Resistance Radio

Resistance Radio - Charles Derber - 07/27/14

Charles Derber is the author of more than fifteen books, and is considered one of today's leading public intellectuals. He has been called an intellectual heir to C. Wright Mills.

Resistance Radio - Dahr Jamail - 07/20/14

Dahr Jamail is an award winning journalist and author who is a full-time staff reporter for Truthout.org. His work is currently focussing on Anthropogenic Climate Disruption.

Resistance Radio - Bethanie Walder - 07/13/14

 Bethanie Walder. She is WildEarth Guardians Public Lands Director and previously served as Wildlands CPR Executive Director from 1995 until they merged with WildEarth Guardians in 2013. 

Resistance Radio - Henry A. Giroux - 07/06/14

Henry A. Giroux, the author of more than 50 books, is certainly one of the world's most important living intellectuals. He writes on a tremendous variety of topics, but central to all of his work are the importance of radical democracy, the importance of education, the importance of critical thinking and discourse, and the effects of capitalism on all of these. In 2002 he was named as one of the top 50 educational thinkers of the modern period.

Resistance Radio - Roger Flynn - 06/29/14

Roger Flynn is the Founding Director and Managing Attorney of the Western Mining Action Project, a non-profit law firm representing the public interest on hardrock mining issues in the West since 1993.  Roger is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law, where he's been teaching courses in Mining and Natural Resources Law since 2002. We talk about the effects of mining on public lands.

Resistance Radio - Jeremy Nichols - 06/22/14

Jeremy Nichols is the Climate and Energy Program Director for WildEarth Guardians and has been active in environmental protection efforts in the American West for over 15 years. Today we talk about the effects of fracking on public lands in the West.

Resistance Radio - Jon Marvel - 06/15/14

In 1993 Jon Marvel co-founded a non-profit organization Western Watersheds Project to challenge the destructive business of public lands ranching, a land use that has negatively affected more of the American west than any other human activity. Jon retired as executive director of WWP on March 1, 2014 but continues as the WWP Board member for the Sagebrush Habitat Conservation Fund. The Fund seeks to negotiate voluntary buy-out and permanent retirement of grazing allotments in sage-steppe landscapes across the west. The Fund has already permanently retired over 140,000 acres of public lands from livestock use.

Resistance Radio - Marie & Brien Brennan - 06/08/14

In 2012, Marie and Brien Brennan founded the Elder Creek Center For The Land, located in the Nomlaki homeland of the Sacramento Valley, with the purpose of normalizing sane human attitudes and practices towards the community of life in the watershed and greater bioregion.

Resistance Radio - Saba Malik - 05/25/14

Saba Malik is is a board member of Fertile Ground Environmental Institute,  a non-profit dedicated to political and environmental education. She is a  mother of two and has been a feminist and anti-racist activist for most of  her adult life.

Resistance Radio - Annette Smith - 05/18/14

Annette Smith is executive director of Vermonters for a Clean Environment, an organization she co-founded 15 years ago with Vermont citizens when a large energy project was proposed for her region.  After successfully defeating that project, Annette has worked with Vermonters throughout the state to defeat large quarries, landfills, farms, and other large energy proposals while also improving Vermont's groundwater protection laws.  Annette has lived off-grid with solar in Vermont for more than 20 years, hand milks a cow, has a flock of chickens, grows most of her own food including citrus in a greenhouse, and seeks change through collaboration when possible and opposition when necessary