Resistance Radio

Vince Emanuele - 05.17.15

Vince Emanuele is a writer, activist and radio journalist who lives and works in the Rust Belt. Currently he writes a weekly article for TeleSUR English and also conducts interviews with activists, authors, artists and intellectuals from around the world.

Rachael Osborn - 05.10.15

Rachael Paschal Osborn, a public interest water lawyer in Spokane, Washington, USA.  She serves as senior policy advisor to the Center for Environmental Law & Policy, policy director for the Columbia Institute for Water Policy, and adjunct professor teaching Water Law at Gonzaga Law School. We talk about the Columbia, and more broadly water in the west.

Janine Blaeloch - 05.03.15

Janine Blaeloch is founder and director of the Western Lands Project. She earned a degree in Environmental Studies (B.A., University of Washington), with a self-designed program focusing on Public Lands Management and Policy. Janine has been a public-land activist since 1985. She worked as an environmental planner in both the private and public sectors before founding WLP in 1997. We talk about efforts to stop the giving away of public lands to large corporations, among other things.

Norma Ramos - 04.26.15

Norma Ramos is a long-standing social justice attorney who self-defines as an eco-feminist. She links world-wide inequality of women to the destruction of the environment. She has received many awards in recognition of her work against human trafficking.

Dave Zanatta - 04.19.15

Dave Zanatta is a malacologist, or one who studies molluscs. He is also a molecular ecologist and a conservation geneticist. He is a associate professor at Central Michigan University. Today we talk about molluscs., who are especially endangered.

Collette Adkins - 04.12.15

Collette Adkins, Reptile and Amphibian Senior Attorney, is dedicated to protecting rare amphibians and reptiles across the country. She received her law degree from the University of Minnesota, where she also earned a master's degree in wildlife conservation. Before joining the Center, Collette was in private practice, where her pro bono work focused on preservation of endangered species and their habitats. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable John R. Tunheim in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.

Resistance Radio - 04.05.15

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 - Rachel Smolker - 03.29.15

Rachel Smolker is a codirector of Biofuelwatch, and works with the Global Forest Coalition and the Campaign To Stop GE Trees. She has researched, written and organized on the impacts of biofuels, bioenergy and biochar on land use, forests, biodiversity, food, people and the climate. She has a Ph.D. in ecology/biology. She is author of "To Touch a Wild Dolphin."

Resistance Radio - Brian Ertz - 03.22.15

Brian Ertz is board president of Wildlands Defense. He has spent the last 
decade resisting this culture's depraved relationship to the natural world 
via grassroots organizing, national media initiatives, administrative and 
legislative policy advocacy, and in support of a variety of litigation 
efforts aimed at preserving a wide variety of landscapes and wildlife 
species in the West.

Four Arrows - 03.15.15

Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa), whose Anglo name is Donald Trent Jacobs, is a 
professor at Fielding Graduate University, an American Indian activist and 
author of 20 books and numerous articles and chapters about Indigenous 
worldview applications to contemporary world issues. We talk about his work 
to create a marine sanctuary off the coast of Mexico.