Resistance Radio

Resistance Radio - Guest: David Pilgrim - 02.04.18

David Pilgrim is a professor, orator, and human rights activist. He is best known as the founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum­a ten thousand piece collection of racist artifacts located at Ferris State University, which uses objects of intolerance to teach about race, race relations, and racism. He is the author of Understanding Jim Crow. His most recent book is Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum. 

Resistance Radio - Guest:Josh Schlossberg - 01.28.18

Josh Schlossberg is a Denver, Colorado-based investigative journalist who writes about ecology, wildlife, climate change, and energy for various publications including EnviroNews, Truthout, Earth Island Journal, Denver Westword and Boulder Weekly. You can follow him on Twitter at @JoshSchlossberg. Today we talk about state governments working together to impede Mexican wolf recovery.

Resistance Radio - Guest: Laura Cunningham and Kevin Emmerich - 01.21.18

Laura Cunningham is an artist-naturalist, author, and biologist. Kevin Emmerich is a biologist and former National Park ranger. They co-founded a conservation organization, Basin and Range Watch that works toward preserving the last non-destroyed regions of California and Nevada deserts.

Resistance Radio - Guest: laura cunningham - 01.14.18

Laura Cunningham is an artist-naturalist, author, and biologist, who also co-founded a conservation organization, Basin and Range Watch that works towards saving the California and Nevada deserts. She is the author/illustrator of the extraordinary book A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California. 

Resistance Radio - Guest: John Seed - 01.07.18

John Seed is the founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and has dedicated his life to the protection of rainforests and their biodiversity since 1979. In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for  services to conservation and the environment. He also practices permaculture and is interested in the huge role that unsustainable agriculture plays in the destruction of native forests, rivers and reefs. Today we talk about efforts to stop planned mining in Ecuador.

Resistance Radio - Guest: Jordan Brown - 12.31.17

Jordan Brown is an activist, artist, musician, and award-winning independent film-maker whose work broadly looks at the social, political, and environmental implications of digital technologies. He is particularly interested in cultivating a critical view of today's culture of screens, and has recently completed a feature-length documentary on the subject called "Stare Into The Lights My Pretties."

Resistance Radio - Guest: Rose Webster - 12.24.17

Rose Webster is a Canadian freelance writer, researcher, and new documentary filmmaker.  She is educated in nursing, orthotics/prosthetics (artificial limbs), and ophthalmology (eye care assisting). In 2003, she was a frontline SARS worker. Rose has been working in the writing/editing field since 2010. Her work is on InfoBarrel. She has also written for Paw Mane Fin and Environment 911. Her blog, “RoseWrites | A Blog for the Underdog,” has garnered over 30,000 views. Today we talk about the plan by the United States government to release Wolbachia-infected mosquitos.

Resistance Radio - Guest: Tony Silvaggio - 12.17.17

Tony Silvaggio is an assistant professor of sociology at Humboldt State University. He is also a founding faculty member of the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research, and is on the faculty of the Environment and Community Masters Program, and is on the board of directors for Environmental Protection Information Center, and has decades of experience in grassroots environmental and social justice activism. Today we talk about marijuana.

Resistance Radio - Guest: Alfred McCoy - 12.10.17

Alfred McCoy’s first book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (New York, 1972), sparked controversy when the CIA tried to block publication. But after three English editions and translation into nine foreign languages, this study is now regarded as the “classic” work on the global drug traffic. His more recent cover on covert operations, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror  explores the agency’s half-century history of psychological torture. A film based in part on that book, “Taxi to the Darkside,” won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2008. His most recent book, In the Shadow of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power, focuses on the key instruments in its exercise of this hegemony­including, geopolitical dominion, control of subordinate states, covert operations, worldwide surveillance, torture, and military technology. The work concludes by analyzing China’s challenge and the complex of forces that will likely lead to an eclipse of U.S. hegemony by 2030.

Resistance Radio - Guest: Ken Cole - 12.03.17

Ken Cole is the new Executive Director for Buffalo Field Campaign. Previously, he served as NEPA Coordinator and later as Idaho Director for Western Watersheds Project where his work focused on the impacts to wildlife and their habitat from public lands livestock grazing. He has a background in fisheries management and has worked to protect wildlife and wild lands since 2001. He lives in Boise, Idaho. Today we talk about bighorn sheep.