Resistance Radio

Resistance Radio interview of Bob Watson

Bob Watson grew up in a small town in NE Iowa, Strawberry Point. He worked on farms as a kid growing up, including in one of the first chicken confinements in NE Iowa when he was 12 or 13 years old. The last 35 years he was employed in the wastewater industry in Iowa, and has been an environmental activist mostly concerned with the industrial row crop, feedlot, and confinement modern model of agriculture. Bob co-authored the book, Hog Confinements and Human Health: the intersection of science, morals, and law.

Resistance Radio interview of Andy Mahler

Andy Mahler first became involved in forest protection efforts in 1985 after encountering Forest Service clearcuts in the Hoosier National Forest near his southern Indiana home.

As President of Protect Our Woods, a local grassroots forest protection organization he helped found, he led efforts to protect the Hoosier from off-road vehicle trails, clearcuts, and oil and gas leasing. In 1991 he founded Heartwood, a cooperative regional forest protection network that used legal challenges and other means to stop logging on the national forests in the heartland hardwood region.

In his community in Orange County, Indiana, Andy led efforts to start the Lost River Market and Deli, a member owned, natural foods grocery in Paoli, Indiana, and Orange County HomeGrown which operates a very popular local farmers market. Andy hosts weekly music jams at both locations.

He and his wife, Linda Lee own a rustic and eclectic farm and lodge called the Lazy Black Bear surrounded by the Hoosier National Forest in the rolling hills of southern Indiana where they raise, rehabilitate and release orphaned possums and other critters.
Today we talk about cicadas.

Resistance Radio interview of Bill Finch

Bill Finch is the founding director of the Paint Rock Forest Research Center in the Cumberland Plateau region of northeast Alabama. He has worked to conserve Southeastern biodiversity for more than 40 years, as an award-wining writer and editor, as conservation director of the Nature Conservancy in Alabama, and as director of Mobile Botanical Gardens. He continues to write a weekly column on gardens and natural history and has a weekly radio show. His book, Longleaf Far as the Eye Can See, was developed with his partner, Beth, and is now in its fourth printing.

Resistance Radio interview of Chris Vaughn

Chris Vaughn is an activist living in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan. After learning of the proposal to develop a copper sulfide mine in the heart of a thriving eco-tourism area ­ right next to both Lake Superior and Porcupine Mountains State Park ­ he launched the website www.ProtectThePorkies.com , as well as the accompanying petition, found at www.change.org/ProtectThePorkies .

Resistance Radio interview of Greg King

Greg King is an award-winning journalist and activist  credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in  Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars”  following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber  Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam.  Greg  King has spent decades researching redwood logging and preservation  efforts. King’s articles and photographs have appeared in The Sun, Sierra, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, the Portland Oregonian, the Sacramento Bee, Mother Jones and other publications.  In 2016 the Environmental Protection  Information Center presented King with its annual Sempervirens Lifetime  Achievement Award. King lives in Humboldt County. Today we talk about his book The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods.

Resistance Radio interview of Lierre Keith and Melinda Hughes

Lierre Keith and Melinda Hughes. Lierre Keith has been a radical feminist for 40 years. She is the author of seven books, including The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” She is coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Max Wilbert, of Bright Green Lies:How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It. She lives in northern California with giant trees and giant dogs. She’s also been arrested six times for acts of political resistance.

Melinda Hughes is a lifelong leftist and activist. She is a volunteer with Women's Declaration International USA and is committed to the struggle to win or win back women's sex-based rights.

Resistance Radio interview of Otis Scops

Otis Scops is trained as an electronics and chemical process engineer. He worked as a developer of tailor-made electronics and computer hard- and software and as a renewable energy systems consultant. Over the last 25 years, his interest shifted from mainly technology to ecology and sociology and towards true sustainability. He increasingly puts his acquired knowledge into practice with low-tech, organic gardening and a focus on the basics of life.

Resistance Radio interview of Patrick Battuello

Patrick Battuello is the founder and president of Horseracing Wrongs, the nation's preeminent anti-horseracing organization. Patrick and HW have been featured in, among many other publications, Forbes, USA Today, The Guardian, the Boston Herald, and Deadspin. Patrick has appeared on HBO's "Real Sports," and multiple CNN and ESPN segments. In addition, Patrick has testified before the NYS Senate and has had op-eds published in The Washington Post, MSNBC, The Baltimore Sun, Katie Couric Media, et al.
 

Resistance Radio interview of Paul Tyson

Paul Tyson is an independent scholar and an Honorary Senior Fellow with the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, at the University of Queensland, in Australia. He has academic qualifications in philosophy, theology, and sociology, and likes to mix them all up when trying to understand how strange the ordinary features of our contemporary way of life are. Three of his biggest intellectual heroes are Plato, Kierkegaard, and Ellul. Over the past few years he has been writing in the science and religion domain, which has resulted in the 2022 book 'A Christian Theology of Science' the 2021 book 'Theology and Climate Change' and the 2019 book 'Seven Brief Lessons on Magic'.

Resistance Radio interview of Fred Gibson

Fred Gibson is a co-founder and Core Member of Communities that Protect and Resist. An environmental and social justice activist, he’s lived in Colorado off and on since 1970, and has witnessed the native beauty and biological diversity of the Front Range, as well as its ongoing destruction. He is determined to reverse that trend. Fred’s worked as an organizational psychologist and leadership scholar, coach, and practitioner for over 40 years. As a result, he’s able to offer his experience to build effective leadership and organizational capacity to groups that resist the destruction of the planet. His experiences in the military, business world and academia provide perspectives on organizing and leading, from which he can draw to round out his analysis, and ground CPR initiatives. Fred has participated in resistance work in various forms, including the Castle Rock Prairie Dog campaign in Colorado, support efforts in Oak Flat, Arizona, Standing Rock, North Dakota and the Great Basin, Nevada, and Manila Bay among others. In addition to helping grow CPR as an organization, Fred teaches courses to activists and community leaders, and writes the occasional blog post. He’s ready to work with activists and Community builders to ‘make Community happen’.