Resistance Radio

Kathleen Fitzgerald - 12.21.14

Kathleen Fitzgerald is the African Wildlife Foundation Vice President for Conservation Strategy, Nairobi, Kenya. www.awf.org. She has 22 years' experience directing landscape-scale conservation and community engagement. Prior to overseeing AWF's conservation strategy, Kathleen led AWF's land program helping to advance AWF's land conservation projects across Africa, including establishing community conservancies, developing carbon mitigation projects, securing wildlife corridors, and helping to improve management of protected areas and community lands. Prior to moving to Africa seven years ago, Kathleen facilitated dozens of land transactions to establish conservation areas, and co-founded a regional wilderness land trust. Kathleen holds a Master of Science in Botany from the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont and completed her final research on wolves in Canada, and has an Undergraduate Degree in Environmental Studies and Government.

John Davis - 12.14.14

John Davis is a wildways scout and advocate, who served as editor of Wild 
Earth in the 1990s, program officer of the Foundation for Deep Ecology in 
early 2000s, and conservation director of Adirondack Council till 2010. He 
has since been working with Wildlands Network and Rewilding Institute, 
trekking and writing and speaking about the proposed Eastern and Western 
Wildways. We talk about the importance of wildlife corridors.

Rachel Smolker - 12.07.14

Rachel Smolker is a codirector of Biofuelwatch, and an organizer with 
Energy Justice Network. 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" (Doubleday 
2001) and lives in Vermont.

Chris Matera - 11.30.14

Chris Matera is a civil engineer and the founder of Massachusetts Forest 
Watch, a group which works in New England to protect forests, and promote 
genuinely "clean" and "green" energy solutions.

George Wuerthner - 11.23.14

George Wuerthner is the Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for 
Deep Ecology. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 
37 books on environmental issues and natural history including such 
environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, 
Energy and most recently Keeping the Wild.

Resistance Radio - Cherry Smiley - 11/16/14

Cherry Smiley is an Indigenous feminist activist and artist from the 
Thompson and Navajo Nations and an accomplished public speaker on 
sexualized violence against Indigenous women and girls. She is a founding 
member of the unfunded group, Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry 
(IWASI) and current campaign coordinator for the Feminist Alliance for 
International Action's Campaign of Solidarity with Aboriginal women, 
focused on Canada's missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.

Resistance Radio - Kajsa Ekis Ekman - 11/09/14

Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a journalist and the author of two books. Today we will 
be discussing her book Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy, and 
the Split Self. She lives in Sweden.

Resistance Radio - Kathleen Dean Moore - 11/02/14

Kathleen Dean Moore is is a philosopher, an environmental activist, and a 
writer.  Her most recent book is MORAL GROUND: Ethical action for a planet 
in peril, which gathers testimony from 100 of the world's moral leaders 
about our obligation to the future. Formerly Distinguished Professor of 
Philosophy at Oregon State University, she has left the university to focus 
on the climate emergency. She speaks all over the country, calling people 
to action to prevent carbon catastrophe. You can find her work in magazines 
such as the SUN, High country News, and Orion and on her blog at 
riverwalking.com.

Resistance Radio - Kathleen Barry - 10/26/14

Kathleen Barry is an internationally-recognized human rights activist, she  is the author of five books, including Unmaking War: Remaking Men; Female Sexual Slavery; and Prostitution of Sexuality: The Global Exploitation of Women. Today we talk about prostitution.

Resistance Radio - Tom Butler - 10/19/14

Tom Butler is the board president of Northeast Wilderness Trust, a regional land trust that conserves forever-wild landscapes, and the editorial projects director of the Foundation for Deep Ecology. A longtime conservation activist and writer, his books include Wildlands Philanthropy, Plundering Appalachia, ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, and most recently, the co-edited volume Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth.