Podcasts about rivera sun

Episode 325 of RevolutionZ has as its guest the novelist and activist Rivera Sun. We discuss nonviolent resistance as a strategy to combat rising authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world. The episode reviews the historical effectiveness of nonviolent movements worldwide, the essentials of winning campaigns, the importance of active civil disobedience and of positively engaging allies,  the importance of narratives to movement communication and much more regarding organizing and activism, plus some discussion the efficacy and complexity of writing fiction.Support the show

: Riviera Sun is the author of several social protest novels, The Dandelion Insurrection, Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars and the award-winning Ari Ara Series. as well as nine theatrical plays and a book of poetry. In 2020, her novel The Lost Heir was nominated for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Rivera cohosts Occupy Radio with David Sierra Lupe, and cofounded the nationwide nonviolent study and action group network, the Love-inAction Network and is the founding editor of the prize-winning Nonviolent News. After six years working as a professional playwright. Rivera Sun serves on the board of the Backbone Campaign and the advisory board of World BEYOND War

Episode 310 of RevolutionZ asks what  drove millions of Americans to rally behind a figure as vile as Donald Trump? What attracted and held them despite so much that ought to have repulsed them? What can now stop Trump from implementing full-on fascist outcomes? Wtih Immigration policy as an example, how might activism subvert Trump's plans? And is there a way to simultaneously effectively communicate with the over half the voting electorate that supported Trump without compromising values and denying reality?Support the show

Rivera Sun is a change-maker, a cultural creative, a protest novelist, and an advocate for nonviolence and social justice. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Way Between and other novels.  She is the editor of Nonviolence News. Her study guide to making change with nonviolent action is used by activist groups across the country. Her essays and writings are syndicated by Peace Voice, and have appeared in journals nationwide. Rivera attended the James Lawson Institute in 2014 and facilitates workshops in strategy for nonviolent change across the country and internationally. Between 2012-2017, she co-hosted nationally two syndicated radio programs on civil resistance strategies and campaigns. Rivera is the program coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence. In all of her work, she connects the dots between the issues, shares solutionary ideas, and inspires people to step up to the challenge of being a part of the story of change in our times. riverasun.com See the video and ask questions of future guests at:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com/club⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM Check out the film on World Citizen #1 Garry Davis: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Endorse the ban on Nuclear Weapons: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com/endorse⁠

The United States is a violent society, whether it be its pervasive culture of war and militarism, long term systemic racism or the current rise of political violence. To counter this and build a democratic society that respects human rights, we must educate ourselves about methods of nonviolence and mobilize to put what we learn into action. Clearing the FOG speaks with author and activist Rivera Sun, program coordinator with Campaign Nonviolence. Sun speaks about the upcoming days of nonviolent action from September 21 to October 2, during which thousands of actions ranging from teach-ins to direct actions are planned with the intention of mainstreaming nonviolence. She explains why nonviolence is essential in a democratic society and where people can find resources and training. For more information, visit PopularResistance.org.

Campaign Nonviolence Action Days are coming up September 21 to October 2. See https://campaignnonviolence.org World BEYOND War's #NoWar2024 is September 20 to 22. See https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2024 Rivera Sun is an author and activist whose novels include The Dandelion Insurrection and the award-winning Ari Ara Series. She is the editor of Nonviolence News and the Program Coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence. Her articles are syndicated by Peace Voice and published in hundreds of journals nationwide. Rivera Sun serves on the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War and the board of Backbone Campaign. Her website is riverasun.com

Over 5,000 actions listed for nonviolence during Campaign Nonviolence's Action DaysNonviolence is happening all over, even if we don't often or always read about it in the mass media. Rivera Sun joins Nonviolence Radio to share a recap of hope and energy from Campaign Nonviolence's Action Days which ran from the International Day of Peace to the International Day of Nonviolence. 

Rivera Sun is an author, notably of fantasy novels for children with a fresh take on the themes of courage, character, humanness, friendship. In her writing, she began to wonder if we needed the violence that seems to persist in the story-telling in fantasy. Instead of trying to win the war, could we instead try to prove the heroism? We face epic struggles — climate crisis, nuclear weapons, pandemic — and can feel very small. That's where these stories come in — the framework, metaphors, role models and heroes, and the ways to overcome the struggles without choosing violence. The group conversations centered on the question asking what stories have shaped you, and what did you draw from them? What are the elements and themes that might be showing up in your life over and over again? Check the calendar of Events at www.peacealliance.org - join us at our next Hope Story Circle and share your emerging stories!

Congress is poised to expand draft registration to young women. Some argue it's a sign of equal rights, of progressive feminist values. But during a panel at the 2021 Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference, three remarkable speakers debunk that theory and explain why the draft should be abolished once and for all.  The panel was called “Intersectionality & the U.S. Military Draft" and features Rivera Sun, Edward Hasbrouck, Sebastian Muñoz-McDonald (and Rosa del Duca. )Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/breakingcadence)

Veronica Pelicaraic, is Nonviolence training and education coordinator at Pace e Bene. She authored the book Engage and co-authored {with Rivera Sun}, the book, Engaging Nonviolence, Activating Nonviolent Change in Our Lives and Our World. Veronica has led Pace e Bene nonviolence workshops in Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Haiti, Australia, Britain, and the Netherlands. A Zen Buddhist, Veronica is conversant in six languages. She lives in Montreal, Canada; been with Pace e Bene for 22 years; taught courses in two states in the U.S. She grew up in Argentina and has a degree in psychology.

This week on CODEPINK Radio host Marcy Winograd interviews Marylia Kelly, Executive Director of Tri-Valley Cares, an anti-nuclear organization based in Livermore. The organization is part of a coalition suing the Department of Energy for failing to conduct a comprehensive programmatic environmental assessment of increased nuclear bomb core production for new nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. (ICBM's) This show also features CODEPINK Congress interviews with author Rivera Sun, activist Ed Hasbrouck and Veterans for Peace President Adrienne Kinne on legislation to abolish the Selective Service and efforts to defeat legislation to expand Selective Service to include women. Lastly, this episode also contains testimony from March 2021 hearings conducted by New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand who has introduced legislation to address the problem of rampant sexual harassment and sexual assault in the U.S. military.

This week on Talk World Radio: draft registration. Is it unfair to young women not to force them to kill and die for weapons profits? Our guest Rivera Sun is the Editor of Nonviolence News, a nationwide trainer in strategy for nonviolent movements, and the author of many books and novels, including The Dandelion Insurrection and The Way Between. She serves on the Advisory Boards of World BEYOND War and the Backbone Campaign. Her essays on nonviolence are syndicated by Peace Voice and published in hundreds of journals. See: https://riverasun.com Join Rivera's online book club: https://worldbeyondwar.org/bookclubs

Solutions to Violence features Author-Actress Rivera Sun. She is the author of two social protest novels, The Dandelion Insurrection and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She's created these as well as nine theatrical plays and a book of poetry. Rivera cohosts Occupy Radio with David Geitgey {gite-gee?} Sierralupe, { se-a-ra-loo-pay } and cofounded the nationwide nonviolent study and action group network, and that is the Love-in-Action Network. .

Women's Spaces Radio Show of 5/10/2021 with host Elaine B Holtz commenting on the Mother's Day Proclamation and guest Tina Rogers on Black Herstory: Sojourner Truth and Charlotte Vandyne Fonten . Elaine comments on the Mother's Day Proclamation of Julia Ward Howe of 1870 and a modern version by Rivera Sun that Code Pink published. Every 2nd Monday of the month Tina Rogers presents Black Herstory. This show Tina features Sojourner Truth and Charlotte Vandyne Fonten, both abolitionists and suffragists. Tina also announces the upcoming 51st annual Juneteenth Celebration of Diversity and Inclusivity in Sonoma County on Sunday, June 20, 2021 by zoom open to the public, family oriented, and free. Check out the show's web archive page for the guest's bio, links referenced to dig down deep, this week in Herstory, Announcements, and playlist at http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA21/WSA210510.html

00:42 Chauvin Verdict 01:35 Healing Our City — Darnell Moore for Ma’Khia Bryant 07:58 “Madman with a Sword” analogy 08:39 Restorative Justice 09:18 Nonviolence and the case of the extremely ruthless opponent 10:56 Resources 11:02 Free Bystander Intervention & De-escalation Trainings 11:29 For Goodness Sake: Music for the Nonviolent Future 12:11 Planned Actions for Campaign Nonviolence Action Week 12:45 Rivera Sun’s Upcoming Events 12:55 Sustaining Peace Project 13:20 Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony 13:50 Indigenous Youth Arrive in DC to Tell Biden: Stop Dakota Access and Line 3 Pipelines 14:36 Defend the Sacred Alliance 15:40 Music by Eliza Gilkyson The post Nonviolence Report April 23, 2021 appeared first on Metta Center.

Fiction writers are accustomed to seeing the layers of motivation and conflict that drive the plots around us. In this special episode of the World BEYOND War podcast, we welcome two novelists, Vanessa Veselka ("The Great Offshore Grounds", "Zazen") and Rivera Sun ("The Way Between", "The Dandelion Insurrection") who each have unique backgrounds in activism and organizing. We talk about the hero's journey, the way protest actions can change our lives, labor unions, anger, nonviolence and sexual violence, leadership, Sharon Blackie, Leo Tolstoy and the problem of conquest activism. Hosted by Marc Eliot Stein. Musical excerpt: "Wonderous Stories" by Yes.

Michael Nagler gives the Nonviolence Report for February 5, 2021.In this episode -00:31 President Biden ending support for the war in Yemen.01:17 10-point Plan for peace president. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/02/ten-point-plan-make-joe-biden-peace-time-president1:56 The end of private prisons by the U.S. Justice Department2:23 Overturning the Muslim ban. Rejection of KXL pipeline. Rejoining of the Paris Agreement.3:54 Stephen Zunes article -- https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2021/01/20/trump-coup-nonviolent-activists/5:07 Truth and Healing Council - https://tribalaffairs.ca.gov/cthc/6:18 Virginia abolishes the death penalty6:41 Farmers Struggle in India8:51 Gene Sharp's 198 methods for nonviolent resistance -- https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/9:38 Coup in Myanmar10:41 Peruvian doctors go on hunger strike to protest pandemic stressResources:14:02 ICNC  -- Civil Resistance Struggles course -- https://courses.nonviolent-conflict.org/courses/course-v1:ICNC+Participant_Led_Course2019+Spring2019/about15:06 Occupy Sonoma County - https://ocsoco.org/content/daniel-solnit-teach-video-effective-strategies-climate-activism15:28 Course on Restorative Justice - https://peopleshub.org/15:53 Indigenous Peacemaking Initiative -https://peacemaking.narf.org/2020/10/news-spiritual-healing-a-more-hawaiian-way-to-deal-with-delinquent-kids/16:34 Ecoleaks - https://www.facebook.com/EcoLeaksGlobal/17:22 Campaign Nonviolence Pledge - https://paceebene.org/nonviolence-pledge17:49 Rivera Sun - https://wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2021/01/what-the-anti-coup-campaign-taught-us/18:08 Is this principled nonviolence? http://www.huntsabs.org.uk.Learn more at www.mettacenter.org/explore

Julie and I discuss how she fell in love with performing, how spiritually and creativity are intertwined, what she learned from surviving breast cancer, and more. Julie Boniger website Unity North Atlanta Church Jason Silva The Dandelion Insurrection by Rivera Sun

On October 2nd, the International Day of Non-Violence, we would like to thank Rev. Canon Leonard Hamlin, Hardy Merriman, Rivera Sun, and Mary Elizabeth King for the excellent discussion on the current state and relevance of nonviolent action in the contemporary globe. Grievance and deprivation, perceived or real, tempt groups into violent behavior. Rapid change, social upheaval, and uncertainty make violent expressions of social discontent even more likely. It is in those moments that we are called to demonstrate a heightened sense of restraint and sound judgment. It is in those moments that nonviolence presents as a timely and timeless concept for contemporary societies. And yet, while few would disagree about the virtue of nonviolence, a similarly firm belief and understanding about its power, strategy, and discipline is much harder to locate. The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence and Rumi Forum, proudly inspired by two masters of nonviolent action, are co-hosting this event on Gandhi’s birthday, the International Day of Nonviolence. The program features a panel from scholarly as well as practitioner backgrounds. Our speakers will guide an exploration of the current state of nonviolent action around the globe, its growing relevance amid social unrest, and efforts to make it an inherent element of individual and collective behavior. Moderator: The Rev. Canon Leonard L. Hamlin, Sr.  Canon Missioner, Washington National Cathedral The Rev. Canon Leonard L. Hamlin, Sr. began his tenure at the Washington National Cathedral in April 2018. In his role as Canon Missioner, Dr. Hamlin oversees the Cathedral’s outreach and social justice initiatives, including gun violence prevention and racial justice and reconciliation. In particular, Dr. Hamlin assists in the building of partnerships and the equipping of the Cathedral community and the congregation to serve as the hands and feet of Christ in the world. Prior to his arrival at the Cathedral, Dr. Hamlin served as the Pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. for 22 years. Under his leadership, the congregation was strengthened numerically and spiritually while numerous ministries, discipleship classes and mission efforts were organized to meet the needs of the congregation and the community locally, regionally and nationally. Dr. Hamlin received his Bachelor of Business Administration Degree (1983) from the Howard University School of Business, Master of Divinity Degree (1994), and a Doctor of Ministry Degree from the Howard University School of Divinity (1996). He has served and been appointed to numerous community, faith based and governmental boards, commissions, agencies. Dr. Hamlin is married to Machell Nicholson Hamlin, Esquire, assistant vice president of staff counsel for the GEICO Corporation, and they are the proud parents of one son, Leonard L. Hamlin, Jr. Speakers Hardy Merriman  President and CEO, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict He has worked in the field of civil resistance for over 18 years, presenting at workshops for activists and organizers around the world; speaking widely about civil resistance movements with scholars, journalists, and members of international organizations; and developing resources for practitioners and scholars.  His writings have been translated into numerous languages. From 2016-2018 he was also an adjunct lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University). Title of presentation: “Civil Resistance: Powerful, Underrecognized, and Crucial in this Moment”   Dr. Mary Elizabeth King  Director, James Lawson Institute Mary Elizabeth King is a political scientist and author of acclaimed books on civil resistance, most recently “Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India: The 1924–25 Vykom Satyagraha and the Mechanisms of Change.” She is professor of peace and conflict studies at the UN-affiliated University for Peace; Distinguished Rothermere American Institute Fellow at the University of Oxford, Britain; and director of the James Lawson Institute. Her academic specialty in the study of nonviolent action dates to four years working in Atlanta and Mississippi for the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement on staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC. There she learned the basics of nonviolent struggle from the Reverend James M. Lawson in this profound experience that would define her life. Her website is maryking.info. Title of presentation: “Rediscovering How Gandhi Put Nonviolent Methods on the World Political Map” Rivera Sun  Editor, Nonviolence News Author/Activist Rivera Sun is the editor of Nonviolence News and a nationwide trainer in strategy for nonviolent change. She has written numerous books and novels, including The Dandelion Insurrection and The Way Between.  She serves on the Advisory Boards of World Beyond War and Backbone Campaign.  Her writings on nonviolence as syndicated by Peace Voice and have appeared in over 100 journals. www.riverasun.com. Title of presentation: “Challenges – And Possibilities – Of Teaching Nonviolence As A Way Of Making Change”  

Does more money lead to greater happiness? In Rivera Sun's novel, Billionaire Buddha, inspired by the life of Dariel Garner, true happiness doesn't come until immense wealth is given away. In our 20th episode, Mel and Steff chat with Rivera and Dariel about income inequality, the immense damage being done to people and planet in the name of wealth accumulation, and the importance of reexamining our values to build a more collaborative and equitable future.

Rivera Sun is a change-maker, a cultural creative, a protest novelist, and an advocate for nonviolence and social justice. She is the author of many novels including The Dandelion Insurrection and The Way Between and other novels. She is also the editor of Nonviolence News, a free weekly newsletter. I first discovered Rivera's writing on Counterpunch and began following her on social media. A couple years back, when I asked her if I could mail her a copy of my most recent book, "The Failures of Farming & the Neccesity of Wildtending," she graciously offered to send me one of her own books. I chose "The Dandelion Insurrection," which I found so compelling that I couldn't put it down once I started it, and ended up spending an entire day reading. I will admit that I have been skeptical of "non-violence" as an approach. This dates back to my time in Portland, Oregon, in the early 2000s, when the big protests against the upcoming Iraq War were going on. There, some of the prominent non-violence activists I knew struck me as close-minded, uptight, and unrealistic. Disagreements often came up as to whether property destruction constituted violence, which I felt tended to fetishize property, and by extension to shield class and capital from criticism. Additionally, some non-violent proponents tended to conflate violence and illegality, as if Gandhi and King and others had not purposefully engaged in illegal actions when appropriate. The most frustrating moment came for me when some of the folks from that crowd got upset that people were using chalk on sidewalks and walls to express antiwar messages. In Portland, chalking is not even illegal; this I knew for certain from a local lawyer who provided letters to chalk activists that they could show to police if challenged. And chalking is not destructive; in rainy Oregon, it'll soon be gone. That was a breaking point for me, and I pretty much ignored the non-violent crowd after that for years to come. But when I started getting into Rivera Sun's work, I came to understand that non-violence does not at all have to be about prissiness or passivity. To the contrary, it can be loud, bold, active, engaging and quite effective. I found myself re-inspired, and that was a happy feeling. I interviewed Rivera on March 11, 2020, and we covered a lot of ground. By the end of this interview, I hope that you, too, will be excited about non-violence. Rivera Sun https://www.riverasun.com Non-Violence News https://nonviolencenews.org/ Support Voices for Nature & Peace by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/voices-for-nature-and-peace Find out more at https://voices-for-nature-and-peace.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Rivera Sun. Author/Activist Rivera Sun has written numerous novels, including _The Dandelion Insurrection, The Way Between, _and her most recent release, _The Lost Heir. _She is a nationwide trainer in strategy for nonviolent movements and the editor of the weekly Nonviolence News. She lives in an earthship house in New Mexico and grew up on an organic farm in Maine.  

We've all heard about "doing what's right," but there's not much talk about how we discern what "right" actually is. Could it be different for different people? On this episode, we're joined in circle by author/activist Rivera Sun and healer/bridge-builder Shoshi Morginn to explore this very important question! 

EVENT DESCRIPTION: Relationships are being created, nourished and sometimes destroyed in online spaces. Are there ways to nourish authentic dialogue and conflict resolution when things get ‘hot’ online? How can we deal with trolls - or friends and relatives acting like trolls - and getting through heated arguments to meaningful communication? Join Rivera Sun and […] The post Conflict In The Comments with Dominic Barter & Rivera Sun appeared first on Restorative Justice On The Rise.

After a year-long hiatus (during which Rivera healed from cancer and both of your favorite cohosts wrote new books), we're back with new episodes of Love (and Revolution) Radio! Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ "Our modern day myths, our hero stories, are rooted in the stories of collective struggle that have gone on all over the world." - Rivera Sun "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

In 2017, more people became activated for social justice. At the same time, white supremacist groups became more visible, marching with torches and chanting words of hatred. There were conflicts between people who disagreed over what tactics would be most effective in stopping the rise of white supremacy and fascism and achieving greater equality and justice. We speak with Rivera Sun about her novels, which use fiction to teach lessons of movement strategy, and about organizing for social change in our times. Her newest book is "The Roots of Resistance: Book Two of the Dandelion Trilogy" and it will be available in February. For more information, visit www.ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.

This week on Love (and revolution) radio, we speak with Gus Speth of the next system project about a paper he wrote called “The Joyful Economy: A Next System Possibility.” Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ You can check out Gus’ paper here: http://thenextsystem.org/the-joyful-economy/ James Gustave Speth, who goes by “Gus” and speaks with a soft South Carolina drawl, is nobody’s picture of a radical. His resume is as mainstream and establishment as it gets: environmental advisor to Presidents Carter and Clinton, founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council and World Resources Institute, administrator of the U.N. Development Program, dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, now a professor at Vermont Law School, and distinguished senior fellow at Demos. Time magazine has called him the “ultimate insider.”  Gus Speth: ‘Ultimate insider’ goes radical   Gus Speth calls for a “New Environmentalism” Gus Speth Wikipedia World Resources Institute   Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org   About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline   Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with five amazing guests - Kathy Kelly, Tom Hastings, David Soumis, Gretchen Casey, Cindy Reinhardt - who are all working in the fields of peace and conflict resolution as we take a look at Rivera Sun's novel, The Way Between, as lens for the escalating conflicts in our real world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guests: Kathy Kelly is a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, which sent over 70 delegations to Iraq from 1996 to 2003, in open defiance of deadly U.S./UN economic sanctions. Her most recent travel has involved extensive work with community organizers in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kelly's nonviolent activism has incurred frequent arrests including several lengthy incarcerations in U.S. prisons against whose conditions she also campaigns. Tom Hastings is the Director of PeaceVoice, a professor of peace and conflict studies at Portland State University, and the author of several books including "A New Era of Nonviolence". David Soumis is a member of Veterans For Peace. Along with Lars Prip and other local VFP members, he demonstrates for peace weekly in Madison, WI, as well as participates in numerous other nonviolent actions for peace and justice. Gretchen Casey is the Training and Outreach Director for the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding in Gainesville, Florida. She is the founder of Unshame, a social media platform breaking the stigma around sexual violence. She has been a Victim Advocate with the Florida State Attorney's Office and Attorney General's Office for thirty-two years. Cindy Reinhardt works with people in coaching and runs a bed and breakfast in Crestone, CO, offering multi-day retreats to help people harmonize with their self, others, and the planet. Related Links: The Way Between by Rivera Sun https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996639136 The Way Between (on Rivera Sun's website) http://www.riverasun.com/the-way-between/ Voices for Creative Nonviolence http://vcnv.org/ Afghan Peace Volunteers http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/ PeaceVoice http://www.peacevoice.info/ A New Era of Nonviolence by Tom Hastings https://www.amazon.com/New-Era-Nonviolence-Power-Society/dp/078649431X Veterans For Peace https://www.veteransforpeace.org/ River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding http://www.centerforpeacebuilding.org/ Dragonfly House (Cindy's B & B) http://cindyreinhardt.com/dragonflyhousebedandbreakfast/ Cindy Reinhardt's Blog http://cindyreinhardt.com/thezone/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Dena Eakles of Echo Valley Hope about her recent time at Standing Rock, what's coming next for the movement, and how to bring prayerful, peaceful activism home to your heart and your community. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Dena Eakles is the founder of Echo Valley Hope and lives at Echo Valley Farm in Wisconsin. She has traveled several times to Standing Rock, participating and supporting the peaceful, prayerful actions to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Related Links: Echo Valley Hope: http://www.echovalleyhope.com/ Let Kindness Win: https://letkindnesswin.wordpress.com/ Indigenous Environmental Network: http://www.ienearth.org/ Indigenous Life Movement: https://www.facebook.com/IndigenousLifeMovement/ Digital Smoke Signals: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalSmokeSignals/ 34 Tribes File Lawsuit to Stop DAPL Oil from Flowing: http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2017/02/35-native-american-tribes-file-lawsuit.html 17 Banks Financing DAPL: http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/how-to-contact-the-17-banks-funding-the-dakota-access-pipeline-20160929 Defund DAPL: http://www.defunddapl.org/ The Way Between by Rivera Sun: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996639136 Love (and Revolution) Radio Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/loveandrevolutionradio/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're weighing in on the subject you've been waiting for: the presidential elections. We explore the dynamics surrounding female presidential candidates, and then dive into a broader concept of women and democracy. We boldly go into the discussion of how real democracy, feminine principles and nonviolent people-power go hand-in-hand for re-balancing everything in our world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: Why Civil Resistance Works by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820 The Dandelion Insurrection by Rivera Sun (sections on midwives mentioned on the show) http://www.riverasun.com/midwife-to-the-coming-world-an-excerpt-from-the-dandelion-insurrection/ http://www.riverasun.com/midwife-to-change-from-the-dandelion-insurrection/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're hosting an Occupy Anniversary Special, bringing on guests Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight, Jerry Ashton of Rolling Jubilee and RIP Medical Debt, and Sue Sierralupe of Occupy Medical to discuss what has happened "because of Occupy". Joining us for the conversation is Occupy Radio cohost David Geitgey Sierralupe. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guests: Comedian and commentator Lee Camp is the host of Redacted Tonight, which airs weekly on RT America. His stand-up comedy has been featured on Comedy Central, ABC’s Good Morning America, MTV, and has headlined more than 500 college and university shows. He was asked, before Occupy, to send out a message calling people to protest and rise up against inequality, and continues to do so to this day. http://leecamp.net/about/ Debt Collector Jerry Ashton is the executive vice president and cofounder of RIP Medical Debt and a participant in the Rolling Jubilee working group during Occupy Wall St. He is the co-author of "The Patient, The Doctor and The Bill Collector", and has been blogging about debt, inequality, and the Occupy movement on Huffington Post and debt industry journals. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/jerry-ashton Sue Sierralupe is the cofounder and clinic manager of Occupy Medical in Eugene, an on-going free weekly medical clinic providing direct experience of the single-payer universal healthcare model in the streets. She is the author of ten books, and the cohost of Real Herbalism Radio show. She blogs at ThePracticalHerbalist.com http://www.thepracticalherbalist.com/ Guest Host David Geitgey Sierralupe is the cofounder of Occupy Radio, which he previously hosted along with Rivera Sun. He is a media activist, a father, and the husband of Sue Sierralupe. His next project, Irresistible Fiction, is in development and soon to launch. Related Links: S17 Occupy 5th Anniversary Commemoration http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/occupy-wall-streets-fifth-anniversary/ Lee Camp http://leecamp.net Redacted Tonight https://www.youtube.com/user/redactedtonight Oligarchy Study https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf Rich People Rule: Struggle Lies Ahead by Rivera Sun (article about Oligarchy Study) http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23473-rich-people-rule-struggle-lies-ahead Clean Money Candidates http://www.cleanmoneycandidates.org/ RIP Medical Debt https://www.ripmedicaldebt.org/ Rolling Jubilee http://rollingjubilee.org/ Strike Debt http://strikedebt.org/ Debt Collective https://debtcollective.org/ The Patient, The Doctor, and the Bill Collector by Jerry Ashton and Robert E. Goff http://nomoremedicaldebt.com/ Occupy Medical http://occupy-medical.org/ The Practical Herbalist http://www.thepracticalherbalist.com/ Real Herbalism Radio http://www.thepracticalherbalist.com/podcasts/ Occupy Love by Filmmaker Velcrow Ripper http://occupylove.org/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio and this week's featured music is "Shall We Rise - Occupy!" by Diane Patterson on her Build a Bridge CD. www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week's Review and Reflection Show on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we take a look at the indigenous and allied resistance to the North Dakota Access Pipeline, explore why the metaphor of war doesn't work for making nonviolent change, and reflect on the meaning of being human in a rapidly changing world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Every so often, Sherri and Rivera take an episode to explore with the listeners some of the deeper reflections from previous shows and current events. These Review and Reflection Shows offer depth and breadth to understanding the ideas that affect our lives. Related Links: #NoDAPL Solidarity (i.e. what you can do to support the water protectors) https://nodaplsolidarity.org/ Amy Goodman's Coverage of #NoDAPL https://youtu.be/kuZcx2zEo4k Civilian-based Defense http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Civilian-Based-Defense-English.pdf Quebec Model for Using a Plan of Nonviolent Action to Deter Frackers https://www.opendemocracy.net/civilresistance/philippe-duhamel/civil-resistance-as-deterrent-to-fracking-part-one-they-shale-not-0 Leaderful Movements (by Rivera Sun) http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/35079-awakening-the-movement-of-movements Love (and Revolution) Radio interview with Simon Dennis http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-08T14_00_00-08_00 Bolivia Water Struggles in Cochabamba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_Water_War Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Rick Wayman of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation about the David versus Goliath story of how the tiny Marshall Islands (population 70,000) have filed lawsuits against the nine nuclear-armed nations to force them to start negotiations for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Rick Wayman, Director of Programs at Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, is working closely with the international legal team and representatives from the Marshall Islands to coordinate a collaborative effort of over one hundred NGOs in support of the Marshall Islands lawsuits agains the nine nuclear-armed nations to open non-proliferation negotiations. Related Links: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation https://www.wagingpeace.org/ Nuclear Zero http://www.nuclearzero.org/ Don't Bank on the Bomb http://www.dontbankonthebomb.com/ Petition in support of Marshall Islands lawsuits http://www.nuclearzero.org/petition Music by: This week's featured music is "Moody's Blues" by SFT. You can find this and other tracks on Jamendo.com https://www.jamendo.com/track/964174/moody-s-blues "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Michigan-Meta Peace Team trainer Kim Redigan about the remarkable work being done by peace teams both internationally and domestically, and how we might be able to use peace team training in our neighborhoods to reduce violence and create safe conditions under which conflicts and grievances can be aired, addressed, and hopefully resolved. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Kim Redigan is a nonviolence trainer for Michigan-Meta Peace Teams. She has served on both international and domestic peace teams in a wide range of conflict situations. She is a teacher, writer, and water activist living in Detroit, Michigan. Related Links: Michigan-Meta Peace Teams http://www.metapeaceteam.org/ Write Time For Peace by Kim Redigan http://writetimeforpeace.com/ Meta Peace Team http://www.metapeaceteam.org/ Peace Zones for Life http://detroitcoalition.org/ About Shanti Sena http://www.markshep.com/peace/GT_Sena.html Metta Center on Shanti Sena Network http://mettacenter.org/shanti-sena/about-the-shanti-sena-network/ CEASE Fire http://cureviolence.org/partners/illinois-partners/ Elizabeth Murray Interview on Love (and Revolution) Radio http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-08-16T14_00_00-07_00 Nonviolent Peaceforce http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/ Peace Brigades International http://www.peacebrigades.org/ Narayan Desai and Shanti Sena http://www.markshep.com/peace/GT_Sena.html Music by: This week's featured music is "Reflections" by Shawn Mercer from the album by the same title. You can find more of his music at www.shawnmercer.com "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

Edward Hasbrouck is a long-time member of the War Resisters League and maintains one of the most comprehensive websites about "Selective Service," the draft, draft registration, and draft resistance. His website at http://www.resisters.info includes news about the current proposals to expand draft registration to women as well as men, and FAQs about what to do if you don't want to be drafted. Edward was one of 20 people who were prosecuted for organizing resistance to draft registration in the 1980s. He spent 4 1/2 months in a federal prison camp in 1983-1984 before the government gave up trying to enforce the Selective Service law in 1987 in the face of massive noncompliance. Dump draft registration, don't extend it to women (Op-Ed by Edward Hasbrouck, San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 2016) https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002261.html Support H.R. 4523 to end draft registration https://hasbrouck.org/draft/HR4523.html Petition to the U.S. Congress: Pass the new bill to abolish the military draft http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/pass-the-new-bill-to-abolish-the-military-draft Women: Do not register for the draft. (by Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice, June 17, 2016) https://hasbrouck.org/draft/women-refuse.html Gender-Neutral Draft Registration Would Create Millions of Female Felons (U.S. News & World Report, May 3, 2016) http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-05-03/gender-neutral-draft-registration-would-create-millions-of-female-felons

Now that the Fourth of July fireworks are over and the smoke of nationalism has cleared slightly, it's time to pick up the trash on the beaches and look at truth instead of flag-waving. This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we offer a special program. According to historian and researcher Walter Conser (not to mention President John Adams) the Revolutionary War was not what won our independence from Great Britain . . . and the answer to what did may surprise you to the point of rethinking everything you've been told about the founding of the United States of America. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Walter Conser is a professor of religion and a professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is co-editor along with Gene Sharp and others of Before Lexington: resistance, politics, and the American struggle for independence, 1765-1775 which is forthcoming quite soon from the Albert Einstein Institute in Boston. Related Links: Walter Conser's forthcoming book, "Before Lexington: resistance, politics and the American struggle for independence" will be available here: http://www.aeinstein.org/ Recovering Nonviolent History, with a chapter of the American Independence Struggle by Walter Conser http://recoveringnonviolenthistory.org/ Albert Einstein Institution http://www.aeinstein.org/ Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action https://www.amazon.com/Power-Struggle-Politics-Nonviolent-Action/dp/087558070X Why Civil Resistance Works by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan http://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw/ Love (and Revolution) Radio interview with Ken Butigan on the Just War Theory http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-05-03T15_25_09-07_00 Further listening on this subject is available on Campaign Nonviolence's recent National Conference Call with Walter Conser as guest speaker: http://www.paceebene.org/2016/06/29/campaign-nonviolence-conference-call-june-2016/ Find a few more tantalizing tidbits via Rivera Sun's essay on the subject: http://www.riverasun.com/the-nonviolent-history-of-american-independence/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured music is How To Do by Chriz Ballandiz & Ema-Production on his Campfire Acoustics album. You can find it on jamendo.com under campfire acoustics. https://www.jamendo.com/album/119886/campfire-acoustics About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. www.riverasun.com

Viking Economics: George Lakey On How Nordic Nations Used Nonviolent Action to Oust the 1%   This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, George Lakey, nonviolent movement strategist, organizer, teacher, and author, joins us to speak about his new book, Viking Economics, about how Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland used nonviolent action to gain long-lasting economic justice . . . and how we can follow in their footsteps here in the United States. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: George Lakey is a long time activist, strategist and trainer for nonviolent movements, the cofounder of Training for Change and Earth Quaker Action Team, and the author of nine books that were "written as homework for the movement to support activism and a better world for all of us". His newest book, Viking Economics, explores how the Nordic Nations used nonviolent action to gain long-lasting economic justice. Related Links: Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got it Right and How We Can Too! http://vikingeconomics.org/ How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the 1% by George Lakey http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-the-power-of-the-1-percent/ Princeton Study on Oligarchy and American Non-Democracy https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf Rivera Sun's Op-Ed on the Princeton Study "Rich People Rule: Struggle Lies Ahead" http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23473-rich-people-rule-struggle-lies-ahead Earth Quaker Action Team http://www.eqat.org/ Training for Change http://www.trainingforchange.org/ Norway To Go Carbon-Neutral by 2030 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/15/norway-pledges-to-become-climate-neutral-by-2030 Where to Invade Next by Michael Moore http://wheretoinvadenext.com/ Deep Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured music is "Jog" by the band, Crowfoot, on their album, "As the Crow Flies". Find their music at www.crowfootmusic.com About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're taking a moment for reflection and exploration, covering strategy for nonviolent movements, and a few key dynamics, practices and understandings you can use in your work to make change. Powerful tools and startling insights! Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun teach strategy for nonviolent movements across the country . . . and in this week's episode, we're bringing this knowledge to your ears! Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: Contact us about nonviolent action workshops! (We love to teach them!) Sherri Mitchell smitchel815(at)gmail.com orhttps://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/ Rivera Sun http://www.riverasun.com/workshops/ Also check out Rivera Sun's study guide to The Dandelion Insurrection which has sections on the 198 Methods of Nonviolent Actions, Campaign Design, Constructive Program, and much more!http://www.riverasun.com/online-store/the-dandelion-insurrection-study-guide-making-change-through-nonviolent-action/ Deganawida, The Great Peacemaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Peacemaker Gayanashagowa or The Great Law of Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_Peace Gandhian Constructive Programme http://mettacenter.org/definitions/constructive-program/ War Resisters' International Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns http://www.wri-irg.org/pubs/NonviolenceHandbook The Interest Convergence Theory by Derrick Bell, Civil Rights Scholarhttp://professorderrickbell.com/scholarship/ The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w Awakening the Movement of Movements by Rivera Sun http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/35079-awakening-the-movement-of-movements Gene Sharp and Civil Resistance http://www.aeinstein.org/ Music By: "Love and Revolution" and "Walls Fall Down" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're taking a moment for reflection and exploration, covering strategy for nonviolent movements, and a few key dynamics, practices and understandings you can use in your work to make change. Powerful tools and startling insights! Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun teach strategy for nonviolent movements across the country . . . and in this week's episode, we're bringing this knowledge to your ears! Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: Contact us about nonviolent action workshops! (We love to teach them!) Sherri Mitchell smitchel815(at)gmail.com or https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/ Rivera Sun http://www.riverasun.com/workshops/ Also check out Rivera Sun's study guide to The Dandelion Insurrection which has sections on the 198 Methods of Nonviolent Actions, Campaign Design, Constructive Program, and much more! http://www.riverasun.com/online-store/the-dandelion-insurrection-study-guide-making-change-through-nonviolent-action/ Deganawida, The Great Peacemaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Peacemaker Gayanashagowa or The Great Law of Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_Peace Gandhian Constructive Programme http://mettacenter.org/definitions/constructive-program/ War Resisters' International Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns http://www.wri-irg.org/pubs/NonviolenceHandbook The Interest Convergence Theory by Derrick Bell, Civil Rights Scholar http://professorderrickbell.com/scholarship/ The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w Awakening the Movement of Movements by Rivera Sun http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/35079-awakening-the-movement-of-movements Gene Sharp and Civil Resistance http://www.aeinstein.org/ Music By: "Love and Revolution" and "Walls Fall Down" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with two cofounders of Beyond Extreme Energy, Melinda Tuhus and Ted Glick, about the nonviolent direct action campaigns aimed at getting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to stop rubber-stamping fossil fuel infrastructure permits. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guests: Melinda Tuhus is a founding member of Beyond Extreme Energy, an independent journalist, activist, and blogger. You can read her writings at Leaves and Fishes, a monthly column. Ted Glick is also a founding member of Beyond Extreme Energy, and has been a climate activist since 2004, and a progressive activist since 1968. He writes a bi-weekly column entitled Future Hope. Related Links: Beyond Extreme Energy https://beyondextremeenergy.org/ BXE Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BeyondExtremeEnergy/ BXE Twitter @BXEAction Future Hope Columns by Ted Glick https://tedglick.com/future-hope-columns/ Leaves and Fishes by Melinda Tuhus http://www.melindatuhus.net/blog Deep Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology Quebec Strategy Against Frackers http://www.riverasun.com/il-resistance-as-deterrent-to-fracking-part-one-they-shale-not-0 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured musician is Chad Wilkins. The song is "Be A Friend" on his album, "Show Us the Way of the Heart". You can find his music at www.chadwilkinsmusic.com About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with citizen scientist and master gardener Adrian Fisher about reconciliation ecology and how her neighborhood outside Chicago, IL used wild plant gardening to not only connect two wildlife preserves on either side of her, but also a bi-continental migration route for innumerable wild species. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Adrian Fisher is a sustainability coordinator, a wild and native plants gardener, and writes and speaks about Reconciliation Ecology and Regenerative Gardening. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and is a featured writer on Resilience.org Related Links: Why Reconciliation Ecology Matters by Adrian Fisher http://www.resilience.org/stories/2016-04-28/ethics-and-ecosystem-interactions-why-reconciliation-ecology-matters Reconciliation Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_ecology Wild Ones Organization http://www.wildones.org/ Deep Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology Resilience.org http://www.resilience.org/ Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken http://www.blessedunrest.com/ Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer https://www.amazon.com/Braiding-Sweetgrass-Indigenous-Scientific-Knowledge/dp/1571313567 Win-Win Ecology https://global.oup.com/academic/product/win-win-ecology-9780195156041 Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation http://www.xerces.org/ The Sunflower Forest by William Jordan https://www.amazon.com/Sunflower-Forest-Ecological-Restoration-Communion/dp/0520233204 The Carbon Farming Solution by Eric Toensmeier http://www.chelseagreen.com/the-carbon-farming-solution Paradise Lot (Book and Blog) https://paradiselotblog.wordpress.com/ Rodale Institute http://rodaleinstitute.org/ Rodale Institue White Paper on Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change http://rodaleinstitute.org/assets/WhitePaper.pdf Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured musician is Melissa Crabtree. This is her song, "Bees" from her album "The Day I Fell Into the Water". You can find this and other music by Melissa at www.melissacrabtree.com About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

Fellowship of Reconciliation Centennial: 100 Years Of Nonviolence, Action, Peace, and Justice This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with four guests who each offer a unique lens into the upcoming, historic Fellowship of Reconciliation Centennial Conference at Seabeck, WA, exploring the past, present, and future of the largest, oldest interfaith peace organization in the United States, and how one hundred years of working for peace, justice, and nonviolence affects us all in our contemporary lives. As Fellowship of Reconciliation celebrates its centennial year, we can almost trace the arc of social justice through their history, for indeed, FOR has been entwined in nearly every struggle for peace and justice in the last hundred years. The Fellowship of Reconciliation is the largest, oldest interfaith peace organization in the United States, working for peace, justice and nonviolence since 1915. As an interfaith organization, FOR-USA’s mission is to organize, train, and grow a diverse movement that welcomes all people of conscience to end structures of violence and war, and create peace through the transformative power of nonviolence. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guests: Michael Colvin is on the planning committee for the FOR Seabeck Conference and is also a member of the FOR National Conference. Adam Vogal serves on the planning committee for the FOR Seabeck Conference, is the leader of Students United For Nonviolence at Portland State University, a member of the FOR National Council, and a Campaign Nonviolence Associate. Karla Elizarraraz is a board member for the Inland Congregation United for Change based in Southern California, and a part of the PICO National Network, as well as being a youth participant in the FOR Seabeck Conference. Tom Hastings is a life long activist, serves on the communications committee of the NAACP, is a professor of conflict resolution at Portland State University, and a presenter at the FOR Seabeck Conference. Related Links: FOR Seabeck Centennial Conference http://forseabeck.org/ Ask questions of presenters during the Seabeck Conference through Twitter by using: #FORSeabeck and #DandelionInsurrection, or tweeting at @FORSeabeck Fellowship of Reconciliation http://forusa.org/ Erica Chenoweth's TedX Talk on Why Civil Resistance Works https://youtu.be/YJSehRlU34w Jamila Raqib & the Albert Einstein Institution http://www.aeinstein.org/ Students United for Nonviolence https://www.pdx.edu/conflict-resolution/students-united-for-nonviolence Campaign Nonviolence http://www.paceebene.org/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org Our featured music this week is "Now Is the Time" by Heather Houston. Find her music at www.heatherhoustonmusic.com About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Margret Aldrich, the author of The Little Free Library Book, about the quiet revolution of community, sharing, and literacy that's popping up in more than 40,000 front yards, street corners, and coffee shops around the world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Margret Aldrich is the author of The Little Free Library Book, and a writer and editor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nonviolence Minute: Our Nonviolence Minute on AJ Muste was sent to us this week from Love (and Revolution) Radio listener Moti Rieber. You can follow his writings at rebmoti.blogspot.com or @rebmoti on Twitter. Thank you, Moti! Related Links: The Little Free Library https://littlefreelibrary.org/ The Little Free Library Book by Margret Aldrich https://littlefreelibrary.org/shop/rewards/little-free-library-book-preorder/ Little Free Library Festival https://littlefreelibrary.org/festival2016/ Delivering Little Books of Peace, Decator, Georgia during the Campaign Nonviolence Week of Actions 2015 http://www.paceebene.org/2015/10/06/delivering-little-books-of-peace-in-georgia/ River Phoenix Center For Peacebuilding on Love (and Revolution) Radio http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-01T12_50_42-08_00 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org Our featured music this week is Water Into Water by Marya Stark, featuring Daniel Berkman. You can find this and more great music by Marya Stark at www.maryastarkmusic.com About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

Decolonizing Your Life While Working for Change w/ Idle No More Washington's Sweetwater Nannauck This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Sweetwater Nannauck, the director of Idle No More Washington, about culture, spirituality, social change, and how to decolonize our lives as we work to protect both people and planet. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Sweetwater Nannauck is the director of Idle No More Washington, a workshop leader and presenter, a spiritual activist, and is very active in advocating for the protection of the fragile environment of the Northwest Coast, for tribal sovereignty rights, and the traditional way of life of Native people. Related Links: Idle No More Washington: https://www.facebook.com/Idle-No-More-Washington-467317416649876/ Lummi Nation's Victory Over Coal Terminal http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/10/first-nation-wins-historic-victory-over-mammoth-coal-export-terminal Shell No Campaign Succeeds In Getting Shell Oil Co. To Withdraw from Arctic https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/28/royal-dutch-shell-suspends-arctic-drilling-indefinitely/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured music is by Aircab. You can find this and other tracks on Jamendo.com https://www.jamendo.com/track/1117334/aircab-acoustic2 About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

Diane Patterson, singer/songwriter, and creator of our theme song, joins Love (and Revolution) Radio to speak about art, music, life, loving, and making social change through heart, spirit, and human connection. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Folkgoddess Diane Patterson sings the world awake with strong voice, rocking guitar, sweet ukulele, and revolutionary lyrics. Her sincere spirit and wild heart joyfully plant seeds of love and light in every listener. Diane has been performing at festivals and venues since 1991, and for the past 20 years has been touring, producing albums, making music, and living life. www.dianepatterson.org Related Links: Diane Patterson www.dianepatterson.org Teach, Inspire, Be Real by Diane Patterson http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dianepatterson1 Build A Bridge by Diane Patterson http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dianepatterson6 World As Lover, World As Self by Joanna Macy http://www.joannamacy.net/books-dvds/20-world-as-lover-world-as-self.html Lt. Ehren Watada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehren_Watada Martín Prechtel http://www.floweringmountain.com/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio "Maiden the Flower" by Diane Patterson from "Teach, Inspire, Be Real". www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Ken Butigan shares the exciting news about the Nonviolence and Just Peace conference at the Vatican . . . and what throwing out 1700 years of just war theory might mean for the Catholic Church, and the world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Ken Butigan is the Executive Director of Pace e Bene and Campaign Nonviolence. He is a peace and conflict studies professor at DePaul University in Chicago. Ken was part of the planning committee for the "Nonviolence and Just Peace Conference: Contributing to the Catholic Understanding of, and Commitment to Nonviolence", and he also coordinated the writing committee for the final draft of the text that was sent to Pope Francis following the conference. Related Links: About the "Nonviolence and Just Peace" Conference http://wagingnonviolence.org/2016/04/vatican-conference-calls-for-nonviolence-just-peace-pope-francis/ The Church's Turn Toward Nonviolence by Rev. John Dear http://www.paceebene.org/2016/04/21/the-churchs-turn-toward-nonviolence/ Laudato Si, Encyclical on Ecological Restorative Justice by Pope Francis http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html Cardinal Turkson's interview in April 24th Edition of Sunday Times, London http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Europe/article1689497.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2016_04_23 Pax Christi http://www.paxchristi.net/ Junipero Serra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun%C3%ADpero_Serra Why Civil Resistance Works by Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth http://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820 Nonviolent Peaceforce http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/ The Two Hands of Nonviolence http://www.paceebene.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Two-Hands-of-Nonviolence.pdf Dorothy Day & Catholic Worker Movement http://www.catholicworker.org/ Franz Jägerstätter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_J%C3%A4gerst%C3%A4tter Thomas Merton http://merton.org/ Oscar Romero in El Salvador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero Cardinal Sin in the Philippines, People-Power Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sin Pace e Bene Nonviolence Trainings w/ Ken Butigan and Staff http://www.paceebene.org/programs/nonviolence-workshops/ Campaign Nonviolence http://www.paceebene.org/programs/campaign-nonviolence/ Nonviolent Cities Project http://www.paceebene.org/programs/campaign-nonviolence/the-nonviolent-cities-project/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org Our featured music this week is called Song of Time from Diane Patterson's new album, Teach, Inspire, Be Real. We are particularly excited about this new album, since it is the first time a recording of our theme song, Love and Revolution, has ever been available! In two weeks, we'll have Diane with us here on the show to discuss art, music, and making change. You can find her music at www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Stephan Schwartz, editor of the daily Schwartz Report and author of the book, The Eight Laws of Change, explains how modern science and ancient wisdom are coming full circle . . . and why that's great news for everyone working for social change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Stephan Schwartz is the author of Eight Laws of Change, the editor of the daily Schwartz Report, columnist for the journal Explore, and has spent over forty years exploring extraordinary human functioning, and how individuals and small groups can, and have, affected social change. Related Links: Stephan A. Schwartz http://www.stephanaschwartz.com/ Schwartz Report - Trends That Will Affect Your Future http://www.schwartzreport.net/ 8 Laws of Change by Stephan Schwartz http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Change-Personal-Social-Transformation/dp/1620554577/ Opening To The Infinite - Course With Stephan Schwartz http://www.glidewing.com/sas/opening_to_the_infinite-home.html Global Consciousness Project & Roger Nelson research http://global-mind.org/ Quantum Biology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology Max Planck, Quantum Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck The Great Turning http://www.paceebene.org/2016/04/22/on-earth-day-commit-to-the-great-turning/ Joanna Macy http://www.joannamacy.net/ David Korten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Korten 337 Whales Breached In Chile http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/03/22/337-dead-whales-in-chile-what-the-worst-case-of-mass-deaths-reveals-about-the-ocean/ Thomas Kuhn (coined the term paradigm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn Barbara McClintock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock The Axial Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age Quote from Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (1841). Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org "Interlude" by Max TenRoMhttps://www.jamendo.com/track/1314632/interlude About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun uncover the deep themes that run like rivers through the shows. Exploring spirituality, economics, the commons, activism, and living boldly and creatively in these times of change, this show opens the heart and mind to new possibilities in our world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: Americans Who Tell The Truth: Art and Education As Resistance with Robert Shetterly http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-29T14_00_00-07_00 The Commons: Reclaiming Our Humanity with David Bollier http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-22T14_00_00-07_00 Nonviolent Classrooms and Public Schools with Robin Wildman http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-15T14_00_00-07_00 Challenging the Divide: Connecting Inner and Outer Change with Simon Dennis http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-08T14_00_00-08_00 Transforming Cops, Kids, and Whole Communities With Peacebuilding with Heart Phoenix and Jeffrey Weisberg http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-01T12_50_42-08_00 The Divine Feminine in Transforming Our World with Miigamaghan and Nickie Sekera http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-02-23T21_00_00-08_00 Sounding the Depths with Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-02-16T19_43_46-08_00 Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview two men who had millions of dollars . . . and chose to give it all away. Chuck Collins and Dariel Garner share their stories of finding the true meaning of wealth, and how they've dedicated their lives to creating more just, equitable, and sustainable economies, wealth, and incomes. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guests: Chuck Collins is great-grandson of 19th-century meatpacking mogul Oscar F. Mayer. He is now the senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, and cofounder of Wealth for the Common Good and Inequality.org. He is the author of numerous books, including 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking The World And What We Can Do About It. He is the coauthor, with William H. Gates, Sr., of the book Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes. In his twenties, he gave away his inheritance. Dariel Garner is a serial entrepreneur who has started over forty businesses. He is a former member of the 0.01% and the inspiration for the fictional novel, Billionaire Buddha. Twelve years ago, he gave away his multi-million dollar fortune. Related Links: Chuck Collins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Collins Inequality.org http://inequality.org/ Billionaire Buddha by Rivera Sun http://www.riverasun.com/billionaire-buddha/ Institute for Policy Studies http://www.ips-dc.org/ Billionaire Bonanza (statistics on wealth inequality) http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/ The Next System http://thenextsystem.org/ New Economy Coalition http://neweconomy.net/ Resilience.org http://www.resilience.org/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week of Love (and Revolution) Radio, Rhonda Fabian, the digital editor of Kosmos Journal and coauthor of the Connecting for Change study, joins us to discuss the movement of movements, self-organizing, emergence, and the personal practices that guide us through these times of great change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Rhonda Fabian is the Digital Editor of Kosmos Journal, and the coauthor of the Connecting for Change study. She is the founder partner and CEO of Fabian Baber Communication, a digital learning company. She is a mindfulness advocate in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, deeply involved in the Transition Movement, and lives in Media, PA. Related Links: Five Insights about Global Transformation from the Connecting For Change Study http://www.kosmosjournal.org/news/five-insights-about-global-transformation-from-the-kosmos-study-connecting-for-change/ Kosmos Journal http://www.kosmosjournal.org/ Murmurations of Starlings in Flight https://youtu.be/ctMty7av0jc Emergent Improvisational by Susan Sgorbati http://emergentimprovisation.org/Essay-on-Emergent-Improvisation.html New Story Hub http://newstoryhub.com/ Findhorn Community in Scotland https://www.findhorn.org/aboutus/community/ Awakening the Movement of Movements by Rivera Sun http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/35079-awakening-the-movement-of-movements Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org "Lakelight" by Crowfoot on the album "As The Crow Flies"www.crowfootmusic.com About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with painter Robert Shetterly, creator of the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, about the events that galvanized him into action, and brought courageous truth-telling and powerful stories into peoples' lives all across America. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Robert Shetterly is a painter, educator, and activist. He is the creator of the Americans Who Tell The Truth portrait series, which uses paintings and narratives to highlight citizens who courageously address issues of social, environmental, and economic fairness. By combining art and other media, AWTT offers resources to inspire a new generation of engaged Americans who will act for the common good, our communities, and the Earth. http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/ Related Links: Americans Who Tell The Truth: http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/ Samantha Smith Challenge and EngagED http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/education Terry Tempest Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Tempest_Williams Jane Cleeb and Nebraska's Resistance the KXL Pipeline http://boldnebraska.org/author/jane/ Ai-jen Poo http://www.domesticworkers.org/aijen-poo Nonviolence Interlude: Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez “Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.” - Cesar Chavez Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org Featured Music by Matti Paalenenhttps://www.jamendo.com/album/149174/folk www.bollier.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, David Bollier joins us to explore the role of the Commons in using ancient and new practices to break free of the outdated, unsustainable economic systems of our world. Speaking about natural systems, digital commons, urban commoning, and some looming challenges over the patenting of genomes, smell, and "flows of natural systems", our conversation dives into uncharted territories and thrilling new possibilities. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: David Bollier is an activist and author (Think Like a Commoner). He is the cofounder of the Commons Strategies Group, and writes numerous articles and research pieces on the commons. www.bollier.org Related Links: David Bollier www.bollier.org Think Like A Commoner by David Bollier http://www.thinklikeacommoner.com/ Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons by David Bollier http://bollier.org/blog/now-published-green-governance-ecological-survival-human-rights-and-law-commons Elinor Ostrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom Elinor Ostrom "8 Principles for Managing the Commons" http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons Magna Carta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Public Social Partnerships / Public Commons Partnerships http://p2pfoundation.net/Public-Commons_Partnership City as Commons http://bollier.org/blog/city-commons-conference Enclosure Movement of England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure The Tragedy of the Commons - 1960s Garrett Harden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons Rebuttal of Tragedy of Commons By David Bollier: http://bollier.org/commons-political-transformation-and-cities By Yes Magazine about Elinor Ostrom's work:http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-victory-of-the-commons Farm Hack http://farmhack.org/tools Emergence and Complexity Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence Creative Commons Licensing http://creativecommons.org/ Patterns of Commoning (.org0 Commons Strategies Group http://commonsstrategies.org/#2 Commons Transition Plan http://commonstransition.org/ Nonviolence Interlude: Midland Revolt of 1607 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Revolt Cochabamba, Bolivia, Water Rights Struggle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org Featured Music by Matti Paalenenhttps://www.jamendo.com/album/149174/folk www.bollier.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Robin Wildman of Broad Rock Elementary School about how she integrated nonviolence into her classroom . . . and inspired parents, teachers, and students to work together to create the nation's first nonviolent public school. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Robin Wildman is a fifth grade teacher at Broad Rock Elementary School. She has been a public school teacher for twenty-five years, and a nonviolence trainer for students and teachers for the past fifteen years. She loves to grow organic vegetables, has several children and is soon-to-be a grandmother. Robin has pioneered nonviolence education in her public school system. Related Links: The Story of Broad Rock by Carol Bragg http://www.paceebene.org/2015/12/21/nonviolence-education-the-story-of-broad-rock/ Peace Paradigm Radio Interview w/ Robin Wildman http://mettacenter.org/ppr/nonviolence-in-schools-podcast/ Dr. Bernard Lafayette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lafayette Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Six Principles Of Nonviolence http://www.thekingcenter.org/king-philosophy#sub2 Stride Toward Freedom by Dr. King http://www.amazon.com/Stride-Toward-Freedom-Montgomery-Story/dp/0062504908 17th Annual International Nonviolence Summer Institute at the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1771207 Robin Wildman's July Training for Teachers (link coming soon) Campaign Nonviolence Conference Call on K-12 Nonviolence Education with special guest Robin Wildman http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/50LRXHS7NXJDMPGW Learn more about Campaign Nonviolence http://www.paceebene.org/programs/campaign-nonviolence The Dandelion Insurrection by Rivera Sun http://www.riverasun.com/online-store/the-dandelion-insurrection/ Boycotts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org Our featured music this week is "Shall We Rise/Occupy!" by Diane Patterson from her Build A Bridge CD www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

Dena Eakles of Echo Valley Farm, and the author of the blog, Let Kindness Win, joins us on Love (and Revolution) Radio this week to speak about growing change from the ground up and reconnecting humankind to the community of the land. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Know Your Nonviolent History: Gayanashagowa or The Great Law of Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_Peace Links and Resources Mentioned: Echo Valley Farm http://echovalleyfarmwisconsin.com/ Echo Valley Hope http://www.echovalleyhope.com/ Let Kindness Win https://letkindnesswin.wordpress.com The Good Life by Dena Eakles https://letkindnesswin.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/the-good-life/ Hope In Action - a Conversation with Rivera Sun & Dena Eakles in Wisconsin http://www.riverasun.com/upcoming-events/ The Mounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effigy_mound Music By: "Earth and Sky" by Hawk Henries on his "Keeping the Fire" CD. http://hawkhenries.com/ https://soundcloud.com/hawk-henries/02-earth-and-sky "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

On Love and Revolution Radio, we seek out real people and real stories about the heart of change. This week, we speak with Sandy Lyon of Northern Wisconsin about thirty years of nonviolent organizing that has asserted treaty rights, stopped mines, and driven out a US naval base. We'll be asking about the role of love, community, and the community radio station in creating a culture of creative, bold change. To learn more and connect: www.honorearth.org Books and Resources Mentioned: "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn Community Rights and Thomas Linzey with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) http://celdf.org/ Learn more about the Northern Wisconsin Treaty Rights Struggles: https://www.opendemocracy.net/tom-hhastings/anishinabe-and-unsung-nonviolent-victory-in-late-twentieth-century-wisconsin Know Your Nonviolent History: The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 Learn more at: http://www.riverasun.com/bread-and-roses-strike-begins-jan-11-12-1912/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org "Turn up your heart" by Jenny Bird www.jennybird.com About your co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/ Rivera Sun is a novelist, and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

It's a brand new radio show for a brand new year. Love and Revolution co-hosts Rivera Sun and Sherri Mitchell set intentions for this new weekly broadcast, including covering the importance of stories, myths, questioning everything, and rethinking every aspect of our lives from the small stuff we don't sweat to the large stuff we can't ignore. Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/ Rivera Sun is a novelist, and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/ "Love and Revolution" song by Diane Patterson. Enjoy her great music here: www.dianepatterson.org

Why sail food from Maine to Boston, and what do salt and the British colonies in North America have in common with Gandhi's India? Rivera Sun is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars, the cohost of Occupy Radio, and the cofounder of the Love-In-Action Network. She tours nationally speaking and educating in nonviolent civil resistance. Her essays on social justice movements appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. See http://riverasun.com Marada Cook is a food entrepreneur who can be found at Crown O'Maine Organic Cooperative, Northern Girl, and Fiddler's Green Farm. Read Rivera Sun's article "Maine Sail Freight Revives: A Salty History of Revolution, Independence." Find the Maine Sail Freight at http://thegreenhorns.net

We spoke with two cultural activists who use arts and culture to educate and empower people to take action in their communities. This follows our conversation last week in which author Rivera Sun described how her novels tell the story of social transformation and educate her readers about nonviolent resistance. Bill Moyer of the Backbone Campaign teaches “Artful Activism” in his community and facilitates direct action training camps throughout the nation. He lectures in nonviolent strategy and tactics. Moyers says, “Our role, as change makers, social movement activists, organizers, and cultural workers is to change the social/political/economic variables and expand the scope of what is politically possible in tune with our principles and aspirations. Simultaneously, we must make politically toxic the world view that we oppose, lessening its appeal, reducing its claim in the territory of the politically possible.” His area of expertise is “Spectacle Actions.” Mic Crenshaw uses Hip Hop to expand the public dialogue about race and class issues in both the United States and Africa. Crenshaw says, “The music is an expression of my creativity but ultimately serves as a tool for a critique on dominant culture that limits and defines the kind of choices folks even imagine under capitalism.” He teaches social justice in Portland, OR, is Executive Director of Education Without Borders, is Political Director of Hip Hop Congress and organizes primarily around housing. He also founded Globalfam to help youth in Africa and organizes the Afrikan Hip Hop Caravan. Visit ClearingtheFOGRadio.org for more information.

We live in a time of transition. There is a greater understanding of the interconnections between living beings and the planet. And there is a greater understanding that the current way of life and political system do not function for the majority of people. A nonviolent culture of resistance is growing and alternative systems that are more peaceful, just and sustainable are being created. We explore this transition with Rivera Sun, author of the newly-released book The Dandelion Insurrection. Sun tells the story of building a nonviolent movement to overcome a plutocracy within a highly militarized state. Her novel is both inspiring and instructive. We then spoke with Stephanie Van Hook and Michael Nagler of the Metta Center for Nonviolence. They provide tools and training for nonviolent skills and coordinate the Shanti Sena Network of Peace Teams.