A Better World with Mitchell J. Rabin

Climate change & TPP are arguably the most threatening and troubling issues of today.

Adam Weisman is an organizer with Global Justice for Animals & the Environment (GJAE), Global Justice for Animals & the Environment http://gjae.org(orv http://freetradekillsanimals.org) TradeJustice New York Metro website:   http://tradejustice.net.

2nd half is on the Paris COP Summit with Laughlin Artz & Joe Robertson.

Laughlin Artz has worked with thousands of individuals and in partnership with organizations such as the Hunger Project, Head Start, the International Red Cross, and the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University.

Joseph Robertson is Global Strategy Director for the non-partisan non-profit Citizens’ Climate Lobby. He is author of the book Building a Green Economy: On the Economics of Carbon Pricing & the Transition to Clean, Renewable Fuels.

Wednesday, May 6, 6pm EDT:Mitchell’s guest this evening, for the second time, is Buddha Maitreya the Christ, said to be the American-born reincarnation of the Avatar. Born in Oregon in 1951, he was enthroned and given ceremonies of recognition within all the major Tibetan Buddhist lineages.  The process of his recognition began when he was 9 years old.

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une in to hear what will be one of the first broadcasts made by Buddha Maitreya on the public airwaves as he speaks with Mitchell about what the world needs now to heal and transform into humanity’s next level of its evolution. This is an extraordinary opportunity for a powerful dharma teaching in simple, straightforward language.

Latest is for the Nepalese, Tibetan and Chinese adversely affected by the recent earthquake, the most major there in 80 years.

For Mitchell’s interview with Buddha Maitreya the Christ last year on Wesak, click here.

Wednesday, April 28, 3pm EDT:  Mitchell’s guest this evening is internationally-known lawyer become author and filmmaker, Baptist de Pape.

Baptist de Pape, a young lawyer, was mired in anxiety and fears about his future when he felt the call to investigate the incredible power of the heart and how it can lead us to our true purpose in life. On a quest that took him around the world, de Pape interviewed eighteen living icons—all on camera—including Isabel Allende, Jane Goodall, Marci Shimoff, Marianne Williamson, and Gary Zukav. Generously sharing their touching personal stories as well as profound guidance, these leaders co-created with de Pape a multidimensional, illuminating portrait of the heart as an inexhaustible source of love and wisdom that far surpasses that of the mind.

With its unprecedented convocation of eighteen of the world’s greatest spiritual thinkers, writers, and scientists, including Maya Angelou, Deepak Chopra, Paulo Coelho, and Eckhart Tolle, this beautifully designed full-color spiritual guide—which ties into a film of the same name—reveals how you can overcome limitations and fulfill your highest potential.

Wednesday, April 15, 6pm EDT:  Mitchell’s guest this evening is internationally-known lawyer become author and filmmaker, Baptist de Pape.

Baptist de Pape, a young lawyer, was mired in anxiety and fears about his future when he felt the call to investigate the incredible power of the heart and how it can lead us to our true purpose in life. On a quest that took him around the world, de Pape interviewed eighteen living icons—all on camera—including Isabel Allende, Jane Goodall, Marci Shimoff, Marianne Williamson, and Gary Zukav. Generously sharing their touching personal stories as well as profound guidance, these leaders co-created with de Pape a multidimensional, illuminating portrait of the heart as an inexhaustible source of love and wisdom that far surpasses that of the mind.

With its unprecedented convocation of eighteen of the world’s greatest spiritual thinkers, writers, and scientists, including Maya Angelou, Deepak Chopra, Paulo Coelho, and Eckhart Tolle, this beautifully designed full-color spiritual guide—which ties into a film of the same name—reveals how you can overcome limitations and fulfill your highest potential.

Wednesday, April 15, 6pm EDT:  Mitchell’s guest this evening is internationally-known author, teacher, visionaryGordon Asher Davidson.

Gordon Asher Davidson has a long career of active leadership in social change institutions and movements, while simultaneously pursuing a deep, inner meditative life culminating in his powerful book, The Transfiguration of Our World: How a Light Alliance Is Transforming Darkness and Creating a New Earth..

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Gordon’s experience ranges from being the co-author of the Practical Visionary, and Spiritual Politics (forward by the Dalai Lama) with his wife Corinne McLaughlin; co-founder of Sirius, a spiritual/environmental community; founding director of the Social Investment Forum; founding and co-directing a Washington D.C. institute called the Center for Visionary Leadership; and offering clients deep spiritual guidance and transformational consulting for over 20 years.

Tuesday, April 14, 3pm EDT:  Today’s featured film on Progressive Film Hour is Can’t Stop the Water,  a film about Climate Change refugees right here in our own country: they are a Native American tribe and they are in the New Orleans area.

To discuss the film are its director/producer Rebecca Ferris, chief of the tribe, Chief Albert, and Julie Maldonado.

Rebecca Marshall Ferris, Director and Producer or Can’t Stop the Water began her career with the renowned documentary film company, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, serving as associate producer on their films Down From The Mountain, Startup.com, Only The Strong Survive, andElaine Stritch at Liberty.

 Julie Koppel Maldonado obtained her doctorate in Anthropology from American University in 2014. Her doctoral research focused on the experiences of environmental change and displacement in tribal communities in coastal Louisiana. 

Chief Albert P. Naquin is the Traditional Chief of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, located in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Chief  He has been the chief since 1997.

Wednesday, April 8, 6pm EDT:  Mitchell has invited back environmentalist, M.I.T. trained engineer, author, popular speaker, Matthew Stein, to discuss the issues of solar storms, climate change, emergency disruptions and what to do about them.  Mitchell and Matt will also discuss safe, green and sustainable building, bearing in mind the ever-changing landscape of our earth at this point in time and climate change.

Matt has been a guest numerous times on Coast-to-Coast and other national TV and Radio shows, and is for the second time on A Better World Radio with Mitchell Rabin.

Matthew is an environmentalist, bestselling author, MIT trained engineer, and green builder. As an inspiring speaker and visionary thinker, he is dedicated to helping people wake up and unite to shift our collective course from collapse to global renaissance. On the practical side of things,as an expert at self-reliance, emergency prep, and survival, his writings and work help people prepare to weather the storms we are facing due to continuing climate change and ecological decline, coupled with a fossil fuel based economy that has recently passed the peak in world oil production and is struggling to cope with impending near-term shortfalls.

Stein is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he majored in Mechanical Engineering.

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Wednesday, April 1, 6pm EDT:  Mitchell Rabin, holistic psychotherapist who specializes in couples counseling, will be speaking with, and entertaining questions from the listeners about most anything, but with attention to Relationships. Where do we experience the greatest stress, and the greatest joy?  How do we relate to our love partner, or our business partner?  The dynamics share more than we might like to think!

Call in and get free guidance from long-time holistic, humanistic psychotherapist, Mitchell Rabin.

Mitchell’s guest this evening is a young man whose story was one of two told in the film Oil & Water, David Poritz, about the devastation of large swaths of the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest, right in the middle of Indian tribal lands inhabited by the indigenous people for generations.  The film was featured on Progressive Film Hour on March 3, on which Mitchell interviewed one of the filmmakers, Francine Strickwerda and the other young man whose story was told in the film, Hugo Lucitante.

Both controversial and with impassioned, environmentalist emotions set aside, today’s guest, David Poritz, is creating a novel and really desperately needed protection of indigenously-populated lands through the ranking/rating system of safety and what need to be eco-sensitive practices by the oil industry, just as we have fair-trade certification for coffee, diamonds and other commodities often originating in the highly-exploited “Global South”.

Oil and Water will be the featured film for the matinee showing at the Paradigm Shifts Music and Film Festival on Sunday, March 29 at 3pm. For more information and tickets, go to: http://abetterworld.tv/a-music-and-film-festival-march-19-29/

For my interview with the filmmaker and the other young star of the film, go to: http://abetterworld.tv/oil-water-the-film-round-table-2/

Wednesday, March 18, 6pm EDT: Mitchell’s first guest this evening is Founder of the Encompass New Opera isNancy Rhodes (Artistic Director/Librettist), also the co-founder and producer of The Paradigm Shifts Film & Music Festival taking place in NYC beginning this Thursday, March 19.

For the second part of this evening’s show, Mitchell interviews film producer Holly Mosher, who has also appeared on A Better World Radio and Progressive Film Hour with Mitchell Rabin several times when Mitchell was featuring several of her films, viz., Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety,, Vanishing of the Bees and Pay to Play grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In high school she developed a passion for both photography and philosophy that led her to pursue filmmaking.