Episodes
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Resistance Radio interview of Keith Harmon Snow
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Keith Harmon Snow is a writer, photographer and naturalist. This is his second program with me focused on rare cats of the world. In 1993 he exposed a high-level racket in Japan involving trade in endangered species. Today we talk about the endangered wildcats of Japan.
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Resistance Radio interview of Deanna Meyer
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
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 with a coalition to ban the trophy hunting of Colorado’s mountain lions, bobcats, and lynx.
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Resistance Radio interview of Neil Kiernan
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Neil Kiernan is the host of V-RADIO and an activist going back to the Occupy Wall Street movement. His audience is made up of people from both the right and the left. He would describe his political leanings as a left-leaning independent who voted for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. Today we talk about some of what has gone wrong with the left.
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Resistance Radio interview of Bob Watson
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Bob Watson grew up in a small town in NE Iowa, Strawberry Point. He worked on farms as a kid growing up, including in one of the first chicken confinements in NE Iowa when he was 12 or 13 years old. The last 35 years he was employed in the wastewater industry in Iowa, and has been an environmental activist mostly concerned with the industrial row crop, feedlot, and confinement modern model of agriculture. Bob co-authored the book, Hog Confinements and Human Health: the intersection of science, morals, and law.
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Resistance Radio interview of Andy Mahler
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
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.
Today we talk about cicadas.
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Resistance Radio interview of Bill Finch
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Bill Finch is the founding director of the Paint Rock Forest Research Center in the Cumberland Plateau region of northeast Alabama. He has worked to conserve Southeastern biodiversity for more than 40 years, as an award-wining writer and editor, as conservation director of the Nature Conservancy in Alabama, and as director of Mobile Botanical Gardens. He continues to write a weekly column on gardens and natural history and has a weekly radio show. His book, Longleaf Far as the Eye Can See, was developed with his partner, Beth, and is now in its fourth printing.
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Chris Vaughn
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Chris Vaughn is an activist living in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan. After learning of the proposal to develop a copper sulfide mine in the heart of a thriving eco-tourism area right next to both Lake Superior and Porcupine Mountains State Park he launched the website www.ProtectThePorkies.com , as well as the accompanying petition, found at www.change.org/ProtectThePorkies .
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Greg King
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Greg King is an award-winning journalist and activist credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars” following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam. Greg King has spent decades researching redwood logging and preservation efforts. King’s articles and photographs have appeared in The Sun, Sierra, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, the Portland Oregonian, the Sacramento Bee, Mother Jones and other publications. In 2016 the Environmental Protection Information Center presented King with its annual Sempervirens Lifetime Achievement Award. King lives in Humboldt County. Today we talk about his book The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods.
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Lierre Keith and Melinda Hughes
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Lierre Keith and Melinda Hughes. Lierre Keith has been a radical feminist for 40 years. She is the author of seven books, including The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” She is coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Max Wilbert, of Bright Green Lies:How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It. She lives in northern California with giant trees and giant dogs. She’s also been arrested six times for acts of political resistance.
Melinda Hughes is a lifelong leftist and activist. She is a volunteer with Women's Declaration International USA and is committed to the struggle to win or win back women's sex-based rights.
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Otis Scops
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Otis Scops is trained as an electronics and chemical process engineer. He worked as a developer of tailor-made electronics and computer hard- and software and as a renewable energy systems consultant. Over the last 25 years, his interest shifted from mainly technology to ecology and sociology and towards true sustainability. He increasingly puts his acquired knowledge into practice with low-tech, organic gardening and a focus on the basics of life.