Episodes
Sunday Jun 28, 2015
Max Wilbert - 06.28.15
Sunday Jun 28, 2015
Sunday Jun 28, 2015
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.
Sunday Jun 21, 2015
Chris Hedges - 06.21.15
Sunday Jun 21, 2015
Sunday Jun 21, 2015
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.
Sunday Jun 14, 2015
Resistance Radio - Brent Plater - 06.14.15
Sunday Jun 14, 2015
Sunday Jun 14, 2015
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.
Sunday Jun 07, 2015
Resistance Radio - Tommy Michot - 06.07.15
Sunday Jun 07, 2015
Sunday Jun 07, 2015
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.
Sunday May 31, 2015
Juan Carlos Bravo - 05.31.15
Sunday May 31, 2015
Sunday May 31, 2015
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.