Resistance Radio

Resistance Radio interview of Michael Kellett

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

Resistance Radio interview of Andy Mahler

Andy Mahler first became involved in forest protection efforts in 1985 after encountering Forest Service clearcuts in the Hoosier National Forest near his southern Indiana home.

As President of Protect Our Woods, a local grassroots forest protection organization he helped found, he led efforts to protect the Hoosier from off-road vehicle trails, clearcuts, and oil and gas leasing. In 1991 he founded Heartwood, a cooperative regional forest protection network that used legal challenges and other means to stop logging on the national forests in the heartland hardwood region.

In his community in Orange County, Indiana, Andy led efforts to start the Lost River Market and Deli, a member owned, natural foods grocery in Paoli, Indiana, and Orange County HomeGrown which operates a very popular local farmers market. Andy hosts weekly music jams at both locations.

He and his wife, Linda Lee own a rustic and eclectic farm and lodge called the Lazy Black Bear surrounded by the Hoosier National Forest in the rolling hills of southern Indiana where they raise, rehabilitate and release orphaned possums and other critters.

Resistance Radio interview of Jakob Shockey

Jakob Shockey is a human, father and husband. He works primarily with beavers and people, focusing on the restoration of complex natural processes and relationships that create and maintain resilient habitat and its wildlife. Jakob co-founded and leads Project Beaver, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering humans to partner with beavers and value their works. He also sings to himself, loves flying kites and can’t spell.

Resistance Radio interview of John B Wallace

John B. Wallace is a retired public land manager for the City of Carbondale at Cedar Lake and an environmental educator at Southern Illinois University’s Touch of Nature Environmental Center. He is a founding member and president of the Shawnee Chapter of the Illinois Audubon Society and a founding member of Shawnee Forest Defense and the Shawnee Park and Climate Alliance. He has been a forest activist working to protect the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois for more than three decades.

Resistance Radio interview of Darcia Narvaez

Darcia Narvaez is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Educational Research Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Born in Minnesota, she grew up living around the world as a bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican-German American but calls Earth her home. Her earlier careers include professional musician, business owner, classroom music teacher, classroom Spanish teacher, and seminarian, among other things. In her academic career, she employs a lifespan, interdisciplinary approach to studying evolved morality, child development and human flourishing, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental, evolutionary and educational sciences. She hosts EvolvedNest.org and is president of KindredWorld.org. See her 6-minute movie: http://www.BreakingTheCycleFilm.org.

She has numerous publications, including books such as Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing and the 2022, Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth, and the forthcoming, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. A 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.

Resistance Radio interview of Joaquin Hortal

Joaquín Hortal is a biogeographer and community ecologist working at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Natural History Museum) of the Spanish Scientific Council in Madrid. He also collaborates with the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes of the University of Lisbon, and the Department of Ecology of the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil, and Before he worked at the University of the Azores, University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London.
He studies the effects of current and past environmental conditions and ecological processes on the geographic patterns of biodiversity, the role of species niche and ecological interactions in the organization of biological communities in time and space, and the use and misuse of biodiversity big data. He works with mosses, seed plants, vertebrates and insects, and has been studying the ecology and biogeography of dung beetles for more than 25 years.

Resistance Radio interview of Christopher Rynn

Dr Chris Rynn is a Forensic Craniofacial Anthropologist (which is essentially an expert in the anatomy of skulls and faces, and the interrelationships between the two), who assists international police in human identification from skeletal remains (and helps museums to bring characters from the ancient past 'to life') by digitally sculpting faces on skulls.

Resistance Radio interview of Brenna Galdenzi

Brenna Galdenzi is the President and co-founder of Protect Our Wildlife, Vermont’s largest wildlife protection non-profit organization whose mission is: “Working to make Vermont a more humane place for wildlife.”
Protect Our Wildlife led the effort in Vermont to ban coyote killing contests in 2018 and wanton waste in 2022. They're currently leading efforts to ban recreational trapping and hounding, as well as advocating for peaceful coexistence with black bears and other wildlife.

Resistance Radio interview of Kajsa Ekis Ekman

Kajsa Ekis Ekman is the author of four books, among them Being and Being Bought, and Stolen Spring, on the eurocrisis seen from Athens, journalist and critic at Sweden's major daily Aftonbladet, lectures internationally on surrogacy, prostitution, capitalism and geopolitics. Founder of Swedish network Feminist No to Surrogacy, and Sweden's only worker's diary journal Arbetarbloggen. just returned from the International Forum on Human Rights in Buenos Aires where I spoke on women and reproduction among other issues. Her most recent book is On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts About the New Definition of Woman.

She lives in Sweden.

Resistance Radio interview of Keith Harmon Snow

Keith Harmon Snow is a writer, photographer and naturalist. Abandoning his career in the aerospace & defense sector in 1989, he set off to see the wild world as portrayed in National Geographic propaganda. The result led him to cycle across India, Africa, Madagascar and Mongolia, climb some very high mountains, raft hundreds of miles through war-torn Congo and down the Zambezi. He is the 2009 Regent's Lecturer in Law & Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, recognized for over a decade of work on war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. He has a 9 year old son, and he is developing a retreat center living  off-grid on a remote island in Maine.