Podcast appearances and mentions of rocky mountain peace

On today’s Morning Magazine, we'll hear about the All My Relations Celebration bringing some of the biggest names in contemporary North American Indigenous music to Denver's Levitt Pavilion. Then we'll get the details on how the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice […]

In this episode, the Everyday Nonviolence podcast explores the painful history of Indigenous Boarding Schools. We also share examples of what is being done by faith communities to address the harm caused by these church-run schools. Host Diane Sandberg speaks first with Paula Palmer, Co-Director of “Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples,” about her research into Quaker-run schools and the multi-generational damage these institutions wrought on Native communities. In a second conversation, Elona Street-Stewart, Ruling Elder and synod executive in the Presybterian Church (USA), talks with Diane about Restorative Actions, a Twin Cities initiative that invites predominantly white churches to voluntarily return the wealth that they accrued from systemic inequities back to Afro-American and Indigenous communities.  Both guests offer a variety of ways for individuals and religious communities to support and learn from Indigenous people. ABOUT THE GUESTS Paula Palmer is a sociologist, writer, and activist for human rights, social justice, and environmental protection.  As co-director of Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, a program of Friends Peace Teams, she created and facilitates workshops on the “Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with America's Native Peoples” (for adults) and “Re-Discovering America: Understanding Colonization” (for middle schools and high schools). As the 2016 Pendle Hill Cadbury Scholar, she conducted research and produced articles and videos about the role Quakers played during the era of the Indian Boarding Schools. Paula is a recipient of the Elise Boulding Peacemaker of the Year Award from the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center; the Jack Gore Memorial Peace Award from the American Friends Service Committee; the International Human Rights Award from the United Nations Association of Boulder County; and the Multicultural Award in the “Partners” category from the Boulder County Community Action Programs.   For more information about the Toward Right Relationship ministry, please see friendspeaceteams.org/trr Elona Street-Stewart, a Delaware Nanticoke tribal member, is a Ruling Elder and Executive of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Synod of Lakes and Prairies following 20 years of service as synod staff for racial ethnic ministries and community empowerment. She has served on numerous Minnesota boards and Indigenous community organizations, including the Board of Education of Saint Paul Public Schools and the MN Council of Churches. In June, she was elected Co-Moderator of the 224th General Assembly (2020), Presbyterian Church USA, along with Gregory Bentley, pastor of Fellowship Presbyterian Church, Huntsville, Alabama, becoming the first American Indian to this position.  Macalester College conferred an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters for Elona in June 2021.  A 37-year resident of Minnesota, she and her husband have four adult children and 4 grandchildren.   More information about the Restorative Actions Core Team is available here: https://restorativeactions.org/   Music generously donated by bensound.com

The final installment of the Nuke-O-Rado series, we discuss the Grand Jury investigation into Rocky Flats' alleged environmental crimes, the clean-up effort, and the ongoing legacy of Rocky Flats. We're also joined by Giselle Herzfeld and Usama Khalid of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center to discuss their efforts regarding Rocky Flats. Sources: Ambushed Grand Jury by Wes McKinley and Caron Balkany My reporting in the Colorado Springs Independent Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center excerpt of "Radiation Suit" by Hot Rod Circuit --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this interview, Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center's Administrator, Christopher Allred, and Nuclear Guardianship and Outreach Coordinator, Giselle Herzfeld, discuss their recent Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) requests regarding Rocky Flats and the Rocky Mountain Greenway. During the interview, they go over RMPJC's stances on Rocky Flats and the Rocky Mountain Greenway, what they found through their CORA requests, and more. Originally aired on June 16th, 2021. Interview by News Director John Boughey.

The brothers are joined by Bob's new cat, Teddy Bear.  They discuss introducing kittens to a new home (with Teddy mewing in the background).  Dave theorizes that we do things for 4 reasons: to make money, because we love it, for others, and to do something new; and then asks Bob why he does the podcast.  Lastly, they let listeners know that they are working on a new podcast with friend Dan C that will take sports on in a critical way.   The topic for the week is what is art's role in building another world?  Bob draws on his research on artivism, which Chela Sandoval describes as art in the service of changing the world.  He makes the point that we can all be artists because art is more of a way of approaching the world than an elite skill.    This reminds Dave of when the brothers started a collective called Artist for Justice within the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center many years ago.  Dave loves the idea of art as creation and reflects where he feels creativity.     Beehive Collective Opera by Eric Oh   Quick Fix How can we spend less time scrolling on our telephone?  Put your cellphone in a drawer and leave it there.  Do that for an hour a day.   Contact info Email - davepeachtree@gmail.com Twitter - @BMaze19 IG - Thriving_In_Dystopia Website - https://thrivingindystopia.com/ TikTok - @davepeachtree   Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Bach's Goldberg Variations is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art.   Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week's show.   Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website.  Thank you, Mix.  

BRUNSWICK NUCLEAR UPDATE – Dave Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains the safety status of Brunswick Nuclear Reactors 1 & 2, both the same model as melted down at Fukushima Daiichi. Learn the difference between hot shutdown and cold shutdown – and how the industry simply uses “shutdown” to spinspeak us all!LINK to Dave Lochbaum’s pdf on Brunswick specs: http://nuclearhotseat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Dave-Lochbaum-Brunswick-powerpoint-pdf-1.pdfLeRoy Moore is a writer and former academic closely associated with Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, who since 1979 has focused on issues of public health, environmental well-being, and nuclear abolition related to the now closed Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory.https://leroymoore.wordpress.com/about/Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):So many choices, so hard to choose, when the entire industry is out of it’s f’ing mind!Activist Links:Intertribal Gathering at Red Butte, Arizona – Oct. 5 – tribal members only; open to the public Oct. 6-7. Sponsored by the Havasupai Tribal Council. CONTACT: 928-448-2731www.nuclearhotseat.comPodcasts also listed on:Youtube: nutzforartTwitter: nutzforart2

BRUNSWICK NUCLEAR UPDATE – Dave Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains the safety status of Brunswick Nuclear Reactors 1 & 2, both the same model as melted down at Fukushima Daiichi. Learn the difference between hot shutdown and cold shutdown – and how the industry simply uses “shutdown” to spinspeak us all! LeRoy Moore is a writer and former academic closely associated with Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, who since 1979 has focused on issues of public health, environmental well-being, and nuclear abolition related to the now closed Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory.

BRUNSWICK NUCLEAR UPDATE – Dave Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains the safety status of Brunswick Nuclear Reactors 1 & 2, both the same model as melted down at Fukushima Daiichi. Learn the difference between hot shutdown and cold shutdown – and how the industry simply uses “shutdown” to spinspeak us all! LeRoy Moore is a writer and former academic closely associated with Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, who since 1979 has focused on issues of public health, environmental well-being, and nuclear abolition related to the now closed Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory.

BRUNSWICK NUCLEAR UPDATE – Dave Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains the safety status of Brunswick Nuclear Reactors 1 & 2, both the same model as melted down at Fukushima Daiichi. Learn the difference between hot shutdown and cold shutdown – and how the industry simply uses “shutdown” to spinspeak us all! LeRoy Moore is a writer and former academic closely associated with Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, who since 1979 has focused on issues of public health, environmental well-being, and nuclear abolition related to the now closed Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory.

Our story of Rocky Flats continues. In this second chapter, we share the people’s history of the site, from humble beginnings in the early 1970s to a resurgence of activism today. Unclear Danger: The Colorado Story of Rocky Flats is presented in partnership with the Colorado Independent and the Denver Public Library. — Support the show! If you’re loving this Rocky Flats series, we recently launched a new way to support the show. It’s a limited run crowdfunding campaign, and you can find it at www.patreon.com/changingdenver. Pledge at least $3 per month and you get access to the transcripts from each episode of Unclear Danger and 3 Changing Denver stickers sent to the address of your choice. Pledge at least $10 per month, and we’ll read your name (or a pseudonym of your choice) in the credits to each episode. patreon dot com slash changing denver — Recommended Reading: You can learn more about Kristen Iversen’s book Full Body Burden at her website. Follow along with the activists at Rocky Flats Downwinders, Candelas Glows, and Rocky Flats Right to Know, as well as the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center. Here’s a few links to documents mentioned in the episode: Rocky Flats Interagency Agreement of 1991, Rocky Flats Cleanup Agreement of 1996, and the Citizens Advisory Board’s legacy report. This episode includes extensive clips from several oral histories on file at the Boulder Public Library’s Maria Rogers Oral History Program. You can find each of the oral histories we excerpted here: Robert Card, Daniel Ellsberg, and Pam Solo. If you are a subscriber to Harper’s Magazine, you can read all of the Edward Abbey piece excerpted in this episode here. Nonsubscribers can find it in the published collection of Abbey’s work, Down the River. “One Man’s Nuclear War,” Edward Abbey. Copyright © 1979 Harper’s Magazine. All Rights reserved. Reproduced from the March issue by special permission. — Our theme song is “Minnow” be Felix Fast4ward. Denver’s premier chiptunes artists Aethernaut and Michael Zucker provided the score for this episode and all of Unclear Danger. Also heard in this episode are a few songs by a group called Soft and Furious and a couple of old Rocky Flats protest songs. Those were performed by Jesse Wooten. You can find more of his music under the names Black Balsam and New Hill. — The photo that serves as a basis for the Unclear Danger logo was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by a user called AlbertHerring. We are using it under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. The Colorado Independent‘s Kelsey Ray designed the Unclear Danger logo. — Follow us on Twitter @changingdenver for photos and more behind-the-scenes details from our investigation into Rocky Flats. Changing Denver is a proud member of the Denver Podcast Network. Thanks for listening!      

Alternative Radio director and founder David Barsamian sits down at his home in Boulder, Colorado to talk with Tell Somebody.   In a June article about Barsamian’s keynote appearance at a Canadian media conference, a Canadian news site, www.hour.ca writes that “Dating back to the 1980s, Alternative Radio, founded by Armenian-American journalist and author David Barsamian, has been a shining example of an independent media initiative that wields international scope while maintaining fierce independence and strong ties to social movements." "Radio is uniquely positioned to deliver intellectual content, particularly because a listener is not distracted by the image, as in TV or the Internet," says Barsamian. "I think that for ideas and serious talk, radio is the singular medium that can offer a real ability for listeners to really delve into the profound issues of our time." http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=17473 Barsamian is winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Award and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes. He is the author of numerous books with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Eqbal Ahmad, Tariq Ali and Edward Said. His series of books with Chomsky, America's leading dissident, have sold in the hundreds of thousands and have been translated into many languages. Alternative Radio (www.alternativeradio.org) is heard on Wednesdays at 9am Central on KKFI, right after Democracy NOW. Tom Klammer www.tellsomebody.us mail@tellsomebody.us