Simon Bramwell is a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, a climate-activist group dedicated to the belief that real change will only come through mass civil disobedience. He is a bushcraft instructor who is looking after his terminally ill mother. Ian Bray is also an Extinction Rebellion Co-founder, and is a father of two, Quaker, and a salvage and repair worker.
Paul Cienfuegos is a national leader in the Community Rights movement, which works to dismantle corporate constitutional so-called “rights” and assert the people's inherent right to govern themselves. He has been leading workshops across the US since 1995. David Barsamian's internationally syndicated show 'Alternative Radio' has broadcast five of his speeches. Launched in October 2017, Paul is the founding director of Community Rights US. He lives in Portland, Oregon. More info at www.communityrights.us.
Mark Janeczko is an environmental enthusiast who had a 30-plus year career working as an environmental specialist on water quality and pollution issues. He holds a degree in conservation and wildlife management and served with Americorps as a ranger with the U.S. Forest Service. He continues to dedicate his life to a healthy and diverse planet. Diane Miller has tried to live her life as close to the land as possible. During the decade when she lived in an off the grid cabin in the woods, she learned from the plants and animals about the power of our actions, and sometimes, nonactions. She is a communication professor who encourages her students to question dominant narratives, expose logical fallacies, and advocate for interests beyond their own. Mark and Diane live at the edge of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
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.
Peter is a 61 year old family physician (also known as a General Practitioner) in the United Kingdom. He has a conventional family and work life, but has been contemplating what he might do if our present comfortable way of life were to come to an end. He is therefore learning to grow some of his own food, and is combining his interests in medicine, gardening and history by re-inventing plant based anesthetics, in the hope that one day, this knowledge might be useful to someone. Listeners are reminded that they shouldn't try this at home. His blog can be found at toxicplantsblog.blogspot.com.
Keli Hendricks is the Ranching with Wildlife Coordinator for Project Coyote. Keli and her husband Dean live and work on a cattle ranch in Sonoma County where Dean has managed the cow/calf operation for over 25 years. Keli is a long-time volunteer with Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue where she fosters orphaned wildlife, and she also serves as the VP of Little Trooper Ranch, a non-profit animal rescue.
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.
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.
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.
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.
