Resistance Radio

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

Resistance Radio - With Jan Makandal - 05/11/14

Jan Makandal is a long-time revolutionary proletarian militant. He organized with the Workers Committee of Rockland County in the 1970s in upstate New York, as well as with a group of Haitian revolutionaries building a mass movement based among workers and peasants during the fall of Duvalier, plus other organizations in the US and Haiti.

Resistance Radio - Ben Barker - 05/04/14

Ben Barker is a writer, activist, and farmer from West Bend, WI. He is currently writing a book about toxic qualities of radical subcultures and the need to build a vibrant culture of resistance. Read more at www.benbarker.org.

Resistance Radio - Richard Slotkin - 04/27/14

Richard Slotkin is a cultural critic and historian. He is the Olin  Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University, and the  author of eight books. His trilogy Regeneration Through Violence, The Fatal  Environment, and Gunfighter Nation is, I believe, one of the most important  pieces of cultural criticism around.

Resistance Radio - Guy McPherson - 04/13/14

More than ten years into a career in the academic ivory tower, McPherson turned his efforts on social criticism. These efforts continue, with climate change a primary focus of his current work.

Resistance Radio - Max Wilbert - 04/06/14

Max Wilbert is an activist, photographer, and writer based in Salt Lake  City. Although he's only 25 years old, he has been working against racism, social injustice, war, and environmental issues for over a decade.

Resistance Radio - Monica Gagliano - 03/30/14

Monica Gagliano explains how plants can emit their own sounds and also the notion of plants responding to particular frequencie

Resistance Radio - Bethany Cotton - 03/16/14

Bethany Cotton is the Wildlife Program Director for WildEarth Guardians. Guardians works to protect and restore wildlife, wild places and wild rivers in the American west. A native Cascadian, Bethany now calls the Southern Rockies home.

Resistance Radio - Dave Zirin - 03/02/14

Dave Zirin writes about the politics of sports for The Nation and many other magazines and newspapers. He is the author or co-author of six books, including What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States, and Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down.

Resistance Radio - Lierre Keith - 02/23/14

Lierre Keith is a long time activist, and the author or co--author of seven books, most notably Deep Green Resistance; and The Vegetarian Myth. She and I discuss how and why agriculture is inherently destructive, and is, as Jared Diamond noted, the worst mistake humans have ever made.