Resistance Radio

Resistance Radio - Guest: Harriet Wistrich

Harriet Wistrich is a solicitor of twenty plus years’ experience working with the renowned civil liberties firm, Birnberg Peirce Ltd. She is the winner of the Liberty Human Rights Lawyer of the Year award 2014 and Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year 2018.  She founded The Centre for Women’s Justice in 2016, a new multi partner organisation aimed at bringing cases holding the state to account in relation to violence against women and girls. She is also an active member of the Police Action Lawyers Group, Inquest Lawyers Group, Justice for Women and is a trustee of the charity, the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize.  

Resistance Radio - Guest: Benjamin Vogt

Benjamin Vogt is an author and garden designer who lives in Nebraska. He has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He owns Monarch Gardens LLC, a prairie garden design company in eastern Nebraska, and speaks nationally on garden design and landscape ethics at conferences and seminars. He is the author of A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future. 

Resistance Radio - Guest: Breanne Fahs

Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, where she specializes in studying women's sexuality, critical embodiment studies, radical feminism, and political activism.  She has a B.A. in women's studies/gender studies and psychology from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in women's studies and clinical psychology from the University of Michigan.  She has published widely in feminist, social science, and humanities journals and has authored four books: Performing Sex, an analysis of the paradoxes of women's "sexual liberation," Valerie Solanas, a biography of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, Out for Blood, a book of essays on menstrual activism and resistance, and Firebrand Feminism, a book about radical feminist histories and their links to contemporary problems of sex, gender, and justice.

Resistance Radio - Guest: George Wuerthner

George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. 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: Dr. Ron Sutherland

Dr. Ron Sutherland is a conservation scientist with Wildlands Network, a nonprofit group dedicated to reconnecting nature in North America. A native of North Carolina, Ron received a Masters Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. We talk about red wolves.

Resistance Radio - Guest: Thomas Linzey

Thomas Linzey is the executive director and an attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has assisted close to 200 communities across the country in eight states to adopt binding local laws that elevate community rights to sustainability over corporate rights and powers.

Resistance Radio - Guest: Stephany Seay

Stephany Seay is the media coordinator with the Montana-based Buffalo Field Campaign, the only group working in the field, in the courts, and in the policy arena in defense of the country’s last wild migratory buffalo, the Yellowstone population.  Deanna Meyer 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. Lierre Keith is a radical feminist activist and author of "The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability." 

Resistance Radio - Guest: Roderick Campbell

Roderick Campbell is the CEO and Founder of CommitChange, an online fundraising company, and a Co-Founder of the Houdini Project which helps activists throughout the world access resources international supporters. He works with hundreds of organizations throughout the world to build stronger societies

Resistance Radio - Guest: Jonathan R Latham, PhD

Jonathan R Latham, PhD. He is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering. Dr Latham talks frequently at international events and scientific and regulatory conferences on the research conducted by the Project. He has written for Truthout, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, Resilience, and many other magazines and websites. Today we talk about genetically modified organisms.

Resistance Radio - Guest: Jeremy Lent - 09.28.18

Jeremy Lent is an author and founder of the nonprofit Liology Institute, dedicated to fostering a worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the earth. The Liology Institute, which integrates systems science with ancient wisdom traditions, holds regular workshops and other events in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy is author of the novel Requiem of the Human Soul. Formerly, he was the founder, CEO, and chairman of a publicly traded internet company.Lent holds a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.