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October 7, 2022--Hosts Chad Swimmer and Roland Cory Medina commemorate this year's unprecedented challenges to progressive cultural freedom by bringing you readings from banned books through the ages, with Diane Patterson reading Sappho, George Russell reading Walt Whitman, Chipmunk reading Captain Underpants, the hosts doing a performance of In The Night Kitchen, and much much more. They also hear from independent bookseller Christie Olson Day.
Tune in and listen to this episode of 'The Bowls Hour' where Erin and Alex chat to newly crowned National Champion of Champions Pairs winner Diane Patterson, then talk to young guns Seamus Curing and Ashleigh Jeffcoat.They also chat about blue greens and ask a very important question in regards to milk and cereal, you won't want to miss it!If you have any suggestions for topics that we can cover on the show, or people you'd like to hear us talk to, email us at info@bowlsnewzealand.co.nz
Tune in and listen to this episode of 'The Bowls Hour' where Erin and Alex chat to newly crowned National Champion of Champions Pairs winner Diane Patterson, then talk to young guns Seamus Curing and Ashleigh Jeffcoat.They also chat about blue greens and ask a very important question in regards to milk and cereal, you won't want to miss it!If you have any suggestions for topics that we can cover on the show, or people you'd like to hear us talk to, email us at info@bowlsnewzealand.co.nz
May 6, 2022--Cohosts Chad Swimmer and Roland Cory Medina interview Northern California Queer Folk Goddess, singer-songwriter Diane Patterson from Poland, near the Ukrainian border, where she is on tour taking her activist and poignant music on the road through Northern and Eastern Europe. They talk about her life, her music, and what she is seeing now on the ground on the edge of a war zone.
To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: ELJURI - Keep it Up Tiffany MacNeil - Believe, Believe, Believe Diane Patterson - Drumming the World Awake Cindy Slee - Don't Give Up From Venus - Sirens Lynne Grimes feat. The Voices For Change Community Chorus - Voices for Change Jill Detroit - Courage to Be Kind Melani Skybell - A Brand New Day Helen O'Shea - Please Be Kind Eva Alexis - Coming Storm Val Kinzler - Nothing Sacred About Hatred Mary Isis - Now is the Time For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Bandzoogle at: Visit our Sponsor Gail Gallagher at Visit our Sponsor Ed & Carol Nicodemi at Visit our Sponsor Roberta Lamb at Visit our Sponsor Melissa DuVall at Visit our Sponsor Catherine M Thompson at
To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: ELJURI - Keep it Up Tiffany MacNeil - Believe, Believe, Believe Diane Patterson - Drumming the World Awake Cindy Slee - Don't Give Up From Venus - Sirens Lynne Grimes feat. The Voices For Change Community Chorus - Voices for Change Jill Detroit - Courage to Be Kind Melani Skybell - A Brand New Day Helen O'Shea - Please Be Kind Eva Alexis - Coming Storm Val Kinzler - Nothing Sacred About Hatred Mary Isis - Now is the Time For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Bandzoogle at: Visit our Sponsor Gail Gallagher at Visit our Sponsor Ed & Carol Nicodemi at Visit our Sponsor Roberta Lamb at Visit our Sponsor Melissa DuVall at Visit our Sponsor Catherine M Thompson at
To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Catherine M Thompson - Put Down The Guns Jill Detroit - Keep A Watchful Heart Stephanie Phillips - Final Kiss Goodbye Mariama Whyte - In Times of Peace and War Know1Else - Shots Fired Jenai Huff - Make This Be Mairead - Load, Aim, Fire Diane Patterson - Shape of Your Sorrow India Easley - Join Hands Chris DeVito - More Than Meets The Eye Tally Koren - Dark Hand Light Hand Carlene Thissen - Roses in the Sand Tokunbo - Every Time The Doorbell Rings Joan Burch - Private Johnson Shonti Elder - Ashes on The Wind Camille Barr - Never Ending Story Kirby Heard - This is Mine Sweet Honey In The Rock - The Women Gather For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Bandzoogle at: Visit our Sponsor Mairead at Visit our Sponsor Carlene Thissen at Visit our Sponsor Sweet Honey In The Rock at Visit our Sponsor Giana Vogt at Visit our Sponsor Mich Lewis at
To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Catherine M Thompson - Put Down The Guns Jill Detroit - Keep A Watchful Heart Stephanie Phillips - Final Kiss Goodbye Mariama Whyte - In Times of Peace and War Know1Else - Shots Fired Jenai Huff - Make This Be Mairead - Load, Aim, Fire Diane Patterson - Shape of Your Sorrow India Easley - Join Hands Chris DeVito - More Than Meets The Eye Tally Koren - Dark Hand Light Hand Carlene Thissen - Roses in the Sand Tokunbo - Every Time The Doorbell Rings Joan Burch - Private Johnson Shonti Elder - Ashes on The Wind Camille Barr - Never Ending Story Kirby Heard - This is Mine Sweet Honey In The Rock - The Women Gather For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Bandzoogle at: Visit our Sponsor Mairead at Visit our Sponsor Carlene Thissen at Visit our Sponsor Sweet Honey In The Rock at Visit our Sponsor Giana Vogt at Visit our Sponsor Mich Lewis at
To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Dirt Road Angels - Enjoy The Ride Diane Patterson - Eagle Feather Michelle Lockey - What Does My Heart Say Mary Isis - Calling it In Kit Holmes - One Long Road Kathyjo Varco - Vapor HannaH's Field - Anchor the Light Lourdes Pita - Seize The Dream Bridget Wolf - Hope Laurie Davis - Shine Your Light Regynn Lesser - Mama Never Cried Robyn Dewar - I Am Tally Koren - Keep Going Giana Vogt - In The Stillness Robyn Dewar - Art Of Being Cynthia Scott - Hold On Stay Strong For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Bandzoogle at: Visit our Sponsor Danni Elise at Visit our Sponsor at Giana Vogt at Visit our Sponsor Ed & Carol Nicodemi at Visit our Sponsor Koryn Orcutt at Visit our Sponsor Shena! at
To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Dirt Road Angels - Enjoy The Ride Diane Patterson - Eagle Feather Michelle Lockey - What Does My Heart Say Mary Isis - Calling it In Kit Holmes - One Long Road Kathyjo Varco - Vapor HannaH's Field - Anchor the Light Lourdes Pita - Seize The Dream Bridget Wolf - Hope Laurie Davis - Shine Your Light Regynn Lesser - Mama Never Cried Robyn Dewar - I Am Tally Koren - Keep Going Giana Vogt - In The Stillness Robyn Dewar - Art Of Being Cynthia Scott - Hold On Stay Strong For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Bandzoogle at: Visit our Sponsor Danni Elise at Visit our Sponsor at Giana Vogt at Visit our Sponsor Ed & Carol Nicodemi at Visit our Sponsor Koryn Orcutt at Visit our Sponsor Shena! at
To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Diane Rose Kelly - Harmony The Red Wine Effect - Crossroads Nita Chawla - Cross the Line Amber Norgaard - How We Spend Our Time Kit Holmes - The Bridge Bluestone Sisters - A Child's Dream Can Light The Way feat. Lillias White Country Fresh - Broken Lauri Jones - One Heartbeat (All Living Things) Roberta von Fange (writer Lynne Grimes) - Asleep Too Long Diane Patterson - Resolved Shena! - Better Together HannaH's Field - Peaceful Days (featuring Christina Holmes and Yvonne Mwale) For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Bandzoogle at: Visit our Sponsor Eileen Bluestone Sherman at Visit our Sponsor Shena! at Visit our Sponsor Nathalie Gower at Visit our Sponsor Hannah Reimann (Nirvana) at
To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Diane Rose Kelly - Harmony The Red Wine Effect - Crossroads Nita Chawla - Cross the Line Amber Norgaard - How We Spend Our Time Kit Holmes - The Bridge Bluestone Sisters - A Child's Dream Can Light The Way feat. Lillias White Country Fresh - Broken Lauri Jones - One Heartbeat (All Living Things) Roberta von Fange (writer Lynne Grimes) - Asleep Too Long Diane Patterson - Resolved Shena! - Better Together HannaH's Field - Peaceful Days (featuring Christina Holmes and Yvonne Mwale) For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Bandzoogle at: Visit our Sponsor Eileen Bluestone Sherman at Visit our Sponsor Shena! at Visit our Sponsor Nathalie Gower at Visit our Sponsor Hannah Reimann (Nirvana) at
Diane Patterson takes us on an odyssey of spirit-based music, close to the Earth. From moon lodge to addiction healing to holy rains to long roads, Diane sings evocatively of the power to change and be changed.
Folkgoddess Diane Patterson sings the world awake with her powerful voice, rocking guitar and revolutionary lyrics. Her sincere spirit and roots storytelling plant seeds of honor and respect. She’s fueled by music-as-activism and love-as-revolution. Made in New Orleans, Diane’s new 2018 album features Mike Napolitano and Ani DiFranco. Based in Northern California, independent and supported by her community, Diane’s musical background spans ‘church’, blues, and world music. Since 1989, wordsmith Patterson weaves spirit and unifying stories, now around the world, on festival stages, at folk music venues and house concerts, with winter tours in Hawaii for many years, summers in Scandinavia, and cross-country tours of the USA. “Diane is an amazing songwriter and a world healer.” -- Bill Brickey, Chicago musician and producer Buy tickets to see Diane on tour with Ani DiFranco at: www.dianepatterson.org “Leading with Light”, a divinely inspired podcast, is a wellspring for transformational leaders of today to fill up and align, to gather and be inspired, to create their visions in the world, leading with their light! Join Your Hostess, Sky A’Hearn, Visionary Light Leader Extraordinaire, in the spirit of Deepak Chopra, Abraham-Hicks, Eckhart Tolle, Vianna Stibal, and an alternative to Bruce Lipton, Don Miguel Ruiz, Dr. Joe Dispenza, & Gregg Braden in leading with your light! One person in alignment, is stronger than millions out of alignment! When we lead with our light, our true essence, our pure alignment, each moment of each day we inevitably step into leadership, change lives and make this world a better place. Join Sky as she speaks with transformational leaders of today finding out what inspires them to lead with their light, helps bring them into alignment and makes their dreams come true! To register for Basic ThetaHealing Certification Course in San Francisco, June 28-30, 2019 with Sky go here: http://www.skyislimitless.com/basic-thetahealing-certification/ Sign up for your “Ignite Your Limitless Money Magic!” Exploration Session with Sky! Today. And don’t forget to subscribe to "Leading with Light" so that you don't miss a single episode and join us in the "Leading with Light" Facebook Group, where "Sparkly Divine Lights Come to Play". While you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! If you are a transformational leader and you would like to be interviewed by Sky, reach out at sky@skyislimitless.com. To learn more about our previous guests, listen to past episodes, and get to know your host, go to iTunes or to http://www.skyislimitless.com/ and follow us on Facebook Twitter & Instagram Pinterest
Part 2: Folkgoddess Diane Patterson sings the world awake with her powerful voice, rocking guitar and revolutionary lyrics. Her sincere spirit and roots storytelling plant seeds of honor and respect. She’s fueled by music-as-activism and love-as-revolution. Made in New Orleans, Diane’s new 2018 album features Mike Napolitano and Ani DiFranco. Based in Northern California, independent and supported by her community, Diane’s musical background spans ‘church’, blues, and world music. Since 1989, wordsmith Patterson weaves spirit and unifying stories, now around the world, on festival stages, at folk music venues and house concerts, with winter tours in Hawaii for many years, summers in Scandinavia, and cross-country tours of the USA. “Diane is an amazing songwriter and a world healer.” -- Bill Brickey, Chicago musician and producer You can reach out to her at : www.dianepatterson.org Church of Stonewall "Quiet" Flashmob Stockholm Central Station 8 March 2017 https://youtu.be/yyx4Lpz_vjg Hallelujah moment with Sofia Nylander and Diane Patterson
Folkgoddess Diane Patterson sings the world awake with her powerful voice, rocking guitar and revolutionary lyrics. Her sincere spirit and roots storytelling plant seeds of honor and respect. She’s fueled by music-as-activism and love-as-revolution. Made in New Orleans, Diane’s new 2018 album features Mike Napolitano and Ani DiFranco. Based in Northern California, independent and supported by her community, Diane’s musical background spans ‘church’, blues, and world music. Since 1989, wordsmith Patterson weaves spirit and unifying stories, now around the world, on festival stages, at folk music venues and house concerts, with winter tours in Hawaii for many years, summers in Scandinavia, and cross-country tours of the USA. “Diane is an amazing songwriter and a world healer.” -- Bill Brickey, Chicago musician and producer You can reach out to her at : www.dianepatterson.org http://nodepression.com/album-review/diane-patterson-tears-fall-her-guitar “Leading with Light”, a divinely inspired podcast, is a wellspring for transformational leaders of today to fill up and align, to gather and be inspired, to create their visions in the world, leading with their light! Join Your Hostess, Sky A’Hearn, Visionary Light Leader Extraordinaire, in the spirit of Deepak Chopra, Abraham-Hicks, Eckhart Tolle, Vianna Stibal, and an alternative to Bruce Lipton, Don Miguel Ruiz, Dr. Joe Dispenza, & Gregg Braden in leading with your light! One person in alignment, is stronger than millions out of alignment! When we lead with our light, our true essence, our pure alignment, each moment of each day we inevitably step into leadership, change lives and make this world a better place. Join Sky as she speaks with transformational leaders of today finding out what inspires them to lead with their light, helps bring them into alignment and makes their dreams come true! Sign up for your “Ignite Your Limitless Money Magic!” Exploration Session with Sky! Today. And don’t forget to subscribe to "Leading with Light" so that you don't miss a single episode and join us in the "Leading with Light" Facebook Group, where "Sparkly Divine Lights Come to Play". While you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! If you are a transformational leader and you would like to be interviewed by Sky, reach out at sky@skyislimitless.com. To learn more about our previous guests, listen to past episodes, and get to know your host, go to Apple Podcast or to http://www.skyislimitless.com/ and follow us on Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest Linkedin
Dr. Pinkney is the founder of B. Well and is a life coach.
This week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Terry Patten about how to work for heart-based change. Terry comments on his book, a New Republic of the Heart, and explores inner and outer transformation with us on the show. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ "Find some friends with whom you can do thing to make a difference. Find ways to work within the system, against the system, and around the system. And do it knowing that you're in solidarity with the future of life and everything that is good and true and beautiful in this world." - Terry Patten About the Guest: Terry Patten speaks and consults internationally as a community organizer, philosopher and teacher. He's spent the past 15 years working on the integral project of evolving consciousness and healing our global crises through spirit-based activism. He's also involved with restorative redwood forestry, creating alternatives to fossil fuels, and building up sustainable economies. Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio (Used with permission) www.dianepatterson.org A New Republic of the Heart by Terry Patten https://www.terrypatten.com/a-new-republic-of-the-heart/ Resources Listed in the Book (A Great List - Check It Out!) https://www.terrypatten.com/resources/ Nonviolence Minute Excerpt: http://www.hopedance.org/home/awakenings/3112-the-soul-of-activism About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Edward Hasbrouck, who, while traveling across Europe by bicycle, is also organizing a campaign challenging the future of the US military draft. Find out where and when the next national hearings by the commission polling the public about the military draft are going to be held. And find out how the US military is eyeing the possibility of expanding draft registration to women . . . and also thinking about a universal conscription into the military that would included everyone from medical personnel to tech support to your grandmother. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ ""It's not just that there's a threat of a draft. Resistance to the draft has been a tremendous victory. We need just a small step further to follow through on that to get draft registration ended, to abolish the Selective Service System, and most importantly to finally force the government to acknowledge that our people power limits the extent to which they can wage war." - Edward Hasbrouck, Draft Resister About the Guest: Edward Hasbrouck is author of the series "the Practical Nomad", one of the go-to authorities on international travel, an investigative journalist, and also a human rights activist and an advisor on travel-related civil liberties issues. He's a man with many hats, and he joins us today to talk about the effort to end the US military draft. More Info About the Draft Commission Hearings and Draft Resistance: http://resisters.info/ Where to submit a comment: http://www.inspire2serve.gov/ Background on Draft Resistance https://hasbrouck.org/draft/background.html "A Speech: For Antidraft Rally, DC, March 22, 1980" by Denise Levertov http://www.peacebuttons.info/PDF/0322.1980_A-Speech-For-Antidraft-Rally.pdf Women's Draft? Sign Me Up To Abolish War! by Rivera Sun http://www.riverasun.com/womens-draft-sign-me-up-to-abolish-war/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio (Used with permission) www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Rev. Bruce Wright, one of the organizers of the 26-year old Poor Peoples Economic and Human Rights Campaign about their recent 140-mile march from Philadelphia to DC, and the revival of Dr. King's Resurrection City. (This campaign is different from the Poor People's Campaign with Rev. Barber, and we'll talk about the differences on the show.) Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ "This campaign grew out of historic roots and the understanding that the best solutions for ending poverty and homelessness come from the people affected by it." - Rev. Bruce Wright About Our Guest: Rev. Bruce Wright is the cohost of the Revolutionary Road Show, a radio program broadcasting out of Tampa, FL. He is an organizer for the rights of unhoused peoples and a dedicated campaigner to the economic and human rights of all. He runs the Refuge, an international network of outreaches that work in solidarity with homeless and poor people. Rivera had the opportunity to meet him in Florida and see his work among those facing homelessness first hand, and it's an honor to have him on the show. Contact Rev. Bruce Wright refugestpete@gmail.com 727 278-1547 Refuge Ministry http://refugestpete.org/ Poor People's Economic and Human Rights Campaign http://economichumanrights.org/ 2018 Poor People's March on Washington, DC http://economichumanrights.org/2018-poor-peoples-march/ Images from the March on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisa.richards.752/posts/10214467418392566 Video: https://www.facebook.com/ppehrc/videos/10156485175368011/ Poor People's Economic and Human Rights Campaign on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ppehrc/ Principles of Unity (check this out!) http://economichumanrights.org/principles-of-unity/ Revolutionary Road Radio Show https://www.facebook.com/events/2067054283569122/ Moving Onward: Beyond Racial Division to Class Unity by Nelson Peery and Brooke Haegerty https://www.amazon.com/Moving-Onward-Racial-Division-Class/dp/0967668700 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with mythologist Sharon Blackie, author of "If Women Rose Rooted" and "The Enchanted Life", about the power of myth and story in transforming ourselves and our world. Sharon speaks about her journey from a corporate office job into her deep dive into the world of nature, myth, and place. In this show, she shares insights and thought-provoking ideas about the importance of reconnecting with the rest of the Earth at this time in human history. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ "If women remember that once upon a time we sang with the tongues of seals and flew with the wings of swans, that we forged our own paths through the dark forest while creating a community of its many inhabitants, then we will rise up rooted, like trees. And if we rise up rooted like trees, well then, women might indeed save not only ourselves, but the world."- Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted. Links: Sharon Blackie http://sharonblackie.net/ If Women Rose Rooted https://www.amazon.com/Women-Rose-Rooted-Authenticity-Belonging/dp/1910463663 The Enchanted Life https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Life-Unlocking-Magic-Everyday/dp/1910463884/ The Hedge School www.thehedgeschool.org Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
(Sorry for any confusion everyone, but we are having trouble with the system. Hopefully it is all worked out.) This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we focus on the powerful themes and subjects in Sherri Mitchell's newly released book, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. If your heart has been aching for ways to rethink this thing called life, this is the show for you! Sherri talks about Indigenous perspectives, cultural practices, and understandings that offer a different way of both looking at the world and living in it. Tune in for a lively discussion on rights and responsibilities, nature-based connection, balancing the divine feminine and masculine, and core cultural concepts that will leave you with lots of juicy concepts to think about all week long! Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ "The status quo is maintained by the cycles of conquest that we have been participants in; and if we want to truly change the paradigm that we're living in, we have to be able to approach these things with a completely different set of values." - Sherri Mitchell, Weh'na Ha'mu' Kwasset Find Sherri's book "Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change" here: http://sacredinstructions.life/ " Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
After a year-long hiatus (during which Rivera healed from cancer and both of your favorite cohosts wrote new books), we're back with new episodes of Love (and Revolution) Radio! Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ "Our modern day myths, our hero stories, are rooted in the stories of collective struggle that have gone on all over the world." - Rivera Sun "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
Originally released on December 11, 2011.
This week on Love (and revolution) radio, we speak with Gus Speth of the next system project about a paper he wrote called “The Joyful Economy: A Next System Possibility.” Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ You can check out Gus’ paper here: http://thenextsystem.org/the-joyful-economy/ James Gustave Speth, who goes by “Gus” and speaks with a soft South Carolina drawl, is nobody’s picture of a radical. His resume is as mainstream and establishment as it gets: environmental advisor to Presidents Carter and Clinton, founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council and World Resources Institute, administrator of the U.N. Development Program, dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, now a professor at Vermont Law School, and distinguished senior fellow at Demos. Time magazine has called him the “ultimate insider.” Gus Speth: ‘Ultimate insider’ goes radical Gus Speth calls for a “New Environmentalism” Gus Speth Wikipedia World Resources Institute Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with two anti-drone activists, Jerry Monroe Maynard and Eleanor Levine, about their work to raise awareness of the hidden dangers of drones both overseas and right here in our streets and neighborhoods. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: Shut Down Creech http://shutdowncreech.blogspot.com/ Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control - Medea Benjamin https://www.amazon.com/Drone-Warfare-Killing-Remote-Control/dp/1781680779 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with five amazing guests - Kathy Kelly, Tom Hastings, David Soumis, Gretchen Casey, Cindy Reinhardt - who are all working in the fields of peace and conflict resolution as we take a look at Rivera Sun's novel, The Way Between, as lens for the escalating conflicts in our real world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guests: Kathy Kelly is a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, which sent over 70 delegations to Iraq from 1996 to 2003, in open defiance of deadly U.S./UN economic sanctions. Her most recent travel has involved extensive work with community organizers in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kelly's nonviolent activism has incurred frequent arrests including several lengthy incarcerations in U.S. prisons against whose conditions she also campaigns. Tom Hastings is the Director of PeaceVoice, a professor of peace and conflict studies at Portland State University, and the author of several books including "A New Era of Nonviolence". David Soumis is a member of Veterans For Peace. Along with Lars Prip and other local VFP members, he demonstrates for peace weekly in Madison, WI, as well as participates in numerous other nonviolent actions for peace and justice. Gretchen Casey is the Training and Outreach Director for the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding in Gainesville, Florida. She is the founder of Unshame, a social media platform breaking the stigma around sexual violence. She has been a Victim Advocate with the Florida State Attorney's Office and Attorney General's Office for thirty-two years. Cindy Reinhardt works with people in coaching and runs a bed and breakfast in Crestone, CO, offering multi-day retreats to help people harmonize with their self, others, and the planet. Related Links: The Way Between by Rivera Sun https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996639136 The Way Between (on Rivera Sun's website) http://www.riverasun.com/the-way-between/ Voices for Creative Nonviolence http://vcnv.org/ Afghan Peace Volunteers http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/ PeaceVoice http://www.peacevoice.info/ A New Era of Nonviolence by Tom Hastings https://www.amazon.com/New-Era-Nonviolence-Power-Society/dp/078649431X Veterans For Peace https://www.veteransforpeace.org/ River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding http://www.centerforpeacebuilding.org/ Dragonfly House (Cindy's B & B) http://cindyreinhardt.com/dragonflyhousebedandbreakfast/ Cindy Reinhardt's Blog http://cindyreinhardt.com/thezone/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
On this week's Love (and Revolution) Radio show, we speak with author Robert Atkinson about his new book "The Story of Our Time" and how the long arc of human history is bending from duality to interconnectedness to oneness . . . and what that means for each of us as we move through a time of great change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Robert Atkinson, Ph.D., is an internationally acknowledged authority in helping people tell their life stories. He is a pioneer in the development of the life story interview methodology and among the first to apply Joseph Campbell’s classic work on the mythological journey of the hero to contemporary personal mythmaking. His books in these areas, The Gift of Stories: Practical and Spiritual Applications of Autobiography, Life Stories, and Personal Mythmaking (1995) and The Life Story Interview (1998), have been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Romanian and are widely used in personal growth and life review settings. Related Links: Robert Atkinson http://www.robertatkinson.net/ The Story of Our Time http://www.robertatkinson.net/the-story-of-our-time/ The Oneness Pledge http://www.robertatkinson.net/about/oneness-pledge/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Allyson Criner Brown, the Associate Director of Teaching for Change, an organization provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Allyson Criner Brown is the associate director of Teaching for Change and leads the Tellin’ Stories parent empowerment project, recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Harvard Family Research Project as a leading innovation in family engagement. She is a parent, educator, and seasoned practitioner who has received prestigious honors from the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Forum for Black Public Administrators. Allyson has represented Teaching for Change in interviews, articles, symposiums, and workshops for Education Week, The Atlantic, ThinkProgress, NPR, the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. A former middle school teacher, Allyson holds a master’s degree in public administration from The George Washington University and is driven by her experiences in schools and community-based nonprofits that focus on education, youth development, and social justice. Originally from Oakland, Calif., she is an avid cyclist who lives with her husband and daughter in Washington, D.C. Related Links: Teaching for Change http://www.teachingforchange.org/ Central America Teaching Website http://www.teachingforchange.org/teacher-resources/central-america-teaching Parent Organizing Project http://www.teachingforchange.org/parent-organizing Teaching For Change Recommended Reading Lists http://www.tfcbooks.org/best-recommended/booklist Resistance 101 Lesson http://www.teachingforchange.org/resistance101 Rethinking Schools http://www.rethinkingschools.org/index.shtml People's Curriculum for the Earth http://www.rethinkingschools.org/proddetails.asp?ID=9780942961577 Rethinking Sexism, Gender, Sexuality http://www.rethinkingschools.org/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9780942961591 Step Up Scholastic https://stepupscholastic.tumblr.com/ Zinn Education Project http://www.teachingforchange.org/teacher-resources/zinn-education-project Beyond Heroes and Holidays http://www.teachingforchange.org/books/our-publications/beyond-heroes-and-holidays Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools http://www.reclaimourschools.org/ National Opportunity to Learn Campaign http://www.otlcampaign.org/ Journey for Justice https://www.j4jalliance.com/ When Engaged Scholarship Mean Resistance, Erica Chenoweth http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2017/03/28/when-engaged-scholarship-means-resistance/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Dr. Jus Crea, a member of the Penobscot tribe, ethnobotanist, and Naturopathic physician, about traditional Indigenous medicines, ways of life, and culture. She discusses history, challenges to maintaining practices, and how politics influences the ability of native peoples to maintain their cultural traditions. Dr. Jus Crea also offers reflections on why these issues matter to everyone - regardless of background - at this critical time on planet Earth. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Dr. Jus Crea (Penobscot) is an ethnobotanist and Naturopathic physician. Currently, Dr. Jus Crea maintains a complete apothecary at her Naturopathic medical clinic where she treats people of all ages holistically. Related Links: Dr. Jus Crea www.nativerootmedicine.com Naturopathic Medicine www.naturopathicmedicaldoc.com Environmental Working Group www.ewg.org United Plant Savers www.unitedplantsavers.org Supermarket of the Swamp Rosemary Gladstar & Native Plants https://www.sagemountain.com/ Love (and Revolution) Radio Show w/ Larry Spotted Crow Mann https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/occupyradio/episodes/2016-11-22T14_00_00-08_00 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org "Maiden the Flower" by Diane Patterson on her "Teach, Inspire, Be Real" CD https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dianepatterson1 About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Co-Intelligence Institute Founder Tom Atlee about his new book, Participatory Sustainability, and the need for engaging everyone in our community and world as we look for solutions to our ecological crisis. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Tom Atlee is a social theorist, visionary, and writer. He is the founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute and the author of many books, including his newest, Participatory Sustainability. Related Links: Participatory Sustainability by Tom Atlee https://www.amazon.com/Participatory-Sustainability-emerging-civilizational-engagement/dp/1542856396 Co-Intelligence Institute https://www.co-intelligence.org/ Joanna Macy http://www.joannamacy.net/ Pachamama Alliance https://www.pachamama.org/ "I Grew Up In the Westboro Baptist Church: Here's Why I Left" Ted Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/megan_phelps_roper_i_grew_up_in_the_westboro_baptist_church_here_s_why_i_left Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Dr. Margaret Flowers about the new HOPE Campaign - Health Over Profit For Everyone - to make a national improved Medicare for All healthcare system the best and only and most sane choice for ending the healthcare crisis. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Dr. Margaret Flowers M.D. is a pediatrician and mother from Baltimore, MD. Margaret left medical practice in 2007 to advocate full-time for single payer health care. She served as Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program and is on the board of Healthcare-Now!. She is co-director of ItsOurEconomy.us. She has organized and participated in protests for health care, peace and economic justice which have included arrests for nonviolent resistance. Margaret is also the cofounder of Popular Resistance.org and the co-host of Clearing the FOG Radio. Related Links: Health Over Profit for Everyone (HOPE) http://healthoverprofit.org/ HOPE National Calls http://healthoverprofit.org/category/campaign-updates/ HOPE Twitter https://twitter.com/H_O_P4E HOPE Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Health-Over-Profit-for-Everyone-HOPE-1667394180226992/ ADA Capitol Crawl http://www.historybyzim.com/2013/09/capitol-crawl-americans-with-disabilities-act-of-1990/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, our guest L.A. Kauffman discusses her new book, Direct Action, which covers thirty years of creative nonviolent action and protest movement history . . . and the lessons that apply to the contemporary movement of movements. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: L.A. Kauffman has spent more than thirty years immersed in radical movements as a participant, strategist, journalist, and observer. She has been called a "virtuoso organizer" by journalist Scott Sherman for her role in saving community gardens and public libraries in New York City from development. Kauffman coordinated the grassroots mobilizing efforts for the huge protests against the Iraq war in 2003-2004. Her writings on American radicalism and social movement history have been published in The Nation, The Baffler, and many other outlets. Related Links: Direct Action by L.A. Kauffman https://www.versobooks.com/books/2331-direct-action Beautiful Trouble http://beautifultrouble.org/ Love (and Revolution) Radio Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/loveandrevolutionradio/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Dena Eakles of Echo Valley Hope about her recent time at Standing Rock, what's coming next for the movement, and how to bring prayerful, peaceful activism home to your heart and your community. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Dena Eakles is the founder of Echo Valley Hope and lives at Echo Valley Farm in Wisconsin. She has traveled several times to Standing Rock, participating and supporting the peaceful, prayerful actions to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Related Links: Echo Valley Hope: http://www.echovalleyhope.com/ Let Kindness Win: https://letkindnesswin.wordpress.com/ Indigenous Environmental Network: http://www.ienearth.org/ Indigenous Life Movement: https://www.facebook.com/IndigenousLifeMovement/ Digital Smoke Signals: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalSmokeSignals/ 34 Tribes File Lawsuit to Stop DAPL Oil from Flowing: http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2017/02/35-native-american-tribes-file-lawsuit.html 17 Banks Financing DAPL: http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/how-to-contact-the-17-banks-funding-the-dakota-access-pipeline-20160929 Defund DAPL: http://www.defunddapl.org/ The Way Between by Rivera Sun: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996639136 Love (and Revolution) Radio Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/loveandrevolutionradio/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
The week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we take a moment in the midst of the whirlwind to review and reflect, discussing how to stay grounded, continue engaging, and organize for the long haul in deep and powerful ways. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: Healing the Wounds of Turtle Island July 14-16 https://www.facebook.com/events/139392306480617/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Marie Principe about her new research on Women and Nonviolent Movements. We explore traditional and non-traditional gender roles, the dynamics of nonviolent struggle, and what it all means for our own movements at this time. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Marie A. Principe is the Program Associate for the Women in Public Service Project and Global Women's Leadership Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Having traveled extensively in Asia, Africa and Europe, Marie most recently worked in Iraq and Tunisia. She advised senior management on best business practices through compliance with company policy, international standards, USAID regulations and local Iraqi laws. Since returning stateside, she has pivoted towards examining the ways conflict and political instability affect women specifically, as well as women's unique roles in non-violent civil resistance movements. Marie holds a graduate degree in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and degrees in both English and Political Science from Appalachian State University. Related Links: Women and Nonviolent Movements Study http://www.usip.org/publications/2016/12/29/women-in-nonviolent-movements Why Civil Resistance Works by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820 Budrus (Documentary on Palestine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budrus_(film) The Burning Times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burning_Times Nonviolence Minute Links: Movements or Campaigns Initiated by Women http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/category/pcs-tags/mainly-or-initiated-women Columbian Women's Sex Strike Against Gang Violence, 2006 http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/colombian-women-use-sex-strike-demand-gangster-disarmament-huelga-de-piernas-cruzadas-2006 Iroquois Women Gain Power to Veto Wars 1600 http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/iroquois-women-gain-power-veto-wars-1600s Chipko Movement and Treehuggers http://www.riverasun.com/the-original-treehuggers/ Mother of All Strikes, Pawtucket, RI, 1824 http://inthesetimes.com/article/17050/the_mother_of_all_strikes Women's Labor Strikes: http://publici.ucimc.org/shut-down-the-mills-women-the-modern-strike-and-revolution/ Women Textile Workers,Barcelona, Spain 1913 http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/womens-textile-strike-barcelona-spain-1913 Costa Rican Women Teachers' Strike, 1919 http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/costa-rican-women-teachers-defend-schools-help-bring-down-dictator-1919 Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, Argentina, 1977 http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/mothers-plaza-de-mayo-campaign-democracy-and-return-their-disappeared-family-members-1977-19 Icelandic Women's Strike in 1975 http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/icelandic-women-strike-economic-and-social-equality-1975 Nigerian Women Occupy Chevron 2002 http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/nigerian-women-win-concessions-chevron-through-occupation-2002 Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, 1998-1999 http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/green-belt-movement-defends-karura-forest-nairobi-kenya-1998-1999 Women of Liberia's Mass Action for Peace, Liberia 2003 http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/liberian-women-act-end-civil-war-2003 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Chuck Collins of Inequality.org and the Institute for Policy Studies about his new book, "Born On Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home and Committing to the Common Good." Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Chuck Collins was born on third base - an inheritor of his great-grandfather's meat-packing fortune - but chose to give it up at the age of 26 and dedicate his life to ending inequality. Today, Chuck is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and directs IPS's Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is an expert on U.S. inequality and author of several books, including Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity, co-authored with Felice Yeskel. (New Press, 2005). He co-authored with Bill Gates Sr. Wealth and Our Commonwealth, (Beacon Press, 2003), a case for taxing inherited fortunes. He is co-founder of Wealth for the Common Good, a network of business leaders, high-income households and partners working together to promote shared prosperity and fair taxation. His newest book, Born On Third Base, has recently been published. Related Links: Born On Third Base by Chuck Collins http://inequality.org/born-on-third-base/ Inequality.org http://inequality.org/ "Gilded Giving" Study on Charitable Inequality http://www.ips-dc.org/report-gilded-giving/ Chuck Collins and Dariel Garner on Love (and Revolution) Radio https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/occupyradio/episodes/2016-04-12T14_00_00-07_00 David Bollier & the Commons on Love (and Revolution) Radio https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/occupyradio/episodes/2016-03-22T14_00_00-07_00 Adam Horowitz & Cultural Democracy on Love (and Revolution) Radio https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/occupyradio/episodes/2017-01-24T14_00_00-08_00 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Kali Acuno of Cooperation Jackson about a new collaborative endeavor called Ungovernable which builds resilient communities and organized resistance to the policies of hate, discrimination, and destruction. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Kali AKuno lives in Jackson, MI, and is the codirector of Cooperation Jackson, as well as being one of the co-instigators of #Ungovernable. Related Links: #Ungovernable https://www.ungovernable2017.com/ Here's How We Prepare To Be Ungovernable http://www.alternet.org/activism/heres-how-we-prepare-be-ungovernable-2017 Cooperation Jackson http://www.cooperationjackson.org/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Peace and Conflict Studies Professor Tom Hastings about the interconnections between militarism and destruction of the environment. We also cover the converse subject: the connection between protecting our beloved Earth and working for peace. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Tom Hastings is the Director of PeaceVoice, a professor of peace and conflict studies at Portland State University, and the author of several books including "A New Era of Nonviolence". Related Links: PeaceVoice http://www.peacevoice.info/ A New Era of Nonviolence by Tom Hastings https://www.amazon.com/New-Era-Nonviolence-Power-Society/dp/078649431X Civilian-Based Defense http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Civilian-Based-Defense-English.pdf Security Without Weapons by M.S. Wallace https://www.amazon.com/Security-Without-Weapons-Rethinking-Interventions/dp/1138944866 Nonviolent Peaceforce http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/ Joanna Macy and The Great Turning http://www.joannamacy.net/thegreatturning.html Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
On this week's episode of Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Dr. David Ragland, codirector of the Truth Telling Project for Ferguson and Beyond, about the role of truth telling in ending racism, police brutality, and systemic injustice and oppression. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Dr. David Ragland is the codirector of the Truth Telling Project. He is also on the board of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Peace and Justice Studies Association. Related Links: The Truth Telling Project http://thetruthtellingproject.org/ Twitter: @TruthtellersUSA David Ragland on Twitter: @davidragland1 We Stay Woke on Twitter: @westaywoke2K Living Room Conversations http://thetruthtellingproject.org/living-room-conversations Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission http://www.greensborotrc.org/ Dr. King's Beyond Vietnam Speech http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_beyond_vietnam/ Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week of Love (and Revolution) Radio, we cover Sherri Mitchell's recent trip to Standing Rock with a caravan of supplies and Water Protectors. She arrived just in time for the Army Corp of Engineers' denial of easement, the arrival of thousands of veterans and allies, and also a four day blizzard! Tune in for reflections, practical strategic advice for nonviolent action, and our solstice reflections as heart-based activists in a time of great change. Correction: In the show, Rivera mentions that 5.2 trillion dollars worldwide have been or have been promised to be shifted about of fossil fuels. The accurate statistic is that institutions and accounts controlling 5.2 trillion dollars have pledged or moved their assets that are currently held in fossil fuels. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: How To Help Standing Rock: http://www.ocetisakowincamp.org/donate Here are the 17 Banks Financing the Dakota Access Pipeline http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/how-to-contact-the-17-banks-funding-the-dakota-access-pipeline-20160929 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Sarah Van Gelder, co-founder and Editor-At-Large for Yes! Magazine, speaks about the inspiring stories of change she found on a 12,000 miles odyssey across the United States searching for and writing about The Revolution Where You Live. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Sarah is co-founder and editor at large of YES! Magazine. Sarah writes articles and conducts interviews for YES! Magazine, and speaks regularly about solutions journalism, grassroots innovations, and social change movements. She is the editor of several books and is writing another. She is the author of The Revolution Where You Live. Follow her on twitter @sarahvangelder. Related Links: The Revolution Where You Live https://revolutionwhereyoulive.org/ Yes! Magazine http://www.yesmagazine.org/ 5 Ways To Interrupt Harassment and Intimidation http://www.paceebene.org/2016/12/02/5-ways-you-can-interrupt-harassment-and-intimidation/ Chuck Collins and Dariel Garner Interview https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/occupyradio/episodes/2016-04-12T14_00_00-07_00 Live Share Grow: A Movement for the 100% http://www.livesharegrow.org/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Tom Llewellyn of Shareable about the creative, cost-effective, and community building ways that people just like us are sharing everything from housing to ideas to workspaces to tools, appliances, and children's toys. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Tom Llewellyn is the Strategic Partnerships Director at Shareable.net. He is a lifetime sharer and commoner located in Canyon, CA outside San Francisco. Related Links: Shareable.net http://www.shareable.net/ Sharing Cities http://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities How To Start Sharing: http://www.shareable.net/blog/six-ways-to-start-sharing Top 20 How To Share Posts http://www.shareable.net/blog/shareables-top-20-how-to-share-posts Little Free Libraries https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/occupyradio/episodes/2016-05-31T14_55_35-07_00 Reconciliation Ecology https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/occupyradio/episodes/2016-06-14T14_00_00-07_00 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we take a moment to review and reflect on the tumultuous events of the past weeks, digging deeper into both the problems we face and the heart of change. We cover the elections, hate crimes, movement building, and how to center the heart for positive action as we move forward to address these times. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: Countering Hate and Discrimination: Inspiring (and Replicable) Stories http://www.riverasun.com/countering-hate-and-discrimination/ Rivera's New Book! The Way Between is available here: https://igg.me/at/TheWayBetween Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Larry Spotted Crow Mann about his book, The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving, and dive into the history, truths, myths, and complex story of Thanksgiving so that we can all step up to the plate of acknowledging our history and committing to change in the present. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Larry Spotted Crow Mann is citizen of the Historical Nipmuc Tribe of Massachusetts. He is a internationally acclaimed writer, poet, cultural educator, Traditional Story Teller, tribal drummer /dancer and motivational speaker involving youth sobriety, cultural and environmental awareness. Mann is also a board member of the Nipmuk Cultural Preservation ,which is an organization set up to promote the cultural, social and spiritual needs of Nipmuc people as well an educational resource of Native American studies. He travels throughout the United States, Canada and parts of Europe to schools, colleges, pow wows and other organizations sharing the music, culture and history of Nipmuc people. He has also given lectures at universities throughout New England on issues ranging from Native American Sovereignty to Identity. Related Links: Larry Spotted Crow Mann http://www.whisperingbasket.com/ The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving http://www.whisperingbasket.com/mourning-road-book-reviews.html Tales From the Whispering Basket https://www.createspace.com/3486973 God Is Red by Vine Deloria Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Is_Red Oceti Sakowin Camp, Standing Rock Water Protectors, and #NoDAPL http://www.ocetisakowincamp.org/ Where to Invade Next by Michael Moore http://wheretoinvadenext.com/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Buddhist Peace Fellowship co-director Dawn Haney about spiritual activism, interconnectedness, suffering, impermanence, non-attachment, and how to move off of our cushions and into action at a time when deep compassion and powerful change are needed more than ever before. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Dawn Haney is the co-director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, which was founded in 1978 to serve as a catalyst for socially engaged Buddhism. Their purpose is to help beings liberate themselves from the suffering that manifests in individuals, relationships, institutions, and social systems. BPF’s programs, publications, and practice groups link Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion with progressive social change. Related Links: Buddhist Peace Fellowship http://www.bpf.org/ Thich Nhat Hanh and Engaged Buddhism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engaged_Buddhism Thich Nhat Hanh's 14 Precepts of Engaged Buddhism http://www.lionsroar.com/the-fourteen-precepts-of-engaged-buddhism/ Joanna Macy and The Great Turning http://www.joannamacy.net/ Billionaire Buddha by Rivera Sun http://www.riverasun.com/billionaire-buddha/ Nonviolence vs. Nazis: Five Lessons for Dealing with Trump http://www.riverasun.com/nonviolence-vs-nazis-five-lessons-to-trounce-trump/ (This essay was originally written during the primaries. It remains highly relevant.) Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Sandra Hines with the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality and the Peace Zones for Life project about the long-term work to reduce violence and work for justice in the city of Detroit. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Sandra Hines is a resident of Detroit, MI, and a life-long organizer who has worked on numerous issues including police brutality, preventing the privatization of the schools, economic justice, and ending violence. She is the president of Peace Zones For Life, and a member of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality. Related Links: Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality http://detroitcoalition.org/ Video on Peace Zones For Life https://youtu.be/Q_zGB2qEU4k Contact for Peace Zones for Life: Sandra Hines (313) 658.2072 Read More About Peace Zones: http://stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/our-neighborhoods-our-streets-march-peace-detroit Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Greg Mello from the Los Alamos Study Group speaks about the historic UN treaty that could ban the manufacturing, possession, and use of nuclear weapons. He shares sobering insights into the Dr. Strangelove mentalities of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, Kirtland Air Force Base nuke soldiers, and the nuclear warhawks on Capitol Hill. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Greg Mello is the director of the Los Alamos Study Group which has been providing leadership in nuclear disarmament since 1989. Related Links: Los Alamos Study Group http://www.lasg.org/ UN Treaty to Ban the Bomb http://www.icanw.org/why-a-ban/positions/ "New Directions In Nuclear Disarmament" -LASG Discussion at the Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de Los Marquez, Santa Fe, NM, 6:30 - 8:30 pm, November 11th. #NoWarNovember https://www.facebook.com/groups/343359646012738/ Campaign Nonviolence Houston https://www.facebook.com/CNVhou1/ Veterans for Peace Armistice Day Campaign https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/armistice-day/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we feature the recent experiences of three activists, Jerry Monroe Maynard, Josie Lenwell, and Chris Nelson, who joined the School of Americas Watch Border Convergence in Arizona earlier this month to decry the state-sponsored violence that is causing displacement and heightening the already heated tensions over immigration issues. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guests: Jerry Monroe Maynard is a young, Catholic, Mexican American activist and an organizer with Campaign Nonviolence. Josie Lenwell is a long-time peace activist since the Vietnam War, and a member of Code Pink. Chris Nelson is a peace and environmental activist from Chico, CA, and works with the Chico Peace and Justice Center. Related Links: School of the Americas Watch SOA Video of Border Actions https://vimeo.com/187456403 Enough! A Report Back From the Border Vigil Against US State Violence http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37968-enough-a-report-back-from-the-border-vigil-against-us-state-violence Berta Caceres http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/what-does-justice-for-berta-caceres-mean/ Icelandic Women's Strike of 1975 http://www.riverasun.com/know-your-nonviolent-history-icelandic-womens-strike-oct-24th-1975/ The Dandelion Insurrection by Rivera Sun http://www.riverasun.com/online-store/the-dandelion-insurrection/ Gentrification and Renters' Justice on Love (and Revolution) Radio http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-10-18T14_00_00-07_00 Flush the TPP! Stop the Global Corporate Coup on Love (and Revolution) Radio http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-10-11T10_29_48-07_00 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured music is La Mañana by Chad Wilkins from his album "Show Us The Way of the Heart". You can find his music at www.chadwilkinsmusic.com About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with four guests who are each organizing for renters' justice, stopping gentrification, forming cooperatives and affordable housing, and decommodifying buildings while asserting that housing is a human right. Join us as we speak with Andrea Chiriboga-Flor, Mike Dennis, Antonio Gutierrez, and Kali Acuno about the Homes For All campaign and the National Renters' Day of Action that took place in 55 cities throughout the United States. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guests: Andrea Chiriboga-Flor is from Denver, CO with 9 to 5 Colorado; Mike Dennis and the East Los Angeles Community Corporation are founding members of the collaboratively-initiated Homes for All campaign. Antonio Gutierrez is from Chicago, IL and works with the Autonomous Tenants Union. Kali Acuno lives in Jackson, MI, and works with Cooperative Jackson. Related Links: National Renters' Day of Action Sept 22nd, 2016 http://homesforall.org/pressroom_post/rentersdayofaction-to-sweep-the-country-on-922-as-rent-control-ballot-initiatives-statewide-campaigns-and-a-new-wave-of-tenant-union-organizing-gain-steam-nationally/ Homes for All http://righttothecity.org/homes-for-all-campaign-summary/ Right to the City http://righttothecity.org/ 9 to 5 Colorado http://9to5.org/local-chapters/9to5-colorado/ Padres y Jóvenes Unidos http://padresunidos.org/ East Los Angeles Community Corporation http://www.elacc.org/ Autonomous Tenants Union https://www.facebook.com/AutonomousTenantsUnion/ Cooperative Jackson http://www.cooperationjackson.org/ Community Land Trusts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_land_trust Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/