Episodes
4 days ago
4 days ago
Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist. She is on the
board of Deep Green Resistance, and is the founder and president of
Prairie Protection Colorado. Deanna lives in the Pike National Forest
and is currently working on a ballot measure that Coloradans will be
voting on in November with an organization Cats Aren't Trophies. This
measure will end all hunting of Colorado's bobcats, mountain lions, and lynx.
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Resistance Radio Interview of Richard Olson
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Richard Olson is Director of the Berea Urban Farm (Berea KY), an educational market garden with the mission to increase local food security and build community through urban agriculture. He previously was a member of the faculty at Berea College teaching courses in sustainability, ecological design and environmental justice, and managed research programs on the effects of air pollution on Western forests at the US Environmental Protection Agency lab in Corvallis Oregon. He has degrees in biology, ecology, and agronomy, and personal experience in small-scale farming and horse logging.
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Resistance Radio Interview of Borislav Prodanovic
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Borislav Prodanovic is a theologian, icon painter, artist, and musician from Serbia. He studied at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Belgrade, Serbia, and at the Protestant Theological Seminary in Novi Sad, Serbia, where he received his bachelor's and M.A. degree in Theology. His research interest and vision concern Orthodox theology and praxis in contemporary times. He has been especially interested in dialectical relations, tensions and constitutive dialogues between Orthodoxy and Feminist and Liberation theologies. Currently he conducts a PhD research on clergy sexual abuse in the Serbian Orthodox Church at the Free University of Amsterdam
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Resistance Radio Interview of Randy Robbins
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Randy Robbins is an award winning wildlife and landscape photographer specializing in using remote cameras to capture intimate portraits of rare and elusive wildlife. The research Randy puts into his subjects and their behaviors has made him a sought after voice in advocating for their conservation. In 2019 Randy was recognized on the California Senate floor as the California Wildlife Photographer of the Year. In 2021 Randy captured one of the first close-up, high resolution photographs of a wild gray wolf ever taken in California, a species in the early stages of re-introducing itself to the state a century after being eradicated. Randy's work has been widely published and recognized in several national and international contests and venues, most recently as the first "highly commended" image ever taken with a cell phone to be recognized in the prestigious international Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest hosted by the Natural History Museum of London. His current focus is the Sierra Nevada Red Fox, a critically threatened endemic subspecies of fox existing in only a few alpine environments at high elevation in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades.
Monday Oct 07, 2024
Resistance Radio interview of Vaishnavi Sundar
Monday Oct 07, 2024
Monday Oct 07, 2024
Vaishnavi Sundar is a filmmaker from the south of India; through her films, she advocates for the rights of women and girls worldwide. Her previous film was a 4 part documentary called Dysphoric which is available on YouTube to watch. Her latest film is called Behind The Looking Glass - a documentary about the experiences of women whose partners ‘transitioned.’
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Resistance Radio interview of Chad Hanson
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Dr. Chad Hanson is a research ecologist with the John Muir Project, and is the author of the book, "Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate"
Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Resistance Radio interview of Junior Walk
Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Junior Walk is a thirty-four year old anti-coal mining activist from southern West Virginia. Since 2009 Junior has been on the front lines of the fight against mountaintop removal in his community. He has been involved in the use of a diversity of tactics over the years, from getting arrested doing direct action work, to lobbying in D.C., to gathering scientific data and providing standing for lawsuits. These days Junior has had great success in monitoring the coal mine operations in his community to find problems that will end up costing a coal company some money. Junior’s work is supported by the nonprofit Coal River Mountain Watch, to learn more about his work visit CRMW.net
Sunday Sep 15, 2024
Resistance Radio interview of Jim Powell and Maria Powell
Sunday Sep 15, 2024
Sunday Sep 15, 2024
Maria Powell, co-founder of the Madison Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO) and author of Poisoning Paradise: An Environmental History of Madison and other posthumous writings recently published on the People's Environmental History of Madison website, was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and grew up next to the polluted waters of the Fox River. In 1998, Maria and her family moved to Madison, where Maria earned her PhD in environmental studies and communication and, more importantly, spent more than 20 years fighting for environmental justice in her community. In 2023, she was recognized with the Bill Iwen Environmental Justice Award. Maria passed away in November 2023.
Jim Powell is a longtime community organizer and environmental activist based in Wisconsin. He has worked for Citizens for a Better Environment and the Wisconsin Stewardship Network, as well as co-founding the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization in Madison with his late wife, Maria, and others. He worked for years as a community organizer developing neighborhood capacity, protecting land from development, editing and publishing a community newspaper and building a local alternative political party, Progressive Dane (County). He is co-author with Maria Powell of "Invisible People, Invisible Risks: How Scientific Assessments of Environmental Health Risks Overlook Minorities and How Commmunity Participation Can Make Them Visible," published by MIT Press.
Sunday Sep 08, 2024
Resistance radio interview of Paul Johnson
Sunday Sep 08, 2024
Sunday Sep 08, 2024
Paul Johnson is a west-coast based independent filmmaker and broadcast journalist. He has been making films on many topics for more than two decades. He is a former White House reporter for Canadian television and Beijing correspondent. He is also director of Last of the Ancient Rainforests: The Emotional Connection to Trees, a new feature film. His most recent film, recently released, is Bears in our Backyard, about how to better coexist with black bears.
Sunday Sep 01, 2024
Resistance Radio interview of Stefan Eberhard and Bronwen Eberhard
Sunday Sep 01, 2024
Sunday Sep 01, 2024
Dr Stefan Eberhard is a cave scientist, explorer and photographer. He did his PhD on the hydrology and ecology of caves in southwest Western Australia. Stefan loves wild and natural landscapes, and one of his favourite places is the vast Nullarbor Plain on the southern edge of the Australian continent. He first visited the Nullarbor as a young cave diver more than 40 years ago and has returned many times since to research, explore and document the Nullarbor’s extraordinary cave systems.
Bronwen Eberhard’s life and work is in Changing Narratives. Daring to be curious and seeking clarity around old ways of knowing and doing. Exploring and inviting intentionality in new ways of being and valuing.