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Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Ep. 590 – Sacramental Medicine with David Silver

Mindrolling with Raghu Markus

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 69:31


Exploring psychedelics as sacramental medicine, Mindrolling comrades David Silver and Raghu Markus discuss William Richards' book, Sacred Knowledge.Mindrolling is brought to you by Reunion. Reunion is offering $250 off any stay to the Love, Serve, Remember community. Simply use the code “BeHere250” when booking. Disconnect from the world so you can reconnect with yourself at Reunion. Hotel | www.reunionhotelandwellness.com Retreats | www.reunionexperience.orgThis week on Mindrolling, Raghu and David ponder through:The relationship between psychedelics and religious experiences The tale of Ram Dass, Neem Karoli Baba, and LSDResponsible use of psychedelics for reliability and potency David's experience with peyote shamans in South DakotaFinding out the ground of our own beings Viewing everything as God and everything as equally remarkable How spiritual awakenings are often initially nurtured through a psychedelic substance Considering set, setting, and our intentions before ingesting any entheogenComplete unity as Raghu's first memory of a psychedelic experienceCheck out the book referenced throughout this episode: Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences About David Silver:David Silver is the former co-host of the Mindrolling podcast. He is a filmmaker and director, most recently coming out with Brilliant Disguise. Brilliant Disguise tells the unique story of a group of inspired Western spiritual seekers from the 60s, who in meeting the great American teacher, Ram Dass, followed him to India to meet his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, familiarly known as Maharaj-ji. Two days before he left his body, Maharaj-ji instructed K.C. Tewari to take care of the Westerners, which he did resolutely until the day he died in 1997. Silver's #1 charting MGM/UA/Warners film, “The Compleat Beatles” is the critically acclaimed biopic movie about history's most famous band. The term ‘rockumentary' was first applied to this two-hour movie. Rolling Stone recently described the film as a “masterwork.” Silver's Warner Brothers' feature film, “No Nukes” also started the whole trend of music/activism feature documentaries.“When you take these substances, you must have the right atmosphere, the right people with you, the right reason for doing it. These things have to be thought very carefully about.” – David SilverSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Larry Conners USA
President Trump To Hold Talks With Iran in Two Day, Prime Topic, NO NUKES / 6P LC-USA 4-10-25

Larry Conners USA

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 52:14


Hour one of Larry Conners USA: RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/c-1568182 WEBSITE: https://www.larryconnersusa.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/larryconnersusa NEWSTALK STL: https://newstalkstl.com/larry/ The post President Trump To Hold Talks With Iran in Two Day, Prime Topic, NO NUKES / 6P LC-USA 4-10-25 appeared first on Larry Conners USA.

For A Green Future
Episode 316: For A Green Future: Oh Canada! No Nukes! 031625 Episode 316

For A Green Future

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 59:17


Host Joe DeMare talks about freedom of speech, freedom of information, and how both are threatened under Trump, especially information we need to fight global warming. Next he interviews Angela Bischoff, from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. She's calling for the cancellation of four nuclear plants that Ontario has ordered from the US. A Caller talks about how difficult it is to keep fighting in the face of the evil Trump is doing. Rebecca Wood lightens the mood talking about African penguins. Ecological News includes updates on the Greenpeace lawsuit, rising sea levels, and the EPA giving up on environmental protection. 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 2.20.25

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 138:13


SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY, PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS, & GRASSROOTS FEMINIST ORGANIZING We launch GREEP Zoom #212 with a lovely poem from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN, who tells us about the feminist community of Rohava in northern Syria. Co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces Prof. ERIC KINGSON takes us on a long journey for saving Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, which he says have deep popular support.   MARGARET VILLANI expresses her concern about the lethal swoop now trashing Medicare & Medicaid.   ELLEN GOTTLIEB from Save Social Security & Medicare Now.com tells us of upcoming Florida events.   Longtime organizer DANIELA GIOSEFFI warns that the dispersal of personal from Social Security & Medicare comprise an urgent threat.   We hear from ROBERT COPLIN on California's SSI shortcomings.   KEVIN EISENSTADT seeks guidance on the best time to take SSI benefits.   DONALD SMITH and MICKI LEADER warn about the need to sustain public support for these public institutions.   Grassroots organizing questions come from BRYAN BLAKELY.   Environmental broadcaster KEN GALE checks in from WBAI with vital green info about ECO-RADIO.   Plutonium at Livermore is also opposed by MARJORIE MIKELS, who tells us about upcoming demonstrations there.   The No Nukes community is thanked by HEIDI VIERTHALER who adds new about her Green Energy Economy work.   Safe Energy activist MYLA RESON evokes the Plutonium that's contaminated the Greater Denver region & remembers the great Dr. Karl Johnson and the Rocky Flats guards who shot 3-headed rattlesnakes.   We hear from DAVID ANTOS about a young activist named NABILA SAYED.   BARBARA HARRISON ask for our Environmental Network.     Radio legend LYNN FEINERMAN asks if the US will ever have a Jewish president.   The highly democratic process of knowing your neighbors is outlined by MIMI, MIKE & LYNN.   Building local community is evoked by MURTAZA MOGRI.   Fighting white supremacists powers the inquiry MIMI S from California.    

Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Ep. 579 – Argy Bargy of the Mind with David Silver

Mindrolling with Raghu Markus

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025 60:51


Mindrolling alumnus David Silver re-joins Raghu to help us transform our relationship with thought and lead us to growth and inner peace.Mindrolling is brought to you by Reunion. Reunion is offering $250 off any stay to the Love, Serve, Remember community. Simply use the code “BeHere250” when booking. Disconnect from the world so you can reconnect with yourself at Reunion. Hotel | www.reunionhotelandwellness.com Retreats | www.reunionexperience.orgThis journey on Mindrolling, Raghu and David weave through:Opposing the idea of ‘I think, therefore I am'The disease of overthinking and why we thinkLetting thoughts come through and letting it goHow our relationship to thought is what makes us sufferFocused, creative, compassionate thinking as the center of our growthThe necessity of compassion for oneself along with mindfulnessComing back into mantra when our mind wandersPassing through thoughts that are negative rather than getting hookedRight thinking and right actionAbout David Silver:David Silver is the former co-host of the Mindrolling podcast. He is a filmmaker and director, most recently coming out with Brilliant Disguise. Brilliant Disguise tells the unique story of a group of inspired Western spiritual seekers from the 60s, who in meeting the great American teacher, Ram Dass, followed him to India to meet his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, familiarly known as Maharaj-ji. Two days before he left his body, Maharaj-ji instructed K.C. Tewari to take care of the Westerners, which he did resolutely until the day he died in 1997. Silver's #1 charting MGM/UA/Warners film, “The Compleat Beatles” is the critically acclaimed biopic movie about history's most famous band. The term ‘rockumentary' was first applied to this two-hour movie. Rolling Stone recently described the film as a “masterwork.” Silver's Warner Brothers' feature film, “No Nukes” also started the whole trend of music/activism feature documentaries.”This is workable conditions. We can absolutely transform so that we are not hooked and glued to these thoughts and the belief and story from which they come from.” – Raghu MarkusSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 1.9.25

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2025 114:10


We Honor LEONARD PELTIER & His Fellow Prisoners as Trump is Certified & We Evaluate His Nominees TATANKA BRICCA discusses the chances that Joe Biden will save the life of Leonard Peltier, who'll be released before 1/20 or die. A minor correction comes from MYLA RESON…and still  more from MIKE HERSH. Young Progressive Democrats of America is represented by HARTZELL GRAY, who inspires our movement to recruit young activists. NICOLE UNG urges us to help free whistleblower Charles Littlejohn. Myla and DAVID SALTMAN talk about beloved corporate-assaulted attorney STEVE DONZIGER who has been privately prosecuted by Chevron Oil. GAVRILAH WELLS of Amnesty International recalls Trump's mass killings of 13 federal prisoners and urges Biden to keep pardoning folks, especially Peltier.  NICOLE CORRADO evokes the need to sanction a Russian billionaire helping Musk buying Twitter. Election expert RAY LUTZ shows disturbing statistics from Nevada indicating serious irregularities in the Democratic turnout. The insane prosecution against JOHN BRAKEY for merely making a public records request is explained by SUSAN PYNCHON. DON MCCANNE emphasizes the need for youth in the progressive movement. We hear from DIANE CAMERON that the 1/6 insurgents did attack the Capitol, but more importantly they attacked our Congress. Trump's in-coming cabinet is dissected by JACK EIDT. We'll see you next week in Solartopia….No Nukes!!!          

Just Be® ~ Spiritual BOOM
Special EP2: Grassroots Warrior Women~Eden, Lisa, Carole & Michelle: Matriots/Spirituality of Hair/Galactic Signatures/No Nukes

Just Be® ~ Spiritual BOOM

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2024 80:00


Michelle Schiau hosts me, Lisa Schermerhorn and Carole Maureen Friesen. We call ourselves the Matriots plus the "Grassroots Warrior Women" because we are all co-anchors on the Grassroots Warrior Network via Rumble. On that network we where each share our individual shows and deliver our spiritual assessment complete with guests of the evolving world. In this round table discussion, we discuss Trump, hope, ascension shifts, hair in general as well as the shaving of heads, galactic signatures, no nukes and much more.Lisa's website: https://lisaschermerhorncoaching.comCarol's website: https://thelightworkersinstitute.comMichelle's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@michelleschiauhunahimanaku1263Grassroots Warrior Network: https://rumble.com/search/all?q=grassroots%20warrior%20network*Host Eden Koz is a soul realignment specialist utilizing such gifts as psychological empathy, intuition, psychic ability, mediumship, meditation, mindset shift, Reiki, dimensional and galactic healing, to name a few. She can also perform a spiritual Co#id Vac+ Healing as well as remote & face-to-face sessions with individuals and groups. Contact info for Eden Koz / Just Be®, LLC:My 3D to 5D Merch here. Insta, FB, FB (Just Be), LinkedIn, TruthSocial, (see the podcast also on) BitChute, Rumble, YouTube, Odysee, Grassroots Warrior Network The Just Be~Spiritual BOOM Podcast can be found on the audio directories: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, ...

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
5738 PLEASE NO NUKES!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2024 93:46


Wednesday Night Live 20 November 2024In this episode, I tackle pressing societal issues and personal reflections, focusing on the impact of global affairs on family life and the importance of nurturing the next generation. We discuss the rise of Bitcoin as a mirror of past technological shifts and critique societal structures that limit freedom. Additionally, I emphasize active engagement in ethical discourse and the significance of intentional parenting in shaping emotionally healthy children. The episode culminates in a call for collective responsibility and proactive efforts toward a brighter future.GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND AUDIOBOOK!https://peacefulparenting.com/Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!Also get the Truth About the French Revolution, multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material, as well as targeted AIs for Real-Time Relationships, BitCoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-Ins. Don't miss the private livestreams, premium call in shows, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!See you soon!https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2022

Hudson Mohawk Magazine
Groups Say No Nukes At Gov Hochul's Energy Summit

Hudson Mohawk Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2024 9:59


Governor Hochul on September 5 convened an energy summit in Syracuse to supposedly get the state back on track to meeting its climate goals. However, much of the summit focused on the idea on building new nuclear power plants, which sparked a letter of protest from more than 150 groups. At a press conference held outside the summit, we hear from Laura Shindell of Food and Water Watch; Joe Heath, representing the Onondaga Nation; Kathy Nolan of Physicians for Social Responsibility - NY; Cornell professor Robert Howarth; Ethan Gormley of Citizen Action; and Avni Pravin of AGREE (Alliance for a Green Economy). By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Knitmoregirls's Podcast
A Political Old Lady- Episode 750- The Knitmore Girls

Knitmoregirls's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2024 69:04


  This episode is sponsored by: Ready for some retail therapy with a side of laughter and community? Look no further than Erin.Lane's monthly live sales! Each sale features a fresh theme (think whimsical unicorns, sassy llamas, you name it!), and you'll be the first to snag brand spankin' new fabrics. Who knows, you might just find your new favorite bag too.   Make sure to never miss a minute (or fabric) by signing up for the newsletter, and keep up with us in real time by with our Facebook community, Erin.Lane Bag Buddies. Bag buddies always get first access to new bags and fabrics, because who doesn't want to share the love of their besties?     Have you ever had to frog because you forgot a step several rows back? Or lost your spot because you dropped your magnet board or lost track with your highlighter tape? Instead of wrestling with paper, use the knitCompanion app. It keeps you on track so you can knit more and frog less. knitCompanion works with ALL your patterns and is available for Apple, Android, and Kindle Fire Devices                     Are you feeling dis-GRUNT-eled about your stash? Are you browsing Insta-HAM looking for knitting inspiration? Is color "kind of a PIG deal" in your life? Oink Pigments offers over one hundred forty PIG-ture perfect colorways to make you SQUEAL with delight. For a limited time only, bring home the bacon with code KNITMORE and get fifteen percent off in-stock yarns and fibers at oinkpigments dot com. Shop soon, because these pigs will FLY! Episode 750   Administrative stuff: And then Mom got Covid! Yay paxlovid!  Covid/Paxlovid Rebound Ads. Added the bumper ads back to the beginning and end of the podcast- pulling in income from other industries to help put income into ours.  Also! We've joined the Mood Affilliate program. No cost to you, but some cash from your purchases comes our way if you click one of our links. Ads: if you're a small business (in our industry, related to this), and you're struggling and could use some ads, message me and we'll give you access to our audience, on the house.  If your politics include voting for someone who would have mom's citizenship stripped, and block us from visiting our family in Iran, we will not be airing (or comping) ads for your business, of course. On the Needles (:34)   Gigi ;  Meadowlands blanket # 13 Color way: Satyrs fourth triangle finished waiting for crochet border  Jasmin: almost done with the back of the vintage dolman sleeve cabled cardigan in undyed Tencel from Wool2DyeFor   Jasmin is 2ish inches from finishing Maxie's top test knit for Ainur Berkambayeva in Lisa Souza's Sylvie Silk in “Ruby" Gigi: Meadowlands #15 Sasquatch  Jasmin: Need to put in my yardage so BostonJen knows how close I am to kicking her bootie #StashDash   Events:(:11:41)   Jasmin: Cognitive Fiber Retreat X! I'm teaching a steeking class Jasmin: Visible Mending class for Sheepspot peeps/Sasha Torres' spinning school Paris Oympics! TOUR DE FLEECE/TOUR DE FRANCE Mother Knows Best:(15:22) VOTE. Talk to everyone. Have them check their voter registration status! Bookmark the voter registration website on your phone, and get people registered. Voting is a privilege!  Kamala Harris "We Choose Freedom" Knit-along with Knitrino We discuss NO Nukes, grape Boycott, Nestle Baby Formula disaster, Iceberg Lettuce boycott Democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh Professor Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky   When knitting attacks:(35:31) Started on 3rd triangle of Meadowlands blanket, messed up the sequence and had an extra row on the wrong side  Gigi: I am making a lot of mistakes in my garter stitch project.  Dropping stitches,adding yarn overs  Gigi: started another meadowlands blanket.  Messed up decreases, ripped most os it out, started again  Meadowlands ripped out 3x Also dropped stitches at the beginning of the row. Trying to fix it makes it worse. Will need to rip back a few rows    Knit more, know more A segment about Persian culture, history, or just generally cool stuff about Persian people. 2024 Iranian election Ja'at Khalee And sew on: (44:31) Gigi: Wish I had taken history of this western fashion  Gigi: Great British Sewing Bee on Facebook.  Not on Netflix yet Jasmin:  Jasmin: Lucille pants (by Gertie) done. Millicent skirt by Gertie done and attached to the top from last year's pride dress. Lucy hostess gown , finished! LINK? Panties (RadPatterns), because Lisa Woolfork espoused how great they are.  Speaking of Lisa Woolfork: STITCH BETTA HAVE MY MONEY fundraiser! Goal is $50K.  https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bws Mood trip while in NYC! Sewing is on a roll! Adjustable sewing table Aaronica Cole from The Needle and the Belle Tracing! Muslins! Projector!L Vintage 3 piece dress (flamingo dress) needs bias tape sewn on and buttons/snaps attached 1 yard vintage top: finished!   Gigi:     - Costuming: Bridgerton new season: enjoying the show and costumes in particular. Francesca, this season's debutant is wearing a jacket that is not a Chanel cut, but it seems like a Chanel fabric 

Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Ep. 555 – Equanimity in the Face of Global Crises with David Silver

Mindrolling with Raghu Markus

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2024 71:39


David Silver and Raghu sit down for a conversation about maintaining equanimity in the face of multiple humanitarian and ecological crises around the world.Join comedian Duncan Trussell and Buddhist teacher David Nichtern on September 3rd for a free online talk: Imposter Syndrom & Teaching MeditationThis week, David and Raghu discuss: The divided state of our countryDealing with negative emotions like depression and lonelinessAdjusting our internal behavior in order to help others and ourselvesLooking to spiritual practitioners for answers and guidanceThe current political landscape of our worldThe necessity of having both wisdom and compassionRemaining equanimous in the face of global crisesBeing aware of spiritual materialismWhy a sitting meditation practice is integral for self-understandingOvercoming the afflictions and distortions of the mindSending loving kindness to all corners of our heartsTransforming ourselves to make the world a better placeAbout David Silver:David Silver is the former co-host of the Mindrolling podcast. He is a filmmaker and director, most recently coming out with Brilliant Disguise. Brilliant Disguise tells the unique story of a group of inspired Western spiritual seekers from the 60s, who in meeting the great American teacher, Ram Dass, followed him to India to meet his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, familiarly known as Maharaj-ji. Two days before he left his body, Maharaj-ji instructed K.C. Tewari to take care of the Westerners, which he did resolutely until the day he died in 1997. Silver's #1 charting MGM/UA/Warners film, “The Compleat Beatles” is the critically acclaimed biopic movie about history's most famous band. The term ‘rockumentary' was first applied to this two-hour movie. Rolling Stone recently described the film as a “masterwork.” Silver's Warner Brothers' feature film, “No Nukes” also started the whole trend of music/activism feature documentaries.“We are overwhelmed in so many different ways. This, everybody, is the first thing to do. Many people will say ‘I find it difficult. My mind wanders. I can't really meditate.' It's called practice. You start with 3 minutes, you go to 5, 10, 15, 20. You do it because this overwhelm is absolutely untenable for us without some practice.” – Raghu MarkusSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Record Player
Jesse Colin Young - The Perfect Stranger (1982)

The Record Player

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2024 54:36


Send us a Text Message.Jeff and Matt love nothing more than coming across obscure AOR gems. Jesse Colin Young's 1982 album, The Perfect Stranger, fits into that category. Featuring guest appearances by Carly Simon, Michael McDonald, Bill Payne and Fred Tackett of Little Feat and Timothy B. Schmit of the Eagles, The Perfect Stranger also finds Jesse surrounded by an unbelievable cast of many of the era's best session players.Jesse tells the guys how he came to work with producer Michael James Jackson on The Perfect Stranger, which he describes as an album he'd never made before - and it was an experience he ultimately didn't repeat. We also discuss his current songwriting contest with Future Youth Records. They're seeking to help inspire young songwriters from 18-24 to "use their unique voice to inspire change. Jesse knows a thing or two about that, having been the voice for "Get Together," the inspiring and unifying hit he released in 1967 with the Youngbloods. Entries for "The Perfect Stranger" songwriting contest are being accepted through August 15. Good luck!Jesse also tells us about the early days of the No Nukes movement, which he co-founded, his struggles with Lyme Disease and his memoir that he recently completed. We also ask him how many times he saw the Freedom Rock commercial in the '80s.It was a delight speaking with Jesse and for the first time, you can now find The Perfect Stranger on your favorite digital service, wherever you get your music, so dig in! P.S. Jeff has been quite busy. He has a new book out and he continues to write even more good words beyond that at Jefitoblog.Support the Show.

The Propaganda Report
No "No Nukes" for AI? France for the French? Absolute Power Courtesy of SCOTUS?

The Propaganda Report

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2024 56:52


Watch and chat LIVE on Youtube, Rumble, Rokfin, Twitter and Instagram Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00PM PST/ 5:00PM EST! Support: True Hemp Science https://truehempscience.com/ PROMO CODE: MONICA First 100 customers to spend $80 or more get a free sample bottle of Hypnautica, an excellent end of the day relaxation tool and may inspire a lifted sense during your evening routines. Become a PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER on Apple Podcasts for AD FREE episodes! all for the cost of one newspaper a month-- i read the news so you dont have to! Find, Follow, Subscribe & Rate on your favorite podcasting platform AND for video and social & more... Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/monicaperez Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/monicaperezshow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MonicaPerez Twitter/X: @monicaperezshow Instagram: @monicaperezshow For full shownotes visit: https://monicaperezshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deep Dives with Monica Perez
No "No Nukes" for AI? France for the French? Absolute Power Courtesy of SCOTUS?

Deep Dives with Monica Perez

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2024 56:42


Watch and chat LIVE on Youtube, Rumble, Rokfin, Twitter and Instagram Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00PM PST/ 5:00PM EST! Support: True Hemp Science https://truehempscience.com/ PROMO CODE: MONICA First 100 customers to spend $80 or more get a free sample bottle of Hypnautica, an excellent end of the day relaxation tool and may inspire a lifted sense during your evening routines. Become a PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER on Apple Podcasts for AD FREE episodes! all for the cost of one newspaper a month-- i read the news so you dont have to! Find, Follow, Subscribe & Rate on your favorite podcasting platform AND for video and social & more... Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/monicaperez Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/monicaperezshow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MonicaPerez Twitter/X: @monicaperezshow Instagram: @monicaperezshow For full shownotes visit: https://monicaperezshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 5.23.24

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2024 57:59


 GOOD NEWS FOR JULIAN ASSANGE; DAVID SWANSON'S BEYOND WAR; SAVING WMASS FROM BAD BATTERIES; WHO & THE COVID > > > > Our astoundingly dense GREEP Zoom #178 starts with VINNIE DESTEFANO giving us some rare but important good news on JULIAN ASSANGE & his ridiculous victimization by the US government. > > In this case a British court has ruled that the US cannot guarantee him a fair trial, and that he therefore has the right to appeal against extradition.  Hopefully he'll soon be free!!! > > We follow with the great peace activist DAVID SWANSON and his illustrious cohort DAVID HARTSOUGH. > > David Swanson tells us about his magnificent BEYOND WAR campaigns against the senseless militarism that plagues our species. > > David Hartsough narrates some of his fantastic stories of peace activism, including an amazing moment when seven sailors jumped off a warship rather than deliver weapons to destroy Vietnam. > > DAVID SALTMAN informs us that AMAL CLOONEY has had a helping hand in issuing the indictments to Netanyahu and Sinwar. > > MYLA RESON and TATANKA BRICCA join PAUL NEWMAN in raising important questions about the war in Ukraine. > > ANNA GYORGY, CORT DORSEY and BILL STUBBLEFIELD give us the low-down on a brutal grassroots fight against a lithium battery field criminally mis-sited in the rural Massachusetts town of Wendell. > > This classic bottom-up battle shows how the coming of Solartopia must be done with eco-sanity. > > Finally, CAMILLA REES introduces a stellar session on the World Health Organization, vaccines and COVID. > > DR. MERYL NASS and MARY HOLLAND give us the devastating detail on the WHO attempt to install a global program on vaccination. > > WENDI LEDERMAN, MIKE HERSH & DR. NANCY NIPARKO offer differing points of view of this critically important crisis. > > Next week being Memorial Day we'll take the time off and SEE YOU AGAIN IN 2 WEEKS. > > No Nukes…shut Diablo Canyon!!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 5.9.24

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2024 58:00


ANTI-TRANS ATTACKS; JULIAN ASSANGE; LABOR RISING; CAMPUS UPHEAVALS; SAVING DEMOCRACY IN AZ We open with BRYNN TANNEHILL's powerful report on escalating attacks against trans people throughout the US, but with an astounding victory in Kansas (!).   VINNIE DESTEFANO'S information on Julian Assange includes a way YOU can help by calling your Senators & Representatives to get him FREE!   MYLA RESON, DAVID GURAN and WENDI LEDERMAN chime into the amazing battle to save the right to practice journalism anywhere on Earth.   RUTH STRAUSS talks to us about “Outside Agitators” and Joe Biden.   From Georgia's RAY MCCLENDON we hear the latest on the Trump prosecutions and also on the arrival of the Vogtle nuclear plant already devastating the Peach State economy.   Republican Arizona state Senator KEN BENNETT explains the 4-point program for guaranteeing safe, fair, digitally scanned paper ballots that produce accurate outcomes in public elections.   With legendary election protection pioneer JOHN BRAKEY we conduct an astonishing excursion into the workings of the AZ legislature's progress into the world of actual democracy.   Will this publicly verifiable method of conducting the vote counting and auditing process become a national model? Let's hope so.   Globally infamous “magician” DAVID SALTMAN jumps in to doubt the ability of run a fair and accurate vote count when professional slights of hand are lurking.   An Emmy-winning investigative reporter, Saltman challenges Sen. Bennett and Brakey to prove that they can produce a vote count without error.   DONALD SMITH warns of violence at the polls.   Myla Reson then challenges Senator Bennett to do face the realities of the horrendous Palo Verde nuclear plant. No Nukes!!!   In four weeks (on June 3) we will stage a national zoom gathering on how to conduct fair, reliable, verifiable elections this fall….

Talk World Radio
Harvey Wasserman on the Drugs You Have to Take to Believe Nuclear Energy Is Climate-Friendly

Talk World Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 29:00


This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Nuclear energy with our guest Harvey “Sluggo” Wasserman. He is a past guest and a life-long activist who speaks, writes, and organizes widely on energy, the environment, U.S. and global history, drug war, election protection, and grassroots politics. He has taught at Capital University, Columbus State Community College, and Hampshire College. He has authored or co-authored 20 books, countless articles and speeches, two films, and a Grammy-winnning song, and hosts two radio shows, California Solartopia and the Green Power & Wellness Show. Harvey helped coined the phrase “No Nukes” in 1973, and his recent article at Counterpunch is called Nuclear Power's Lethal, Larcenous End Game. See also: https://solartopia.org

Middle East Brief
No Nukes is Good Nukes

Middle East Brief

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2024 24:24


The Bear Market Brief goes nuclear! Andrey Baklitskiy dropped by to discuss all of Russia's strategic red lines, what the introduction of hypersonic weapons means for global security, and more.Subscribe to the Bear Market Brief 

Friends & Neighbors
Rhonda Markowitz

Friends & Neighbors

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024 79:54


Legendary MTV News Senior Writer, Rhonda Markowitz, takes us on a wild, star-studded, forgotten New York ride from Bayside, Queens (alongside her childhood friend, a certain Loser's mom, Bibbe Hanson) to her first concert (yup, The Beatles at Shea Stadium) to her stints at A&M and Polygram Records, and, eventually, the MTV newsroom. We'll hear about befriending INXS' Michael Hutchence, Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett, and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe; and tag along at the Concert for Bangladesh, MUSE's “No Nukes” benefits, and Live AID. And Rhonda walks us step-by-step through her reportage of Kurt Cobain's final days.

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 4.11.24

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2024 136:22


MIMI GERMAN'S GORGEOUS POETRY; PAUL BURKE ON ELECTION PROTECTION; NORMAN SOLOMON ON PEACE Our GREEP zoom gathering #173 begins with the magnificent MIMI GERMAN, our much-loved Poet Laureate.  Mimi reads us her fabulous poem about the time she almost got shot at the CGS nuke on the Hanford nuclear wasteland. Plus she tells of our great adventure on the legendary peace boat GOLDEN RULE and the time we were rammed (true!!!) by a police boat while protesting Portland's militaristic “fleet week.” The great DENNIS BERNSTEIN joins us with tales of his activism as we celebrate the massive impact of his nationally syndicated FLASHPOINTS SHOW on KPFA/Pacifica.  PAUL NEWMAN chips in with a great comment on nuclear casualties. RON LEONARD reminds us of the realities of the insane continued operations at Diablo Canyon...and of the new Friends of the Earth lawsuit against the handout to keep Diablo headed toward an uninsured Armageddon. The connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons is underscored by ALFRED MEYER. WENDI LEDERMAN the introduces the amazing PAUL BURKE of VOTEWELL.NET, who fills us in on many of the crucial the realities of  election theft. DONALD SMITH and PAUL STOKES raiseadditional key issues on election protection, At the top of the second hour, we're joined by the legendary NORMAN SOLOMON. Norman's uniquely brilliant career as a journalist includes his work as a non-violent pioneer for peace. As a co-author of KILLING OUR OWN, Norman reminds us of the horrible death toll among downwinders from the lethal Nevada Bomb tests of the 1950s and ‘60s. Norman also urges our participation in DAN ELLSBERG WEEK, upcoming June 10-16. TATANKA BRICCA reminds us of Ellsberg's true greatness and of the many adventures they shared.  RUTH STRAUSS then reminds us that peace activism can be a dangerous business….and that the voting machines bought with millions of taxpayer dollars for Los Angeles are seriously problematic. MARION EDEY, legendary founder of the League of Conservation Voters and co-founder of the Threshold Foundatlon talks to us about election protection and more. We then hear MYLA RESON bemoaning the illusion among some young people that nuclear power can help fight global warming; she also raises the issue of depleted uranium being mis-used in US warfare. MIKE HERSH reminds us of the great accomplishments of the Clamshell Alliance and Norman's very effective activism in Oregon on shutting the Trojan reactor. Norman ends with a plea for the revival of diplomacy as a tool of foreign policy rather than building ever-more weapons for increasingly insane wars. With such a mindset, Norman warns, DR. STRANGELOVE remains a documentary….NO NUKES!!!

A Breath of Fresh Air
Orleans' JOHN HALL - From Rock Rythms to Congress

A Breath of Fresh Air

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2024 52:00


John Hall is a founding member of the band Orleans and one of the main instigators of the No Nukes and MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) movements. He's been intimately involved in promoting social change and environmental advocacy, both as a private citizen and as an elected representative in Congress. John was studying piano at 5, playing French horn, guitar bass and drums by 12. He started playing in the clubs of Greenwich Village by 18 and at 21 wrote and directed music for a Broadway and Off-Broadway play. He then worked on numerous projects including Seals and Crofts' album Down Home. He toured with Taj Mahal and when he came home, started the band that would become Orleans in 1972. Moving to Woodstock NY with his wife Johanna, the pair began writing together. They had major hits ‘Dance With Me' and ‘Still The One', songs that have garnered 9 million terrestrial airplays and hundreds of millions of streams. John has also co-written songs for Janis Joplin, Millie Jackson, Bonnie Raitt, The Tymes, Chaka Khan and Chet Atkins among others. He co-founded the group Musicians United for Safe Energy and helped organise the 1979 No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden. His song 'Power' was its anthem, performed and recorded there by the Doobie Brothers with James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Carly Simon, Nicolette Larson, Phoebe Snow, and many more. That song was also sung by Peter Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger and others. John's guitar playing was featured on albums by Browne, Raitt, Carly Simon, Little Feat and more. In the 90s the John Hall Band recorded two LPs: Search Party and All Of The Above, which contained the AOR and MTV staple Crazy (Keep On Fallin').  Environmental activism led John to serve on several boards. In 2006 he was elected to the US House of Representatives and also served on the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Returning to private life in 2011, John continued to perform and record with Orleans and as a solo artist. During the pandemic, he wrote and recorded songs for his latest CD “Reclaiming My Time.” John Hall joins us this week as special guest to share the stories (and the music) from his life. I hope you'll join us. If you'd like to know more about John, check out his website https://johnhallmusic.com/ and if you feel like requesting a guest that you'd like to hear interviewed on the show - reach out to me through my website https://www.abreathoffreshair.com.au Warm regards Sandy        

This Day in Esoteric Political History
No Nukes In Space (1967)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2024 17:34


It's January 28th. This day in 1967, the U.S., U.K., and Russia sign a treaty that, among other things, says that outer space should be off-limits for the testing and deployment of weapons of mass destruction. Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss why there was a need for the Outer Space Treaty, and how — despite its important language about nuclear weapons — it left a lot of grey area and confusion about how different countries would take on space exploration. Sign up for our newsletter! Get your hands on This Day merch! Find out more at thisdaypod.com This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories. If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Follow us on social @thisdaypod Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 12.05.23

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2023 134:32


VOTING RIGHTS & BRIBERY IN OHIO; HOW GOOGLE MANIPULATES PUBLIC OPINION; NUKE POWER ON THE ATTACK        We start with the great ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON, who open GREEP #159 with their usual genius insights on voting rights, gerrymandering and more, primarily in the BIPOC south. STEVE CARUSO joins to fill us in on the corrupt insanity of Ohio.  Buckeye officials from the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Public Utilities Commission Chair and others are all implicated in the infamous $61 million bribe  for “persuading” the Legislature for a $1billion nuclear power bribe.  The former House Speaker, Larry Householder, has already begun a 20-year prison term. CAMILLA REES then introduces DR. ROBERT EPSTEIN and his pioneer work in tracking the undue influence of Google and other internet giants in swaying public opinion.  Dr. Epstein's riveting, groundbreaking presentation The presumption is that the influence is meant to be “pro-liberal,” but co-convener MIKE HERSH argues that the real agenda is pro-corporate, far to the right of the American mainstream.  Major media legend DAVID SALTMAN challenges the idea that such manipulation can tangibly shape voting behavior, ERIC LAZARUS, JUSTIN LEBLANC, MARY STONEWALL-BUTLER, JULIE WIENER, WENDI LEDERMAN and others chime in on the anti-democracy wave drowning our nation in outright autocracy. We're then joined by the legendary clean energy pioneer KARL GROSSMAN, who reports on the corporate call for the world to triple its insane commitments to atomic energy.  At the latest global climate conference, a convening sheik amazingly asserts that the burning of fossil fuels has no impact on global climate. STEVEN SONDHEIM, RON LEONARD and others chime in on the nuclear attack on our planet. NINA BEETY raises the possibility that a breeder reactor may have been built by PG&E at Moss Landing, California. MYLA RESON, newly elected member of the National Board of the Pacifica Radio Network, reminds us that the California Solartopia show she co-hosts with me (Harvey Wasserman) has returned to to KPFK 90.7fm in Los Angeles at 5pm PT Wednesday evenings.  That show can be heard at KPFK.org. We will see & hear you again on December 11.  Until then…..NO NUKES….Shut Diablo

Atomic Hobo
No Nukes and Kisses

Atomic Hobo

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2023 24:43


Churchill sails across the Atlantic to meet Eisenhower - the new US President. But even though they are allies and friends from the war, there will be no nukes and kisses from Ike. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Ry Cooder Story
11 Bop Till You Drop (1979)

The Ry Cooder Story

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2023 48:04


Chicken Skin Music and Jazz were commercial failures, so Cooder had to try something new again. For Bop Till You Drop, he turned to rhythm and blues and digital recording. The result was absolutely stunning. Bop Till You Drop, the first official digitally recorded rock-pop album in history, is an extraordinary record - a compelling combination of form and content. This episode tells the story of the production, introduces each song, and looks at Cooder's other activities in 1979, especially his live performances with David Lindley or at the No Nukes concert.This podcast frequently uses small snippets of musical recordings in podcast episodes for educational, review, and commentary purposes. In all cases, without exception, we believe this is protected by fair use in the U.S., fair dealing in the U.K. and EEA, and similar exceptions in the copyright laws of other nations. No more of the original than necessary is used, and excerpts are edited into long-form narratives, making the use transformative in nature.Written, produced and edited by Frank SchnelleTheme and background music by Chris HaugenFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and YouTubeThe Ry Cooder Story WebsiteSupport us on PatreonRy Cooder and David Lindley live in Perth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 9.28.23

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2023 64:58


SHUTTING THE DIABLO NUKES:  A PDA SPECIAL BROADCAST On Sunday, September 24, the Progressive Democrats of America presented a special one-hour Town Meeting that featured LINDA SEELEY, of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, and Harvey Wasserman, host of PRN.live's GREEN POWER & WELLNESS SHOW. The discussion focussed on the Mothers' new federal lawsuit against allowing Diablo Unit One to refuel before being thoroughly inspected for embrittlement and other internal defects. The suit became necessary when California Governor Gavin Newsom betrayed his previous agreement to a broad-based agreement meant to shut the two Diablo reactors by 2025. Pacifica Gas & Electric has been convicted of more than 90 felony manslaughter charges and has zero capability of taking responsibility for a major nuclear catastrophe. The need to protect our nation by shutting these two obsolete nukes has never been more desperate.  Tune in to hear why.  No Nukes!!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 9.21.23

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2023 128:48


GREEP #150:  NUCLEAR POWER & PACIFICA RADIO Our Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection show begins with a deep dive into the curse of atomic power that continues to plague our planet and species. We start with MARY BETH BRANGAN and JIM HEDDLE of the Environmental Options Network, who tell us about their spectacular new documentary “The San Onofre Syndrome,” due to be released in Los Angeles on Sunday, October 8, with virtual availability on October 15. The film documents the magnificent citizens movement that against all odds shut units 2 & 3 at San Onofre, only to see the company and the regulators leave multiple tons of radioactive waste lying on the beach, within mere yards of the high tide line. LINDA SEELEY of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace lays out the hard realities of fighting to shut the two reactors at Diablo Canyon, where a refueling outage will allow major testing to take place….if the regulators are forced to do so. During this shut-down the safe energy movement will demand testing for embrittlement, pipe cracking, seismic stability, evacuation planning and other safety factors before the plant can re-open. This huge confrontation will define the future of energy in California.  The reactors are surrounded by 13 earthquake faults and are operated by Pacific Gas & Electric, a criminal operation defined by more than 80 federal manslaughter convictions. California has more than enough renewable energy to power the state cheaply, cleanly and safely, and has no need whatsoever for this insanely dangerous power source. Likewise Michigan's Palisades, where the great KEVIN KAMPS tells us how this dangerous, decrepit atomic jalopy has been shut….and is now insanely being given hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to reopen. TATANKA BRICCA asks about strategic planning to mount civil disobedience resistance to these nuclear nightmares. ROBIN HARPER, MYLA RESON and MIMI SPREADBURY chime in with critical California perspectives. LIBBE HALEVY, author of YES I GLOW IN THE DARK, an up-close-and-personal account of the nightmare at Three Mile Island, connects us with her excellent NUCLEAR HOTSEAT podcast. We are then honored with the presence of the great JAN GOODMAN, cofounder of the New Day Pacifica organization aimed at saving the treasured network. MIKE HERSH, MYLA RESON, DAVID SALTMAN and others dig into the utter madhouse of the Pacifica nightmare.  Saltman asks the all-important question:  “Where's the dead camel buried?” WENDI LEDERMAN, STEVE KAISER and LYNN FEINERMAN wrap these two amazing discussions, which we will resume in two weeks, after the Jewish New Year. No Nukes!  Save Pacifica!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 9.7.23

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2023 130:24


A MONUMENTAL ORGANIZING MOMENT….& VICTORY IN ECUADOR     This breakthrough two-hour networking session joins RAY MCCLENDON and ANDREA MILLER of the “Georgia Miracle” with RACHEL COYLE and COURTNEY FLYNN of swing state Ohio, where a major grassroots victory has been won protecting the referendum process.   Ray tells us he has now helped form a new multi-state organization to help spread the grassroots tactics and strategies that famously turned two US Senate seats from Georgia into a reshaped majority in the nation's upper house.   Andrea explains some of the key organizing principles that have made her work at the Center for Common Ground so critically important to protecting democracy throughout our nation.     Rachel then explains how the grassroots forces in the Buckeye State beat back a GOP attempt to destroy the referendum process.   She's joined by Courtney Flynn from the Ohio Voter Rights Coalition, which helped turn this seemingly un-winnable fight into a landmark victory for democracy.   Joining these great multi-state organizers will hopefully help yield a transcendent campaign operation that will spread from the Ohio/Georgia axis throughout the US in the coming years, especially in the lead-up to 2024.   Joining the dialog is VINNIE DESTEFANO of the Julian Assange campaign who is full of brilliant campaign tactics—banner drops and more—usable by grassroots groups throughout the world.   JOHN STEINER and WENDI LEDERMAN add to the critical dialog.   ERIC LAZARUS joins the great RUSSELL GREENE to fill us in on the major march coming up at the United Nations on September 17.  Russell continues to break barriers with his signature brilliance and perseverance.   FOREST BEAUDOIN-FREED and MARK HARRISON contribute to the dialog.   MYLA RESON warns that despite his progressive reputation, US Senator SHELDON WHITEHOUSE has been a dangerous advocate of atomic power.   For our second hour, we're joined by Teamster organizer AARON WAZLAVEK who celebrates his union's hard-won wins and promises to join us again.   In our second hour, the great STEVE DONZIGER tells us of the monumental victory of the Ecuadorian people, who've become the first national population to vote a ban on oil drilling.     Steve has become a major figure in the progressive movement as a result of Chevon's attacks against him, and will be feted at a fundraising event in Topanga Canyon, California, headlined by JANE FONDA, JODIE EVANS and others.   Steve's fundraiser host, DOROTHY REIK, fills us in on the big mistake the oil industry has made in taking away attorney Donziger's law license.  What a travesty!!!    JUSTIN LEBLANC, TATANKA BRICCA, MIMI SPREADBURY, JEFFREY BARKDULL and MARY STONEWALL-DOUGLAS expand the dialog.   The great CAMILLA REES punctuates the drama with critical references to the fight to shut the Diablo Canyon nukes.   Thank you all for joining us in this monumental dialog.  No Nukes!  And we wish the people of Ecuador success in protecting the beloved Amazon.  

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 8.17.23

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2023 135:13


CATASTROPHE IN MAUI; OHIO / MONTANA VICTORIES; THE NYTIMES AWAKENS TO RENEWABLES The horrifying disaster in Maui is Mother Nature's way of telling us that with global boiling, there are no more safe places. JOHN & MARGO STEINER say where to send our ALOHA IN ACTION support for those in this stricken paradise. TATANKA BRICCA, MYLA RESON, DOROTHY REIK, JEFFREY BARKDULL and JUSTIN LEBLANC give us their mahalo in a time of tragedy. @15:40 RACHEL COYLE then reveals the inside story of the HUGE people's victory over Ohio's fascist Issue One, meant to erase the public right to democratically amend the Buckeye constitution with a simple majority….enshrined in Ohio law since 1912. @44:45 WENDI LEDERMAN describes Florida's strongman/torturer Ron DeSantis's purges of duly elected public officials, making Florida the place where democracy and freedom go to die. The great eco-activist RUSSELL GREENE invites us to his September 17 mega-march in New York aiming to end fossil/nuke climate destruction. PETER FIEKOWSKY explains his mega-engineering approach to decarbonizing the atmosphere. We explore the critical dynamics surrounding the defining battle at the DIABLO CANYON NUKE, joined by MIMI SPREADBURY, TATANKA BRICCA & MYLA RESON. Russell explains what's happening at the climate emergency summit while DOROTHY REIK invites us to her September 9 fundraiser in Topanga for Steve Danziger. RON LEONARD dissects California's escalating war against solar while we celebrate a front-piece piece from the NYTIMES finally citing Solartopian inevitability. We hear also of major advances in solar panels and moving lithium-based batteries to sodium, a MUCH cheaper route to the Solartopia future. Wendi reminds us of MAYA ROSSUM's superb GREEN AMENDMENTS book. And we thank the great JOEL SEGAL for authoring landmark legislation for 100% green energy. NO NUKES! everybody….see you in Solartopia….

The Creative Process in 10 minutes or less · Arts, Culture & Society
DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

The Creative Process in 10 minutes or less · Arts, Culture & Society

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2023 10:09


"The activists need to pay attention to mass awareness. Political change is a function of gaining political power through mass awareness, mass mobilization, and mass unification. And we're in a period on the left right now, which has happened in history before, where there's a lot of internal focus about the fairness of the processes within NGOs and activist organizations. And the legacy of racism in these organizations and gender and identity issues, all of which are essential and important and valid, but those are not the pathways to mass awareness and mass unity. If you overemphasize those kinds of issues, it's a kind of sectarianism, which is the opposite of how you unify people to get political power. If you don't assemble majority support - majority sentiment doesn't mean everybody - it means majority, then you can't take power. And if you can't get power, guess what? You can't help the vulnerable. You can't help the oppressed. This is, like most things in life, a question of balance. If you overfocus on the legitimate feelings and plight of subgroups of the population, by necessity, you won't establish what Reverend Jesse Jackson used to call the Rainbow Coalition. And without the Rainbow Coalition, you don't win. So, what I hope is that the scientists and the activist community can pay as much attention to cognitive science as they do to climate science. And then we'll get somewhere definitely."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

The Creative Process Podcast
DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

The Creative Process Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 49:41


How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."So a lot has been corporatized. That is certainly true, but not everything. And it sounds like a cliche, but it really is true that history moves in pendulums and waves. And whatever is happening today is not going to last. It will change. So you have periods of concentrations of wealth and power, and then you have periods of rebellion. And I'm quite sure we're headed for another period of rebellion. You can see it a little bit now in the labor strife in the United States and the strikes. You can certainly see it in the massive demonstrations in France and Israel. Excessive concentrations of power breeds rebellion, and that's just inevitable. And the climate crisis is going to cause a lot of rebellion as people figure this out. And I think it's coming very soon, actually, because as you've noticed, the weather is getting very bad. It's become a non-linear accelerating phenomenon. And people will wake up to that. I just hope they wake up in time."https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

The Creative Process Podcast
Highlights - DAVID FENTON - Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

The Creative Process Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 10:09


"So a lot has been corporatized. That is certainly true, but not everything. And it sounds like a cliche, but it really is true that history moves in pendulums and waves. And whatever is happening today is not going to last. It will change. So you have periods of concentrations of wealth and power, and then you have periods of rebellion. And I'm quite sure we're headed for another period of rebellion. You can see it a little bit now in the labor strife in the United States and the strikes. You can certainly see it in the massive demonstrations in France and Israel. Excessive concentrations of power breeds rebellion, and that's just inevitable. And the climate crisis is going to cause a lot of rebellion as people figure this out. And I think it's coming very soon, actually, because as you've noticed, the weather is getting very bad. It's become a non-linear accelerating phenomenon. And people will wake up to that. I just hope they wake up in time."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

One Planet Podcast
DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

One Planet Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 49:41


How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."The linguists and the cognitive scientists have established that as you're exposed to language from childhood and over your lifetime, it forms literal circuits in your brain. They call them frames. So in order to communicate successfully with people, the best way is to use language that activates existing frames. So for example, when I say we need to get to net zero by 2050, nobody knows what I'm talking about. There's no existing circuitry to process that language. What the hell is net zero? Is that less than zero? Now, if I say we have to stop pollution because pollution is heating the planet, we've formed a blanket of pollution around the earth that is trapping heat that used to go back out to space. And then everybody knows what I'm talking about because they know what pollution is. That's an existing mental frame. And by the way, no one will defend pollution. You won't find anyone that thinks pollution is a good thing. So it's a universally negative frame in all languages. And then when I say it's like a blanket around the earth, there's another existing mental frame. Everybody knows what a blanket is and how it works. It traps your body heat so you don't get cold. So that's what we're doing to the earth. And yes, all that trapped heat energy on Earth has to go somewhere. So it goes to create stronger storms and droughts and floods and melts the ice."https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

One Planet Podcast
Highlights - DAVID FENTON - Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

One Planet Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 10:09


"The linguists and the cognitive scientists have established that as you're exposed to language from childhood and over your lifetime, it forms literal circuits in your brain. They call them frames. So in order to communicate successfully with people, the best way is to use language that activates existing frames. So for example, when I say we need to get to net zero by 2050, nobody knows what I'm talking about. There's no existing circuitry to process that language. What the hell is net zero? Is that less than zero? Now, if I say we have to stop pollution because pollution is heating the planet, we've formed a blanket of pollution around the earth that is trapping heat that used to go back out to space. And then everybody knows what I'm talking about because they know what pollution is. That's an existing mental frame. And by the way, no one will defend pollution. You won't find anyone that thinks pollution is a good thing. So it's a universally negative frame in all languages. And then when I say it's like a blanket around the earth, there's another existing mental frame. Everybody knows what a blanket is and how it works. It traps your body heat so you don't get cold. So that's what we're doing to the earth. And yes, all that trapped heat energy on Earth has to go somewhere. So it goes to create stronger storms and droughts and floods and melts the ice."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

Books & Writers · The Creative Process
DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

Books & Writers · The Creative Process

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 49:41


How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."The linguists and the cognitive scientists have established that as you're exposed to language from childhood and over your lifetime, it forms literal circuits in your brain. They call them frames. So in order to communicate successfully with people, the best way is to use language that activates existing frames. So for example, when I say we need to get to net zero by 2050, nobody knows what I'm talking about. There's no existing circuitry to process that language. What the hell is net zero? Is that less than zero? Now, if I say we have to stop pollution because pollution is heating the planet, we've formed a blanket of pollution around the earth that is trapping heat that used to go back out to space. And then everybody knows what I'm talking about because they know what pollution is. That's an existing mental frame. And by the way, no one will defend pollution. You won't find anyone that thinks pollution is a good thing. So it's a universally negative frame in all languages. And then when I say it's like a blanket around the earth, there's another existing mental frame. Everybody knows what a blanket is and how it works. It traps your body heat so you don't get cold. So that's what we're doing to the earth. And yes, all that trapped heat energy on Earth has to go somewhere. So it goes to create stronger storms and droughts and floods and melts the ice."https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

Books & Writers · The Creative Process
Highlights - DAVID FENTON - Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

Books & Writers · The Creative Process

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 10:09


"The linguists and the cognitive scientists have established that as you're exposed to language from childhood and over your lifetime, it forms literal circuits in your brain. They call them frames. So in order to communicate successfully with people, the best way is to use language that activates existing frames. So for example, when I say we need to get to net zero by 2050, nobody knows what I'm talking about. There's no existing circuitry to process that language. What the hell is net zero? Is that less than zero? Now, if I say we have to stop pollution because pollution is heating the planet, we've formed a blanket of pollution around the earth that is trapping heat that used to go back out to space. And then everybody knows what I'm talking about because they know what pollution is. That's an existing mental frame. And by the way, no one will defend pollution. You won't find anyone that thinks pollution is a good thing. So it's a universally negative frame in all languages. And then when I say it's like a blanket around the earth, there's another existing mental frame. Everybody knows what a blanket is and how it works. It traps your body heat so you don't get cold. So that's what we're doing to the earth. And yes, all that trapped heat energy on Earth has to go somewhere. So it goes to create stronger storms and droughts and floods and melts the ice."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

Social Justice & Activism · The Creative Process
Highlights - DAVID FENTON - Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

Social Justice & Activism · The Creative Process

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 10:09


"The activists need to pay attention to mass awareness. Political change is a function of gaining political power through mass awareness, mass mobilization, and mass unification. And we're in a period on the left right now, which has happened in history before, where there's a lot of internal focus about the fairness of the processes within NGOs and activist organizations. And the legacy of racism in these organizations and gender and identity issues, all of which are essential and important and valid, but those are not the pathways to mass awareness and mass unity. If you overemphasize those kinds of issues, it's a kind of sectarianism, which is the opposite of how you unify people to get political power. If you don't assemble majority support - majority sentiment doesn't mean everybody - it means majority, then you can't take power. And if you can't get power, guess what? You can't help the vulnerable. You can't help the oppressed. This is, like most things in life, a question of balance. If you overfocus on the legitimate feelings and plight of subgroups of the population, by necessity, you won't establish what Reverend Jesse Jackson used to call the Rainbow Coalition. And without the Rainbow Coalition, you don't win. So, what I hope is that the scientists and the activist community can pay as much attention to cognitive science as they do to climate science. And then we'll get somewhere definitely."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

Sustainability, Climate Change, Politics, Circular Economy & Environmental Solutions · One Planet Podcast
Highlights - DAVID FENTON - Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

Sustainability, Climate Change, Politics, Circular Economy & Environmental Solutions · One Planet Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 10:09


"So a lot has been corporatized. That is certainly true, but not everything. And it sounds like a cliche, but it really is true that history moves in pendulums and waves. And whatever is happening today is not going to last. It will change. So you have periods of concentrations of wealth and power, and then you have periods of rebellion. And I'm quite sure we're headed for another period of rebellion. You can see it a little bit now in the labor strife in the United States and the strikes. You can certainly see it in the massive demonstrations in France and Israel. Excessive concentrations of power breeds rebellion, and that's just inevitable. And the climate crisis is going to cause a lot of rebellion as people figure this out. And I think it's coming very soon, actually, because as you've noticed, the weather is getting very bad. It's become a non-linear accelerating phenomenon. And people will wake up to that. I just hope they wake up in time."How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

Social Justice & Activism · The Creative Process
DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

Social Justice & Activism · The Creative Process

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 49:41


How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."The activists need to pay attention to mass awareness. Political change is a function of gaining political power through mass awareness, mass mobilization, and mass unification. And we're in a period on the left right now, which has happened in history before, where there's a lot of internal focus about the fairness of the processes within NGOs and activist organizations. And the legacy of racism in these organizations and gender and identity issues, all of which are essential and important and valid, but those are not the pathways to mass awareness and mass unity. If you overemphasize those kinds of issues, it's a kind of sectarianism, which is the opposite of how you unify people to get political power. If you don't assemble majority support - majority sentiment doesn't mean everybody - it means majority, then you can't take power. And if you can't get power, guess what? You can't help the vulnerable. You can't help the oppressed. This is, like most things in life, a question of balance. If you overfocus on the legitimate feelings and plight of subgroups of the population, by necessity, you won't establish what Reverend Jesse Jackson used to call the Rainbow Coalition. And without the Rainbow Coalition, you don't win. So, what I hope is that the scientists and the activist community can pay as much attention to cognitive science as they do to climate science. And then we'll get somewhere definitely."https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

Sustainability, Climate Change, Politics, Circular Economy & Environmental Solutions · One Planet Podcast
DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

Sustainability, Climate Change, Politics, Circular Economy & Environmental Solutions · One Planet Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 49:41


How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."So a lot has been corporatized. That is certainly true, but not everything. And it sounds like a cliche, but it really is true that history moves in pendulums and waves. And whatever is happening today is not going to last. It will change. So you have periods of concentrations of wealth and power, and then you have periods of rebellion. And I'm quite sure we're headed for another period of rebellion. You can see it a little bit now in the labor strife in the United States and the strikes. You can certainly see it in the massive demonstrations in France and Israel. Excessive concentrations of power breeds rebellion, and that's just inevitable. And the climate crisis is going to cause a lot of rebellion as people figure this out. And I think it's coming very soon, actually, because as you've noticed, the weather is getting very bad. It's become a non-linear accelerating phenomenon. And people will wake up to that. I just hope they wake up in time."https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

Education · The Creative Process
Highlights - DAVID FENTON - Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

Education · The Creative Process

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 10:09


"When I say 'Make America Great Again', everybody probably cringes and I do too, but we have to learn from that. That is actually how the brain works. It works through being exposed to the repetition of simple, easy-to-understand messages that have an emotional, moral aspect. That's how the brain learns. It doesn't learn from facts. It doesn't learn from figures. It doesn't learn from policy pronouncements. And it certainly doesn't learn from complexity. Here's an example. People need to be conscious of the difference between internal and external communications. So, if you want to say that you believe in intersectional environmentalism, that's valid within your group. But if you use that in your public communication, no one understands what the hell you mean by that, not at all. Second, you're branding yourself as an other. You're not part of their world. You don't understand them. You have some weird agenda of your own, and you're incomprehensible. I hope my book makes a contribution to helping activists learn the difference between what the communists used to call an internal line and an external line. You know, the communists had a lot of things wrong, but that they were right about.”How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

Education · The Creative Process
DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator

Education · The Creative Process

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 49:41


How can we effectively communicate that we're moving beyond climate change to a state of climate crisis? The trapped heat energy on Earth is equal to a million Atomic bombs going off every single day. Today we talk to someone who's been mobilizing the public mind for over 50 years. David Fenton, named “one of the 100 most influential PR people” by PR Week and “the Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, founded Fenton in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health, and human rights. For more than five decades he has pioneered the use of PR, social media, and advertising techniques for social change. Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s – his book Shots: An American Photographer's Journal was published in 2005. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the No-Nukes concerts in 1979 at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and other artists. He has also helped create JStreet, Climate Nexus, the Death Penalty Information Center, and Families for a Future. He sold Fenton a few years ago to work on climate change full time. He is the author of The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator."When I say 'Make America Great Again', everybody probably cringes and I do too, but we have to learn from that. That is actually how the brain works. It works through being exposed to the repetition of simple, easy-to-understand messages that have an emotional, moral aspect. That's how the brain learns. It doesn't learn from facts. It doesn't learn from figures. It doesn't learn from policy pronouncements. And it certainly doesn't learn from complexity. Here's an example. People need to be conscious of the difference between internal and external communications. So, if you want to say that you believe in intersectional environmentalism, that's valid within your group. But if you use that in your public communication, no one understands what the hell you mean by that, not at all. Second, you're branding yourself as an other. You're not part of their world. You don't understand them. You have some weird agenda of your own, and you're incomprehensible. I hope my book makes a contribution to helping activists learn the difference between what the communists used to call an internal line and an external line. You know, the communists had a lot of things wrong, but that they were right about.”https://davidfentonactivist.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Activists-Media-Handbook/David-Fenton/9781647228668https://fenton.comX / twitter @dfentonIG @dfenton1 facebook.com/davidfentonactivistwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcastAll photographs © 1968-2022 David Fenton

Richard Skipper Celebrates
Richard Skipper Celebrates Julian Schlossberg AND Steve Guttenberg

Richard Skipper Celebrates

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2023 64:00


Julian Schlossberg (Producer).Theatre: Bullets Over Broadway, Relatively Speaking, Sly Fox, Mornings At Seven, My Life On A Diet, Fortune's Fool, Terms of Endearment, After the Night and the Music, Adult Entertainment, The Unexpected Man, Tommy Tune, Madame Melville, Taller Than a Dwarf, Power Plays, If Love Were All, Death Defying Acts, Vita and Virginia, etc. Film: Widow's Peak, In theSpirit, Bad Girls, No Nukes, Ten From Your Show of Shows. Television: Mike Nichols – American Masters (PBS), Nichols and May (PBS), Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey (AMC), Claire Bloom's Shakespeare's Women (Bravo), Lives of Lillian Hellman (PBS).His new memoir, Try Not To Hold It Against Me- A Producer's Life is now available on Amazon. In 1976, Steve Guttenberg was on a plane to Hollywood. His mother and father gave him $300 for a two week trip to try his hand at film acting. He was 17 years old . He had done childrens theatre, an off broadway play and studied at various schools. He landed and immediately started trying to sneak into studios. He found his way into Paramount Studios, commandeered an office in the Lucille Ball Makeup Building, strung a phone from the water stage , and started making phone calls to casting directors, agents and producers. He landed a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial and was off to the races.  Steve flew to Portugal and didn't look back. He was cast in some of the most popular films the the industry released. Diner, Police Academy, Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby, Short Circuit to name a few. Steve starred in The Day After, Billy Liar, Veronica Mars, Ballers , the sci fi hit Lavalantula, and most recently How to Murder Your Husband with Cybill Shepherd. Steve is married , devoted to his family and divides his home between Scottsdsle AZ and Pacific Palisades California.   

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 7.06.23

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2023 60:02


> UFOs, OLIVER STONE, KIDS' GREEN SUIT for the PLANET & OUR FUTURE > > > Our GREEP Zoom #142 opens with a challenge to Oliver Stone to debate atomic power after his ridiculous pro-nuke propaganda film. Oliver, if you're there, I'll debate you anywhere/any time. > > We will of course deal with the terrible dangers at the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia reactor site under dire apocalyptic threat being played out before our terrified eyes. > > MAYA VAN ROSSUM, author of THE GREEN AMENDMENT, tells us about a monumental action in Montana, where a group kids is suing the fossil industry to protect our planet and future.  > > Maya's brilliant, inspiring presentation opens a whole new approach to finding a way to survive on this Earth. > > The great KARL GROSSMAN chimes in on Maya's great work, as do RUTH STRAUSS and DENNIS BERNSTEIN.      > > RACHEL COYLE then reports from Ohio on the anti-democratic assault on education, voting rights and an upcoming vote to gut the right to referenda. > > RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP reports on favorable redistricting news from Louisiana, Tennessee and elsewhere due to an unexpected pro-democracy ruling from the US Supreme Court. > > CAROLINA AMPUDIA gives us a heads-up on the impending UPS strike, which could become the biggest in US history. > > > In our second hour, we join RON LEONARD  in dissecting the attack on green power in Texas, despite renewables saving the state from a catastrophic heat wave. > > TATANKA BRICCA adds analysis from Putin and his integrated fossil fuel/enriched uranium and their high wheeling hammer. > > He joins WENDI LEDERMAN to further elaborate on the powerful new foothold UFO studies have gained at the Pentagon and the military, especially as we face a climate apocalypse. > > MYLA RESON, WENDI AND TATANKA then update us on the attempt to save the Pacifica Radio Network from a lack of money prompted by eminently improvable programming. > > WE NEED YOUR HELP.  No Nukes….

Veterans for Peace Radio Hour
Veterans for Peace discuss the dangers of depleted uranium with Damacio Lopez

Veterans for Peace Radio Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2023 60:00


Do you know the long-term hazards of depleted uranium? Do you know what it is used for and why it is so popular with the US and other warring countries? Damacio Lopez joined the Veterans for Peace No Nukes Working Group for a discussion about depleted uranium and his 37-year fight to get this deadly element banned. He is joined by other members of the No Nukes group during this lively and abridged conversation.

Top Stories!
Iran: Nukes or No Nukes?

Top Stories!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 10:53


Back in December 2007 there was some disappointing news for the Bush administration, but great news for humanity - as Iran's nuclear threat was downgraded after the US released it's own report into Tehran's weapons programme. An actual good news Bugle!Hear more of our shows, go to the march sale, and donate here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Nicole Sandler Show
20221216 Nicole Sandler Show - Ghosts of Progressive Activism Past (and Maybe Future!)

The Nicole Sandler Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2022 72:07


Today we salute the actions of the progressive activists who paved the way, focusing on one who was in the thick of it all. David Fenton's new book is "The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons from Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator". We'll discuss the history he was part of, and try to get to the bottom of why things are as they are now... David Fenton was there, working on the No Nukes concerts, in the campaign to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid, legalize marijuana and end racist drug laws. He worked at High Times and Rolling Stone Magazine, and hung out with Abbie Hoffman and other legendary activists. I'm thinking our conversation will be part memories and reminiscences, and part primer to light a fire under the people who should carry the torch today and going forward.

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
David Fenton on The Activist's Media Handbook

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2022 54:47


(11/14/2022) David Fenton has been the driving force behind some of the most important and history-making campaigns of the last 50 years, from the No-Nukes concerts with Bruce Springsteen in 1979, to the campaigns to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in the late 1980s, exposing the dangers of toxic chemicals in our food, the long battle to legalize marijuana and end racist drug laws, the misinformation in Washington during the Bush era in the 2000s, and recent campaigns that successfully banned fracking in New York and alerted the public to the climate crisis, including the environmental impact of Bitcoin. Join us when, David tells the fascinating story of how he developed the strategies and that have made him a successful media agitator and shows how these tools can be used by anyone to advance their cause on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

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400- Mercury the Messenger Says – No Nukes at Crossroads (Free)

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2022 65:30


400 Episodes, whoo-whee! At this milestone we will tie together many things and show that the old alchemical and astronomical symbols are still in use on the world stage. Mercury will take the main stage as we weave a thread through all media, music, movies, news, TV – ad infinitum. We do this in an (more...) The post 400- Mercury the Messenger Says – No Nukes at Crossroads (Free) appeared first on Crrow777 Radio.

The Bitchuation Room
No Nukes, No Nuts! with Nomiki Konst and Chloe Hilliard (Ep 128)

The Bitchuation Room

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2022 86:45


A third week of Russia's assault and threats of nuclear war make us wonder why any given madman should be able to end the world? (And it's always a man.) Francesca is joined by Nomiki Konst and comedian Chloe Hilliard to break down the latest in Ukraine and the insane new dimensions this war is taking. Including an WNBA player being held hostage?! Does Russia think the U.S. cares about female athletes that much? Plus, the State of the Union features Biden throwing the BLM movement under the bus and Texas' anti-trans pushers have got students protesting in the most beautiful way. Finally a Patreon-only bonus bish on REI retail workers in Manhattan successfully unionizing, after seeing right through the most corporate "woke-washing" campaign imaginable. Get access by joining the Frantifa: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.Featuring: Nomiki Konst, https://twitter.com/NomikiKonstHost of the Nomiki Show, www.youtube.com/c/TheNomikiShow Chloé Hilliard, https://twitter.com/chloe_hilliardComedian and author of Fuck Your Diet, https://www.chloehilliard.com/The Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every Sunday at 5/8pmEST onYouTube: The Bitchuation Room's channel: https://www.youtube.com/franifio Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.comThanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra OrnesSupport The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Music Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.