Episodes
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Richard Pearce
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Richard Pearce, originally from the UK, is a long term resident of Tottori Prefecture, the least populated prefecture in Japan. He works as a nature guide and adventure tour leader in Japan and Bhutan. Alongside his love for nature, Richard is a practitioner of Shugendo, an ancient form of mountain asceticism. In 2021, along with his wife Kazumi, he founded a Non-profit organisation called Sustainable Daisen. Sustainable Daisen's mission is to promote sustainable practices which will ensure the survival of the Japanese giant salamander and the conservation of its environment.
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Jennifer Lahl
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Jennifer Lahl is founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network. She has 25 years of experience as a pediatric critical care nurse, a hospital administrator, and a senior-level nursing manager. Three times she has addressed the United Nations on Surrogacy and Human Egg Trafficking. In 2009 she was associate producer on her first documentary Lines that Divide: the great stem cell debates†and she is now post production on her 11th documentary The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood exploring male detransitioners. Her films cover the ethics of assisted reproductive technologies and the role of medicine in the transgender debates. All are available to view for free on @cbcnetwork YouTube channel
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Amanda Kovattana
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Amanda Kovattana is a biracial, tri-cultural writer who grew up in Bangkok, in a pre-industrialized Thailand before immigrating to California in 1968. She came of age as a lesbian in the San Francisco bay area and is the author of two memoirs, Diamonds In My Pocket, and The Girls Guide to Off Grid Living. Her recent book The Unexpected Penis: Conversations on the Gender Trail, is a primer and memoir of her observations of the transgender phenomenon
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Perdita Finn
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Perdita Finn is the co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the feral fellowship The Way of the Rose, which inspired their book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. In addition to study with Zen masters, priests, rabbis, and healers, she apprenticed with the psychic Susan Saxman, with whom she wrote The Reluctant Psychic. Finn now teaches popular workshops on Getting to Know the Dead, in which participants are empowered to activate the magic in their own lives with the help of their ancestors. She is the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World. She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains.
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Kate Harris and Bev Jackson
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Kate Harris is a life-long feminist and lesbian campaigner. She worked at Brighton Women’s Aid – a refuge for women fleeing domestic abuse – in the 1970s and continued her activism when she moved into the corporate sector. This included American Express, where Kate worked as Vice President Global Relationship Management, Corporate Services. Kate was an active supporter of Europe’s largest gay rights organisation – named Stonewall. She organised Amex sponsorship for major Stonewall events and served in a personal capacity as a Stonewall “Ambassador”.
Bev Jackson was a founding member of the UK Gay Liberation Front in 1970. She is a lifelong progressive activist in causes including anti-Apartheid and refugee rights. In 2016 she published a book, A Month with Starfish, on her experience working with refugees in Greece. Bev worked as a teacher and then a lecturer in English literature at the University of Amsterdam, and later became an academic translator. She lives in the Netherlands.
Kate Harris and Bev Jackson were introduced to each other in 2019 by a mutual acquaintance who saw they shared similar concerns about Stonewall’s abandonment of gay and lesbian rights. Both had separately communicated their concerns to Stonewall, but there was no willingness to engage. In the summer of 2019 they therefore decided to team up and to revive the gay rights movement in the form of a new organisation: LGB Alliance.
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Chris Rynn
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
"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."
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Michael Kellett
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Monday Sep 11, 2023
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
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Andy Mahler
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
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.
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of Jakob Shockey
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
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.
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Resistance Radio interview of John B Wallace
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
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.