on the air for 27 years and is syndicated internationally on 82 public, commercial and community radio stations. Tiokasin is also a master musician of the Lakota flute and performs around the world. In 2016, he received a Nomination tiokasin-ghosthorse.jpg
2019-07-07 David Walter-Toews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ-WgJonSWQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Award winning author and veterinary epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews taves  has published seven collections of poetry, one of which includes recipes, a collection of short stories, a murder mystery, six books of popular science, and several texts and manuals on ecosystem approaches to health. From meditations on the origins of feces to elegant terzanelles on the meaning of life, from human diseases we get from other animals, to what food, sex and Salmonella share with each other, DWT celebrates the whole complex mess of life.
A University Professor Emeritus at University of Guelph, he was founding president of Veterinarians without Borders--Canada and of the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health, and a founding member of Communities of Practice for Ecosystem Approaches to Health in Canada. He is the recipient of the inaugural award for contributions to ecosystem approaches to health from The International Association for Ecology and Health.
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2019-06-30 Dahr Jamail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PxEi3Nh38Y&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dahr Jamai is an award winning journalist and author who is a full-time staff reporter for Truthout.org. His most recent book is about abrupt climate change, called The End of Ice. dahr-jamail5.jpg
2019-06-23 Helga Vierich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYCV0ouVlJU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Helga Vierich did her doctorate at University of Toronto, after three years of living with Bushmen in the Kalahari. Then she was hired as principal anthropological research scientist at a green revolution institute in West Africa. Subsequently she has been teaching at the University of Kentucky and the University of Alberta. Her website is https://anthroecologycom.wordpress.com helga-vierich.jpg
2019-06-16 Paul Ehrlich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOO7kp9BWGM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Paul R. Ehrlich has been a household name since the publication of his 1968 bestseller, The Population Bomb. He is Bing Professor of Population Studies Emeritus and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. Ehrlich is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Crafoord Prize (an explicit substitute for the Nobel Prize in fields of science where the latter is not given), the Blue Planet Prize, and numerous other international honors. He investigates a wide range of topics in population biology, ecology, evolution, human ecology, and environmental science. Much of his current effort is focused on the mechanisms of human cultural evolution and ways of directing that evolution to ameliorate the human predicament. paul-ehrlich2.jpg
2019-06-09 Robin Grossinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQz2RZl3-BU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Robin Grossinger is a Senior Scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute, where he co-directs, with Letitia Grenier, SFEI’s Resilient Landscapes program. For over twenty years, Robin has analyzed how California landscapes have changed since European contact, using these data to guide landscape-scale restoration strategies. He is the author of Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas , and has been recognized with a Local Hero award from Bay Nature magazine and the Carla Bard Bay Education Award from The Bay Institute and Aquarium of the Bay. robin-grossinger.jpg
2019-06-02 Ben Price https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti-dTIJ4abQPMs&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Ben G. Price is the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's national organizing director, with fifteen years of experience organizing communities and coordinating organizers across the country to challenge state and federal legalization of corporate assaults against people and their environments. He pioneered Rights of Nature legislation in the United States and assisted scores of communities to enact rights-protecting laws. ben-price.jpg
2019-05-26 Hilla Kerner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti-P8ztr6VU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Hilla Kerner joined Vancouver Rape Relief thirteen years ago. Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter is the longest standing rape crisis centre in Canada. Since 1973, the group who is self organized as a collective has responded to close to 46,000 women seeking support in their escape from male violence. Since they opened their transition house in 1981, they have housed over 3,000 women and over 2,600 children. hilla-kerner.jpg
2019-05-19 Jonathan Latham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ta5bT7d5Uw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jonathan R Latham, PhD. is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering. Dr Latham talks frequently at international events and scientific and regulatory conferences on the research conducted by the Project. He has written for Truthout, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, Resilience, and many other magazines and websites. Today we talk about pesticides and the EU. jonathan-latham2.jpg
2019-05-12 Wendy Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE9MayARwqA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Wendy Murphy is the Director of the Women’s and Children’s Advocacy Project at New England Law|Boston, where she also teaches sexual violence law. In addition, she is an impact litigator, specializing in the constitutional and civil rights of abused women and children. wendy-murphy.jpg
2019-05-05 Deanna Meyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLktfqqvLy8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Deanna Meyer.is a long time environmental activist and is a member of Deep Green Resistance and is also the founder and executive director of Prairie Protection Colorado. Meyer's work currently centers on the protection and preservation of prairie dog communities up and down Colorado's Front Range. deanna-meyer.jpg
2019-04-28 Leslie Kline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u72h-kJc5Mw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Leslie Kline is an organic farmer and seed producer, and now manager of a seed producer coop called Triple Divide Seeds. She lives in western Montana near the Flathead River, on the Good Egg Farm, named for the egg business that sustained her for many years. Now she focuses on seed and running a small business selling seed. leslie-kline.jpg
2019-04-21 Thomas Linzey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuExYAbUQL8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Thomas Linzey is the executive director and an attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has assisted close to 200 communities across the country in eight states to adopt binding local laws that elevate community rights to sustainability over corporate rights and powers. thomas-linzey.jpg
2019-04-14 Irakli Loladze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvJ1rMC_heo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr. Irakli Loladze earned his BA degree in Applied Mathematics in Georgia (the former USSR, not Atlanta :)). After earning his MA and PhD in Mathematics at Arizona State University, Irakli, as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, advanced a hypothesis that rising atmospheric CO2 is affecting human nutrition by worsening the quality of plants worldwide. It took him 12 years to collect the empirical evidence confirming the hypothesis; he is now an Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Bryan College of Health Sciences, Bryan Medical Center. irakli-loladze.jpg
2019-04-07 Andrew Glikson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uc4fZrAo2o&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Andrew Y. Glikson is an Earth and paleo-climate scientist, graduated at the University of Western Australia in 1968. He conducted geological and geochemical surveys of the oldest geological formations in western and central Australia, South Africa, India and Canada; studied large asteroid impacts, including effects on the atmosphere, oceans and mass extinction of species. Since 2005 he studied the relations between climate and human evolution. He was active in communicating nuclear and climate change evidence to the public and parliament through papers, lectures, conferences and presentations. andrew-glikson.jpg
2019-03-31 Karla Mantilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWkNEvISLso&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Karla Mantilla is the author of Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral(2015). She is a longtime editor and collective member of off our backsnewsjournal. She has taught at Gettysburg College, University of Maryland, George Mason University, and McDaniel College. karla-mantilla.jpg
2019-03-24 Will Falk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAikZaMhp-8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Will Falk is a biophilic writer and lawyer. The natural world speaks and Will’s work is how he listens. He believes the intensifying destruction of the natural world is the most pressing issue confronting us today. His first book "How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me" will be released by Homebound Publications in October, 2019. You can follow Will’s work at http://willfalk.org will-falk.jpg
2019-03-03 Cheyenne Olson & Richard Olson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MREzvUDoqwU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Richard Olson is chair of the board of Sustainable Berea, a community non-profit, and director of the Berea Urban Farm. He has advanced degrees in ecology and sustainable agriculture, and many years of experience conducting basic and applied research in forest ecology. He recently retired from the faculty of Berea College where he taught sustainability, environmental justice, and ecological restoration.
Cheyenne Olson is Executive Director of Sustainable Berea. She received her Ph.D. in communications from the University of Kentucky, and secured a Fulbright Post-doc in Australia to study the impact of Rupert Murdoch on the creation and presentation of news. Cheyenne has transformed her yard into an edible landscape and raises a small flock of chickens. In 2018 she designed and implemented Harvesting Hope, a job training program for women recovering from opioid addiction.
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2019-02-17 Rachel Stewart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFr2kqS3V2s&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Rachel Stewart is a writer/Journalist, and current columnist with the NZ Herald, 2016 Winner of the ‘Opinion Writer of the Year’ at New Zealand’s Canon Media Awards. Ex-agricultural leader turned dairy industry critic, falconer, protector of rivers, and everything wild. rachel-stewart.jpg
2019-02-10 Susan Eihrich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__tO802IE3o&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q A licensed psychologist, biologist and educator, Susan Eirich has taught at universities around the world, worked in maximum security prisons, developed a university counseling center, directed a Nature Conservancy Preserve, and lived in remote corners of Nepal, the Mid and Far East, the Northwest Territories and the Amazon rainforest. Her goal is always to see through other’s eyes as a way to enhance understanding between cultures, peoples and species.
She founded Earthfire Institute: Wildlife Sanctuary & Retreat Center in 2000 in order to give a voice to wildlife and help people find their own natural voice. Earthfire’s mission is to help humans change how they see, and therefore treat, wildlife and nature. Susan lives with these animals throughout their lifetimes, developing deep relationships and insights. This makes it possible for her to bring wild animals’ voices into our awareness and into conservation decisions.
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2019-02-03 Sam Mace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE3i8InfL1E&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Sam Mace is the Inland Northwest Director for Save Our Wild Salmon, a coalition of conservation organizations, sportand commercial fishing businesses, and clean energy advocates working to restore wild salmon & steelhead to the Columbia and Snake Rivers. She works to build support for restoring the lower Snake River by removing four outdated dams on the lower Snake River that are preventing recovery of fisheries in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. She lives in Spokane, WA. sam-mace.jpg
2019-01-27 David Holmgren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntRoeTENlP4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q David Holmgren is an Australian environmental designer, ecological educator and writer. He is best known as one of the co-originators of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison. david-holmgren.jpg
2019-01-20 Jared Lloyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiEhOtyOyoY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jared Lloyd is a wildlife photographer and environmental journalist whose work takes him around the globe in search of stories and photographs. Most of the projects that Jared works on are centered around climate change, biodiversity, and coastal issues. He has worked on BBC natural history documentaries, PBS shows, and publications ranging from Audubon to National Wildlife. jared-lloyd.jpg
2019-01-13 Posie Parker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSVzPQBrylE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Posie Parke is a UK accidental activist and founder of Standing for Women. posie-parker.jpg
2019-01-06 Nathan Varley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r2XlXUXaCI&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Nathan Varley grew up in Yellowstone National Park in the tiny community of Mammoth Hot Springs. His parents have been biologists and park rangers that have lived and worked in the park for 3 decades. Following in the family footsteps, Nathan studied biology at Montana State University where he earned B. S. and M. S. degrees. The ecology of mountain goats in the Absaroka Mountains on Yellowstone's eastern edge was his research topic. Further adventure in wildlife studies took him among moose in Alaska, guanacos in Patagonia, and pine marten in Idaho. His trails have led home as often as afar, where Yellowstone's coyotes, bears, river otters and gray wolves became primary study subjects.
As a contributor to the historic gray wolf restoration project he has often been in the field tracking wolves. His research at the University of Alberta focused on the relationship between wolves and elk after wolf reintroduction. With his wife, Linda Thurston, Nathan owns his own wildlife touring business group, The Wild Side, LLC, which specializes in outfitting groups to view wolves, other wildlife, and all that the Yellowstone wilderness has to offer. A defining purpose, if one can be offered for any person, would be to champion a land ethic that places the highest value on our wildlife and their habitats, and in so doing, forever preserve and enjoy the places that have provided his life's inspiration.
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2018-12-30 Meghan Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcTayWI43Q0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Meghan Murphy is a writer and journalist from Vancouver, B.C. She founded Feminist Current in 2012, which has since grown to be the leading feminist website in Canada, as well as a global presence. Meghan is currently working on a book that critiques third wave feminism as a modern anti-feminist backlash. meghan-murphy2.jpg
2018-12-23 Jonathan Latham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYPQ7PRyNAU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jonathan R Latham, PhD. He is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering. Dr Latham talks frequently at international events and scientific and regulatory conferences on the research conducted by the Project. He has written for Truthout, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, Resilience, and many other magazines and websites. Today we talk about Bill Gates's plan for agriculture.
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2018-12-16 Renee Gerlich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1vAVy5HCxY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Renee Gerlich is a feminist writer and activist based in the Wellington region, in New Zealand. You can follow her writing at reneejg.net renee-gerlich.jpg
2018-12-09 Graham Linehan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTXDLT3p1pM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Graham Linehan is an Irish television comedy writer and director who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a string of successful television comedies. He is best known for creating or co-creating the sitcoms Father Ted, Black Books, the IT Crowd, and Motherland. He has been married to Helen Linehan since 2004. They have two children.
We discuss the insanity of transactivism asserting that males can be women, the reinforcement of patriarchy, and the death of discourse.
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2018-12-02 Harriet Wistrich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S4uMm0sYWI&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Harriet Wistrich is a solicitor of twenty plus years’ experience working with the renowned civil liberties firm, Birnberg Peirce Ltd. She is the winner of the Liberty Human Rights Lawyer of the Year award 2014 and Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year 2018. She founded The Centre for Women’s Justice in 2016, a new multi partner organisation aimed at bringing cases holding the state to account in relation to violence against women and girls. She is also an active member of the Police Action Lawyers Group, Inquest Lawyers Group, Justice for Women and is a trustee of the charity, the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize. harriet-wistrich.jpg
2018-11-25 Benjamin Vogt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt9_BUaj2yE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Benjamin Vogt is an author and garden designer who lives in Nebraska. He has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He owns Monarch Gardens LLC, a prairie garden design company in eastern Nebraska, and speaks nationally on garden design and landscape ethics at conferences and seminars. He is the author of A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future. benjamin-vogt.jpg
2018-11-18 Breanne Fahs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CvMoxjKHms&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, where she specializes in studying women's sexuality, critical embodiment studies, radical feminism, and political activism. She has a B.A. in women's studies/gender studies and psychology from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in women's studies and clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. She has published widely in feminist, social science, and humanities journals and has authored four books: Performing Sex, an analysis of the paradoxes of women's "sexual liberation," Valerie Solanas, a biography of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, Out for Blood, a book of essays on menstrual activism and resistance, and Firebrand Feminism, a book about radical feminist histories and their links to contemporary problems of sex, gender, and justice. breanne-fahs.jpg
2018-11-11 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4ZOX7F9YQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk about forest fires. george-wuerthner4.jpg
2018-11-04 Ron Sutherland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYHXCGJ5Gqk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr. Ron Sutherland is a conservation scientist with Wildlands Network, a nonprofit group dedicated to reconnecting nature in North America. A native of North Carolina, Ron received a Masters Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. We talk about red wolves. ron-sutherland2.jpg
2018-10-28 Thomas Linzey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PflgOr0FSDs&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Thomas Linzey is the executive director and an attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has assisted close to 200 communities across the country in eight states to adopt binding local laws that elevate community rights to sustainability over corporate rights and powers. thomas-linzey2.jpg
2018-10-21 Lierre Keith & Deanna Meyer & Stephany Seay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj9D-asVwvw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/10/keith-meyer-seay-resistance-radio/ Stephany Seay is the media coordinator with the Montana-based Buffalo Field Campaign, the only group working in the field, in the courts, and in the policy arena in defense of the country’s last wild migratory buffalo, the Yellowstone population. Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist and is a member of Deep Green Resistance and is also the founder and executive director of Prairie Protection Colorado. Meyer's work currently centers on the protection and preservation of prairie dog communities up and down Colorado's Front Range. Lierre Keith is a radical feminist activist and author of The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability. keith-meyer-seay.jpg
2018-10-14 Roderick Campbell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAFRmMMFwf4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Roderick Campbell is the CEO and Founder of CommitChange, an online fundraising company, and a Co-Founder of the Houdini Project which helps activists throughout the world access resources international supporters. He works with hundreds of organizations throughout the world to build stronger societies. roderick-campbell.jpg
2018-10-07 Jonathan Latham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhCoW0SXsfk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jonathan R Latham, PhD. He is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering. Dr Latham talks frequently at international events and scientific and regulatory conferences on the research conducted by the Project. He has written for Truthout, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, Resilience, and many other magazines and websites. Today we talk about genetically modified organisms.
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2018-09-30 Jeremy Lent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BWV_R8T0I0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jeremy Lent is an author and founder of the nonprofit Liology Institute, dedicated to fostering a worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the earth.
The Liology Institute, which integrates systems science with ancient wisdom traditions, holds regular workshops and other events in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy is author of the novel Requiem of the Human Soul. Formerly, he was the founder, CEO, and chairman of a publicly traded internet company. Lent holds a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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2018-09-23 Ben Goldfarb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo-5-vsKju8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/09/ben-goldfarb-resistance-radio/ Ben Goldfarb is an independent environmental journalist and fiction writer. He is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Chelsea Green Publishing), which the Washington Post called “a masterpiece of a treatise on the natural world.” He covers wildlife conservation, marine science, and public lands management, but he’ll tackle any story with an environmental bent (and some without). ben-goldfarb.jpg
2018-09-16 Kara Dansky & Andrea Orwoll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5abSppW0RJ4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/09/kara-dansky-andrea-orwoll-resistance-radio/ Kara Dansky is a feminist, lawyer, and expert in criminal and immigration law and policy. She is on the board of the Women’s Liberation Front and actively fights for the rights and privacy of women and girls in state and federal courts.
Andrea Orwoll is an attorney in the public sector. Her professional goal is to practice public interest law, focused on advocacy, policy, and programs that benefit women, children, and victims of interpersonal violence.
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2018-09-09 Max Wilbert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMg2SZRTRC8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/09/max-wilbert-resistance-radio-2018/ Max Wilbert is a third-generation organizer who grew up in Seattle's post-WTO anti-globalization and undoing racism movement. He is a co-founder of the group Deep Green Resistance and longtime board member of a small, grassroots environmental non-profit with no employees and no corporate funding. His first book, a collection of pro-feminist and environmental essays, was recently released. He is also the co-author of the forthcoming book Bright Green Lies (with Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith) which looks at the problems with mainstream so-called "solutions" such as solar panels, electric cars, recycling, and green cities. The book makes the case that these approaches fail to protect the planet, and instead aim to protect empire from the effects of peak oil and ecological collapse. max-wilbert3.jpg
2018-09-02 Malina Fagan & Lynn Pelletier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVCf901NcqY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/09/malina-fagan-lynn-pelletier-resistance-radio/ Lynn Pelletier and Malina Fagan are award-winning documentarians from the Big Island of Hawai'i. Their recent short film “Reefs At Risk” explores the harmful effects of some sunscreen chemicals on coral reefs and marine life. Their film has been seen by almost half a million people, and helped put pressure on legislators in Hawai'i to ban sunscreens with oxybenzone and octinoxate from sale within the state.
Learn more at www.ReefsAtRisk.org
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2018-08-26 Chris Hedges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gUP3VDSQQw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/08/chris-hedges-resistance-radio-2018/ Chris Hedges is a New York Times Pulitzer-prize winning war correspondent who for two decades covered conflicts in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He returned to the United States to become a powerful social critic and critic of capitalism, and is the author of a dozen books, including War is a Force that Gives us Meaning; Death of the Liberal Class; and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. He is a columnist for Truthdig and the host of the Emmy-nominated show On Contact on RT America. chris-hedges3.jpg
2018-08-19 Stephany Seay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufkSgnTvziY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/08/stephany-seay-resistance-radio-2/ Stephany Seay is the media coordinator with the Montana-based Buffalo Field Campaign, the only group working in the field, in the courts, and in the policy arena in defense of the country’s last wild migratory buffalo, the Yellowstone population. Stephany has been on the front lines with BFC for fourteen years and from the direct interactions and experiences with these gentle giants, she and her comrades have come to the understanding that while we may be trying (very, very hard) to save the buffalo, the buffalo are desperately trying to teach us to save us from ourselves.
Photo © Michelle McCarron
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2018-08-12 Josh Schlossberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXCbPKfC0f4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/08/josh-schlossberg-resistance-radio-august-2018/ Josh Schlossberg is a Denver, Colorado-based investigative journalist who writes about ecology, wildlife, climate change, and energy for various publications including EnviroNews, Truthout, Earth Island Journal, Denver Westword and Boulder Weekly. You can follow him on Twitter at @JoshSchlossberg. Today we talk about state governments working together to impede Mexican wolf recovery. josh-schlossberg.jpg
2018-08-05 Martin Lee Mueller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDmfNt9JDjo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/08/martin-lee-mueller-resistance-radio/ Martin Lee Mueller received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oslo in 2016. He has previously helped build teaching centers in rural Mongolia, worked as a kindergarten teacher, been an elementary school librarian, and led a wilderness school in the Norwegian forest. His book Being Salmon, Being Human was recently awarded a Nautilus Book Award. The book has also inspired a stage performance, a joint project between Martin, two storytellers and a Sami joiker. Their group has previously played in the UK and Scandinavia. This summer, they are coming to the Pacific West Coast to perform in communities between British Columbia and California. Martin lives in Oslo together with his partner and daughter, near a small stream that has yet to see its salmon return from extinction. martin-lee-mueller.jpg
2018-07-29 Suprabha Seshan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Dz6NQT0Bw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/07/suprabha-seshan-resistance-radio/ Suprabha Seshan has lived and worked for twenty-five years at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary in the Western Ghat mountains of India. The Sanctuary is a centre for plant conservation, habitat restoration and environmental education and also a community. In 2006, on behalf of the Sanctuary she won the Whitley Award, UK's top prize for nature conservation. She is an Ashoka Fellow. Her new book, available next year, is called Rainforest Etiquette in a World Gone Mad. suprabha-seshan2.jpg
2018-07-22 Alastair McIntosh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX-mjaGLVh8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/07/alastair-mcintosh-resistance-radio/ Alastair McIntosh has been described by BBC TV as “one of the world’s leading environmental campaigners.” A pioneer of modern land reform in Scotland, he helped bring the Isle of Eigg into community ownership. On the Isle of Harris he negotiated withdrawal of the world’s biggest cement company (Lafarge) from a devastating “superquarry” plan, then agreed to serve (unpaid) on that company’s Sustainability Stakeholders Panel for 10 years.
Alastair guest lectures at military staff colleges, most notably the UK Defence Academy, on nonviolence. His books include Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power (Aurum), Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition (Birlinn), Rekindling Community (Green Books) and Spiritual Activism: Leadership as Service (Green Books). His most recent major work is Poacher’s Pilgrimage: an Island Journey (Birlinn 2016, cascade, 2018). He is a fellow of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh and a visiting professor at the College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow.
His website is www.AlastairMcIntosh.com and Twitter @alastairmci.
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2018-07-15 Bittu Sahgal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70OntuuZQHg&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/07/bittu-sahgal-resistance-radio/ Bittu Sahgal is the Founder of the Sanctuary Nature Foundation, Editor of Sanctuary Asia, India's first and largest circulating wildlife and ecology magazine and Founder-Editor of Sanctuary Cub, India's oldest and only wildlife magazine for children. He has been closely involved with Project Tiger since its inception in the 1970s, and has spent over four decades writing about conservation issues in books, magazines and newspapers in both English and regional languages. He has also produced 30 wildlife documentaries, and led national and international environmental campaigns across media platforms, including social media. He created Kids for Tigers, a conservation programme for school children that has reached over a million children and has run continuously for almost two decades.
He has served on a range of government and non-government organisation boards and committees over the last 30 years, including the National Board for Wildlife (Government of India), the IUCN (World Conservation Union), The Wild Foundation (U.S.A) and the Expert Appraisal Committee for Infrastructure, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. He works with policymakers, social workers, economists and scientists at the tri-junction of biodiversity, climate change and economics, speaking at national and international platforms in support of wilderness conservation while continuing to spearhead the work of the Sanctuary Nature Foundation.
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2018-07-08 Fiona Corke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czw8ktjCQk4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/07/fiona-corke-resistance-radio/ Fiona Corke is an Australian actor, wildlife campaigner and activist. For 8 years she has volunteered as Vice President for the Australian Society for Kangaroos raising awareness of the beauty and also the cruel fate of kangaroos slaughtered for damage mitigation by farmers and government departments and the commercial kangaroo industry for their meat and skins.In 2007 Fiona cofounded the Macedon Ranges Wildlife Network, where she lives. The network is actively involved in wildlife rescue, wildlife care and rehabilitation and raises awareness of the risks and threats wildlife faces from human interaction and imminent development. Today we talk about corellas. fiona-corke2.jpg
2018-07-01 Paul Ehrlich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDZ3tPXLjUo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/07/paul-ehrlich-resistance-radio/ Paul R. Ehrlich has been a household name since the publication of his 1968 bestseller, The Population Bomb. He is Bing Professor of Population Studies Emeritus and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. Ehrlich is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Crafoord Prize (an explicit substitute for the Nobel Prize in fields of science where the latter is not given), the Blue Planet Prize, and numerous other international honors. He investigates a wide range of topics in population biology, ecology, evolution, human ecology, and environmental science. Much of his current effort is focused on the mechanisms of human cultural evolution and ways of directing that evolution to ameliorate the human predicament. paul-ehrlich.jpg
2018-06-24 Barry Rosenberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZgbGm6euPY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/06/barry-rosenberg-resistance-radio/ Barry Rosenberg lives with his wife Cathe off grid in remote wooded location in Priest Lake, ID. He’s the founding chair of the Selkirk Conservation Alliance; Forest Watch Director for the Inland Empire Public Lands Council, and executive director for the Kootenai Environmental Alliance in Coeur d'Alene, ID. barry-rosenberg.jpg
2018-06-17 Jonathan Latham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c2pDI818Y0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/06/jonathan-latham-resistance-radio/ Jonathan R Latham, PhD is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering. Dr Latham talks frequently at international events and scientific and regulatory conferences on the research conducted by the Project. He has written for Truthout, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, Resilience, and many other magazines and websites. Today we talk about the poison papers project. jonathan-latham.jpg
2018-06-10 Deanna Meyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOkhhXx0qBI&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/06/deanna-meyer-resistance-radio-2018/ Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist and is a member of Deep Green Resistance and is also the founder and executive director of Prairie Protection Colorado. Meyer's work currently centers on the protection and preservation of prairie dog communities up and down Colorado's Front Range.Today we talk about state and federal wildlife departments that kill wildlife. deanna-meyer.jpg
2018-06-03 Julie Bindel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtf4CSYRsQE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/06/julie-bindel-resistance-radio/ Julie Bindel is a journalist, broadcaster, author and feminist campaigner living in London. She writes for the Guardian, New Statesman, Unheard, The Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph, reporting on culture, music, food, film and sexual and gender identity. She is co-founder of Justice for Women, a feminist campaigning organisation, that supports and advocates for women who have fought back against or killed violent male partners. Julie has worked extensively on research concerning domestic violence, prostitution and sex trafficking. julie-bindel2.jpg
2018-05-27 Melinda Mann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upJq-PDHNRw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/05/melinda-mann-resistance-radio/ Melinda Mann is a longtime environmental and social justice activist whose "peak trans moment" three years ago rekindled her deep radical feminism. In response to trans-identified males' demands for unfettered access to women's private spaces, she launched a research project to document the sexual and other violent crimes of males who pose as women, creating a Facebook page called "This Never Happens" to publicize the results. resistance-radio.jpg
2018-05-20 Thomas Linzey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hjBHEobjYk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/05/thomas-linzey-resistance-radio-may-2018/ Thomas Linzey is the executive director and an attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has assisted close to 200 communities across the country in eight states to adopt binding local laws that elevate community rights to sustainability over corporate rights and powers. thomas-linzey.jpg
2018-05-13 Tom Kerns & Kathleen Dean Moore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFPT1pHGR2I&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/05/tom-kerns-kathleen-dean-moore-resistance-radio/ Kathleen Dean Moore, Ph.D., is a philosopher and writer, best known for award-winning books about our cultural and spiritual relation to wet, wild places — Riverwalking, Holdfast, Pine Island Paradox, and Wild Comfort. Until recently Distinguished Professor of Environmental Ethics at Oregon State University, Moore’s love for the reeling world led her to leave the university for a new life of climate writing and activism. Her most recent book, Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change, follows Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, testimony from the world’s moral leaders about our obligations to the future. Her newest book, Piano Tide, is “a savagely funny” novel about a small town’s struggle to defend its fresh water.
Tom Kerns is Director of Environment and Human Rights Advisory and professor emeritus of Philosophy at North Seattle College. He has taught online courses in Bioethics, Ways of Knowing, and Environment and Human Rights. Dr. Kerns is author of Environmentally Induced Illnesses: Ethics, Risk Assessment and Human Rights. He has lectured at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva on human rights issues in HIV vaccine research, and he has served as commissioner on the New Zealand People’s Inquiry into Aerial Pesticide Sprays Over Auckland. Tom also serves as a Board member of Beyond Toxics, and of Concerned Citizens for Clean Air. He is a member of the Drafting Group for the Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change.
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2018-05-06 Polly Higgins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNCmyQeVBwY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/05/polly-higgins-resistance-radio/ Polly Higgins is an international lawyer, UK based barrister, award-winning author and lead Ecocide law expert. Her proposal to expand the remit of the International Criminal Court to include Ecocide as an international crime (to stand alongside genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression) will ensure global governance and protection against some of the most egregious crimes, namely State and corporate crime that causes or fails to prevent climate disasters as well as other ecological catastrophes. Polly has been hailed as one of the World’s Top 10 Visionary Thinkers by the Ecologist and celebrated as The Planet’s Lawyer by the 2010 Change Awards. Founder of the Earth Law Alliance, she has garnered a number of awards for her work advocating for a law of Ecocide. polly-higgins.jpg
2018-04-29 Chris Matera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8QKnMD0BA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Chris Matera, P.E. is a civil engineer and the founder of Massachusetts Forest Watch, a volunteer citizens group formed to protect New England forests and advocate for genuinely green energy choices. chris-matera2.jpg
2018-04-15 Tierra Curry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3VKDtZZJU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/04/tierra-curry-resistance-radio/ Tierra Curry is a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity where she focuses on gaining protections for imperiled species and their habitats. Today we talk about mussels. tierra-curry.jpg
2018-04-08 Darrell Geist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cippsN0EyHU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Darrell Geist is habitat coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign, a position he’s worked in for 12 years. His experience with the Yellowstone buffalo dates back to the early 1990s when he worked with Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers and videographer Mike Mease to publicize the state of Montana’s slaughter of these majestic wild animals. After graduating from college he migrated to Montana, a habitat he dearly loves, from his home state of South Dakota. darrell-geist.jpg
2018-03-18 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_GNjKkbEXk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/03/george-wuerthner-resistance-radio-march-2018/ George Wuerthner is the Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Keeping the Wild. Today we talk about the dangers of environmental collaboration. george-wuerthner2.jpg
2018-03-11 Edward Schmitt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FhgLzRXRcQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/03/ed-schmitt-resistance-radio/ Edward Schmitt is President of the Board of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance and Chairman of the Board of the Kenai Area Fisherman's Coalition. He is a retired surgeon and rancher. He lives in Soldotna Alaska along the Kenai River. ed-schmitt.jpg
2018-03-04 Ofir Drori https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7nfiFicHpg&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/03/ofir-drori-resistance-radio/ Ofir Drori is the founder of LAGA the Last Great Ape Organisation, an enforcement non-governmental organization that fights corruption in order to bring about to the arrests and prosecutions of major wildlife criminals dealing in endangered animal species. LAGA's award-winning model for a wildlife law enforcement NGO started in Cameroon and is now replicated in the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and Gabon.
In 2005, based on the experience of fighting corruption in the judiciary and the forces of law and order, he has founded another NGO, called Anti Corruption in Cameroon, or ACCameroon, which focuses on establishing Anti-Corruption law enforcement in Cameroon, and involving citizens in the fight against corruption through direct legal action. He is a co-founder of The EAGLE Network, which is leading the fight against wildlife crime with more than 2,000 significant wildlife traffickers jailed to date, fighting corruption to break complicity and ensure justice. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the World Wildlife Fund Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal.
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2018-02-25 Jeremy Lent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUEhXTmOTrY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/02/jeremy-lent-resistance-radio-2018/ Jeremy Lent is an author and founder of the nonprofit Liology Institute, dedicated to fostering a worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the earth.
The Liology Institute, which integrates systems science with ancient wisdom traditions, holds regular workshops and other events in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy is author of the novel Requiem of the Human Soul. Formerly, he was the founder, CEO, and chairman of a publicly traded internet company. Lent holds a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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2018-02-18 Piero Genovesi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-LxNfgklP0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/02/piero-genovesi-resistance-radio/ Piero Genovesi gained a Masters degree in 1989 and a PhD in 1993 in Animal Ecology at the University of Rome, carrying on research on carnivore ecology. Since 1996 he has worked with the INFS (Italian Wildlife Institute - the Italian government research institute for conservation), focusing on carnivore conservation and alien species. He has coordinated several research projects (eradication and management of invasive alien species, patterns of invasions of mammals, economics of biological invasions, etc.) and worked closely with the Italian Ministry of Environment and with several international institutions (such as the Council of Europe, the European Commission, and the European Environmental Agency) to develop guidelines and policies on the management of alien species (he is a co-author of the European Strategy on Invasive Alien Species). In 2000 he was nominated Chair of the European section of IUCN SSC ISSG, and in 2005 appointed Deputy Chair of ISSG. In this capacity he has coordinated many activities on invasive species, providing technical support to States and institutions in the field of invasive alien species management and for the development of policies on the issue. At present Piero is a senior conservation officer with the ISPRA (Institute for Environmental Research and Protection, created by the Italian Government after the suppression of INFS), where he coordinates the activities on alien species management. piero-genovesi.jpg
2018-02-11 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG4aRu5NH2o&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/02/george-wuerthner-resistance-radio-2/ George Wuerthner is the Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Keeping the Wild. Today we talk about the erosion of wilderness protections. george-wuerthner3.jpg
2018-02-04 David Pilgrim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMLYVqSFrB0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/02/david-pilgrim-resistance-radio/ David Pilgrim is a professor, orator, and human rights activist. He is best known as the founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum—a ten thousand piece collection of racist artifacts located at Ferris State University, which uses objects of intolerance to teach about race, race relations, and racism. He is the author of Understanding Jim Crow. His most recent book is Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum. david-pilgrim2.jpg
2018-01-28 Josh Schlossberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5jMOB8bil8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/01/josh-schlossberg-resistance-radio/ Josh Schlossberg is a Denver, Colorado-based investigative journalist who writes about ecology, wildlife, climate change, and energy for various publications including EnviroNews, Truthout, Earth Island Journal, Denver Westword and Boulder Weekly. You can follow him on Twitter at @JoshSchlossberg. Today we talk about state governments working together to impede Mexican wolf recovery. josh-schlossberg.jpg
2018-01-21 Laura Cunningham & Kevin Emmerich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp1L38cRdc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/01/laura-cunningham-kevin-emmerich-resistance-radio/ Laura Cunningham is an artist-naturalist, author, and biologist. Kevin Emmerich is a biologist and former National Park ranger. They co-founded a conservation organization, Basin and Range Watch that works toward preserving the last non-destroyed regions of California and Nevada deserts. laura-cunningham-kevin-emmerich.jpg
2018-01-14 Laura Cunningham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Kc_3dR4QM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/01/laura-cunningham-resistance-radio/ Laura Cunningham is an artist-naturalist, author, and biologist, who also co-founded a conservation organization, Basin and Range Watch that works towards saving the California and Nevada deserts. She is the author/illustrator of the extraordinary book A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California. laura-cunningham.jpg
2018-01-07 John Seed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08y3nIvEVAo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2018/01/john-seed-resistance-radio/ John Seed is the founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and has dedicated his life to the protection of rainforests and their biodiversity since 1979. In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for services to conservation and the environment. He also practices permaculture and is interested in the huge role that unsustainable agriculture plays in the destruction of native forests, rivers and reefs. Today we talk about efforts to stop planned mining in Ecuador. john-seed.jpg
2017-12-31 Jordan Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v3fur5U_Go&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/12/jordan-brown-resistance-radio/ Jordan Brown is an activist, artist, musician, and award-winning independent film-maker whose work broadly looks at the social, political, and environmental implications of digital technologies. He is particularly interested in cultivating a critical view of today's culture of screens, and has recently completed a feature-length documentary on the subject called Stare Into The Lights My Pretties. jordan-brown.jpg
2017-12-24 Rose Webster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x-qaCo3dN8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Rose Webster is a Canadian freelance writer, researcher, and new documentary filmmaker. She is educated in nursing, orthotics/prosthetics (artificial limbs), and ophthalmology (eye care assisting). In 2003, she was a frontline SARS worker. Rose has been working in the writing/editing field since 2010. Her work is on InfoBarrel. She has also written for Paw Mane Fin and Environment 911. Her blog, “RoseWrites | A Blog for the Underdog,” has garnered over 30,000 views. Today we talk about the plan by the United States government to release Wolbachia-infected mosquitos. rose-webster.jpg
2017-12-17 Tony Silvaggio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nMcuYlLwZo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/12/tony-silvaggio-resistance-radio/ Tony Silvaggio is an assistant professor of sociology at Humboldt State University. He is also a founding faculty member of the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research, and is on the faculty of the Environment and Community Masters Program, and is on the board of directors for Environmental Protection Information Center, and has decades of experience in grassroots environmental and social justice activism. Today we talk about marijuana. tony-silvaggio.jpg
2017-12-10 Alfred McCoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AmokXYlZIM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q https://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/strategy/resistance-radio-alfred-mccoy-empire-part-one/ Alfred McCoy’s first book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (New York, 1972), sparked controversy when the CIA tried to block publication. But after three English editions and translation into nine foreign languages, this study is now regarded as the “classic” work on the global drug traffic. His more recent cover on covert operations, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror explores the agency’s half-century history of psychological torture. A film based in part on that book, “Taxi to the Darkside,” won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2008.
His most recent book, In the Shadow of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power focuses on the key instruments in its exercise of this hegemony, including geopolitical dominion, control of subordinate states, covert operations, worldwide surveillance, torture, and military technology. The work concludes by analyzing China’s challenge and the complex of forces that will likely lead to an eclipse of U.S. hegemony by 2030.
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2017-12-03 Ken Cole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPewMLNvNE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/12/ken-cole-resistance-radio/ Ken Cole is the new Executive Director for Buffalo Field Campaign. Previously, he served as NEPA Coordinator and later as Idaho Director for Western Watersheds Project where his work focused on the impacts to wildlife and their habitat from public lands livestock grazing. He has a background in fisheries management and has worked to protect wildlife and wild lands since 2001. He lives in Boise, Idaho. Today we talk about bighorn sheep. ken-cole.jpg
2017-11-26 David Casey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umA9N1EcTXQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q David Casey writes on his blog at ArticulatingTheFuture.weebly.com and enjoys backpacking, listening to Indie Rock, and reading as many books as he can get his hands on. Today we talk about the end of civilization. david-casey.jpg
2017-11-19 Melissa Amarello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umA9N1EcTXQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/11/melissa-amarello-resistance-radio/ After more than a decade working on the conservation of reptiles in the American southwest, Melissa Amarello co-founded Advocates for Snake Preservation in 2014 to change how people view and treat snakes. She holds a Masters in biology for her studies of rattlesnake social behavior. melissa-amarello.jpg
2017-11-12 Jeremy Lent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq8ADhiJODo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/11/jeremy-lent-resistance-radio/ Jeremy Lent is an author and founder of the nonprofit Liology Institute, dedicated to fostering a worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the earth.
The Liology Institute, which integrates systems science with ancient wisdom traditions, holds regular workshops and other events in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy is author of the novel Requiem of the Human Soul. Formerly, he was the founder, CEO, and chairman of a publicly traded internet company. Lent holds a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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2017-11-05 Juliee de la Terre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1zIVtTD0Ak&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/11/julie-de-la-terre-resistance-radio/ Juliee de la Terre holds an MS from the Gaylord Nelson Institute for environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She has been an activist since she was a child helping her mother care for injured wildlife. She lives on a small farm in southwest WI where she grows most of her food and teaches others the art of self-reliance. She is a member of Save Our Unique Lands, an NGO that opposes massive powerline expansion infrastructure. She owns Ethos Restoration Landscapes, a chemical free and native plant and food poly-cultural landscaping business which emphasizes removing lawns and restoring native plants.
As an environmental consultant she is engaged in a food sovereignty movement with the Ho-Chunk Nation and leads foraging walks. She hopes to launch a multi-faceted deep green immersion project with the tribe that will explore the natural world from earth to sky through various pedagogical methods and an in place poly-cultural green space. She organized and facilitated a 33 days long, trans state walk in 2016 in Wisconsin, to unpack the dangers of the 4 pipe Enbridge pipeline corridor and oppose any expansion of same.
She is recently in partnership with Earth Law Center, to initiate the Great Lakes Rights of Nature Coalition working with concerned people all around the Great Lakes ecosystem to enact legal structures that take rights away from corporations and acknowledge the rights of the lakes to exist, persist and flourish. She travels the country giving talks on various subjects and this last weekend presented at the Democracy Convention in Minneapolis, MN about institutionalized violence, its effects on humans and the natural world and how to address it. She believes that transformation begins in hearts and minds and expands to all living systems and that we need to replace war mongering messaging, iconography, education etc with the narrative of acknowledging the intrinsic rights of all living systems. She maintains her blog called "Sacred Water Sacred Land" about the sacredness of all things.
Today we talk about the Great Lakes.

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2017-10-29 John Ruskey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynpE7VZnW_0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/10/john-ruskey-resistance-radio/ John Ruskey is worker bee in the colony of his queen, the Lower Mississippi River. He carves canoes, paints, and guides others into the wildest place remaining in the center of North America, the verdant floodplain of the big river, which reaches fullness in her last thousand miles of free-flowing joy to the Gulf of Mexico. He is author of Rivergator.org, one million words, photos, paintings, maps and videos describing the Mississippi River for paddlers. john-ruskey.jpg
2017-10-22 Louisa Wilcox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI4rtslf-_U&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/10/louisa-wilcox-resistance-radio/ Working for Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity and Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Louisa Wilcox has advocated for grizzly bear preservation for over 30 years. She specializes in developing comprehensive strategies that succeed because they work on multiple scales using various approaches, including grassroots organizing and outreach, education, media and communication, policy analysis, lobbying, coalition development, and public protest. She and a handful of others have prevented Yellowstone grizzly bear delisting for over two decades. Louisa has a BA from Williams College and a Masters of Forest Policy from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. In 2014, she was given a lifetime achievement award from Yale. louisa-wilcox2.jpg
2017-10-15 Thomas Linzey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhghpdu1f_U&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/10/thomas-linzey-resistance-radio/ Thomas Linzey is the executive director and an attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has assisted close to 200 communities across the country in eight states to adopt binding local laws that elevate community rights to sustainability over corporate rights and powers. thomas-linzey3.jpg
2017-10-01 Stephany Seay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4lAD0_JfPk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/10/stephany-seay-resistance-radio/ Stephany Seay is the media coordinator with the Montana-based Buffalo Field Campaign, the only group working in the field, in the courts, and in the policy arena in defense of the country’s last wild migratory buffalo, the Yellowstone population. Stephany has been on the front lines with BFC for fourteen years and from the direct interactions and experiences with these gentle giants, she and her comrades have come to the understanding that while we may be trying (very, very hard) to save the buffalo, the buffalo are desperately trying to teach us to save us from ourselves. stephany-seay2.jpg
2017-09-24 Ramsey Kanaan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxq3krglVjM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/09/ramsey-kanaan-resistance-radio/ Ramsey Kanaan has been involved in attempting to disseminate the good word for well over three and a half decades now. As a young teenager, he founded AK Press (named after his mother’s initials) from his bedroom in Scotland. He’s co-founder and Publisher with PM Press. ramsey-kanaan3.jpg
2017-09-17 Jason Flores-Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uRTcpnlXH8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/09/jason-flores-williams-resistance-radio-2/ Part two of the interview begun last week, talking about the new lawsuit filed by DGR and others to protect the rights of nature. jason-flores-williams2.jpg
2017-09-10 Jason Flores-Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2EWaZYQr4g&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/09/jason-flores-williams-resistance-radio/ Jason Flores-Williams is a noted civil rights attorney and author who has litigated some of the most important cases of our time. he has been featured on CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post and has given speeches about resistance to audiences around the world. The Law Firm of Jason Flores-Williams along with the aid of Deep Green Resistance has filed one of the first federal law suits asking the court to declare that nature has fundamental rights and standing. The law suit is based on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s work in seeking natural and community rights in Ecuador, Colombia and India.
Today we talk about this new lawsuit.
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2017-09-03 James Howard Kunstler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx56AvMGrAA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/09/james-howard-kunstler-resistance-radio/ James Howard Kunstler is the author of many books including (non-fiction) The Geography of Nowhere, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, Home from Nowhere, The Long Emergency, and Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology and the Fate of the Nation. His novels include World Made By Hand, The Witch of Hebron, Maggie Darling ­ A Modern Romance, The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Riches, and many others. He has published three novellas with Water Street Press: Manhattan Gothic, A Christmas Orphan, and The Flight of Mehetabel. james-howard-kunstler.jpg
2017-08-27 Bret Weinstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUw-Rnbsg1o&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/08/bret-weinstein-resistance-radio/ Bret Weinstein is a theoretical evolutionary biologist focused on evolutionary patterns within complex, dynamic systems. His work revolves around trade-offs that force selection to balance competing values within fluctuating or patchy habitats. His current project is focused on human consciousness in the context of novel hazards and opportunities. He lives with his wife, children, and other animal affiliates in the Anthropocene. bret-weinstein.jpg
2017-08-20 Vince Emanuele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihbvcuc3PTo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Vincent Emanuele is a writer, radio host and community organizer. He's currently opening a cultural center called P.A.R.C. (Politics Art Roots Culture) in Michigan City, Indiana, where he lives. Today we talk about some of the relationships between martial arts training, military training, and social change. vince-emanuele3.jpg
2017-08-13 Meghan Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uhs9KF-Z4U&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/08/meghan-murphy-resistance-radio/ Meghan Murphy is a writer and journalist from Vancouver, B.C. She founded Feminist Current in 2012, which has since grown to be the leading feminist website in Canada, as well as a global presence. Meghan is currently working on a book that critiques third wave feminism as a modern anti-feminist backlash. meghan-murphy.jpg
2017-08-06 Alice Friedemann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftb-fZQ-CrU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Alice Friedemann is the author of When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation. She is also the author of articles such as “The Hydrogen Economy: Savior of Humanity or an Economic Black Hole,” and “Peak Soil: Why Biofuels Destroy Ecosystems and Civilizations.” Her website is energyskeptic.com alice-friedemann.jpg
2017-07-30 Charlie Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrqazKcepOQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q After years of observing how social entrepreneurs harness the power of communities worldwide, Charlie Brown created a network methodology and practice for all organizations growing their brand or cause. His network strategies, customized for an organization's unique context, identify and activate communities, uniting the communities and organization in a shared purpose. A network strategy is essential for any organization responding to tectonic shifts in identity, information and power.
Charlie's approach, Community Centered Design, has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, FastCoExist.com, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. Previously the executive director of Ashoka's Changemakers, Charlie led his team in pioneering open innovation for social change­' developing a new paradigm for prizes and building a global online community of 100,000 innovators that has garnered more than $500 million in philanthropic funding.
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2017-07-23 Deanna Meyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58nsM2YyoKU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/07/deanna-meyer-resistance-radio/ Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist, a member of Deep Green Resistance, and the founder and executive director of Prairie Protection Colorado. Meyer's work currently centers on the protection and preservation of prairie dog communities up and down Colorado's Front Range. deanna-meyer2.jpg
2017-07-16 Paul Bogard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4fztMqJOww&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/07/paul-bogard-resistance-radio/ Paul Bogard is the author of The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are, published by Little, Brown on 21 March 2017. He is also the author of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light, published in North America by Little, Brown, and in the UK and around the world by 4th Estate/Harper Collins. A native Minnesotan, Paul grew up exploring the forest and watching the stars near a lake in the northern part of the state. Today we talk about the environmental effects of light pollution. paul-bogard.jpg
2017-07-09 Richard York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxV3Mj30Rok&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Richard York is Director and Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on environmental sociology, ecological economics, animal studies, and the sociology of science. He has published three books and dozens of articles. Today we talk about his crucial article “Do Alternative Energy Sources Displace Fossil Fuels.” richard-york.jpg
2017-07-02 Jesse Lasky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS8Rb8ReI78&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/07/jesse-lasky-resistance-radio/ Jesse Lasky is currently assistant professor at Penn State University. His work explores how the environment and human modifications of the environment affect biodiversity at the level of genetics and ecological communities. Today we talk about how a wall between the US and Mexico would harm wildlife and natural communities. jesse-lasky.jpg
2017-06-25 Vince Emanuele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXlvw6sX4Q&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Vincent Emanuele is a writer, radio host and community organizer. He’s currently opening a cultural center called P.A.R.C. (Politics Art Roots Culture) in Michigan City, Indiana, where he lives. vince-emanuele2.jpg
2017-06-11 Joshua Frank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niWMUGYyqc0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Joshua Frank is co-editor, along with Jeffrey St. Clair, of the radical magazine and website CounterPunch. His most recent book, Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion was published by AK Press and co-edited with Jeffrey St. Clair. Their forthcoming book, due out next fall, is Heatstroke: Earth of the Brink. Today we talk about the role of Democrats in giving this country Bush and Trump. joshua-frank.jpg
2017-05-28 Katharyn Boyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djP6HwzhRuU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/05/katharyn-bower-resistance-radio/ Katharyn Boyer’s work is focused on the ecology and restoration of coastal habitats, primarily salt marshes and seagrass beds. She is particularly interested in how species interact to structure their environments and influence fundamental ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling. Such basic ecological research has important implications for the restoration of damaged habitats. Today we talk about seagrasses. katharyn-boyer.jpg
2017-05-21 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRIj6LdQC0Yw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/05/george-wuerthner-resistance-radio/ George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk some more about what “healthy forest” means, and the role of dead trees in a healthy forest. george-wuerthner8.jpg
2017-05-14 Eve Ensler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkDc9xRl5A0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Eve Ensler is the Tony Award winning playwright, activist, performer and author of the theatrical phenomenon and Obie Award winning, The Vagina Monologues, which has been published in 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries. Ms. Ensler’s plays include Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, Extraordinary Measures, Necessary Targets, OPC, The Good Body, and Emotional Creature. Her books include Insecure at Last: A Political Memoir, New York Times best seller I Am An Emotional Creature and her critically acclaimed memoir In the Body of the World.
Eve adapted In the Body of the World into a play that she performed and debuted at the American Repertory Theater, directed by Diane Paulus. In January 2018, she will be premiering it in New York at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Her play, Fruit Trilogy was performed at the Women of the World Festival in London and The West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Her film credits include an HBO film version of her performance of The Vagina Monologues (2002). She also produced the film What I Want My Words to Do to You, a documentary about the writing group she led at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, which premiered and won the Freedom of Expression Award at the Sundance Film Festival and premiered nationally on PBS’s “P.O.V.” in December 2003.
Ms. Ensler is the founder of V-Day, the almost 20-year-old global activist movement to end violence against women and girls which has raised over 100 million dollars for grassroots groups. V-Day led Ms. Ensler to also found One Billion Rising, the biggest global mass action campaign to end violence against women in human history in over 200 countries. She writes for The Guardian, Time Magazine, the International Herald Tribune and many other outlets. She was named one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Changed the World” and The Guardian’s “100 Most Influential Women.”

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2017-05-07 John Feffer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeYg6lK4qkw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q John Feffer is the author of Splinterlands. He is the director of Foreign Policy in Focus, and the author of several books and numerous articles as well as a half-dozen one-man shows. Today we talk about the ends of empires. john-feffer.jpg
2017-04-30 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6mtNcg-wdw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk about what “healthy forest” means, and the role of dead trees in a healthy forest. george-wuerthner7.jpg
2017-04-23 Bernie Krause https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5JKHSxHC4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Bernie Krause is an American musician and soundscape ecologist. In 1968, he founded Wild Sanctuary, an organization dedicated to the recording and archiving of natural soundscapes. Krauss is an author, a bio-acoustician, a speaker, and natural sound artist. He helped define the field of study of soundscape ecology. bernie-krause.jpg
2017-04-16 Luigi Boitani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfTSJDFLtgY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Luigi Boitani is chair of the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe (LCIE). He is also a professor in the Department of Animal and Human Biology at the University of Rome. Prof. Boitani is a world leading authority on wolves, and many papers and books are centered on wolf biology, wolf management and human attitudes towards wolves. Today we talk about large carnivores in Europe. luigi-boitani.jpg
2017-04-09 Annette Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEpDb_YW-t8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Annette Smith is executive director of Vermonters for a Clean Environment, an organization she co-founded 15 years ago with Vermont citizens when a large energy project was proposed for her region. After successfully defeating that project, Annette has worked with Vermonters throughout the state to defeat large quarries, landfills, farms, and other large energy proposals while also improving Vermont’s groundwater protection laws. Annette has lived off-grid with solar in Vermont for more than 20 years, hand milks a cow, has a flock of chickens, grows most of her own food including citrus in a greenhouse, and seeks change through collaboration when possible and opposition when necessary. annette-smith2.jpg
2017-04-02 Josh Schlossberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKCWg5dvzuY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Josh Schlossberg is editor of The Biomass Monitor, the nation's leading publication investigating the whole story on bioenergy, biomass, and biofuels. josh-schlossberg.jpg
2017-03-26 Carrie Culp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNarUgcLfQU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Carrie Culp is the founder and director of Painted Dog Research Trust USA. She fell in love with African painted dogs after reading about them in a book she found in her elementary school library. She is a FGASA certified Level 1 Field Guide (Safari Guide), trained in South Africa in Karongwe Game Reserve and enjoys sharing her passion for African wildlife on trips to Africa as well as at home in Seattle, WA. Today we talk about critically endangered African painted dogs. carrie-culp.jpg
2017-03-19 Deborah Tabart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfJlNsenMEA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Deborah Tabart OAM, CEO of the Australian Koala Foundation, is fondly known as the Koala Woman. She has been at her post since February 1988. At that time she was told to raise $5m and "save the Koala." Since then, Deborah has focused her attention on mapping Koala habitat. If you cannot save a habitat, you will never save any species. The AKF takes no Government funding and has, over the years spoken more and more confidently about the plight of the Koala. The AKF scientifically estimates there are between 50,000 and 100,000 Koalas in the wild remaining. Deborah believes that the lower number is the accurate figure. Between 1890 and 1927, the AKF has found manifests for 8m koala skins which were sold on the New York and London fur market. Today we discuss the plight of the koalas. deborah-tabart2.jpg
2017-03-12 Lilliana Corredor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gbHamWpaXM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr. Lilliana Corredor is the Founder & Coordinator of Scientists for the Mekong. For the last 35 years she has worked worldwide to protect water. She has worked with Peasants, Farmers, School kids, Community Groups, Indigenous tribes, Fishermen, Government departments (for free), NGOs, and the Public. Today we talk about Mekong River Ecocide. lilliana-corredor.jpg
2017-02-26 Julian Fennessy & Stephanie Fennessy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWN0zqowJT4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Stephanie Fennessy and Julian Fennessy are co-founders of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, the only NGO in the world that focuses on preservation of giraffes in the wild. Between them they have more than 30 years experience protecting giraffes. julian-stephanie-fennessy.jpg
2017-02-19 Dahr Jamail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Qargg1XS8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dahr Jamail is an award winning journalist and author who is a full-time staff reporter for Truthout.org. He is currently working on a book about abrupt climate change, called The End of Ice.
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2017-02-12 Rob Laidlaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT37i0e40rU&index=1&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Rob Laidlaw has spent more than 35 years working to protect animals of all kinds. His work spans multiple countries and has involved a wide range of successful campaigns and projects, including initiatives to change laws, raise public awareness, litigate in the courts and rescue animals. Rob is a Chartered biologist, founder of the wildlife protection organization Zoocheck and an award-winning author of nine children’s books about animal welfare and wildlife protection. In 2014, he received the Frederic A. McGrand Award for substantial contributions to animal welfare in Canada. rob-laidlaw.jpg
2017-02-05 John Barry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeF8dJE0hqY&index=1&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q John Barry is a NY Times best-selling writer whose books have won literally dozens of awards. He is the only non-scientist ever to win one particular honor from the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2005 the New York Public Library named his book Rising Tide one of the 50 best books of the preceding 50 years. His books also got him directly in public policy. Today we talk about the coastal wetlands of Louisiana. john-barry.jpg
2017-01-29 Susan Cox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWXHbrt3kvU&index=1&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2017/01/susan-cox-resistance-radio/ Susan Cox is a feminist writer, activist, and educator in Philosophy. She is a regular contributor to Feminist Current and a member of the Women’s Liberation Front board of directors. Today we talk about problems in queer theory. susan-cox.jpg
2017-01-22 Sarah Mah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g28WvukZn7A&index=1&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Sarah Mah is a ‘third generation’ Canadian-born Chinese woman raised in Vancouver, BC. Her family was among the early Chinese immigrants levied the head tax in the late 1800’s, as well as those who left rural China in the 1950’s in search of a better life in Canada. Formally trained in genetics and epidemiology and now pursuing a PhD, her feminist activism began as a front-line anti-violence worker at a rape crisis centre and transition house, and she continues her work as a member of the Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution. sarah-mah.jpg
2017-01-15 Mary Lou Singleton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9wLxZuSkYA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Mary Lou Singleton is a deep ecologist, radical midwife and women’s liberation activist. She practiced as a homebirth midwife for over 15 years and currently provides primary health care as a family nurse practitioner in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mary Lou believes that birth is a sacred rite of passage and that preserving wild human birth is integral to the struggle for the preservation of all wild systems on Earth. mary-lou-singleton.jpg
2017-01-08 Jay Tiernan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlm9wgtNAVM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jay Tiernan became well known in the U.K. animal rights scene in April 1997, after only a few months of being involved in hunt sabotage and environmental activism. At a demonstration against a breeder of beagle dogs for vivisection, Jay climbed onto the roof of a building with one of those dogs (for which he later went to prison). After “Consort Beagle Kennels” closed down, he became heavily involved in a variety of animal liberation campaigns until summer 2000. When a fellow activist was nearly killed during a publicity stunt he’d helped organise, he retired from activism, but returned in the summer of 2012 to set up the campaign against the then-planned badger culls. As a spokesperson for the campaign, the bulk of his energy goes into working out creative ways to get into the mainstream media. The badger cull campaign has gone from a handful of people four years ago to now well over a hundred active people on any single night during the six week annual badger culls. jay-tiernan.jpg
2017-01-01 Sam Krop & Dillon Thomson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXXC1DqULt8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Sam Krop is an environmental and social justice activist and high school teacher currently based in Eugene Oregon. Originally from Florida, Sam has been an organizer in direct action campaigns for farm worker rights, food justice and food sovereignty, forest defense, and fossil fuel resistance, and has been a public speaker at a variety of events on environmental issues and social justice activism. Sam is also the founder of Warrior Sisters, a women’s self-defense nonprofit, and like many feminists before her, recognizes that the ongoing abuse of the planet and the epidemic of violence against women share the same root in a way of life that is fundamentally unsustainable.
Dillon Thomson is co-founder and secretary of the Fertile Ground Institute, a non-profit working to build leadership and effective strategy for social and environmental justice movements. For the past six years, Dillon’s work with Fertile Ground has included providing trainings, lecturing, hosting interdisciplinary conferences, and organizing nonviolent direct actions up and down the west coast of the U.S. and Canada. Dillon is also a member of Deep Green Resistance. His work is motivated by a love of life and a deep rage for the cold, dispassionate killing of nonhuman communities perpetrated by the daily activities of the industrial economy.
Today we talk about stopping coal trains.
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2016-12-25 Klaas-Douwe Dijkstra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63T26H5QT2I&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Klaas-Douwe Dijkstra was born in The Netherlands but grew up in Egypt, drawing and describing his first dragonflies when he was 12 years old. Finding The Netherlands’ first Vagrant Emperor dragonfly, an African visitor, focused his passion when he was 20. He has since spent over 1000 days surveying dragonflies all over Africa and has described 78 species as new (over 10% of those known in the continent). 60 species were described in one paper in 2015 to draw attention to the lack of support for taxonomy and natural history. He authored the highly successful Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe (2006), The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Eastern Africa: Handbook for all Odonata from Sudan to Zimbabwe (2014), and is an honorary research associate at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center (The Netherlands) and the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa).
He says, “For me, dragonflies and damselflies stand for our unconditional love of nature. They do not help to feed us like bees and fish do; they are not feared and persecuted like mosquitoes and snakes; nor are they studied as proxies of human psyche and society like ants and apes. Their beauty and sensitivity stand for the state and needs of nature before our own. We admire dragonflies purely for what they are.”
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2016-12-18 Emma Phipps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYrH_G8aROg&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Emma Phipps has been involved in campaigns against wildlife persecution, with an emphasis on direct action on the ground, as well as animal liberation and environmental campaigns for about 12 years. She has been been working in the west of England for 3 years now against the local foxhunts and the recent culling of the European badger in small group of friends called Three Counties Hunt Saboteurs. Today we talk about fox hunting. emma-phipps.jpg
2016-12-11 Benjamin Madley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jw2-aNM6tA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Benjamin Madley is Associate Professor of History and Chair of American Indian Studies at UCLA. Trained at Yale and Oxford, he is an historian of Native America, the United States, and genocide in world history. Today we talk about the genocide against California Indians. benjamin-madley.jpg
2016-12-04 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrlFv4Kr0MQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk about the need to expand the National Parks in the American West. george-wuerthner6.jpg
2016-11-27 Otis Wollan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_P0t0FMOvc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q In the 1970’s, Otis Wollan became active in the Auburn Dam fight with Protect American River Canyons, and co-authored The American River: Insider’s Guide to Recreation, Ecology and Cultural History of the North, Middle and South Forks. He ran for local election on an anti-dam platform, and ended up spending over twenty years serving as elected Director on Placer County Water Agency. After forty years, the dam proposal effectively died when he won the battle at California State Water Resources Control Board taking back from the federal government the water rights to build the dam.
He served as Executive Director of the Committee for Sustainable Agriculture in the 1980’s, leading to the 1990 Organic Food Act. He has served as Executive Director of Public Officials for Water and Environmental Reform in CA since 1992, which sponsored the California Water Policy Conference for over twenty years. Since 1998 he has been President of the American River Watershed Institute, project manager for the EPA-funded project that developed the Sierra Climate Change Watershed Yield Calculator, now project manager for the Save Bear River fight to Stop Centennial Dam on the Bear River. Today we talk about the efforts to stop this dam.
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2016-11-20 Brigitte Stevens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxBOMgSGNk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Brigitte Stevens is a Steven Irwin protégé who fell in love with an orphan wombat, sold her properties, left her family and friends and moved 2500 kilometres to establish the only free range, cage free wombat sanctuary. Brigitte and her friend Clare are the only people in the world who live within a community of wombats and are at the forefront of wombat advocacy. brigitte-stevens.jpg
2016-11-13 Four Arrows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xZFEad7L-A&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa), whose Anglo name is Donald Trent Jacobs, is a professor at Fielding Graduate University and formerly the Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was selected by the Alternative Education Resource Organization as one of 27 visionaries in education, he won Martin-Springer Institute Moral Courage Award for his Activism, and has been involved in creating the first Marine No Take Zone on Pacific Coast of Mexico.
He is an American Indian activist and author of 21 books and numerous articles and chapters about Indigenous worldview applications to contemporary world issues. His most recent book is Point of Departure: Returning to a More Authentic Worldview for Education and Survival.
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2016-11-06 Don Salvatore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mquImJ0WF04w&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Don Salvatore has a biology degree (BA) from Northeastern University in Boston. He has been an informal science educator since graduating, with the last 36 years at the Museum of Science in Boston, teaching many science topics to the general public and school groups that visit the Museum. He is currently the coordinator of the Firefly Watch citizen science project, which started in 2008. Since the program’s beginning, they have had over 5,000 people from 40 states and 6 Canadian provinces participate – collecting firefly data in their back yards. He also writes short stories about the nature one can find in one’s back yard and posts them on the Backyard Biology website. Today we talk about fireflies. don-salvatore.jpg
2016-10-30 Emanuel Pastreich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF7412ZXjWMw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Emanuel Pastreich is the director of the Asia Institute in Seoul, Korea, a think tank that has made the environment and technological change in Asia its central concern. Originally a scholar of classical Chinese literature, and more broadly Asian literature, he has advocated for closer cooperation across Asia to address the profound challenges of our age. He is fluent in Chinese, Japanese and Korean and has recently published a book in Chinese in which he advocates for a new vision of the Chinese economy based in part on traditional Chinese ideas about ecology from Confucianism and Daoism. emanuel-pastreich.jpg
2016-10-23 Alicen Grey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgv-1UtM1-Q&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Alicen Grey is an award winning writer based in New York City. You can read more of her work at www.alicengrey.com. Today we talk about pedophile culture, and what we can do to stop it. alicen-grey.jpg
2016-10-16 Four Arrows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmN_c4Tp7vw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa), whose Anglo name is Donald Trent Jacobs, is a professor at Fielding Graduate University and formerly the Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was selected by the Alternative Education Resource Organization as one of 27 visionaries in education, he won Martin-Springer Institute Moral Courage Award for his Activism, and has been involved in creating the first Marine No Take Zone on Pacific Coast of Mexico. He is an American Indian activist and author of 21 books and numerous articles and chapters about Indigenous worldview applications to contemporary world issues. His most recent book is Point of Departure: Returning to a More Authentic Worldview for Education and Survival. four-arrows2.jpg
2016-10-09 Taylor Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwK7nJplmJo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Taylor Jones is the endangered species advocate for WildEarth Guardians, a western conservation group. She has a Master’s degree in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is dedicated to preserving the incredible lifeforms of planet Earth. Today we talk about Joshua trees. taylor-jones.jpg
2016-10-02 Maria Diekmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Frp8p921XA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Maria Diekmann was born in the United States but has spent more than half of her life in Namibia & raised her 3 children there. She stated REST (Rare and Endangered Species Trust) in 2000 to help protect & study virtually unknown animals like vultures, bats & pangolins.
Photo by Shaen Adey.
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2016-09-25 Robin Wall Kimmerer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk9VXagDL-g&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2016/09/robin-wall-kimmerer-resistance-radio/ Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, writer, and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. She is the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs that draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared concerns for Mother Earth.
Kimmerer is an enrolled member of the Citizen Band Potawatomi. Her writings include numerous scientific articles and the books Gathering Moss, which was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing in 2005, and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, released in October 2013. As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.
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2016-09-18 Leah Lemieux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98u8ALrEN78&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Leah Lemieux is an author, lecturer, researcher, videographer, and producer who has been involved with cetacean protection, education and conservation initiatives for over twenty years. Her work, collaborating with key individuals and NGOs, takes her to many different countries, including Japan and the remote Faroe Islands, focusing on developing educational tools to foster positive solutions from within whaling nations. Today we talk about cetaceans. leah-lemieux.jpg
2016-09-11 Dominic DiPaolo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7wFxCJzeOU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dominic DiPaolo is a field botanist and vegetation ecologist who lives and works in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southwest Oregon and northern California. For the past fifteen years he has studied the ecology and history of the forests, woodlands, shrub lands and grasslands of this diverse and complex region as well as gotten to know as many of its non-human inhabitants as possible. He has recently published work on the historical vegetation of the Applegate Valley in Oregon and is currently developing vegetation cover maps for Crater Lake National Park and Lava Beds National Monument. Today we talk about some of the excuses used by the timber industry, the government, and “environmental organizations” like The Nature Conservancy to facilitate deforestation. dominic-dipaolo.jpg
2016-09-04 Sakej Ward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHtwD3dsMlw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Sakej (James Ward) belongs to the wolf clan. He is Mi’kmaw (Mi’kmaq Nation) from the community of Esgenoopetitj (Burnt Church First Nation, New Brunswick). He is the father of nine children, four grandchildren. He resides in Shxw’owhamel First Nation, B.C. with his wife Melody Andrews and their children.
He is a veteran of both the Canadian and American militaries. He finished his military career at the rank of Sergeant in an elite Airborne unit. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations and a Master’s of Arts Degree in Indigenous Governance.
Sakej has a long history of advocating and protecting First Nations inherent responsibilities and freedoms, having spent the last 24 years fighting the government and industry. Having taught, organized, advised and led various warrior societies from all over Turtle Island down into Guatemala and Borike (Puerto Rico) Sakej has made warrior-hood his way of life. He has been on over a dozen warrior operations and countless protest actions. He dedicates all his time to developing warrior teachings and instructing warrior societies from all over.
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2016-08-28 Deborah Tabart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hd-wF9xOTs&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Deborah Tabart OAM, CEO of the Australian Koala Foundation, is fondly known as the Koala Woman. She has been at her post since February 1988. At that time she was told to raise $5m and "save the Koala." Since then, Deborah has focused her attention on mapping Koala habitat. If you cannot save a habitat, you will never save any species. The AKF takes no Government funding and has, over the years spoken more and more confidently about the plight of the Koala. The AKF scientifically estimates there are between 50,000 and 100,000 Koalas in the wild remaining. Deborah believes that the lower number is the accurate figure. Between 1890 and 1927, the AKF has found manifests for 8m koala skins which were sold on the New York and London fur market. Today we discuss the plight of the koalas. deborah-tabart.jpg
2016-08-21 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt4nkAtpPY0list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk about water use in the west. george-wuerthner5.jpg
2016-08-14 Sherri Tippie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj1ap7Oh51M&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q For the past two decades Sherri Tippie has been trapping unwanted beaver in the great Denver area and relocating them to happier homes in the mountains of Colorado. Nationally recognized for her expertise in trapping and re-locating beaver, Sherrie explains how she learned her craft: “Hey, it’s not that hard. I’m a woman. I read the directions that came with the traps.” A haircutter for inmates in the Arapahoe County Jail, Sherrie claims, “my guys at the prison know more about beaver than most people with fancy degrees.” She lives in Lakewood, Colorado with her family of furry friends.
Today we talk about beaver.
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2016-08-07 Felice Pace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GyfEU9dgXw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Felice Pace was born into the working class Italian Community in South Philadelphia. For fifteen years Felice worked for and led the Klamath Forest Alliance as Program Coordinator, Executive Director and Program Director. He remains part of the Alliance’s Core Group.
Currently Felice coordinates the Project to Reform Public Land Grazing in Northern California. He also contracts with environmental organizations. Contract work includes environmental advocacy, campaign planning, strategy and implementation, development and implementation of administrative systems, and program work. Felice also engages as a Klamath River and forest activist and pursues a number of writing project. He blogs on Klamath River issues, and you can read many of his other writings at his personal web site.
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2016-07-31 Dahr Jamail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYNfHRwE46I0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dahr Jamail is an award winning journalist and author who is a full-time staff reporter for Truthout.org. His work is currently focusing on Anthropogenic Climate Disruption. Today we talk about the murder of the oceans.
Also check out the interviews of Jamail on July 5, 2015 and on June 20, 2014.
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2016-07-24 David Pilgrim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO_kLZIK4Go&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q David Pilgrim is a professor, orator, and human rights activist. He is best known as the founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum­, a ten thousand piece collection of racist artifacts located at Ferris State University, which uses objects of intolerance to teach about race, race relations, and racism. He is the author of Understanding Jim Crow. david-pilgrim.jpg
2016-07-03 Matthew Schwartz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3F3BSRANdk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Matt Schwartz is Executive Director of the South Florida Wildlands Association – an organization founded to protect habitat, wilderness, and biodiversity in the Greater Everglades. Over the years, he’s been involved in numerous battles over management of public lands, energy projects, habitat development, and Everglades restoration. Today we talk about threats to black bears in Florida. matthew-schwartz3.jpg
2016-06-26 Vivian Stockman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cavv4dPh8s&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Vivian Stockman is project coordinator for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC), which is based in Huntington, West Virginia. Stockmans photos of mountaintop removal and the movement to stop this extreme coal-mining practice have been published in newspapers, magazines, books, and documentaries and on websites. Publications credits include the New York Times, the Washington Monthly, Orion Magazine, World Watch Magazine, E Magazine, French Geo and dozens more. She has assisted with, consulted for and been filmed for several documentaries including Time to Choose, The Last Mountain, Burning the Future, Goodbye Gauley Mountain and others. vivian-stockman2.jpg
2016-06-19 Thomas Linzey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClGvP3qFkZs&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Thomas Linzey is the executive director and an attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has assisted close to 200 communities across the country in eight states to adopt binding local laws that elevate community rights to sustainability over corporate rights and powers. thomas-linzey2.jpg
2016-06-05 Will Falk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp57QRATq1c&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Will Falk is a former public defender turned grass-roots environmental activist. His first passion is poetry. The natural world is speaking and his work is an effort to listen. He currently lives in Park City, Utah. Today we talk about Pinyon-Juniper forests. will-falk.jpg
2016-05-22 Fiona Corke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96YanWTJwCY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Fiona Corke is an Australian actor, wildlife campaigner and activist. For 8 years she has volunteered as Vice President for the Australian Society for Kangaroos raising awareness of the beauty and also the cruel fate of kangaroos slaughtered for damage mitigation by farmers and government departments and the commercial kangaroo industry for their meat and skins. In 2007 Fiona cofounded the Macedon Ranges Wildlife Network, where she lives. The network is actively involved in wildlife rescue, wildlife care and rehabilitation and raises awareness of the risks and threats wildlife faces from human interaction and imminent development. Today we talk about kangaroos. fiona-corke.jpg
2016-05-15 Charmaine White Face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUD9f4Hv78&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Charmaine White Face is the Coordinator for an environmental organization called Defenders of the Black Hills. She is also an elder of the Oglala Band of the people who speak the Lakota language of the Great Sioux Nation. She is the Spokesperson for the Sioux Nation Treaty Council which advocates for the enforcement of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Today, she will be talking about a recent trip to Washington, DC, where she spoke about “homegrown” radioactive pollution covering the United States. charmaine-white-face.jpg
2016-05-08 Kristine McDivitt Tompkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO6MD7M2sg0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Kristine McDivitt Tompkins is the former CEO of Patagonia, who retired in 1993 and moved to Chile with her husband Douglas Tompkins, where she began her conservation work between Chile and Argentina of purchasing and putting into permanent conservation (in the form of national parks) 2.2 million acres. kristine-mcdivitt-tompkins.jpg
2016-05-01 Stephanie McMillan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzYgYoAon6Y&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Stephanie McMillan’s comics and writing have appeared in hundreds of publications and venues. She is the author of seven books, including Capitalism Must Die!, a basic overview of capitalism and revolution, and creator of the new calendar “365 Daily Affirmations for Revolutionary Proletarian Militants.” Stephanie has been an organizer against capitalism all her life. stephanie-mcmillan3.jpg
2016-04-24 Vivian Stockman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWTwwHfTZsU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Vivian Stockman is project coordinator for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC), which is based in Huntington, West Virginia. Stockman’s photos of mountaintop removal and the movement to stop this extreme coal-mining practice have been published in newspapers, magazines, books, and documentaries and on websites. Publications credits include the New York Times, the Washington Monthly, Orion Magazine, World Watch Magazine, E Magazine, French Geo and dozens more. She has assisted with, consulted for and been filmed for several documentaries including Time to Choose, The Last Mountain, Burning the Future, Goodbye Gauley Mountain and others. Today we talk about mountaintop removal. vivian-stockman.jpg
2016-04-17 Suzanne Kelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G37e2v1077M&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Suzanne Kelly, Ph.D is an independent scholar whose work spans the topics of the environment, feminism, sex, and death. For nearly a decade she has been researching, writing, talking, and teaching about green burial. Currently she serves as the committee chair of the town of Rhinebeck Cemetery in New York, where she led the effort to establish a green burial ground. Kelly writes and farms in her Hudson Valley home. suzanne-kelly.jpg
2016-04-10 Gerardo Ceballos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3qW1t6um7c&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr Gerardo Ceballos is one of the world’s leading ecologists, and is a professor at the Institute of Ecology at National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is the author of numerous books, including The Skin of the Rainforest, Mammals of Mexico, and The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals. He is also known for his fieldwork on prairie dogs, jaguars, and others. He proposed the first Mexican endangered species act, that includes roughly 4000 species of plants and animals in the country. He has seen through to establishment more than 20 protected areas that cover almost 2% of the Mexican land territory and protect thousands of plants and animals, including around 15% of all endangered species. No other Mexican scientist – perhaps no other individual scientist in the world — has accomplished so much in hands-on conservation. Today we talk about biodiversity and the book The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals. gerardo-ceballos2.jpg
2016-04-03 Cory Morningstar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYYVHiKbvRQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistanceseattle.org/civilization/ecocide/mainstream-environmentalism-protects-industrial-capitalism/ Cory Morningstar is an independent investigative journalist, writer and environmental activist, focusing on global ecological collapse and political analysis of the non-profit industrial complex. She resides in Canada. Her recent writings can be found on Wrong Kind of Green, The Art of Annihilation, and Counterpunch. Her writing has also been published by Bolivia Rising and Cambio, the official newspaper of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. cory-morningstar.jpg
2016-03-27 Louisa Wilcox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmIhpTKC92c&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Working for Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity and Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Louisa Wilcox has advocated for grizzly bear preservation for over 30 years. She specializes in developing comprehensive strategies that succeed because they work on multiple scales using various approaches, including grassroots organizing and outreach, education, media and communication, policy analysis, lobbying, coalition development, and public protest. She and a handful of others have prevented Yellowstone grizzly bear delisting for over two decades. Louisa has a BA from Williams College and a Masters of Forest Policy from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. In 2014, she was given a lifetime achievement award from Yale. She has recently started The Grizzly Beat Podcast. louisa-wilcox.jpg
2016-03-20 Steven Wise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty9VH328has&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Steven M. Wise is President of the Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. He holds a J.D. from Boston University Law School and a B.S. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary. He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the United States and is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. Steve teaches “Animal Rights Jurisprudence” at the Vermont, Lewis and Clark, University of Miami, and St. Thomas Law Schools, and has taught “Animal Rights Law” at the Harvard Law School and John Marshall Law School. He is the author of four books: Rattling the Cage – Toward Legal Rights for Animals, Drawing the Line – Science and the Case for Animal Rights, Though the Heavens May Fall – The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery, and An American Trilogy – Death, Slavery, and Dominion Along the Banks of the Cape Fear River. steven-wise.jpg
2016-03-13 Morris Berman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TTXPgyC52g&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University. He is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness–-The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000)–and in 2000 his Twilight of American Culture was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. Dr. Berman relocated to Mexico in 2006, and during 2008-9 was a Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City. In 2015 he published a study of Japan called Neurotic Beauty, and in 2016 published his second novel, the political satire The Man Without Qualities. morris-berman.jpg
2016-03-06 Gordon Grigg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WYRq3SE0t0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Gordon Grigg enjoyed a career as an academic zoologist who managed to spend a lot of time working in the field. Apart from interests in crocodylians that go back to 1971, he studied thermoregulatory biology of free-ranging echidnas and platypus in Australias high country, and flew aerial surveys of kangaroo populations for nearly 30 years. His PhD came from a study of fish biology at the University of Oregon. He then had 20 years on the academic staff at the University of Sydney followed by 20 years at the University of Queensland where he is now an Emeritus Professor. (A well balanced career!) His primary research interests are in vertebrate zoology, particularly their physiology, ecology and evolution and he has authored or co-authored about 200 peer-reviewed publications, about one quarter of which are on crocodylians. Today we talk about crocodylians. gordon-grigg.jpg
2016-02-28 Darcia Narvaez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHzqRoeJH1M&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaezs current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture and moral character in children and adults. She integrates neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her theories and research about moral development. She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles. Her recent book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom (2014), won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association. She is executive editor of the Journal of Moral Education. darcia-narvaez.jpg
2016-02-21 Liesl Thomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zstqdr_e7Ps&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Liesl Thomas has worked on-and-off in the nonprofit, environmental arena for approximately 20 years. She received her Bachelor degrees in Environmental Studies and Political Science from UNLV and her Masters in Nonprofit Management and Policy from NYU. She currently serves as the Executive Director for Algalita Marine Research and Education, an organization founded by Captain Charles Moore over 20 years ago. liesl-thomas.jpg
2016-02-14 Matthew Schwartz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FMCXPJHdCg&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Matthew Schwartz is Executive Director of the South Florida Wildlands Association – an organization founded to protect habitat, wilderness, and biodiversity in the Greater Everglades. Over the years, he’s been involved in numerous battles over management of public lands, energy projects, habitat development, and Everglades restoration. matthew-schwartz2.jpg
2016-02-07 Deanna Meyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcp0yx3lWZw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Deanna Meyer is a long time activist and organic farmer currently residing in Colorado. She graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with degrees in Anthropology, English and went on to acquire a teaching certificate. Recently she has been involved in advocating for the forests in her area as well as the rapidly disappearing prairie dogs throughout the mid-west. She is a member of Deep Green Resistance and WildLands Defense and believes that the strategies and tactics of people who care about the living planet must shift from asking nicely to defending those they love by any and all means necessary. deanna-meyer.jpg
2016-01-31 Ramsey Kanaan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFQquqgktqc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Ramsey Kanaan has been involved in attempting to disseminate the good word for well over three and a half decades now. As a young teenager, he founded AK Press (named after his mothers initials) from his bedroom in Scotland. Hes co-founder and Publisher with PM Press. Today we talk about the collapse of the book industry, and the implications for social change. ramsey-kanaan2.jpg
2016-01-24 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QqGd2OHzqg&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk about beetles. The timber industry and the Forest Service portray beetles as a threat to forests, and as yet another reason forests must be cut down. Wuerthner discusses beetles as keystone species, important to forests, and to those who live in them. george-wuerthner4.jpg
2016-01-17 Brian Ertz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW33N4nFV6Q&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Brian Ertz is board president of Wildlands Defense. He has spent the last decade resisting this culture’s depraved relationship to the natural world via grassroots organizing, national media initiatives, administrative and legislative policy advocacy, and in support of a variety of litigation efforts aimed at preserving a wide variety of landscapes and wildlife species in the West. Today we talk about the armed right wing occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. brian-ertz2.jpg
2016-01-10 Bill Greendeer & Juliee de la Terre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx0dxIRozxM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Juliee de la Terre holds an MS from the Gaylord Nelson Institute for environmental studies at University of Wisconsin Madison. She has been an activist since she was a child helping her mother care for injured wildlife. She owned a chemical free landscaping business for almost two decades which emphasized removing lawns and restoring native plants. As an environmental consultant she assisted the Ho-Chunk Nation in efforts to design and implement a place based ecological immersion project on their land near Black River Falls with the intention of immersing young tribal members in nature while learning their language and culture. Recently, she assisted Ho-Chunk Tribal member William Greendeer in introducing the Rights of Nature into the Ho-Chunk constitution. She maintains Sacred Water Sacred Land about the sacredness of all things and also “Heart of the Ho-Chunk” with William Greendeer about Ho-Chunk culture and the environment. She is a professor of natural science at Viterbo University.
William Greendeer is an elder in the Ho-Chunk Nation whose territory recently spanned WI, MN, IL and IA. He is Deer Clan and member of the medicine lodge. His first 8 summers were spent in a lodge and he has a deep connection to the natural world. William experiences sacred connection with the natural world and offers prayer when harvesting a plant or animal. He is teaching how to live in good way on his land in southwest WI. He hopes to rejuvenate his old farm with native plants and also by protecting the beavers that make their home in his valley. His family’s land and many of his tribal members’ land have been affected by frack sand mining activities in addition to the damage caused by the cranberry growing industry in southwest WI. He introduced a rights of nature amendment at general counsel in September with 3/4 of the tribal members supporting it. He hopes having the rights of nature in tribal law will help the tribe protect their sacred land, water, and all our relations.
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2016-01-03 Michael Robinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SbiKGtN3RQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Michael Robinson’s work focuses on the protection and recovery of top predators like Mexican gray wolves and jaguars. He has been associated with the Center for Biological Diversity since its founding and joined the staff in 1997. Michael holds a master’s degree in literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin; he is also the author of a well-reviewed book on the history of wolves in the United States called Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West. michael-robinson2.jpg
2015-12-27 Raven Gray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyAtatnHMcE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Raven Gray is a visionary writer, educator and activist. A permaculture designer for over 15 years, she is a pioneer of the Transition Towns Movement. In 2007, she founded Transition US, a nonprofit that inspires the emergence of resilient communities that can thrive in the face of today’s environmental and social challenges. Raven holds a BA in “Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community” and an MSc in “Ecological Education”. She is a member of Deep Green Resistance, and lives in the Point Reyes National Seashore, Northern California. raven-gray.jpg
2015-12-20 Doug Zachary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZE4vWw7D2Y&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Doug Zachary is 65 years old, and was born to Okie migrant farm laborers in California in 1949. From age 4-13 he lived in an ultra-nationalist orphanage near Dallas, Texas whose politics and pedagogy was informed by the John Birch Society. Like all his fellow male “inmates”, Doug wound up in the Marine Corps where he was awakened to a lifetime of radical curiosity, resistance and struggle. He is now a member of Deep Green Resistance Texas and of Veterans for Peace. doug-zachary.jpg
2015-12-13 Lee Lakeman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGQqwZ2MGqk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Lee Lakeman has spent her adult life working against violence against women, and continues to do so past retirement. She worked in the earliest rape crisis centers since 1973, and raised a son on her own to adulthood. lee-lakeman.jpg
2015-12-06 Stella Strega Scoz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc5FE8dues0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.com/2015/12/stella-strega-scoz-resistance-radio.html Stella Strega Scoz is an Italian scientist who worked as an activist for the anti-nuclear campaign in her teens, then for radical feminism, racism & disability awareness in her twenties, before discovering permaculture design and bringing her radical & campaigning spirit into building award-winning community-run urban permaculture projects, during the mid 90s, in South London. For the last 15 years she has lived in the Canary Islands & has focused on mentoring young activists and creating better support systems for change-makers, radicalizing the permaculture curriculum and studying how to design for collective intelligence, better participatory democracy and effective bioregional eco-economy systems. She is currently coordinator of the 8thLife ecovillage project and the Integral Permaculture Academy. stella-strega-scoz.jpg
2015-11-29 Jennifer Lahl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlSWRxWHPWk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jennifer Lahl is founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network. Lahl couples her 25 years of experience as a pediatric critical care nurse, a hospital administrator, and a senior-level nursing manager with a deep passion to speak for those who have no voice. She is called upon to speak alongside lawmakers and members of the scientific community, even being invited to speak to members of the European Parliament in Brussels to address issues of egg trafficking. She serves on the North American Editorial Board for Ethics and Medicine. She made her writing and directing debut producing the documentary film Eggsploitation, which has been awarded Best Documentary by the California Independent Film Festival and has sold in more than 30 countries. She is also Director, Executive Producer, and Co-Writer of Anonymous Father’s Day, a documentary film exploring the stories of women and men who were created by anonymous sperm donation. Her latest film, Breeders: A Subclass of Women? on surrogacy, was released January 2014, and completes the trilogy of films exploring the ethics of third-party reproduction. jennifer-lahl.jpg
2015-11-22 Stephanie McMillan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7A-uTrDl7A&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Stephanie McMillan’s award-winning editorial cartoons and comic strips have appeared in hundreds of publications and venues. She is the author of seven books, including Capitalism Must Die!, which combines comics with text in a basic overview of capitalism and revolution, and The Beginning of the American Fall, about the Occupy mobilizations. Stephanie has also been an organizer against capitalism all her life. Today we talk about her newest project, a calendar called “365 Daily Affirmations for Revolutionary Proletarian Militants.” stephanie-mcmillan2.jpg
2015-11-15 Trista Hendren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ocv_O3bhJw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Trista Hendren is the author of the Girl God series. trista-hendren.jpg
2015-11-08 Gerardo Ceballos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e_iwmAZBJA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr Gerardo Ceballos is one of the world’s leading ecologists, and is a professor at the Institute of Ecology at National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is the author of numerous books, including The Skin of the Rainforest, Mammals of Mexico, and The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals. He is also known for his fieldwork on prairie dogs, jaguars, and others. He proposed the first Mexican endangered species act, that includes roughly 4000 species of plants and animals in the country.
He has seen through to establishment more than 20 protected areas that cover almost 2% of the Mexican land territory and protect thousands of plants and animals, including around 15% of all endangered species. No other Mexican scientist – perhaps no other individual scientist in the world — has accomplished so much in hands-on conservation. Today we talk about prairie dogs as a keystone species.
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2015-10-25 Jay Barlow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15DXdzj6Kcw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jay Barlow received a B.S. in Biology from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. He has been a researcher at the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla California since 1982. His research has primarily involved evaluating and mitigating human impacts on cetaceans and pinnipeds along the US West Coast and in Hawaii. International work has involved surveys of cetacean abundance in the Colombian Amazon, the Yangtze River and the northern Gulf of California. Today we talk about vaquitas, the smallest and most endangered of the cetaceans. jay-barlow.jpg
2015-10-18 Jaclyn Lopez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWLM5Q4ies&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jaclyn Lopez is the Florida Director for the Center for Biological Diversity. She holds a master of laws degree in environmental and land-use law from the University of Florida and a J.D. from the University of Denver, and coordinates campaigns in the Southeast and Caribbean, focusing on protecting imperiled species and ecosystems. Today we talk about manatees. jaclyn-lopez.jpg
2015-10-11 Suprabha Seshan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPR24vpIL48&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Suprabha Seshan has lived and worked for twenty-two years at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary in the Western Ghat mountains of India. The Sanctuary is a centre for plant conservation, habitat restoration and environmental education and also a community. In 2006, on behalf of the Sanctuary she won the Whitley Award, UK’s top prize for nature conservation. She is an Ashoka Fellow. Her current focus is the restoration of one of India’s most endangered ecosystems: the high elevation shola grasslands. suprabha-seshan.jpg
2015-10-04 Brendan Mackey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hl5hoYkM-0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Brendan Mackey is is a Professor at Griffith University, Queensland Australia and is director of the University’s climate change response program which promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to climate change problems. Brendan’s PhD was in tropical forest ecology and he has published widely in the related fields of biodiversity, ecosystems, conservation and climate change. His current research is focussed on the role of ecosystems in climate change mitigation and adaptation. He serves on the global governing Council of the International Union for conservation of Nature (IUCN). brendan-mackey.jpg
2015-09-27 Noah Greenwald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q83pEfyqwzQ8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Noah Greenwald is the Endangered Species Director for the Center for Biological Diversity. He directs the Center’s efforts to protect new species under the Endangered Species Act, to ensure that imperiled species receive effective protections and that we have the strongest Endangered Species Act possible. He also works to educate the public about the importance of protecting biodiversity and about the multitude of threats to the survival of North American wildlife. He holds a bachelor of science in ecology from the Evergreen State College and a master’s in forest ecology and conservation from the University of Washington. Before he joined the Center in 1997, Noah worked as a field biologist, surveying northern spotted owls and marbled murrelets and banding Hawaiian songbirds. Today we talk about grizzly bears. noah-greenwald.jpg
2015-09-20 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bsCm446-h8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Keeping the Wild. Today we talk about fire. george-wuerthner3.jpg
2015-09-13 Diana Beresford-Kroeger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C0wiK9mseU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a botanist, medical biochemist and self-defined "renegade scientist," brings together ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality and alternative medicine to reveal a path toward better stewardship of the natural world. Diana's latest book is called The Sweetness of a Simple Life (Random House Canada). Recently, Diana has been working on a film based on her book, The Global Forest, which has taken her around the globe. The film will be released in 2015. Diana lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband, Christian H. Kroeger, surrounded by her research garden filled with rare and endangered species. diana-beresford-kroeger.jpg
2015-09-06 Dr. Quinton Phelps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy3E7XLN-E8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr. Quinton Phelps is a fisheries research scientist with duties related to ensuring the ecological integrity of the Mississippi River for future Generations. As of recent, he has been tasked with investigating the effects of Asian carp on the river biota. He has jumped head first into this nationwide problem. quinton-phelps.jpg
2015-08-30 Stephany Seay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6pIEwpCiIU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Stephany Seay is the media coordinator with the Montana-based Buffalo Field Campaign, the only group working in the field, in the courts, and in the policy arena in defense of the country’s last wild migratory buffalo, the Yellowstone population. Stephany has been on the front lines with BFC for twelve years and from the direct interactions and experiences with these gentle giants, she and her comrades have come to the understanding that while we may be trying (very, very hard) to save the buffalo, the buffalo are desperately trying to teach us to save us from ourselves. stephany-seay.jpg
2015-08-16 Ramsey Kanaan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egLggM9pEP8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Ramsey Kanaan has been involved in attempting to disseminate the good word for well over three and a half decades now. As a young teenager, he founded AK Press (named after his mothers initials) from his bedroom in Scotland. Hes co-founder and Publisher with PM Press. We talk about the importance of independent publishing to social change. ramsey-kanaan.jpg
2015-08-09 Robert A Williams Jr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hlDqzXkuBI&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Robert A. Williams Jr. is a member of the Lumbee Indian tribe and a professor of law at the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law Program. He is the author of numerous books and articles on indigenous peoples’ human rights, including The American Indian in Western Legal Thought and Like a Loaded Weapon. Today we talk about his book Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization. robert-williams-jr.jpg
2015-07-26 Julie Bindel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tks_SO0tcPk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Julie Bindel is a journalist, broadcaster, author and feminist campaigner living in London. She writes for the Guardian, New Statesman, Standpoint Magazine, The Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph, reporting on culture, music, food, film and sexual and gender identity. She is co-founder of Justice for Women, a feminist campaigning organisation, that supports and advocates for women who have fought back against or killed violent male partners. Julie has worked extensively on research concerning domestic violence, prostitution and sex trafficking. julie-bindel.jpg
2015-07-19 John McLaughlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rPQnS0d-F0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q John McLaughlin is a wildlife ecologist and population biologist on the faculty at Huxley College at Western Washington University. He studies the wildlife role in Elwha restoration and the effects of climate change on butterflies. We talk today about the restoration of the Elwha River. john-mclaughlin.jpg
2015-07-12 Michael Robinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj8JYJOiE3Q&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Michael Robinson’s work focuses on the protection and recovery of top predators like Mexican gray wolves and jaguars. He has been associated with the Center for Biological Diversity since its founding and joined the staff in 1997. Michael holds a master’s degree in literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin; he is also the author of a well-reviewed book on the history of wolves in the United States called Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West (University Press of Colorado, 2005). Today we discuss ocelots. michael-robinson.jpg
2015-07-05 Dahr Jamail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5-jFvgxck0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://dgrnewsservice.org/2015/08/13/dahr-jamail-interviewed-by-derrick-jensen-about-us-navys-northern-edge/ Dahr Jamail is an award winning journalist and author who is a full-time staff reporter for Truthout.org. His work is currently focusing on Anthropogenic Climate Disruption. We discuss the harm caused by massive military maneuvers off of Alaska. dahr-jamail2.jpg
2015-06-28 Max Wilbert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur07XpwDMkI&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistancegreatbasin.org/2015/09/20/max-wilbert-resistance-radio-snwa-water-grab/ http://www.derrickjensen.org/2015/06/max-wilbert-resistance-radio/ Max Wilbert grew up in Seattle and spent a great deal of his childhood on the Olympic Coast, on Makah land. Now in his late 20’s, he works with an organization called Deep Green Resistance to promote strategic eco-sabotage and work to protect the land. He also serves on the Board of Directors of a grassroots non-profit called Fertile Ground Environmental Institute. We talk about stopping the city of Las Vegas from stealing water. max-wilbert2.jpg
2015-06-21 Chris Hedges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOMiMVXQCZs&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.com/2015/09/chris-hedges-on-resistance-radio.html Chris Hedges is a longtime foreign correspondent who was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage. He has been in combat zones more times than he wishes to recount. He is a powerful social critic and critic of capitalism, and is the author of more than ten books, including War is a Force that Gives us Meaning; Death of the Liberal Class; and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. He is a columnist for Truthdig. chris-hedges2.jpg
2015-06-14 Brent Plater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRhoMlAr9dk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Brent Plater is the executive director of the Wild Equity Institute, a San Francisco based non-profit organization that unites social justice and grassroots conservation movements in campaigns that build a more sustainable and just world for all. Brent is also a lecturer at San Francisco State University's Environmental Studies Program and an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University School of Law. brent-plater.jpg
2015-06-07 Tommy Michot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95NwC4efUnY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr. Tommy Michot was born and raised in south Louisiana. He is of Acadian descent, and hence is a "Cajun." He worked for 30 years as a research biologist and pilot for the US Department of the Interior, and is now on the graduate faculty at the University of Louisiana, where he serves as a Research Scientist for the Institute for Coastal Ecology and Engineering. He has spent his career studying wetland flora and fauna, primarily in the coastal marshes of Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico coast from Florida to Texas and Mexico, and the Caribbean coast of Guatemala and Honduras. tommy-michot.jpg
2015-05-31 Juan Carlos Bravo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKnlUYrk6g&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q For nearly a decade, Juan Carlos oversaw the Northern Jaguar Reserve and attended to its day-to-day management. As Wildlands Network's Director of Operations in Mexico, Juan Carlos Bravo works to expand the Western Wildway into the northern Sierra Madre Occidental by partnering with Mexican groups and improving Wildlands Network's understanding of the connectivity issues in Mexico. He adapts WN's overall strategy to a significantly different conservation landscape by applying tactics that are regionally appropriate but seek the same ultimate goal: wilderness conservation and connectivity with a focus on large landscapes and big carnivores. juan-carlos-bravo.jpg
2015-05-24 Thomas Linzey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqZpVhCjjU4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Thomas Linzey is the executive director and an attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has assisted close to 200 communities across the country in eight states to adopt binding local laws that elevate community rights to sustainability over corporate rights and powers. thomas-linzey3.jpg
2015-05-17 Vince Emanuele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3kJ5lqyA1Y&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Vince Emanuele is a writer, activist and radio journalist who lives and works in the Rust Belt. Currently he writes a weekly article for TeleSUR English and also conducts interviews with activists, authors, artists and intellectuals from around the world. vince-emanuele.jpg
2015-05-10 Rachael Osborn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dTiWNirGjs&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Rachael Paschal Osborn, a public interest water lawyer in Spokane, Washington, USA. She serves as senior policy advisor to the Center for Environmental Law & Policy, policy director for the Columbia Institute for Water Policy, and adjunct professor teaching Water Law at Gonzaga Law School. We talk about the Columbia, and more broadly water in the west. rachael-osborn.jpg
2015-05-03 Janine Blaeloch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJk0Nd9j0CY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Janine Blaeloch is founder and director of the Western Lands Project. She earned a degree in Environmental Studies (B.A., University of Washington), with a self-designed program focusing on Public Lands Management and Policy. Janine has been a public-land activist since 1985. She worked as an environmental planner in both the private and public sectors before founding WLP in 1997. We talk about efforts to stop the giving away of public lands to large corporations, among other things. janine-blaeloch.jpg
2015-04-26 Norma Ramos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMbOTAD6HSk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Norma Ramos is a long-standing social justice attorney who self-defines as an eco-feminist. She links world-wide inequality of women to the destruction of the environment. She has received many awards in recognition of her work against human trafficking. norma-ramos.jpg
2015-04-19 Dave Zanatta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D59efKyfYk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dave Zanatta is a malacologist, or one who studies molluscs. He is also a molecular ecologist and a conservation geneticist. He is a associate professor at Central Michigan University. Today we talk about molluscs., who are especially endangered. dave-zanatta.jpg
2015-04-12 Collette Adkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKvY_g4Hr5w&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Collette Adkins, Reptile and Amphibian Senior Attorney, is dedicated to protecting rare amphibians and reptiles across the country. She received her law degree from the University of Minnesota, where she also earned a master’s degree in wildlife conservation. Before joining the Center, Collette was in private practice, where her pro bono work focused on preservation of endangered species and their habitats. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable John R. Tunheim in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. collette-adkins.jpg
2015-04-05 Ron Sutherland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKAFvoQnUYs&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr. Ron Sutherland is a conservation scientist with Wildlands Network, a nonprofit group dedicated to reconnecting nature in North America. A native of North Carolina, Ron received a Masters Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. We talk about red wolves. ron-sutherland.jpg
2015-03-29 Rachel Smolker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQW9tGKdKD4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2015/03/rachel-smolker-resistance-radio/ Rachel Smolker is a codirector of Biofuelwatch, and works with the Global Forest Coalition and the Campaign To Stop GE Trees. She has researched, written and organized on the impacts of biofuels, bioenergy and biochar on land use, forests, biodiversity, food, people and the climate. She has a Ph.D. in ecology/biology. She is author of To Touch a Wild Dolphin. rachel-smolker.jpg
2015-03-22 Brian Ertz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEvvNlKJNcI&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Brian Ertz is board president of Wildlands Defense. He has spent the last decade resisting this culture’s depraved relationship to the natural world via grassroots organizing, national media initiatives, administrative and legislative policy advocacy, and in support of a variety of litigation efforts aimed at preserving a wide variety of landscapes and wildlife species in the West. brian-ertz.jpg
2015-03-15 Four Arrows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZVw_J6JEWY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa), whose Anglo name is Donald Trent Jacobs, is a professor at Fielding Graduate University, an American Indian activist and author of 20 books and numerous articles and chapters about Indigenous worldview applications to contemporary world issues. We talk about his work to create a marine sanctuary off the coast of Mexico. four-arrows2.jpg
2015-03-08 Sherri Mason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YXivnae8GU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Dr. Sherri Mason, who goes by Sam, became obsessed with the impacts of humans on the environment when at the age of 11 she watched a very poignant Different Strokes episode in which Kimberly’s hair turned green after washing it with acid rain. While not scientifically accurate, this episode made an impact and set Dr. Mason’s path as an environmental chemist. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin before moving onto her Ph. D. from the University of Montana as a NASA Earth System Science Scholar. She is currently a full professor in Chemistry at the State University of New York at Fredonia. We’re going to talk about the Great Lakes. sherri-mason.jpg
2015-03-01 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5xfNCRQDHM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Keeping the Wild. george-wuerthner2.jpg
2015-02-22 Miyoko Sakashita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnKaOLeGKBQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Miyoko Sakashita directs the oceans program at the Center for Biological Diversity. She is an attorney that works on marine conservation. We talk about the health of the oceans. MiyokoSakashita.jpg
2015-02-08 Gail Dines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73QtOFS97fA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2015/02/gail-dines-resistance-radio/ Dr. Gail Dines, Professor of Sociology and Chair of American Studies at Wheelock College in Boston, is the author of multiple books and articles, and has been described as the world's leading expert on the effects of pornography. She's the author of the highly acclaimed Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (Beacon Press). Translated into four languages, Pornland is the basis of a documentary released this fall by Media Education Foundation. Dr Dines is founding president of Stop Porn Culture, a non-profit organization composed of academics, professionals and activists from a wide range of perspectives, that is dedicated to raising public awareness about the impact of pornography on children, youth and adults. gail-dines.jpg
2015-02-01 Rachel Moran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3rHKfZQKQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Rachel Moran is an Irish author, feminist activist, and founding member of SPACE International (Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for Enlightenment). SPACE is engaged in changing policy in numerous nations to criminalise the demand for the commercial sex-trade. rachel-moran.jpg
2015-01-25 Tom Horton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IigMvU1tAC4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Tom Horton covered environmental issues for the Baltimore Sun from 1974 until 2006. He is author of several books about Chesapeake Bay and has written for magazines including National Geographic, Rolling Stone, The New York Times and the Boston Globe. He teaches writing and environmental studies at Salisbury University, and contributes regularly to Chesapeake Bay Magazine and the Bay Journal News Service. Horton worked for five years as an educator at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, where he authored Turning the Tide, a book on solutions to the Chesapeakes water quality problems. tom-horton.jpg
2015-01-18 Madeleine Carey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gckAf5H8f_8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Madeleine Carey is the WildEarth Guardians Gila Campaign Fellow. Born and raised in Albuquerque, Madeleine spent her childhood exploring the Rio Grande and its bosque on foot and on horseback. In May 2014, she graduated from Tufts University in Medford, MA with a degree in Biology and Urban Studies. While at Tufts, she was a four-year member of the Track and Cross Country teams and a trip leader for the Tufts Wilderness Orientation program. During college, Madeleine spent her summers working for the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program, researching American Pika in the Valles Caldera National Preserve and working with NM State Forestry to create a post-wildfire assistance guide. We talk about Mexican wolves madeleine-carey.jpg
2015-01-11 Mollie Matteson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzZq5U9MiA0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Mollie Matteson is a wildlife biologist and a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. She advocates for imperiled species such as bats, wolves, and lynx, and all things wild. We talk about the threats facing bats. mollie-matteson.jpg
2015-01-04 Lori Ann Burd & Tierra Curry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEzif3ajfAQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Tierra Curry is a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity where she focuses on gaining protections for imperiled species and their habitats. She is a lead author on the scientific petition filed this year seeking Endangered Species Act protection for monarch butterflies. Lori Ann Burd is endangered species campaign director and an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. She has been working on issues of biodiversity and pesticide use for over a dozen years, and recently authored a successful petition to get GE crops and bee-killing pesticides banned in our 150 million acre national wildlife refuge system. tierra-lori-ann.jpg
2014-12-21 Kathleen Fitzgerald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8fSSH9s0vU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Kathleen Fitzgerald is the African Wildlife Foundation Vice President for Conservation Strategy, Nairobi, Kenya. She has 22 years' experience directing landscape-scale conservation and community engagement. Prior to overseeing AWF's conservation strategy, Kathleen led AWF's land program helping to advance AWF's land conservation projects across Africa, including establishing community conservancies, developing carbon mitigation projects, securing wildlife corridors, and helping to improve management of protected areas and community lands. Prior to moving to Africa seven years ago, Kathleen facilitated dozens of land transactions to establish conservation areas, and co-founded a regional wilderness land trust. Kathleen holds a Master of Science in Botany from the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont and completed her final research on wolves in Canada, and has an Undergraduate Degree in Environmental Studies and Government. kathleen-fitzgerald.jpg
2014-12-14 John Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqsKPEU-fSI&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q John Davis is a wildways scout and advocate, who served as editor of Wild Earth in the 1990s, program officer of the Foundation for Deep Ecology in early 2000s, and conservation director of Adirondack Council till 2010. He has since been working with Wildlands Network and Rewilding Institute, trekking and writing and speaking about the proposed Eastern and Western Wildways. We talk about the importance of wildlife corridors. john-davis.jpg
2014-12-07 Rachel Smolker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWG5stkJsCo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Rachel Smolker is a codirector of Biofuelwatch, and an organizer with Energy Justice Network. She has researched, written and organized on the impacts of biofuels, bioenergy and biochar on land use, forests, biodiversity, food, people and the climate. She has a Ph.D. in ecology/biology. She is author of To Touch A Wild Dolphin (Doubleday 2001) and lives in Vermont. rachel-smolker2.jpg
2014-11-30 Chris Matera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG8RurZ9aMU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.com/2014/12/chris-matera-biofuels-and-other-excuses-for-clearcuts.html Chris Matera is a civil engineer and the founder of Massachusetts Forest Watch, a group which works in New England to protect forests, and promote genuinely "clean" and "green" energy solutions. chris-matera.jpg
2014-11-23 George Wuerthner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUVH3nvabc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q George Wuerthner is the Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 37 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Keeping the Wild. george-wuerthner.jpg
2014-11-16 Cherry Smiley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_DF1SCSK8c&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Cherry Smiley is an Indigenous feminist activist and artist from the Thompson and Navajo Nations and an accomplished public speaker on sexualized violence against Indigenous women and girls. She is a founding member of the unfunded group, Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry (IWASI) and current campaign coordinator for the Feminist Alliance for International Action's Campaign of Solidarity with Aboriginal women, focused on Canada's missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. cherry-smiley.jpg
2014-11-09 Kajsa Ekis Ekman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QpwQ9qb40w&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a journalist and the author of two books. Today we will be discussing her book Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy, and the Split Self. She lives in Sweden. kajsa-ekis-ekman.jpg
2014-11-02 Kathleen Dean Moore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbU-qYIbhOY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Kathleen Dean Moore is is a philosopher, an environmental activist, and a writer. Her most recent book is MORAL GROUND: Ethical action for a planet in peril, which gathers testimony from 100 of the world's moral leaders about our obligation to the future. Formerly Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University, she has left the university to focus on the climate emergency. She speaks all over the country, calling people to action to prevent carbon catastrophe. You can find her work in magazines such as the SUN, High country News, and Orion and on her blog kathleen-dean-moore.jpg
2014-10-26 Kathleen Barry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HizkJCyGAeA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2014/10/kathleen-barry-resistance-radio/ Kathleen Barry is an internationally-recognized human rights activist, she is the author of five books, including Unmaking War: Remaking Men; Female Sexual Slavery; and Prostitution of Sexuality: The Global Exploitation of Women. Today we talk about prostitution. kathleen-barry2.jpg
2014-10-19 Tom Butler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arH1EeMTgOc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2014/10/tom-butler-resistance-radio/ Tom Butler is the board president of Northeast Wilderness Trust, a regional land trust that conserves forever-wild landscapes, and the editorial projects director of the Foundation for Deep Ecology. A longtime conservation activist and writer, his books include Wildlands Philanthropy, Plundering Appalachia, ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, and most recently, the co-edited volume Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth. tom-butler.jpg
2014-10-12 Kristen Iversen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsrtKxsfsKs&&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Kristen Iversen is the author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and many other journals and publications. She directs the PhD program in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Cincinnati kristen-iversen.jpg
2014-10-05 Matthew Schwartz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_fmq2KWvto&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Matt Schwartz is Executive Director of the South Florida Wildlands Association - an organization founded to protect habitat, wilderness, and biodiversity in the Greater Everglades. Over the years, he's been involved in numerous battles over management of public lands, energy projects, habitat development, and Everglades restoration. matthew-schwartz.jpg
2014-09-28 Jeremy Nichols https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzEhA8j7ALU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jeremy Nichols is the Climate and Energy Program Director for WildEarth Guardians and has been active in environmental protection efforts in the American West for over 15 years. Today we are going to talk about coal extraction on public lands in the west. We talk about coal mining on public lands in the west. jeremy-nichols2.jpg
2014-09-21 Sheila Jeffreys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPt7DC14fxU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Sheila Jeffreys is the author of ten books on the history and politics of sexuality. She has been actively involved in feminist and lesbian feminist politics, particularly around the issue of sexual violence, since 1973. Today we will be talking about queer theory. sheila-jeffreys.jpg
2014-09-14 Thomas Linzey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTqfvuxKMU&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Thomas Linzey is an attorney and the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) – a nonprofit law firm that has provided free legal services to over five hundred local governments and nonprofit organizations since 1995. He is a co-founder of the Daniel Pennock Democracy School – now taught in twenty-four states across the country which has graduated over 5,000 lawyers, activists, and municipal officials – which assists groups to create new community campaigns which elevate the rights of those communities over rights claimed by corporations. thomas-linzey2.jpg
2014-08-31 Erik Molvar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJd-Y5FqhRc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Erik Molvar is a wildlife biologist and directs WildEarth Guardians' Sagebrush Sea Campaign from an office in Laramie, Wyoming. He has been working on sage grouse conservation issues for the past 14 years. erik_molvar.jpg
2014-08-24 Gary Wockner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uHWes4iJQg&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Gary Wockner coordinates the Save the Colorado River Campaign whose mission is to protect and restore the Colorado River and its tributaries from the source to the sea. Gary has worked in government, academia, and advocacy for 30 years, and is an award-winning environmental activist and writer based in Fort Collins, Colorado gary-wockner.jpg
2014-08-17 Con Slobodchikoff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I7TEGO1M50&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.com/2014/10/con-slobodchikoff-prarie-dogs-animal-language.html http://www.derrickjensen.org/2014/08/con-slobodchikoff-resistance-radio/ Con Slobodchikoff is an animal behaviorist and conservation biologist. He is a professor at Northern Arizona University, where he studies referential communication, using prairie dogs as a model species. Much of his recent research has shown a complex communicative ability of the Gunnison prairie dog alarm calls. In early 2008 he formed the Animal Language Institute, to create a place where people can find and share research in animal communication. con-slobodchikoff.jpg
2014-08-10 Culum Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVSsc-oP9JY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.com/2014/09/culum-brown-on-fish-intelligence.html Culum Brown is an Australian Research Fellow, Associate Professor at Macquarie University, Editor for Animal Behaviour and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Fish Biology. For years he has studied the behavioural ecology of fishes with a special interest in learning and memory.
2014-08-03 Anne Keala Kelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMsWcSF1Zjk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistancehawaii.org/2014/08/26/native-hawaiian-anne-keala-kelly-resistance-radio/ Anne Keala Kelly is an award winning, Native Hawaiian filmmaker and journalist whose works focus primarily on the early 21st century Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Her feature length documentary, Noho Hewa, has been screened and broadcast internationally and is widely taught in university courses that focus on indigenous peoples, the Pacific, and colonization. anne-keala-kelly.jpg
2014-07-27 Charles Derber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72u1SloETww&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Charles Derber is the author of more than fifteen books, and is considered one of today's leading public intellectuals. He has been called an intellectual heir to C. Wright Mills. charles-derber.jpg
2014-07-20 Dahr Jamail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yqJAGdDzvc&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.com/2014/09/dahr-jamail-interview-for-resistance-radio.html Dahr Jamail is an award winning journalist and author who is a full-time staff reporter for Truthout.org. His work is currently focussing on Anthropogenic Climate Disruption. dahr-jamail.jpg
2014-07-13 Bethanie Walder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_80KXnuZyr0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Bethanie Walder. She is WildEarth Guardians Public Lands Director and previously served as Wildlands CPR Executive Director from 1995 until they merged with WildEarth Guardians in 2013. bethanie-walder.jpg
2014-07-06 Henry A Giroux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5crP_HbvdA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Henry A. Giroux, the author of more than 50 books, is certainly one of the world's most important living intellectuals. He writes on a tremendous variety of topics, but central to all of his work are the importance of radical democracy, the importance of education, the importance of critical thinking and discourse, and the effects of capitalism on all of these. In 2002 he was named as one of the top 50 educational thinkers of the modern period. henry-giroux.jpg
2014-06-29 Roger Flynn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSc_4UkkBk&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Roger Flynn is the Founding Director and Managing Attorney of the Western Mining Action Project, a non-profit law firm representing the public interest on hardrock mining issues in the West since 1993. Roger is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law, where he's been teaching courses in Mining and Natural Resources Law since 2002. We talk about the effects of mining on public lands. roger-flynn.jpg
2014-06-22 Jeremy Nichols https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G2EQ3dj7ow&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jeremy Nichols is the Climate and Energy Program Director for WildEarth Guardians and has been active in environmental protection efforts in the American West for over 15 years. Today we talk about the effects of fracking on public lands in the West. jeremy-nichols.jpg
2014-06-15 Jon Marvel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G2EQ3dj7ow&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q In 1993 Jon Marvel co-founded a non-profit organization Western Watersheds Project to challenge the destructive business of public lands ranching, a land use that has negatively affected more of the American west than any other human activity. Jon retired as executive director of WWP on March 1, 2014 but continues as the WWP Board member for the Sagebrush Habitat Conservation Fund. The Fund seeks to negotiate voluntary buy-out and permanent retirement of grazing allotments in sage-steppe landscapes across the west. The Fund has already permanently retired over 140,000 acres of public lands from livestock use. jon-marvel.jpg
2014-06-08 Brien Brennan & Marie Brennan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zqq8FVnxII&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q In 2012, Marie and Brien Brennan founded the Elder Creek Center For The Land, located in the Nomlaki homeland of the Sacramento Valley, with the purpose of normalizing sane human attitudes and practices towards the community of life in the watershed and greater bioregion. brennans.jpg
2014-06-01 Sam Leah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anDPnf4cskA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2014/06/sam-krop-resistance-radio/ Sam Leah is an activist, writer, high school teacher and the founder of a women's self defense nonprofit called Warrior Sisters Society. She has presented numerous speeches on radical approaches to environmental and social justice activism and continues to incorporate these elements into her curriculum for her high school students. Her organization, Warrior Sisters Society, is the only women's self defense nonprofit providing ongoing trainings and defensive materials to women. warrior-sisters.jpg
2014-05-25 Saba Malik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfBXbQsj5bY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.com/2014/06/saba-malik-on-resistance-radio.html http://www.derrickjensen.org/2014/05/saba-malik-resistance-radio/ Saba Malik is is a board member of Fertile Ground Environmental Institute, a non-profit dedicated to political and environmental education. She is a mother of two and has been a feminist and anti-racist activist for most of her adult life. saba-malik.jpg
2014-05-18 Annette Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV5swHdG5K8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.com/2014/06/annette-smith-on-resistance-radio.html Annette Smith is executive director of Vermonters for a Clean Environment, an organization she co-founded 15 years ago with Vermont citizens when a large energy project was proposed for her region. After successfully defeating that project, Annette has worked with Vermonters throughout the state to defeat large quarries, landfills, farms, and other large energy proposals while also improving Vermont's groundwater protection laws. Annette has lived off-grid with solar in Vermont for more than 20 years, hand milks a cow, has a flock of chickens, grows most of her own food including citrus in a greenhouse, and seeks change through collaboration when possible and opposition when necessary. annette-smith.jpg
2014-05-11 Jan Makandal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bBV-XoGD8U&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jan Makandal is a long-time revolutionary proletarian militant. He organized with the Workers Committee of Rockland County in the 1970s in upstate New York, as well as with a group of Haitian revolutionaries building a mass movement based among workers and peasants during the fall of Duvalier, plus other organizations in the US and Haiti. jan-makandal.jpg
2014-05-04 Ben Barker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaRoqLosyO8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.com/2014/05/ben-barker-on-resistance-radio.html Ben Barker is a writer, activist, and farmer from West Bend, WI. He is currently writing a book about toxic qualities of radical subcultures and the need to build a vibrant culture of resistance. Read more at www.benbarker.org. ben-barker.jpg
2014-04-27 Richard Slotkin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxEYAsBaEJM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Richard Slotkin is a cultural critic and historian. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University, and the author of eight books. His trilogy Regeneration Through Violence, The Fatal Environment, and Gunfighter Nation is, I believe, one of the most important pieces of cultural criticism around. richard-slotkin.jpg
2014-04-06 Max Wilbert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdxmkGcEMQE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.com/2014/05/max-wilbert-on-resistance-radio.html Max Wilbert is an activist, photographer, and writer based in Salt Lake City. Although he's only 25 years old, he has been working against racism, social injustice, war, and environmental issues for over a decade. max-wilbert.jpg
2014-03-30 Monica Gagliano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCc3ek941I&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Monica Gagliano explains how plants can emit their own sounds and also the notion of plants responding to particular frequencies. monica-gagliano.jpg
2014-03-16 Bethany Cotton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfB6qTqW6us&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Bethany Cotton is the Wildlife Program Director for WildEarth Guardians. Guardians works to protect and restore wildlife, wild places and wild rivers in the American west. A native Cascadian, Bethany now calls the Southern Rockies home. bethany-cotton.jpg
2014-03-02 Dave Zirin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sknl1v2XMKM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q https://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/strategy/resistance-radio-david-zirin-sports-politics/ Dave Zirin writes about the politics of sports for The Nation and many other magazines and newspapers. He is the author or co-author of six books, including What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States, and Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. dave-zirin.jpg
2014-02-16 Mike Mease https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZHHx05TXjw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Mike Mease is the co-founder and campaign coordinator for the Buffalo Field Campaign. He has spent the last 16 years living with and helping protect this sacred species the Buffalo in the Yellowstone ecosystem. mike-mease.jpg
2014-02-09 Carolyn Baker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOUb9aQIrZE&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Carolyn Baker. She is the author of Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths For Turbulent Times. Her previous books include Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition (2011) and Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path Of Industrial Civilizations Collapse (2009). She lives and writes in Boulder, Colorado. carolyn-baker.jpg
2014-02-02 John Osborn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB2h66beEdQ&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q John Osborn is an MD who has dedicated his life to doing what is right, whether it is through his medical work, or through his environmental advocacy. He has worked to protect salmon, forests, bull trout, and so many others. He has worked with the various indigenous peoples in his region helping them to protect their land. He has worked on health issues internationally. And most recently he has begun working on suicide prevention among the young. john-osborn.jpg
2014-01-26 Jen Marlowe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL18VcLss-8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Jen Marlowe is a Seattle-based author/documentary filmmaker/playwright, and human rights advocate, having lived and worked on conflict resolution in Jerusalem, Afghanistan, Cyprus, India, Pakistan, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her films and books include Darfur Diaries, The Hour of Sunlight, One Family in Gaza, and I Am Troy Davis. jen-marlowe.jpg
2014-01-19 Charles Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMgvXbxXPko&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2014/01/charles-hall-resistance-radio/ Charles Hall is a systems ecologist with strong interests in biophysical economics, and the relation of energy to society. Central to Hall's work is an understanding that the survival of all living creatures is limited by the concept of energy return on investment (EROI): that any living being or living society can survive only so long as they are capable of getting more net energy from any activity than they expend during the performance of that activity. He is the author or co-author of many books, including Energy and the Wealth of Nations. charles-hall.jpg
2014-01-12 John Horning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQIjPVmzpq0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q John Horning is executive director of Wild Earth Guardians. Their mission statement reads: "We believe in nature's right to exist and thrive. We act on this belief with compassion and courage by preserving the wild world. We defend wildness, empower life, end injustice, and stand for healthy, sustainable ecosystems and human communities. We embrace conflict, and cooperate without compromising our values. We execute the campaigns strategically and decisively, we mobilize, inform and inspire others, and we work to heal wounded landscapes. Our enduring and fierce advocacy leads us to success. We are A FORCE FOR NATURE."He is grateful to live in New Mexico and feels privileged to be a voice for the voiceless. john-horning.jpg
2014-01-05 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5-XS9rbAl8&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2014/01/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-resistance-radio/ James Tracy said of her: "Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has defined the term engaged intellectual through a life spent on the frontlines of the past four decades of social struggles. She has never abandoned her roots through the process of becoming one of the most respected Left academics in the United States." She is the author of Red Dirt, Outlaw Woman, Blood on the Border, Roots of Resistance, and The Great Sioux Nation, which was just rereleased. roxanne-dunbar-ortiz.jpg
2013-12-29 Ann Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6wwcCld9iA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Ann Jones is the author of nine books, including Women Who Kill; Next Time She'll Be Dead: Battering and How to Stop it; and War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women Speak Out From The Ruins of War. She has worked on women's issues, including men's violence against women, and also on other humanitarian issues. We spoke of her most recent book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars--The Untold Story. ann-jones.jpg
2013-12-22 Chris Hedges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6wwcCld9iA&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Chris Hedges is a longtime foreign correspondent who was part of a team that won the Pulitzer prize for their coverage. He has been in combat zones more times than he wishes to recount. He is a powerful social critic and critic of capitalism, and is the author of more than ten books, including War is a Force that Gives us Meaning; Death of the Liberal Class; and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. He is a columnist for Truthdig. chris-hedges.jpg
2013-12-15 Sheila Jeffreys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZgYs_eprp4&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Sheila Jeffreys is a lesbian feminist scholar and political activist. She is the author of ten books, including Man's Dominion: The Rise of Women and the Eclipse of Women's Rights; Unpacking Queer Politics; and Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West. We spoke of how the beauty industry harms women. sheila-jeffreys2.jpg
2013-12-08 Lierre Keith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKkEUaMVYw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/agriculture/resistance-radio-lierre-keith-agriculture/ Lierre Keith is a long time activist, and the author or co--author of seven books, most notably Deep Green Resistance; and The Vegetarian Myth. She and I discuss how and why agriculture is inherently destructive, and is, as Jared Diamond noted, the worst mistake humans have ever made.
Episode also aired February 23, 2014.
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2013-12-01 Four Arrows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsNw125li20&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Four Arrows or Don Trent Jacobs is a university professor, writer and activist for American Indian rights whose work has focused on indigenous worldviews, wellness and counter-hegemonic education. In 2004, he received the Moral Courage Award from the Martin Springer Institute on Holocaust Studies. He's the author of more than twenty books, incluing most recently Teaching Truly: A Curriculum to Indigenize Mainstream Education." four-arrows.jpg
2013-11-24 Kathleen Barry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsNw125li20&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Kathleen Barry is a sociologist and feminist. She is the author of five books, including Female Sexual Slavery, The Prostitution of Sexuality, and most recently Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers, and Ourselves. kathleen-barry.jpg
2013-11-17 Stephanie McMillan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlqlC5LIzxo&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Stephanie McMillan, of Fort Lauderdale, FL, is the creator of the award-winning editorial cartoon Code Green, and the comic strip Minimum Security, syndicated through Universal Uclick.
Her cartoons have appeared in hundreds of print and online publications worldwide. She has six books, including three with Derrick Jensen. Her most recent are Capitalism Must Die! and The Minimum Security Chronicles: Resistance to Ecocide (graphic novel, 2013, Seven Stories Press).
An organizer all her life, Stephanie works with the anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist group One Struggle, and contributes to the publishing project Idées Nouvelles, Idées Prolétariennes.
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2013-11-10 Zoe Blunt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2aE3vFfMu0&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Zoe Blunt is a longtime grassroots activist working on issues surrounding forests, Indigenous solidarity, feminism, and overturning white supremacism. She is based along Canada's west coast. You can learn more about her work with the Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network. zoe-blunt.jpg
2013-11-03 Rachel Ivey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNWVgjD3fhw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2013/12/rachel-ivey-resistance-radio/ Rachel is a radical feminist, environmental activist, and advocate for reproductive justice. She's currently researching the possibility of grassroots municipal ordinances to protect female personhood and bodily autonomy, and she's also advocating for a shift toward direct action within the reproductive justice movement. To find out more about the issues discussed in this interview, or to find out how you can get involved, email Rachel at rachelannivey@gmail.com. rachel-ivey.jpg
2013-10-27 Jeannette Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv6_sXUla3U&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2013/10/jeannette-armstrong-resistance-radio/ Jeannette Armstrong is an Okanagan Indian writer, educator, and activist. Her main goal in writing is to educate young people about Native culture and history. She is the director of the En'owkin Center, a cultural and educational organization operated by the Okanagan Nation in Penticton, BC, Canada. jeannette-armstrong.jpg
2013-10-20 Thomas Linzey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPxdAGasrqw&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Thomas Linzey is an attorney and the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) – a nonprofit law firm that has provided free legal services to over five hundred local governments and nonprofit organizations since 1995. He is a co-founder of the Daniel Pennock Democracy School – now taught in twenty-four states across the country which has graduated over 5,000 lawyers, activists, and municipal officials – which assists groups to create new community campaigns which elevate the rights of those communities over rights claimed by corporations. In 2008 he assisted the Ecuadorian constitutional assembly to adopt the world’s first constitution recognizing the independently enforceable rights of ecosystems. thomas-linzey.jpg
2013-10-13 Dillon Thomson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV_D87wBCgM&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q Today's guest is Dillon Thomson. Dillon has been working on cultural and environmental issues for the past five years. His primary concern is helping to build a resistance movement that will protect what is left of the planet from the destructive and suicidal path of industrial civilization. Toward this end, Dillon has given numerous talks and organized several speaking tours in the western United States on the topics of industrial civilization, the shortcomings of modern environmentalism, and the necessity of resistance. In March of this year, he was a panelist at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon. Currently, Dillon is on the Board of Directors of the Fertile Ground Environmental Institute and a volunteer staff member of the environmental justice organization, Deep Green Resistance. dillon-thomson.jpg
2013-10-06 Bob Jensen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klODvTI-ReY&list=PLpXiw313OSyCd3Mw0dnF-bssq2M0mq14q http://www.derrickjensen.org/2013/10/robert-jensen-resistance-radio/ Today's guest is Robert Jensen, no relation. He is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas-Austin. He is the author of seven books, including:
  • Arguing For Our Lives: Critical Thinking in Crisis Times
  • We Are All Apocalyptic Now: On the Responsibilities of Teaching, Preaching, Reporting, Writing, and Speaking Out
  • Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
  • Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream
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