Resistance Radio

Resistance Radio - Guest: Kara Dansky

Kara Dansky is a radical feminist and an attorney. She joined the Women’s Liberation Front in 2015 and has been on the board since 2016. Kara contributes to all of WoLF’s legal advocacy.

 

Natasha Chart is the chair of the board of directors of WoLF. She also has been on the board since 2016.

Resistance Radio - Guest: Dr Susan Hawthorne

Dr Susan Hawthorne is an Australian radical ecofeminist lesbian. She joined the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1973 and it changed her life for the better. She is a poet, novelist and feminist theorist with degrees in Philosophy, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and a PhD in Women’s Studies/ Political Science. She is the author of nine collections of poetry, three works of fiction and four non-fiction books. Her books have been translated into five languages. She has worked in publishing for more than thirty years and is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at James Cook University, Townsville. She lives in tropical Queensland surrounded by wildlife (cassowaries, goannas, wallabies, lots of butterflies) and lush vegetation. The publishing website is: website: http://www.spinifexpress.com.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spinifexpress/ Twitter handle: @spinifexpress

Resistance Radio - Guest: Dr. Gail Dines

Dr. Gail Dines is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Wheelock College in Boston. She’s the author of multiple books and articles, and has been described as the world's leading expert on the effects of pornography. She’s the author of the highly acclaimed Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (Beacon Press); and co-editor of Gender, Race, and Class in Media. Translated into four languages, Pornland is the basis of a documentary released this fall by Media Education Foundation. Dr Dines is president and CEO of Culture Reframed, a non-profit organization composed of academics, professionals and activists from a wide range of perspectives, that is dedicated to raising public awareness about the impact of pornography on children,  youth and adults. If you want to know much more about her work, you can go to her website, www.gaildines.com .

Resistance Radio - Guest: 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 - Guest: Arun

Arun qualified as an engineer and worked in the engineering field for 6 years, living in a city. That experience drove him out of cities, mainstream life and thought. He took up teaching in a Krishnarmurti school and alongside sea turtle conservation. He has been a conservationist and teacher for the past 22 years. For the past 10 years he lives with his family on an organic farm, running an alternative school and an afforestation project along with a group of passionate individuals

Resistance Radio - Guest: Deanna Meyer

Deanna Meyer. She is a long time environmental activist and is a member of Deep Green Resistance and is also the founder and executive director of Prairie Protection Colorado. Meyer's work currently centers on the protection and preservation of prairie dog communities up and down Colorado's Front Range. Today we talk about bobcats, and efforts to ban their trapping.

Resistance Radio - Guest: Christopher Ketcham

Christopher Ketcham is a freelance writer for Harper's, The New Republic, Vice, and many others. Today we discuss his new book  "This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West."  It's the product of ten years of research and travel across the public lands of the West.  

Resistance Radio - Guest: George Wuerthner

George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk about forest fires.

Resistance Radio - Guest: Drew Harvell

Drew Harvell is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University and resident at Friday Harbor labs in Washington San Juan Islands. She is author of over 170 scientific publications and author of the award winning A Sea of Glass and just released Ocean Outbreak. Her research has taken her for the tropical waters of Hawaii to mexico to Indonesia, Australia and E Africa. Her current work is on ocean Health in  temperate waters of Salish Sea. 

Resistance Radio - Guest: Wendy Murphy

Wendy Murphy is the Director of the Women’s and Children’s Advocacy Project at New England Law|Boston, where she also teaches sexual violence law. In addition, she is an impact litigator, specializing in the constitutional and civil rights of abused women and children. Her twitter is @wmurphylaw . the website for the Judicial Language Project is https://student.nesl.edu/centers/clsr_jlp.cfm