Podcasts about opening space

In this special bonus episode, we celebrate the release of Opening Space, the new book by Shannon Kiser, Director of Fresh Expressions. Shannon shares the inspiration behind the book, drawn from Luke 5, and what it means to "open space" for church in everyday places.You'll hear real-life stories, reflections from leaders, and an invitation to take faithful next steps—whether you're a pastor, pioneer, or just feeling a holy nudge. Plus, learn how to access a free Luke 5 study guide and join our Summer Book Club.This episode invites you to reimagine what church can be—right where you are.

Episode 373: Welcome to the Golden Hour Drip Podcast. Like & Subscribe on YouTube. Rate 5 Stars & Follow on Audio Platform.In this Episode: Shifting Energy. Cleaning Clutter. Opening Space for New. Reality TV. Dynamic Relationships. The Secret Lives of Morman Wives. Follow Below for More Content!Instagram@LOGANLEEMILLER@GOLDENHOURDRIP@GOLDENHOURNETWORKTikTok@LOGANLEEMILLER@GOLDENHOURDRIP 

In this episode, I share more about a quilt I call LIKE FAMILY. It's part of the Southern White Amnesia Collection, which explores the kinds of stories that Southern White families tell one another, or maybe more importantly, the ones they don't tell one another about their own family history. You may have heard me talk about other pieces in the same collection on SEAMSIDE before, and if not, I'd encourage you to check out some of those episodes. So far, we've got SILVER DOLLAR, SNAKE HANDLER, OUR CHILDREN, and ONUS // ON US.In this SEAMSIDE conversation, we explore: ① an old Southern family burial ground ② why the phrase “like family” can often describe a one-sided view of relationships ③ a moment from THIS HERE FLESH by Cole Arthur RileyWHY LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE? This episode weaves together a vulnerable exploration of identity, history, and responsibility, providing listeners with a deep, reflective experience on how historical legacies impact our current world→ Get your free trial to the QUILTY NOOK → Claim your free copy of 10 THINGS I WISH I KNEW BEFORE I STARTED QUILTING → See images and more at the EPISODE WEBSITE → Follow Zak on INSTAGRAM

Data from space is fuelling growth across industries —and its influence is set to grow. How government and industry collaborate will likely play a role in just how far the industry can go.

In this Stork'd Munchkin, Dr. Gertrude Lyons shares the profound moment she had in Ireland when she experienced a voice speaking to her that reassured her that she and her husband have a family, regardless if they have a child or not. This led her to take the pressure off conceiving a child and open “space.” One month later, she conceived her child.   Resources: Stork'd Website Stork'd - Facebook Stork'd - Instagram Stork'd - YouTube  Dr. Gertrude Lyons - Website Dr. Gertrude Lyons - Instagram  

Did you know that my name, Carissa, actually means grace? Grace is not just a word; it's a frequency, a way of being. It's about living a graceful life, sharing gracefully, and embodying that energy in all aspects of our lives. When we tap into grace, everything feels peaceful and aligned. It's a journey of reconnecting with our soul wisdom and finding peace within ourselves. Success, to me, is synonymous with peace. If we are at peace, we are succeeding. Let's rewrite our version of success and allow old paradigms to crumble. In this week's episode, I dive deep into the profound concept of grace. Our journey towards experiencing our truest divinity and living from the heart space continues, and I can't wait to share these incredible insights with you all. Remember, the heart is the medium, the bridge between worlds. It's not something we find in the mind but rather awaken in the heart. As we listen to our hearts and get curious about grace, we tap into its transformative power. Let's explore what comes alive within us and embrace this beautiful journey of self-discovery. In these transformative times, living a graceful life becomes even more crucial. As we navigate the changes and challenges that lie ahead, sharing grace with one another and embodying that frequency will be our guiding light. Let's remember what is most important to us and embrace the power of grace in our daily lives. Together, we can create a more peaceful and graceful world. If you're ready to invite grace into your life and leadership, I invite you to listen to this episode now!   Key Takeaways [00:01:06] Grace and its significance. [00:06:41] Asking for grace. [00:07:19] Embody grace and offer love. [00:11:09] The reciprocity of grace. [00:12:35] Grace is the bridge to love. [00:18:40] Making space for grace. [00:21:33] Living in the space of grace. [00:24:09] Success defined as peace. Memorable Quotes "Grace is the antidote for accessing love. Because sometimes it's hard to go from “I'm angry” to “I'm loving”. And if we can't access that state of consciousness, if we can't access that belief, if we can't tap into that, I think grace becomes the river, the water, the buoyancy, the boundlessness, the raft that we take on our journey to arriving at love.” [00:12:35] – Carissa Johnsen "How do I receive this frequency? How do I embody this in my life? The truth is you have to make space for it. It's part of the reason why I've been pausing every three hours, four or three minutes, because space cannot, Grace cannot enter a full cup." [00:17:13] – Carissa Johnsen   Download my Spiritual Leadership Workbook for practices & rituals to help you amplify your voice & spiritual purpose: https://www.carissajohnsen.com/leadershipworkbook   Watch the LIVE video broadcast of today's episode: www.youtube.com/@carissajohnsen www.facebook.com/carissajohnseninc   Connect with Carissa: CarissaJohnsen.com www.instagram.com/carissajohnsen   Subscribe to the Transcendent Leadership Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../transcendent.../id1475389564 https://open.spotify.com/show/7xWEkjVNdOQwonxk80b2sD  

Traditionally, China's astronauts are selected from among fighter plane pilots with ample flying experience, as they can control the machinery and have the training to stay calm should an emergency arise in space.中国的航天员通常是从具有丰富飞行经验的战斗机飞行员中挑选出来的，因为他们可以驾驶航天器，并且接受过冷静应对太空中紧急情况的训练。Yet among the three astronauts aboard Shenzhou XVI, which is taking them to Tiangong, China's space station, is Gui Haichao, a professor from Beihang University. He is the first civilian China has sent into space, and will conduct space science experiments, collect and analyze data and maintain the lab devices on the space station.然而，在前往中国天宫空间站的神舟十六号的三名航天员中，有北京航空航天大学教授桂海潮。他是中国第一个进入太空的平民航天员，他将在空间站进行空间科学实验，收集和分析数据，维护实验室设备。That's good news for the nation's space science, as he will be more professional in carrying out research experiments on the space station.这对中国航天科学来说是个好消息，因为科学家将更加专业地在空间站开展研究实验。It is also good news for China's astronautics sector, as it shows that the nation is confident enough to send persons other than military pilots into space. It means that the threshold for traveling into space is being lowered, offering hope to many that one day ordinary people will be able to buy a ticket for a trip into space.这对中国航天部门来说也是个好消息，因为这表明中国有足够的信心将战斗机飞行员以外的人送入太空。这意味着太空旅行的门槛正在降低，有一天更多普通人也有希望能买到一张太空旅行的票。Besides Gui, there is also Zhu Yangzhu, a space flight engineer from China's astronaut team, who will serve as a professional rather than a pilot. Zhu's teaching experience in college, similar to that of Gui, is also evidence of Chinese astronauts' educational background being raised.除了桂海潮，还有来自航天员大队的航天飞行工程师朱杨柱，他将担任专家一职而非驾驶员。朱杨柱的大学教学经历与桂海潮相似，他也是中国航天员学历越来越高的佐证。Twenty years after Shenzhou V took China's first astronaut Yang Liwei out of the Earth's atmosphere, China already has a full team of astronauts ready to further our understanding of the cosmos.在神舟五号将中国第一位航天员杨利伟送进太空二十年后，中国已经拥有一支完整的航天员队伍，准备进一步加深对宇宙的了解。Mission commander Jing Haipeng is on his fourth trip into space, making him the Chinese astronaut with the richest experience in space travel. In the 15 years between his first mission and this one, China has progressed from sending astronauts into space to supporting their stay for half a year on its newly constructed space station.指令长景海鹏第四次进入太空，他成为中国太空旅行经验最丰富的航天员。景海鹏第一次执行任务时，中国从将航天员送入太空，15年后景海鹏执行神舟十六号任务时，中国已经发展到可以支持航天员在新建的空间站停留半年。The country has already started preparing for a mission to land Chinese astronauts on the moon before 2030.中国已经开始准备在2030年之前将中国航天员送上月球。China's Tiangong space station will be the only one in service after the planned retirement of the International Space Station. With China's space program including the training of astronauts from other countries, no one should be surprised if a multinational crew is sent to Tiangong some day.中国的天宫空间站将是国际空间站计划退役后唯一在役的空间站。由于中国的太空计划包括培训其他国家的航天员，所以如果有一天将多国航天员送往天宫空间站，也没有人会感到惊讶。Likewise China has said that its plan to construct and operate a lunar research station is open to the participation of all nations, international organizations and international partners.同样，中国表示，其建设和运营国际月球科研站的计划面向所有感兴趣的国家、国际组织和国际伙伴开放。Launch英/lɔːntʃ/ 美/lɔːntʃ/n.（航天器的）发射Astronautics英/ˌæstrəˈnɔːtɪks/ 美/ˌæstrəˈnɔːtɪks/n.航天学

This month, Alexandre Frédéric Joly aka Coach AF  is honored to welcome Rijon Erickson, a very purple “squirelman”,  to his Open Mic where they explore the need for love in humanity and business to make us all more fulfilled in our lives. Opening Space for a deeper Humanity over a technocratic static way, actually impose, […] The post Open Space HUMANITY with Rijon Erickson appeared first on Agile Lounge.

In those significant life changing moments, like becoming a parent or losing a parent, it's easy to feel lost, ungrounded. We might think to ourselves, “Yeah, ceremony could maybe be a useful thing right now, but where do I start?” Well, there's an app for that and it's beautiful!   Music by Terry Hughes   Notes: Be Ceremonial App (App Store) Be Ceremonial App (Google Play) Be Ceremonial Daily Magic for Peace   Rate This Podcast Also Check Out: I Want to Have a Ceremony with You The Programming Language of the Soul Full Transcript Sheldon: Here's a wedding ceremony and you follow it step by step and here's a funeral ceremony… and I wanted to blow that out of the water. And so it's like a choose your own adventure experience where… here's a bunch of things to inspire you. Pick and choose the ones that you like and then change them if you want.  In those significant life-changing moments, like becoming a parent or losing a parent, it's very easy to feel lost and ungrounded. We might think to ourselves, “Ceremony could maybe be a useful thing right now, but where do I start?” As the saying goes, there's an app for that and it's beautiful.  This is Shame Piñata. I'm Colleen Thomas. Welcome to Shame Piñata, where we talk about creating rites of passage for real-life transitions. Today I'm excited to invite you to join me on a behind-the-scenes look into Be Ceremonial, the world's first ceremony creation platform. It's an app you can download from the App or the Google Play Store and it lets you build simple, customizable ceremonies for any purpose.  Just to give you a sense of how it works, I'm going to open the app on my phone right now and tell you what I see. So on the homescreen is a list of latest offerings including new ceremonies and free virtual workshops. If I click on the “Create” button, I can open a free sample ceremony and customize that or I can choose from a list of ceremonies with a defined topic, including trying to conceive, mother blessing, miscarriage, abortion, wedding, divorce, terminal diagnosis, or sitting vigil - and that's only a partial list.  Okay, so here's how building a ceremony works. If I click into the free sample ceremony, I'm asked to choose if this ceremony will be for me or for someone else (I think it's cool that you can actually gift a ceremony to a friend). Then I'm asked to choose if it will be me doing it alone, with other people, or virtually. And then I can begin building my ceremony which is structured in 5 parts: opening, past, present, future, and closing. For the opening, the app gives me three choices: Opening Space, Candle Lighting, and Three Breaths. I can click into any of these to see what they're about, what materials and preparation I'd need to do them, and a list of steps to follow. And I can look through all of the offerings until I've found the flow that works best for me. For example, I might choose to take 3 breaths to open my ceremony, release the past with a fire release ritual, take a ritual walk to honor the present, and then ceremonially cross a threshold to step into my new future, and finally close with a water ceremony. Once I've chosen all of the components, they will be available as a step-by-step list that I can have with me as I prepare and actually hold the ceremony. It's actually very cool and user friendly. And it takes some of the guesswork (and groundwork, really) out of building a ceremony so that I can really focus on what is moving in me and choose ritual components that match that flow.  Now that we've taken a deep dive into the app itself, let's come back out to the bigger picture so I can bring you into a conversation I had last spring with Megan Sheldon, the co-founder and CEO of Be Ceremonial. Here's a listen. Thomas: I'm curious, how did you find your way to ceremony in life? Sheldon: I've always been a community seeker, a connector, a convener. I was recently at a retreat that I was hosting around ritual and a girlfriend of mine from high school was telling me about these, you know, we didn't… we didn't call it ceremonies then. But she's like, “You would host these gatherings and you were so intentional in the questions you would ask and the way you would bring people together.” She was the first of any of my friends to have a baby. And she remembers, I had forgotten about this, but she remembered I gathered all of her girlfriends around in the room and I'd found this little owl shaker and I passed it around and asked everybody to infuse it with, well, you know, wishes and blessings for her. And that was, you know, 12 or 13 years ago. So I'm constantly reminded that this path hasn't been an A to B kind of path, it's been an unfolding.  When I was 20 years old, my mom went through breast cancer. And my mom and I are very close. And I was living in Montreal and she was here in Vancouver. And I remember getting the phone call from her and just like every instinct in me wanted to just get on a plane and come home and be with her. But she didn't want that. She… I was in the middle of exams and she really needed me to stay where I was, so she could focus on herself. But what she ended up doing, I now see as ritual, is she would find these books, and she was introduced to Yungian kind of theory and Marion Woodman and Women who Run with the Wolves and all of these books that, you know, she was just discovering, and she would buy two copies, and she would send me one in Montreal, and I remember I'd get these books and I would be reading them at the same time she was reading them on the other coast of Canada. And opening up this kind of world of the Divine Feminine and what it means to connect with your Ancestors and your roots and your heritage. And I'm… a white settler stolen lands here in Canada and I have really struggled with my place in this… in this part of the world. And where do I fit? Where do I belong? I think that need for belonging has been a huge theme in my life. And these books kind of taught me how to connect with that part of myself. And with my mom and with her mom and with her mother's mother and this beautiful lineage of women and men. So it's a tricky question and one that continues to evolve. But if I am being completely honest with myself, I have always been ceremonial, I just was never given the language or the permission to kind of see myself that way. So I've had to really come into it on my own and reclaim that space in a way that feels like me. Megan echoed one of my own ideas about ritual, that of it be self-organizing. That we know how do ritual together, it is one of our inherent gifts. We might have just forgotten. Sheldon: It's so interesting because people always say to me, “Oh, I could never do what you do. I could never do this!” And I think, “Do what? This was just like… I'm actually not doing…” I always say to people, “I'm actually not doing this, I'm setting the container, you know, I'm offering the invite...” I've studied a lot under the Art of Hosting - I don't know if you know it - it's like a global-wide kind of way of gathering people and their philosophy is like, the invitation is everything. If you can send out an invite and let people know what to expect and what to prepare and how to feel empowered in the space so that they're not having to look for the leader like, “Who's in charge?” Like, that's… that's one of the worst ways to convene is to have that hierarchy. So the idea of the Circle Way of having everybody step in and be responsible for co-creating the ceremony, the ritual environment has always guided me. And I'm a firm believer, and I say that every time I can be in a ceremony or a retreat, or rituals with friends, I, you know, I focus on the invitation, and I say, we were all stepped into this and we are now going to co-create this space together. And if you need to be quiet, if you need to walk away, if you need to scream, if you need to do anything that is okay. Like this is you're making your own experience. And I think that's just a way of thinking that we haven't really been taught in our capitalistic patriarchal culture of, you know, the top-down, right? This feels rebellious for a lot of people so yeah… Thomas: And it's kind of the same principle with the app, right? Because you've created this technology that people can... there's tools, there's framework, there's structure, there's examples, there's ideas, all this kind of thing…. But you're not there helping somebody in person, helping somebody create a ceremony and they can create a ceremony… Like, I created two today that are really important to me but I'm not ready to do them yet but I have the framework set for when I'm ready to step into them. And so you won't be with me when I do them. I mean, unless I could call you later and talk to me because I know you… Sheldon: Please! Thomas: …but like, you won't really be there with me. But yeah… you've created the… you've given the invitation and you've created the container. Sheldon: Yeah, and it took me a long time to see how ritual and ceremony, which for me is so sacred and so precious and so important in my life and in the lives of those that I serve and that I work with to see it as, you know, bridging with technology. So backtrack a little bit, my husband and I decided to get married eight or nine years ago now and we looked at the wedding kind of template that was in front of us and we've been to so many weddings before, and they were so lovely and so wonderful. And they weren't us. I never was like… oh… this felt exactly like me because it was exactly like my friend or my family member. So I really wanted to learn how to intentionally craft a wedding that represented our values. So that was our first ceremony to co-create together and I think we did a really wonderful job. And shortly after our wedding, we tried to get pregnant and we did. And, you know, seven weeks later, we miscarried. And then we got pregnant again and miscarried. And a third time, miscarried. And each time it was like this invisible loss that nobody knew. It was just, I mean… this was seven years ago. So it was just starting to kind of get a little bit more traction in terms of the media and people talking about it a little bit more, but nobody was talking about a ceremony where I could honor and say goodbye. I was never even offered any of the remains from the hospitals after my DNC procedures. It just… I know now I could have asked for it and they would have had to have given it to me. I didn't know that then. I didn't know my… what I was allowed to do. Everything felt so kind of, you know, the health care system owned everything, right? You don't ever think of it as being something there that you can challenge or that you can confront.  Thomas: Yeah. Sheldon: So I started to create my own rituals around my loss. And my husband, Johan and I, we created our own rituals and ceremonies to acknowledge not only the loss of life, but also the loss of the stories we'd started to tell ourselves. I had a lot of growing anxiety. What was happening? Why was my body doing this? Will I ever get pregnant? You know, it was in my mid to late 30s at that point, so that… you know, there was this time pressure that was both external and internal. Yeah, I think that time for me it was really about learning how these things that I naturally wanted and needed did in my life were rituals. It was ceremony. It was, you know… I wanted to sit with my girlfriends and not only share my story, but hear their story. I wanted to, you know, every year on a due date or on a loss date, I wanted to have something that I could do that would connect me so that I wouldn't forget that I wouldn't grow… grow further away from it.  Thomas: At the same time that Megan and Johan were dealing with pregnancy loss, they were also losing Johan's father to ALS.    Sheldon: There were so many invisible moments along that journey that we did not know how to recognize. You know, a diagnosis when you first… when he first received it, but when he first told us like, what do you do in those moments? How do you bring ritual and bring ceremony to that moment when the floor comes crashing out from underneath you? And then over the next, you know, six months and year and two years as he started to lose his capacities and we started to lose that kind of feeling of hope for the future and…  There were so many of those moments that I did not know, at the time I could have brought ritual into, I could have been kind of slowly building out that kind of legacy. So we went through that experience. And then when the pandemic hit and my husband was, you know, found himself at home, and I really wanted to imagine something new. He's a problem solver. He's like, “I just want to build something that will help people.” That's just has been his driver. It has been a really interesting experience to bridge ceremony with technology and one that I continue to learn about. But I'll get emails from people on a weekly basis about how, you know, they were gifted something through this experience, or they discovered something. They were able to honor, you know, a death anniversary in a way that they never thought was possible. And I know for 100% of… I know without a doubt that I would never have crossed paths with that person had it not been through technology. You know, they'll be in Australia, or Belgium, or St. Louis and they'll be reaching out because this app touched them in a certain way, it impacted their experience. So yeah. Thomas: Wow, you're inspiring me now. I'm thinking I have a lot of my good friends, I have their death anniversaries on my calendar so I remember to reach out to them. I would love to share your app with them.  [MUSIC Thomas: So as people check out the app and they get started with it, do you have any guidance for them on how to start the process? Sheldon: Yeah. So the app is Be Ceremonial and you are invited in and there's two pillars that make up the app environment. And one is the ability to create your own ceremony, like a DIY approach. And we started with the birth and death aspects, the two areas of life, because they're the two thresholds. They're usually the places where people are seeking ceremony the most. They… you know, they have a miscarriage or they find out they're pregnant, or they, you know, they want to honor, you know, the end of their breastfeeding journey. There's something that happened in that kind of beginning of life stage or the end of life. You know, they lost a parent, or a death anniversary's coming up, or they have been hanging on to these ashes from a cremation and they don't know what to do with them. So we really started to populate the app with these ceremonies that you could create for yourself around birth and death. And we are now in the midst of bridging out the life cycle. So, I am a Life Cycle Celebrant. I work with people on ceremonies around mastectomies and hysterectomies. Ceremonies around moving into a new home or leaving a childhood home. I've worked with people who have been fired and lost a job and they wanted to create a ceremony to kind of honor what that job brought them and also kind of burn in the fire the things that they wanted to never do again. There are so many points along the lifecycle, both visible and invisible, that deserve to be ritualized. They deserve to have that kind of ceremonial intention built into it. So that's, that's the pillar one that's like one side of the app experience is to be able to create your ceremonies and some people might come in and know exactly what they want and they just want to create a ceremony around a death anniversary, and they can just, you know, pay per use so it's a single-time purchase that they want.  And then other people are really seeking something more. They're really wanting to understand their own relationship with ritual and ceremony. Or they're a care provider. We've got a lot of death doulas and birth doulas and hospice volunteers, midwives, naturopath counselors using our app and they create ceremonies for their clients and their patients. So they're using this as a tool that they can kind of bring to the people that they work with. I've also got a lot of celebrants using this, so there's a wedding ceremony in there and if you are, celebrate, and you've got a new client, and you want to kind of give them some ideas as to what's possible in terms of ritual, you can create a wedding ceremony that you then send to them and they can pick and choose rituals they like. You can then add new ones, you can create your own, you can draw… You know, it's the biggest thing to remind yourself there is that it's you know, you don't need to follow this word for word. It's just a guide to inspire you. I think of it like a blueprint.  The other side… the other pillar of the app which we're really starting to build out this year is the learning environment. So I've hosted tons of online workshops and courses I ran last year, had about 120 students come through a six week training that we offered around end-of-life rituals. And I want to take all of those little mini workshops and build them into the app environment. So for the people that are the members, the subscribers (you can have a monthly or yearly subscription), I want there to be a place where they can go and think, “Oh, gosh, if a client just reached out, reached out or a friend reached out, and you know, they have a child who died.” And they really want to acknowledge the you know, the grief that the family and the friends might be holding. And I want to be able to create a ceremony workshop that explores kids' relationship with grief, and how to explore that.” You know, on the other side of it, maybe there's something around, you know, I've hosted a lot of divorce ceremonies, which has been really interesting for people. And everybody's always like, “Oh, I want to know more, I want to know what what else I can learn about this and how else this can be done and where the, you know, what other cultures are doing” So being able to look at the… the learning environment as a place to have that, that ability to go deeper if and when you choose. I think is really exciting for me, and for a lot of the people that have reached out because I think that there's, you know, the people that come in, and they just want something quick and they want something now and they know, you know, they don't need a whole lot of hand holding. And then there's the people that really want to build a community here and they want to share back their story after they created a ceremony so that it might inspire someone else. And that's my big hope with where Be Ceremonial can grow is that it will become, you know, “This is us. This is our invitation. We've been a catalyst, we've created this framework. Now let's let the community populate it. Let's let people step up and make this their own space. Let's allow this to be a place that connects us and inspires us when we hear stories from people around the world and how they took the same five rituals that I took and yet their ceremony turned out so differently. That's so interesting. I want to hear about that…” And that's the storyteller in me is just wanting to create a space where those stories can be celebrated and witnessed. Thomas: That's wonderful. Well, I feel like what you've created with this, the two of you, it's just such a gift. So on behalf of, I don't know, everybody everywhere, I just want to thank you so much. And I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to join me in this exploration of Megan and Johan's work at Be Ceremonial. I hope that a piece of Megan's story, either a moment of creating ritual to honor a life transition or her overall entrepreneurial spirit has inspired you as it has inspired me. Megan will be back soon to speak more about slow technology and how she is using ritual to transition from pandemic to endemic.  Megan Sheldon is a Cultural Mythologist, End of Life Storyteller, and a Celebrant. She is also the co-founder of Be Ceremonial, the world's first ceremony creation platform, giving you the ritual tools you need to create your own ceremony. You can sign up for a free account at www.beceremonial.com or download the App in the App Store. Our music is by Terry Hughes. Find us on IG and Twitter at shamepinata, reach us through our website, shamepinata.com. And subscribe to the show on your favorite player. Also be sure to check out our second show, Daily Magic for Peace, supporting you as you support Ukraine. I'm Colleen Thomas. Thanks for listening.  

Episode 42: Opening Space to Create.   [To fans of “Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” – this episode, #42, may hold the answer to life, the universe, and everything.]  In the afterlife this soul claimed her purpose. Our link created the possibility of more for our guest, as she releases the business/busy-ness.  Would you like to receive a reading for the podcast? We are scheduling now for podcast guest appearances. If you are interested in receiving a free reading with a loved one in the afterlife or with a past life as part of a future episode, contact linkingpodcast@gmail.com.  You can find out more about Donna here: https://linktr.ee/donnaboylemedium. To schedule a private reading, contact Donna at dboylemedium@gmail.com.  Producer and editor: Joelene Bergonzi Music from Freesound.org   Opening: CD_PLENITUDE_002 kevp888 Closing: Pinecone ambient evanjones4

Join us into the immersive and inspiring world of Karen Rodriguez (Maya). In this Episode she recounts her journey from the urban streets of Los Angeles she grew up in as an immigrant back home to the sacred volcanoes and lakes of Guatemala. Indigenous People, including those often excluded in the global south, are 6% of the Earth's global population. In these numbers, we hold the certainty of a world falling away from economic capitalism, a kind of uncertainty that is empowering but involves un-cradling from the habit of talking before walking. In this episode, Rodriguez shares with us the walking, the crying-- and above all the empowerment of returning to our homelands. Join us! 

Last year was full of astronomical breakthroughs and mind-blowing discoveries in space. The biggest explosion since the Big Bang was registered. The Earth had two satellites for a short while, the Moon and its little buddy. 2019 was also marked by launching a space sailboat. An ordinary water sailboat moves with the help of wind, and a space one uses light! Experts also discovered that it's possible to cultivate plants and crops on Mars and the Moon's surfaces. But one of the most interesting space facts is that there seem to be stars older than the Universe. This might be proof that not only the Big Bang is expanding the Universe! Interested? Then here are the 26 biggest discoveries and achievements in space from 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robin and Jamie are joined by space journalist, producer, and podcast host Sawyer Rosenstein to chat about his historic Zero-G flight with AstroAccess, an organization advancing disability inclusion in outer space.

Join Van Jones, John Legend, Alicia Garza, Jessie Williams and, yep, author and Support is Sexy podcast host Elayne Fluker at INBOUND 2020! The annual marketing event is hosted by HubSpot and is traditionally a three day, in-person conference that gathers business professionals from almost every industry and includes inspiring keynote speakers, breakout sessions, interactive activities, Last year's conference attracted about 25,000 in-person attendees! But this year, INBOUND is going virtual and hosting a two-day event Sept. 22 and 23rd that you can attend from anywhere in the world! Elayne Fluker is one of your INBOUND 2020 Breakout speakers and is sharing how to Get Over "I Got It" syndrome for unapologetically ambitious women -- which is also the topic of her upcoming book, GET OVER "I Got It" (HarperCollins Leadership, 2021), which you'll hear in this episode. You'll also get access to Elayne's mindset meditation called: "Reflections: Leveling Up Your Mindset and Opening Space for Support," plus she answers questions from INBOUND attendees about branding, marketing and making connections. Go to INBOUND.com now to get a FREE DIGITAL PASS NOW while supplies last!

Laborwave Radio and Opening Space for the Radical Imagination present a podcast mini-series, After The Revolution. ​ After the Revolution is inspired by the desire to offer more than a diagnosis of what is wrong with today by focusing on what we might be able to bring about instead. Each episode within this series will begin by highlighting the importance of considering one particular feature of society, then imagining what it might look like after the revolution, and finally offering some ideas on how we get to this revolutionary society. Our third episode is Waste After the Revolution featuring Andrea Haverkamp, president of the Coalition of Graduate Employees labor union, a Phd candidate in Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University, and frequent guest host on Laborwave Radio. "We will, after the revolution, use our current landfills as the new goldmines. We put so much plastic and metals in landfills that will not go away for thousands of years and we can get them back out. We will no longer have our lives dominated by single use items. The rulers are beholden to the cups. The cups are actually not beholden to them. Under consumer capitalism we've created this runaway train and there's no single figure head that we can shut down like we can shut down a factory that will have the effect that we need."

As cities around the world have gone into lockdown and instituted social distancing measures to slow the spread of the covid19 pandemic, something unexpected has happened: We've gotten an impromptu demonstration of the benefits of living with fewer cars and less driving. Seething gridlock has vanished, smoggy skies have cleared, global carbon emissions are way down, and forward-thinking mayors are rapidly re-programming their streets to give human beings the space that once belonged to motor vehicles. Is the world witnessing the wrenching, difficult birth of the car-free city? Or are we merely living in the brief moment before cities snap back into even deeper automobile dependence, the car serving as the ultimate personal protective equipment? Plus: We hear from City of Oakland Transportation Director Ryan Russo. Chip in a few bucks and support the war effort on Patreon. We will send you stickers and t-shirts!  Rate and review us on iTunes. Shouldn't you buy your friend a War on Cars t-shirt at Cotton Bureau? Show Notes:  New Yorkers Are Thinking About Getting Cars Because of COVID-19. (Vice) Oakland banishing cars from 74 miles of city streets. ‘Oakland Slow Streets' will open 10% of city's roads for cyclists, pedestrians (Mercury News) Urban planner Mike Lydon is keeping track of all of the cities launching #Covid19Streets. Cities Close Streets to Cars, Opening Space for Social Distancing (New York Times) To help get essential workers around, cities are revising traffic patterns, suspending public transit fares, and making more room for bikes and pedestrians (CityLab) This episode was edited by Ali Lemer. Newsreel voiceover by Mike Rock. Parody ad voiceover by Leora Kaye. Newsreel and parody ad production by Curtis Fox.  Find us on Twitter: @TheWarOnCars, Aaron Naparstek @Naparstek, Doug Gordon @BrooklynSpoke, Sarah Goodyear @buttermilk1.  Questions, comments, ideas, complaints? Shoot us an email: thewaroncars@gmail.com https://thewaroncars.org

Emily, John and David discuss Tara Reade’s allegations against Joe Biden, the debate over reopening schools, and the three hosts are joined by astronaut Scott Kelly to talk through tips for living in confined spaces. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, and John discuss the ethics of human challenge trials for vaccine development. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show.  You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Here are notes and references from this week’s show: Michael J. Stern for USA Today: “Why I'm Skeptical About Reade's Sexual Assault Claim Against Biden: Ex-Prosecutor” Brian & Eddie Krassenstein for Medium: “Biden Accuser, Tara Reade, Allegedly Stole from Non-Profit Organization” Seren Morris for Newsweek: “What is 1 Day Sooner? Scientists Seek Volunteers to Become Infected with Coronavirus to Speed Up Vaccine Development”  Peter Singer and Richard Yetter Chappell for the Washington Post: “Pandemic Ethics: The Case for Experiments on Human Volunteers” Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey Here are this week’s cocktail chatters: Emily: Linda Villarosa for The New York Times Magazine: “‘A Terrible Price’: The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America”  John: Kathryn Krawczyk for The Week: “Michigan Governor Introduces a GI Bill for Frontline Workers”; Rosalind Adams and Ken Bensinger for Buzzfeed: “After One Tweet To President Trump, This Man Got $69 Million From New York For Ventilators” David: David’s new newsletter for Business Insider; Johnny Diaz for the New York Times: “Cities Close Streets to Cars, Opening Space for Social Distancing” Listener chatter from Püblic Üniversal Fiend @UniversalFiend: Associated Press: “Dutch Students Complete Trans-Atlantic Voyage Forced by Coronavirus” Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily, John and David discuss Tara Reade’s allegations against Joe Biden, the debate over reopening schools, and the three hosts are joined by astronaut Scott Kelly to talk through tips for living in confined spaces. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, and John discuss the ethics of human challenge trials for vaccine development. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show.  You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Here are notes and references from this week’s show: Michael J. Stern for USA Today: “Why I'm Skeptical About Reade's Sexual Assault Claim Against Biden: Ex-Prosecutor” Brian & Eddie Krassenstein for Medium: “Biden Accuser, Tara Reade, Allegedly Stole from Non-Profit Organization” Seren Morris for Newsweek: “What is 1 Day Sooner? Scientists Seek Volunteers to Become Infected with Coronavirus to Speed Up Vaccine Development”  Peter Singer and Richard Yetter Chappell for the Washington Post: “Pandemic Ethics: The Case for Experiments on Human Volunteers” Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey Here are this week’s cocktail chatters: Emily: Linda Villarosa for The New York Times Magazine: “‘A Terrible Price’: The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America”  John: Kathryn Krawczyk for The Week: “Michigan Governor Introduces a GI Bill for Frontline Workers”; Rosalind Adams and Ken Bensinger for Buzzfeed: “After One Tweet To President Trump, This Man Got $69 Million From New York For Ventilators” David: David’s new newsletter for Business Insider; Johnny Diaz for the New York Times: “Cities Close Streets to Cars, Opening Space for Social Distancing” Listener chatter from Püblic Üniversal Fiend @UniversalFiend: Associated Press: “Dutch Students Complete Trans-Atlantic Voyage Forced by Coronavirus” Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript Forthcoming at laborwaveradio.com/gianpaolo Laborwave Radio and Opening Space for the Radical Imagination present a podcast mini-series, After The Revolution.  After the Revolution is inspired by the desire to offer more than a diagnosis of what is wrong with today by focusing on what we might be able to bring about instead. Each episode within this series will begin by highlighting the importance of considering one particular feature of society, then imagining what it might look like after the revolution, and finally offering some ideas on how we get to this revolutionary society. Our second episode is The Political Party After the Revolution featuring Gianpaolo Baiocchi, professor of individualized studies and sociology at NYU and director of the Urban Democracy Lab. He is author of We, The Sovereign which explores the possibilities of bringing about a radical utopia of popular self-rule.  “When we look at the history of political parties in the United States they are pretty consistent with their founding mission of representing political elites. Who do we want this party to be autonomous from and who do we want it to be responsive to? We have to be very clear that it's people's struggles, movements, and unions that we want it to be responsive to and that we want it to be autonomous from elite interests and existing bureaucratic formations within movements and non-profits. Everybody feels like we can't have Trump again, but having this kind of life and death thing continues to lead us to greater and greater compromises all the time. What I like about your question about the party after the revolution is might we have the freedom to rethink our structures of political representation in a way that doesn't feel like if we don't sort it out exactly this minute the world will end or the right-wing will win."

Laborwave Radio and Opening Space for the Radical Imagination present a podcast mini-series, After The Revolution. Full audio and transcript available at laborwaveradio.com/rajpatel After the Revolution is inspired by the desire to offer more than a diagnosis of what is wrong with today by focusing on what we might be able to bring about instead. Each episode within this series will begin by highlighting the importance of considering one particular feature of society, then imagining what it might look like after the revolution, and finally offering some ideas on how we get to this revolutionary society. Our first episode is The Dinner Table After the Revolution featuring Raj Patel, writer, activist, and academic who has authored the books Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food Sytem; The Value of Nothing; and The History of the World in Seven Cheap Things with co-author Jason W. Moore.

Full transcript at laborwaveradio.com/jarrodshanahan We explore the life and legacy of Noel Ignatiev through conversation with Jarrod Shanahan, a life-long comrade of Noel's and co-editor along with Noel Ignatiev on the journal Hard Crackers. Noel Ignatiev passed on November 9, 2019 at the age of 78. He was a dedicated antiracist leftist who edited the journals Race Traitor and Hard Crackers and wrote the widely influential book How The Irish Became White. The enduring legacy of Noel Ignatiev's life and thought may best be summed up by the slogan printed on the cover of Race Traitor: "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity." We discuss with Jarrod Shanahan Noel's theoretical contributions to analyses on whiteness and "white skin privilege" as well as his ideas on how small groups of radicals can change society through instigating "creative provocation," such as practiced by the Abolitionists against chattel slavery in the United States. Jarrod Shanahan is an activist, educator, and researcher. His writing, which has appeared in outlets including Jacobin, Commune, Vice, and The New Inquiry, can be found at jarrodshanahan.com. Read Jarrod's full article commemorating the life and legacy of Noel Ignatiev at Commune Mag: https://communemag.com/noel-ignatiev-1940-2019/ Further links: Opening Space for the Radical Imagination III https://www.imaginativespaces.org Laborwave Radio https://www.labowaveradio.com Noel Ignatiev Works Referenced: Black Worker, White Worker http://www.sojournertruth.net/bwww.html How The Irish Became White https://www.routledge.com/How-the-Irish-Became-White-1st-Edition/Ignatiev/p/book/9780415963091 Race Traitor https://www.routledge.com/Race-Traitor-1st-Edition/Ignatiev-Garvey/p/book/9780415913935 Hard Crackers https://hardcrackers.com/ CUNY Struggle https://cunystruggle.org/ $7K or Strike https://7korstrike.org/ Robin DG Kelley “After Trump” forum http://bostonreview.net/forum/after-trump/robin-d-g-kelley-trump-says-go-back-we-say-fight-back CLR James and Johnson-Forest tendency For a good introduction into this strain of socialist thought, see The Invading Socialist Society by CLR James and Raya Dunayevskaya, https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1947/invading/index.htm Endnotes https://endnotes.org.uk/about

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First time for Laborwave, an audio essay from our show host Alex Riccio originally published by the Institute for Anarchist Studies (anarchiststudies.org). Imagining A Better Utopia: Seizing Spaces of Revolutionary (Re)production "Victories against the boss are transformative for workers. They cultivate a sense of new possibilities and openings previously viewed as impossible. The task, then, is to expand the arenas where victories take place. In this way, what may begin as a victory against landlords and project for cooperative housing contains the potential of enlarging its imaginative capacities to become the pathway where a recognition is made that cooperative houses on colonized lands is insufficient, and nothing less than a global revolution against settler-colonial capitalist heteropatriarchy will do. " Laborwave Radio is a proud sponsor of the Opening Space for the Radical Imagination III Read about the gathering and the current Call for Presenters at oregonimagines.com Essay text available at https://anarchiststudies.org/imagining-a-better-utopia-seizing-spaces-of-revolutionary-reproduction/

Tampa Bay colour commentator, Brian Engblom, says JT Miller has great puck possession skills and opens space for skilled players, so that should greatly benefit Pettersson and Boeser. Engblom is very much a fan of the game Miller plays

adrienne maree brown was one of the keynote speakers at Opening Space for the Radical Imagination II, a two-day conference on April 19-20 2019 in the occupied lands of the Kalapuya people. Her keynote address covered her recent title, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism. Her mindset-altering essays are interwoven with conversations and insights from other feminist thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Together they cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own. For more information on adrienne maree brown visit: adriennemareebrown.net Also check out more about Opening Space for the Radical Imagination: oregonimagines.com You can get a copy of Pleasure Activism at https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html Music by John Dwyer: Transmute by Damaged Bug Cool Death by Thee Oh Sees

On today’s episode, meet Meg Berryman. She is a catalyst for change and has a thriving business. One may even say, she would not need a coach for she is already doing so well for herself. Both Meg and I believe that is untrue. The more in tune you are with your vision, the more open we can be to support. She was a yes to getting vulnerable on air and I respect her tremendously for it.​​​​​​​3:08 Social Leadership​​​​​​​​​​​​​​6:36 Micro-Actions11:12 Yes to Being Coached​​​​​​​12:12 Opening Space​​​​​​​13:32 Getting Curious​​​​​​​15:09 Coaching through the Magic of Energy​​​​​​​32:40 Meg Transforms with a Beautiful InvitationMeg Berryman is a coach, yoga teacher + social change catalyst who awakens sacred, social leaders. Meg empowers the woman leader to journey from wellness, to wholeness and beyond - supporting her to develop a powerful vision of the world she wants to live in, so she can align her energy and actions and find purpose in the everyday. She is a mama of two girls and lives with her husband on her property outside Melbourne, Australia.https://beyondbeingwell.com

There are many different faces to minimalism.  There’s no benchmark to measure yourself against that would somehow “qualify” you as a minimalist.  It’s much more general than that and each person might apply the concept differently in your own life.   This episode is going to shed some light on why all that clutter, both mental and physical, might be holding you back, the benefits of minimalism, how to make it work for you (since it’s different for everyone) and auditing your life to see what can change. Minimalism can be GRADUAL- it doesn’t have to happen all at once!  Otherwise feels way too daunting and overwhelming, not to mention unattainable.   The biggest reason why I'm such a fan of minimalism is that to me, it equates to freedom.  Physical, financial, mental, emotional, it all plays a role and de-cluttering your life is various ways opens up space to so many other things.   DOES IT BRING YOU JOY? “The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.” - Marie Kondo This is SO INTERESTING!  I loved this quote from Marie Kondo, because it can really help you hone in on why you're holding onto things that might no longer be serving you.   What are you holding onto that is to try and preserve a little piece of your former self?   What is it about that former version of yourself that you miss? Is that “stuff” really going to help you get back to that place? Do you even truly want to get back to that place? How is holding onto that former version of you holding you back from who you are becoming? This episode is going to give you the motivation you've been looking for to de-clutter your life in more ways than one. Plus, I'm running a mini 3-day challenge all about minimalism and de-cluttering your life over in the Room to Grow Podcast Facebook group! There are guest speakers coming in, a handy worksheet that is being released on Wednesday January 30th, and all kinds of tips and tricks to get started with introducing minimalism into your life.  And, invite a friend into the group to join you and keep you extra motivated to make some of the changes we're discussing!   REFERENCES The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo Becoming Minimalist Room to Grow Podcast episode #07, Finding Your Why & Showing Up Authentically with Amie Tollefsrud of Rebelle Nutrition Room to Grow Podcast episode #17, Rest for Success and How to Manage Metabolism with Dr. Jade Teta Room to Grow Podcast episode #52, Money is a Tool, Time is the Prize   FIND EMILY Emily Gough Coaching Room to Grow Podcast info@emilygoughcoaching.com Instagram @emilygoughcoach Private Facebook Group: Room to Grow Podcast Facebook: @ Emily Gough Coaching   DON’T MISS… Want to chat more and do a deeper dive into this topic and get access to live videos, exclusive guest appearances and discussions?  The Room to Grow Podcast Facebook group is a judgement-free safe space to open up, and I’d love to welcome you in with the other amazing women in the group.  It’s the best place to go for a little extra support.  See you over there! You can also email me at info@emilygoughcoaching.com, or DM me over on Instagram @emilygoughcoach with any questions, comments, or takeaways!  Plus, I would absolutely love to connect with you and thank you for listening in real life.  It makes me day to see you listening to the podcast and fills me up with pure joy. Seriously.  See you on the ‘gram! Questions?  Comments?  If Instagram and Facebook aren’t your jam, send me a good old fashioned email!  info@emilygoughcoaching.com   Find full show notes including all resources mentioned in the episode at emilygoughcoaching.com/063 roomtogrowpodcast.com   New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday! 

We sat down with local academic Joey Tuminello during his work at the Opening Space for the Radical Imagination conference at Oregon State University. Andrea Anarchy and Joey discuss the journey towards his food and ethics activism, spirituality in leftist movements, and all the juicy in-between. Joey Tuminello is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of North Texas, an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and a Program Coordinator for Farm Forward, a nonprofit farmed animal advocacy group. His academic and activist work focuses on the intersection of food, animal, and environmental ethics, including human dimensions and social justice issues related to factory farming. Further Resources for this episode: http://josephtuminello.academia.edu/ www.foodforward.com LaborWave is an exploration of culture, politics, rebellion, and alternatives to capitalism recorded in Corvallis, Oregon at Oregon State University’s Orange Media Network. We want to hear your ideas, thoughts, and articles! Contact us at corvallislabourwave@gmail.com

Our latest episode of LabourWave highlights recent news including the UW Graduate Workers Strike, Portland City Council, local fascist running again for student government, and Burgerville Workers' Union on the rise! We also feature an audio clip from a lecture on Orwell's Pessimism given by Kristian Williams at the conference Opening Space for the Radical Imagination. Finally we discuss articles we've read this week, including a review of David Graeber's new book on Bullsh*t Jobs and another on White Women's Tears. Further Resources for this episode: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/05/burgerville_workers_union_notc.html http://www.wweek.com/news/2018/04/18/gladstone-burgerville-joins-southeast-portland-store-in-filing-for-election-to-unionize/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/uw-grad-students-hold-one-day-strike/ http://www.wweek.com/news/city/2018/03/07/three-candidates-for-portland-city-council-juggle-campaigning-with-their-day-jobs/ http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/21134/capitalism-job-bullshit-david-graeber-busywork-labor LabourWave is an exploration of culture, politics, rebellion, and alternatives to capitalism recorded in Corvallis, Oregon at Oregon State University’s Orange Media Network. We want to hear your ideas, thoughts, and articles! Contact us at corvallislabourwave@gmail.com

May is here, and with it comes continued organizing by teachers, educators, and workers across the nation. This week Person X and Andrea Anarchy swap articles on black feminist anarchism, co-operative housing as commons, and finish off with a powerful exerpt from author and activist Zoe Samudzi's talk she gave at the Opening Space for the Radical Imagination conference on April 8, 2018 titled "Discussion and Thought Exercise about Black Women's Safety" And you'll likely want to note that we will publish the full talk online later. Further Resources for this Episode:
 Columbia Graduate Union columbiagradunion.org/ “Until All Are Free: Anarchism, Black Feminism, and Interlocking Oppression” by Hillary Lazar found in https://www.akpress.org/perspectivesonanarchisttheorymagazine.html “Carving Out the Commons” by Alex Zanghi found at https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/carving-out-the-commons-review-cooperatives Song clips in this episode are “Sugartown” by Shitkid, “Mesa, AZ” by Guantanamo Baywatch, “Trippling” by Tess Roby, and “Goodbye, Goodnight” by Coachwhips. LabourWave is an exploration of culture, politics, rebellion, and alternatives to capitalism recorded in Corvallis, Oregon at Oregon State University’s Orange Media Network. We want to hear your ideas, thoughts, and articles! Contact us at corvallislabourwave@gmail.com Screen reader support enabled. May is here, and with it comes continued organizing by teachers, educators, and workers across the nation. This week Person X and Andrea Anarchy swap articles on black feminist anarchism, co-operative housing as commons, and finish off with a powerful exerpt from author and activist Zoe Samudzi's talk she gave at the Opening Space for the Radical Imagination conference on April 8, 2018 titled "Discussion and Thought Exercise about Black Women's Safety" And you'll likely want to note that we will publish the full talk online later. Further Resources for this Episode:
 Columbia Graduate Union columbiagradunion.org/ “Until All Are Free: Anarchism, Black Feminism, and Interlocking Oppression” by Hillary Lazar found in https://www.akpress.org/perspectivesonanarchisttheorymagazine.html “Carving Out the Commons” by Alex Zanghi found at https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/carving-out-the-commons-review-cooperatives Song clips in this episode are “Sugartown” by Shitkid, “Mesa, AZ” by Guantanamo Baywatch, “Trippling” by Tess Roby, and “Goodbye, Goodnight” by Coachwhips. LabourWave is an exploration of culture, politics, rebellion, and alternatives to capitalism recorded in Corvallis, Oregon at Oregon State University’s Orange Media Network. We want to hear your ideas, thoughts, and articles! Contact us at corvallislabourwave@gmail.com

Arun Gupta joins us to regale everyone with tales of visiting factory farms, what New York City used to be like, and what happened when he went to cover the Bundy occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. - - - - Arun will be presenting at the Opening Space for the Radical Imagination event with a talk entitled "Policing, Property, and Protestantism" on Saturday, April 7th. More details here: https://www.oregonimagines.com/ - - - - https://arunkgupta.com/ - - - - More show notes/recs here: goo.gl/EfUTcX

As we go to press, anti-police protests are ongoing over the police killing of Stephon Clark, students at Howard University in DC are still occupying the recently re-named Kwame Ture Student Center, and teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma are on strike. This week we interview Uri Gordon, an anarchist from Israel, about the deadly repression in Gaza. We also reflect on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plus announcements for upcoming bookfairs, gatherings, and protest mobilizations. {April 4, 2018}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:45} Remembering Paul Z. Simons {5:07} Interview about deadly repression in Gaza {6:34} Teachers strike in Kentucky and Oklahoma {11:05} 50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK {13:25} Repression Roundup {26:15} Next Week's News {32:00} Download 29:30 minutes long version   There's a day of solidarity with J20 defendants called for April 10. The next trial is coming up April 17! Use this poster to spread awareness about the case, or call those responsible for the repression themselves and tell them to drop ALL the charges. J20 support resources: J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful “do”s and “don't”s  Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Resources for the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Reflection On Doctor King by Black anarchist and former Black Panther Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed - Charles Cobb Dixie Be Damned: 300 years of insurrection in the American South - Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford “It's a Police State Mentality” — J20 and the Racist Origins of Criminalizing Protest – Sam Adler-Bell Dr. King's Long Assassination – Paul Street The Ex-Worker #53: “Anti-Globalization” Walking Tour of Washington, D.C. features some history on the uprising in DC after Dr. King's assassination, including an interview with one of the more militant participants. Events this weekend: April 6–8: Anti-Colonial & Anti-Fascist Community Defense Gathering in Flagstaff, Arizona. Registration IS required, which you can fill out here. April 6–8: The Opening Space for the Radical Imagination at Oregon State University in Corvallis. More than a few anarchist-sympathetic speakers, like Walidah Imarisha and Hillary Lazar are speaking. April 6–8: The fourteenth Zagreb Anarchist Bookfair in Croatia. For more info in Croatian and English, go to ask-zagreb.org. April 7: The Liverpool Anarchist Bookfair in England. Anarchist texts mentioned in this Hotwire: We Don't Need Gun Control, We Need To Take Control Remembering Paul Z. Simons An Unyielding Anarchist, Author, and Rebel Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle Dixie Be Damned: 300 years of insurrection in the American South Rojava: Democracy and Commune From Democracy to Freedom Start gearing up for a summer of anarchy in Quebec! The anarchist film festival (May 17–20 in Montreal) The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (May 22–23 in Montreal) The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 26–27 in Montreal) The North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference (June 1–3 in Montreal) Anti-G7 mobilization (June 7–9 in Quebec City) The Southeast Trans and/or Women Action Camp, taking place April 26–29 in Western North Carolina, has had their donation page shut down twice, so if you have some bucks to spare you can donate at PayPal.me/setwac2018. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour April 4 @ 7 PM at Glitter Box Theater 460 Melwood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 6 @ 6 PM at Guide to Kulchur 5222 Lorain Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism April 7 @ 12 noon at Guide to Kulchur 5222 Lorain Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 8 at 2 PM at Off Center 64 N. Huron Street, Ypsilanti, MI 48197: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness April 9 at 6:30 PM at Capital Area District Library – Downtown 401 S Capitol Ave, Lansing, MI 48933: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism April 11 at 6:30 PM at First Presbyterian Church 510 W Ottawa St Lansing, MI 48933: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness   Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write birthday greetings to political prisoner Romaine ‘Chip' Fitzgerald. Romaine ‘Chip' Fitzgerald #B–27527 California State Prison - LAC Post Office Box 4490 B–4–150 Lancaster, California 93539 Address envelope to Romaine Fitzgerald, address card to Chip {Birthday: April 11} Herman Bell still needs help to secure his release from prison: 1) CALL New York State Governor Cuomo's Office NOW: 518–474–8390 2) EMAIL New York State Governor Cuomo's Office          3) TWEET at Governor Cuomo: use the following sample tweet: “@NYGovCuomo: stand by the Parole Board's lawful & just decision to release Herman Bell. At 70 years old and after more than 40 years of incarceration, his release is overdue. #BringHermanHome.” Use this script for phone calls and emails:  “Governor Cuomo, my name is __________and I am a resident of [New York State/other state/other country]. I support the Parole Board's decision to release Herman Bell and urge you and the Board to stand by the decision. I also support the recent appointment of new Parole Board Commissioners, and the direction of the new parole regulations, which base release decisions more on who a person is today than on the nature of their crime committed years ago. Returning Herman to his friends and family will help heal the many harms caused by crime and decades of incarceration. The Board's decision was just, merciful and lawful, and it will benefit our communities and New York State as a whole.”  Robert Seth Hayes, one of the longest-held political prisoners in the U.S., who was active in the Black Panther Party and, later on, formed the Black Liberation Army, is in the infirmary and is need of support. The Jericho Movement calls on people to call the superintendent at Sullivan Correctional Facility and demand that Robert Seth Hayes be taken immediately to the Albany Medical Center. Superintendent Keyser's number is 845–434–2080.    

Anarchy Anarchy and Person X discussed current events including a student occupation happening at Howard University (#studentpowerHU), Oklahoma Teachers strike, March for Our Lives and an anarchist perspective on gun reform, and the Burgerville Workers Union filing for a union election. We also interviewed a local organizer, Micknai Arefaine (VP of Social Justice for the Coalition of Graduate Employees and coordinator for the AYA Womxn of Color Initiative) about her role in organizing the upcoming conference, Opening Space for the Radical Imagination. The Radical Imagination conference takes place in Corvallis, Oregon April 6-8 and will feature keynote speakers Walidah Imarisha, Arun Gupta, Zoé Samudzi, Raj Patel, Hillary Lazar, Kristian Williams, and Kevin Van Meter. Tickets are available at www.oregonimagines.com Further Resources for this Episode: Crimethinc "Youth Liberation" https://crimethinc.com/2018/03/20/gun-control-no-youth-liberation-mass-shootings-school-walkouts-getting-free Oklahoma Teachers Strike www.twitter.com/okea Burgerville Workers Union http://www.burgervilleworkersunion.org/ Student Power at Howard University www.twitter.com/HUResist LabourWave is an exploration of culture, politics, rebellion, and alternatives to capitalism recorded in Corvallis, Oregon. We want to hear your ideas for all things anti-capitalist! Contact us at corvallislabourwave@gmail.com

In this episode, Susan interviews Harrison Owen the celebrated creator of Open Space Technology which was “channeled” through him, he claims, because of the presence of good gin as well as past inspirations from a village where he lived in West Africa that handled differences by sitting in a simple circle. Open Space has been used in more than half of the countries on earth in what has been a 30+ year experiment in what Harrison observes as the “natural occurrence of peace and high performance.” In this episode, Harrison talks about how Open space evolved and why he thinks it works in high conflict situations. He describes some specific applications – the first, to a conflict between government agencies and Native Americans about where to build a highway on tribal lands and, the second, a meeting of 50 Israelis and Palestinians in Rome who were at polarized odds. “One of the interesting things that struck me early on (about Open Space) is how hugely conflicting people who had spent a considerable amount of time trying to deal with a particular issue would, for whatever reason, find themselves in an Open Space and, more often than not, come out hugging and kissing – problem solved.” In his typical fashion, Harrison provides insight in just about every sentence he utters including reflections on why Open Space isn't used even more widely than it is given its consistent effectiveness.

Well, I'm still getting the hang of my new microphone (I hope), and recovering some voice after the seasonal cold, and experimenting with recording without a script... not sure about the merits of that one... but anyway, here's podcast 4. The question this time was about opening the channel for a reading - how to create space and allow the message to be heard. (Part of the preparation for the 'Opening Space for Change' event.) Yi's response: 59.1.2 changing to 42, which made for a much longer recording. The promised second half will be in the Jewelbox for Change Circle members within the next couple of days. Comments very, very welcome. (Too long? Too hesitant? Too close to the microphone? ;) )