The Green Flame

Joshua Clinton reads the article, "What is Biocentrism?" which was originally published on the DGR News Service on April 15, 2022. https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/what-is-biocentrism-the-unfolding-miracle-of-life/

In this episode, Max Wilbert and Carl van Warmerdam discuss the 2021 Netflix film "Don't Look Up," an extended allegory for global warming. We discuss whether the film is an accurate satire or a pandering neoliberal fairy tale - or both.

Joshua Clinton reads the article: https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/habitat-loss/bolivia-extinction-and-displacement-dams-not-green-energy/

Lauren Levey has had a lifelong involvement with women's rights and lesbian rights. She is a second-wave radical feminist who is currently on the Board of Directors of the Women's Human Rights Campaign USA, and serves as its Vice President. In this episode Lauren shares her radical analysis of abortion in America and on the fight to end the subjugation and erasure of women.

Longtime environmental and social activist and co founder of the Mendocino Environmental Center Betty Ball reflects on ecofeminism and her relationship with Judi Bari. The music for this episode is provided by the late Gary Ball, Betty's husband and fellow co-founder of the MEC. 

Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth's Girls and the Grasses keynote presentation, Principles of Sustainable Societies: Matriarchy as a Radical Alternative followed by a Q&A conversation with Lierre Keith, Michelle Martin, Rebecca Wildbear, Sue Breen and Jennifer Murnan. Check out the full event, which live streams on Saturday November 20th at 1pm Pacific, here: https://givebutter.com/girlsandgrasses

In this episode Max speaks with Joshua Wright, a front-line activist who was amongst the first involved in blockading access to Fairy Creek, trying to prevent ancient old-growth forests from being destroyed by logging companies. There have been over 1000 arrests making it one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history. These on the ground activists continue to camp on site despite pressure from the loggers to endanger both the forest and its present inhabitants. The injunction against the protestors which ran from April until the end of September of this year was not allowed to be extended. But that decision was overturned and a new interim injunction is now in place until November 15th, so this is a crucial moment in the continuation of this blockade. https://www.facebook.com/FairyCreekBlockade We include a poem by Linda Hogan recited by Anita Stewart. The Music for this episode was September Rain by Yme Fresh https://bit.ly/yme-fresh Creative Commons Attribution licence Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/3FfoBtA Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/kVCTa0-bDkQ

Renee Gerlich, feminist writer from Wellington, New Zeland outlines her seven book Brief Complete Herstory series. Renee established Dragon Cloud Press in 2021 to publish the series. An invitation to attend the online DGR Girls and the Grasses ecofeminist fundraiser on November 20th is offered at the conclusion of this podcast.

Deanna Meyer is a serious longtime protector of Prairie Dogs. We discuss her work, how she got started, how her campaigns got so much attention from the media and how to take radical action in defense of what you love. Prairie Dogs are under constant threat, often getting gassed in their burrows in the name of 'development'. Protecting them also means protecting important grasslands. Visit https://prairieprotectioncolorado.org/ and follow https://www.facebook.com/prairieprotectioncolorado.org to keep up to date and donate to the campaign.

Today's episode is a discussion with Chris Devault. Chris is a permaculture practitioner and environmental steward who has worked for many years in the solar and wind energy industries, and who is now dedicated to exposing the lies we are told about how wind and solar are 'green' and capable of saving the planet.

Stephany Seay has been on the front lines working to protect Yellowstone's wild buffalo for the past twenty years.  For this episode of The Green Flame, we discuss how she got involved in her work, what bison need in order to restore themselves, and tease Stephany's new buffalo and prairie protection organization. Music: I Need You by LiQWYD, https://soundcloud.com/liqwyd, CC BY 3.0.

For this episode, Max Wilbert shares some updates from projects he is working on such as lithium mine resistance and Bright Green Lies. Music is Cinderella (Instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0.

Resistance to HS2 is the focus for this episode of the Green Flame. HS2 is the high speed rail project whose first phase is under construction in the UK. HS2 is currently the largest infrastructure project in Europe. We thank Dr Maxey who has been heavily involved in the HS2 protests for interviewing for the Green Flame, and Kara for conducting the interview. The Green Flame is grateful for the permission to include the songs Care of the Guard and Dirty Tactics by Psychadelephant in this episode. Thank you all for listening!  

On this episode of the Green Flame the DGR Book Club discusses Bright Green Lies by Lierre Keith Derrick Jenson and Max Wilbert.  The discussion, led by Beth Robson, also encompasses the documentary film, Bright Green Lies. We are so grateful to Julia Barnes, the film's creator for joining us in this conversation.

For this fascinating Green Flame episode Jennifer Murnan interviews Hanna Bohman. Hanna Bohman is a Canadian civilian who spent time volunteering in the effort to support women's rights in the middle east, including battling ISIS and liberating women in Syria. Motivated to fight, Hanna joined an all-female Kurdish army, the YPJ. A film, Fear Us Women, was made about Hanna's experiences as a member of the YPJ. She is an ongoing supporter of her YPJ sisters.

This Green Flame Fairy Creek episode is an update with forest defender Carole Tootill recorded on the 300th day of direct action to protect old growth forest in the territories of the Pacheedaht and Ditidaht First Nations.

This Green Flame episode is a Deep Green Book Club discussion and honoring of the documentary film Gather - https://gather.film/.  We thank Kris for drumming us in with 'Drumming in the Mushroom Lodge', and drumming us out with 'After the clouds have passed... drumming with the Wakinan'. 

This episode of the Green Flame features Jore's music as well as an interview with this remarkable activist, artist, writer, musician, independent film-maker and freelance journalist. His work focuses on the interface between the dominant culture and the real impact on people, society and the environment and can be found at Jore.

The protection camp at Thacker Pass, Peehee mu'huh, has been in place for more than four months. This episode is an update starting with a new recording from May 18th, as well as audio from recent video updates recorded on-site by Max Wilbert over the past month or so. Poem "Newspeak" by Trinity La Fey. https://www.protectthackerpass.org Petition: https://www.change.org/p/protect-thacker-pass-peehee-mu-huh Donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/j2gx7f-people-of-red-mountain Twilight by Neutrin05 https://soundcloud.com/neutrin05 Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

On the second episode of Radicalizing Permaculture, Beth Quist, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, environmental activist and writer joins Jennifer Murnan and Boris Forkel in conversation. Her performance of Me Phirava Daje Mori (Bombastic Version), a traditional Macedonian Rom accompanies this episode.  You can find Beth at bethquist.com and offer this extraordinary woman and musician support through patron.

For this episode of The Green Flame, we're joined by Diane Wilson. Diane is a fourth-generation shrimper, boat captain, mother of five, author, and an environmental, peace, and social justice advocate. During the last 30 years, she has launched legislative campaigns, demonstrations, hunger strikes, sunk boats, and even climbed chemical towers in her fight to protect her Gulf Coast bay. She is a co-founder of Code Pink, the women's anti-war group based in Washington, DC and co-founder of the Texas Jail Project, which advocates for inmates' rights in Texas county jails. On April 7th, Diane launched a hunger strike to #StopTheDredging of Matagorda Ship Channel, part of a mercury-contaminated Superfund site on the TX Gulf Coast. Oil company Max Midstream wants to dredge the bay to make room for giant oil tankers to export crude fracked from the Permian Basin in West Texas & New Mexico. If the project goes forward, it would unearth potentially devastating mercury contamination into the bay, which local fisherfolk have been working to revitalize. More info: https://www.facebook.com/unreasonablewoman/ News story on the hunger strike: https://truthout.org/articles/72-year-old-fisher-hunger-strikes-to-press-biden-to-revive-crude-oil-export-ban/ Diane's website: https://www.dianewilson.org/ Music: feellikedying by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0.

On this episode of the Green Flame, an anonymous voice from Nepal speaks to us eloquently on behalf of her land and of the environmental struggles in her country.  We thank her. We also thank Jore for permission to share his music. You can find his work at  https://jore.cc/.

Ja is a community organizer, film maker and podcast host living with the land in the Philippine Archipelago.  You can find out more about his work by going to piratestudio.net and samalahatadvocacy.org.  Visit Deep Green Resistance Asia Pacific on FB for upcoming events. The music Ja plays in this episode is performed on the 2 stringed ethnic instrument, the Hegalong.

Come hiking with Rebecca Wildbear in the Sonoran Desert. Rebecca teaches people how to listen deeply to the Mysteries that live within the Earth community, Dreamtime, and their own wild Nature, and to encounter and live their Souls, or truest selves. She is a guide with Animas Valley Institute and the creator of Wild Yoga. To explore all that she offers, go to www.rebeccawildbear.com

This edition of the Green Flame offers you an incredibly rich conversation centered on discussion of the 2002 documentary film Drowned Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnSsK-ZHTg. We thank Franny Armstrong at Spanner Films for allowing us to use audio clips from the documentary in this episode.

This episode is a set of deeply personal ruminations on permaculture experiences, practices and ethics between two radical environmental activists. .Music is provided by Solebound with their song Seeds and cover of Pacha Mama, an old rainbow gathering song. Solebound can be found on facebook https://www.facebook.com/soleboundmusic/ and bandcamp https://solebound.bandcamp.com/releases

This episode features a launch party for the new book Bright Green Lies: How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It, by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert. The book tackles the greenwashing surrounding so much so-called "green" technology and other false solutions. The authors read excerpts from the book, discuss it's themes, and answer audience questions. You can order the book into your local bookstore (or for delivery) here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781948626392 Music: Trick or Treat (instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0.

In this episode, Max gives a brief update on the Protect Thacker Pass action, and Elisabeth Robson interviews Jamie Kneen, Communications & Outreach Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada, an organization that works to protect the public and the environment from destructive mining practices. https://miningwatch.ca/ Elisabeth also reads two excerpts about mining from Bright Green Lies, a new book by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert. https://www.brightgreenlies.com/ Sarah Gardam reads her poem Upon the Proposed Mining of "Thacker Pass, Nevada", a poem by Sarah Gardam, a visitor to the land of the Paiute, the Shoshone, and the sagebrush creatures. Pretty Mary Sunshine provides the accompaniment with their song Liar Lie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeooaDWXSKM

In this episode Max Wilbert interviews Danish historian of Religion Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen who runs the youtube channel Nordic Animism. Danish Viking folk band Gjaldulei provides the perfect accompaniment with their original composition Lyset Vågner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Bd50fqIRk

In this episode, Max Wilbert and Will Falk sit around the campfire at Thacker Pass to share the latest updates from the #ProtectThackerPass campaign, which aims to stop Lithium Americas Corporation from strip mining this place and more broadly to shift power in the environmental movement away from extraction and towards degrowth. Our music for this week is "The Way It Is" by The Filthy Politicians.

In this time sensitive urgent appeal Max Wilbert interviews forest defenders Joshua Wright and Carole Tootill concerning the Fairy Creek old growth forest in British Columbia. Please listen then act to defend Fairy Creek. https://www.fairycreekblockade.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FairyCreekBlockade   

In this episode of The Green Flame we host a group discussion on the 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House. We discuss, amongst other things, the relevance of Baldwin's work today and our perspectives on the most powerful and moving scenes from the documentary.

Attorney and feminist Kara Dansky joins us to share how to contribute to the movement for women's sex based rights. She introduces us to the "Women Picket DC" event on March 8, the Equality for All Act, the 65th UN Commission on the Status of Women, the Declaration on Women's Sex Based Rights, and the Women's Human Rights Campaign. For this episode we pay musical tribute to the women's suffrage movement. A century later, we share with them the same struggle for women's most basic human rights.

In this episode of the Green Flame we host a group discussion on Black Revolutionary Assata Shakur's 1987 Autobiography. We discuss amongst other things the relevance of her story and political awakening and the lessons to be learned for revolutionary movements today. Thank you to the Freedom Archives (http://freedomarchives.org/) for their amazing work that allowed us to include Assata's voice and the Black Panther kids chant in this episode.

This episode of the Green Flame podcast is a group discussion about the 2003 documentary The Corporation. The documentary revolves around the fact that under U.S law corporations are seen as individuals and asks the question ‘what type of person would a corporation be?' Amongst other things we discuss the relationship of corporations to civilization and patriarchy and what could be worse than living in a Disney town!

Activists aiming to stop Lithium Americas' Thacker Pass open-pit lithium mine – what would be the United States' largest lithium mine, supplying up to 25% of the world's lithium – launched a permanent protest encampment hours after the Bureau of Land Management gave final approval to the mine on January 15. The Green Flame brings you the voices of land protectors Will Falk and Max Wilbert who mean to stay for as long as it takes to protect this old-growth sagebrush mountainside despite winter conditions at Thacker Pass. Rebecca Wildbear, river and soul guide, lover of the wild, joins us in honoring and calling for defense of the Great Basin, Thacker Pass and the whole of wild creation. Many thanks to Green Flame sound editor Iona and to the many non-human voices – Golden Eagle, Coyote, and Greater Sage Grouse – speaking to us in this Protect Thacker Pass episode of the Green Flame.

In this urgent episode of the Green Flame Lierre Keith comments on a new development in the war on women. That development is Biden's executive order on "gender identity" signed the day of his inauguration, and it will eviscerate Women's Rights. Lierre Keith is the founder of the Women's Liberation Front, WoLF founder and board member, a radical feminist for over 40 years and is the author of 6 books.

Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of both Local Futures and the International Alliance for Localization. A pioneer of the local economy movement, she has been honored with the Right Livelihood Award, the Goi Peace Prize, and the Arthur Morgan Award. She is the author of "Ancient Futures" and "Local is Our Future, Steps to An Economics of Happiness" and producer of the documentary film "The Economics of Happiness". We discuss the problems of globalization and advocate that the global industrial economy must be dismantled to save ecology and human futures.

This episode of the Green Flame podcast is a discussion around nuclear waste, the nuclear waste industry, nuclear waste dumping, and the production of nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and nuclear medicine that results in this highly dangerous and long-lasting radioactive material.  

This episode, recorded January 7th, is a round table discussion of January 6th protest and riot in Washington D.C. at the U.S. Capitol. Max Wilbert and Jennifer Murnan are joined by Saba Malik and Will Falk.

Ahjamu Umi is a revolutionary organizer/activist, adviser, and liberation literature author. He is vastly concerned about the current state and future of this planet. Ahjamu has worked with the All African People's Revolutionary Party for decades. His latest book, a manual of revolutionary community defense, is titled "A Guide for Defense Against White Supremacist and Fascist Violence." http://www.abetterworld.me/ This episode features the track "Therapy" by Alas.

Welcome to the final Green Flame episode of 2020.  In this episode, a discussion with Trinity La Fey is woven into a chorus of other poets. We revisit the words of Dominique Christina which were a part of our December 2019 Radical Feminism episode, celebrate Shahidah Janjua with Aimee, and share poems from Max, Jennifer, Ross, Ben, and Salonika. The episode concludes with a medley of music from prior episodes including the lyrical "Shchedryk" by Beth Quist. Thank you all, thank you for listening and Happy New Year. Thanks to our editor for this episode, Iona.

On this 50th Episode of the Green Flame, Max and Jennifer share a retrospective of the 20-month Green Flame adventure leading into a lightly edited recording of DGR's recent live streaming event, "Drawing the Line: Stopping the Murder of the Planet." The event features Lierre Keith, Derrick Jensen, Chris Hedges and the voices and work of comrades across all fronts, worldwide. We call on all our listeners to join in listening to this Feast de Resistance. Happy Holidays!

In this episode we interview Sue and Esteban from the Shale Must Fall Campaign. The campaign works to increase the global visibility of frontline struggles against fracking and other extraction, and educate about the dangers of shale gas and the fracking industry. December 11, 2020 is the Day of Action for the Shale Must Fall Campaign, with actions across Europe, Africa and Asia to show global solidarity against fracking. The episode also features the music of wind chimes and a recording from Ina-Maria Shikongo in Namibia. For more information about the Shale Must Fall Campaign: https://shalemustfall.org/   

For this episode of The Green Flame, Jennifer Murnan and Max Wilbert discuss extreme weather around the world. As the Arctic is experiencing catastrophic low ice formation, wildfires have swept western Turtle Island this summer and fall, and storms have pounded southeast Asia and the Caribbean. We include excerpts from a January podcast covering the megafires in Australia, discuss the rise of extreme weather under global warming, the basic science of why this occurs, and more. Music is from DENNI: https://www.facebook.com/denni420/

On this episode of the Green Flame, we converse with Fred Gibson, co-founder of Communities that Protect and Resist. CPR is a support group, clearinghouse, resource bank, and facilitator for activists who want to build strong communities and leverage them to pursue a sustainable and just existence and resist the dominant culture. We are grateful to our editor Iona, for the harmonious blending of the voices of grasslands and in house improvisational piano solo. https://www.facebook.com/Communities-that-Protect-and-Resist-100969171337864 ctpr.home.blog

For this episode, we speak with Laura Cunningham of Basin and Range Watch (http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/) about dozens of large solar energy projects threatening the Mojave and Great Basin deserts in Nevada and eastern California. We explore why utility-scale solar built on habitat is not a solution. Our music for this episode is Melodi från Vest-Agder by Tim Eastwood of Dic Penderyn.

Industrial civilization is killing the planet, and it's not good for human beings either. But how can we live without it? We are dependent and addicted. In this episode of The Green Flame, we ask what comes after and speak with two people: Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth, Deep Green Resistance, Bright Green Lies, and more; and Michel Jacobi, an ecologist working in western Ukraine to preserve and revive ancient pastoral traditions and the Carpathian water buffalo. http://www.karpaten-bueffel.eu/en.html http://www.lierrekeith.com/ Our song for this episode is "Wake Up Call" by Nicholas Tippins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eIzJHVDM1I  

Frank Forencich is an internationally-recognized expert on health and human adaptation. As an engaging speaker and movement teacher, he brings a unique perspective to the human predicament and offers practical solutions for some of the most pressing problems of our age. Frank is the author of several books on health and the human predicament, most recently The Sapience Curriculum. He is a black belt in karate and aikido. https://www.sapience.earth/ https://www.exuberantanimal.com Our music for this episode is the track "Run Billy Run" by Dana Lyons. http://cowswithguns.com/

This episode of The Green Flame revolves around a group discussion of Naomi Klein's 2007 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. We discuss the points of the book that are on point, other areas where the book fails, and how in some ways Klein's own analysis describes how her mainstream climate movement operates. Our music for this episode is "Drag the Forests Down" by Foxpockets: https://soundcloud.com/foxpockets

This episode of the Green Flame comes to you from Germany. We interview Heide Goettner-Abendroth, philosopher and researcher on culture and society, focused on matriarchal studies. She has published various books on matriarchal society and culture, and has become the founding mother of Modern Matriarchal Studies. We also include three poems by Heide in German and English. The International Academy for Matriarchal Studies and Matriarchal Spirituality: https://www.hagia.de/en/international-academy-hagia/ https://www.goettner-abendroth.de/home/ Our song for this episode is "Grace" by Beth Quist. http://bethquist.com/