In this interview, Mitchell speaks with Achi Tsepal, the founder of the Children of Tibet Trust Foundation who has a highly unique background. 

Achi was born in Kham, Tibet and received his name from the Drikung Thil Monastery in Central Tibet. Lord Jigten Sumgon founded the Drikung Thil Monastery, which is being rebuilt since its destruction during the Cultural Revolution in China. In 1959 Achi’s parents escaped into India after a three and half month's difficult journey over the Himalayas. There were four Monastic groups (labrangs) and about 50 families from the Drikung Valley who followed HH the 14th Dalai Lama into India, but only Achi’s family made it.

In 1961, he was fortunate to be one of the four boys selected among hundreds of Tibetan Refugee kids in Mussoorie, North India to attend Wynberg Allen High school to receive a great education.

1970 While attending Christ College, Bangalore, India Achi worked with American Missionaries to start two hostels in Bangalore for children from the Tibetan Refugee communities in South India. Hundreds of Tibetan children graduated from several private schools in Bangalore to become leaders in the Tibetan communities today.

1974 after graduating with BA from Bangalore University, Achi was chosen by HH the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu Order of Tibetan Buddhism, to accompany him during HH’s first and second World Dharma Peace Tour as Private Secretary and English Interpreter…. and served in this capacity for seven years at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim, India.

1981 Achi and his family moved to Washington DC to start a new life and during his spare time he worked hard co-founded the Tibetan Meditation Center (1982) and the Drikung Dharma Surya Buddhist Center (2011) belonging to the Drikung Kagyu Order of Tibetan Buddhism. Over the years, these two Drikung Kagyu Centers have hosted many great Teachers including HH the Dalai Lama, HH Gyalwa Drikungpa Chestang and the great Yogi Master HE Kyabje Garchen. He believes that the spread of Buddha Dharma around the world will help the world community to attain peace.

In 2008, Achi was the 2008 Machik Award for Engagement Winner for his work through the Children of Tibet Trust Foundation. This organization is currently sponsoring students in the secondary and tertiary education and hopes that the education of these children in the Tibetan Plateau and in the Himalayan regions will enable them to preserve their Tibetan heritage and well being.

As a Tibetan, Achi has a deep appreciation of his unique and rich cultural heritage and at the same time realizes the daunting challenges the Tibetans face in their struggle to survive as a race with its unique cultural heritage under the Chinese Han rulers in Tibet and with the assimilation problem of the Tibetan identity in Tibet and the free world.

The core mission of CTTF is to help the Tibetan children on the Tibetan plateau and the Himalayan regions to obtain the best secular education so that they can promote, preserve and persist in their work to keep pace with rapid modernization.

This rare and unique interview with a man who has lived through the tumultuous history of the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the Tibetan flight across the Himalayas to India, then to find himself working with the highest teachers in Tibetan Buddhism while in India and America, makes for an extraordinary life and a historically with interview for A Better World Podcasts.

Social scientist, prodigious author, activist, environmentalist, media expert Duane Elgin recently wrote a provocative book Choosing Earth.  His wife, renowned filmmaker, Coleen Elgin, directed a film based on the book.  Both are Mitchell's guests today on A Better World Radio & TV.

The messages of the book and film are unambiguous:  we are at an eco-systemic tipping point--we either get 'out act together' or our future is literally dimmed and the 6th Extinction proceeds as extinctions have over the course of millennia on Earth.

There is light at the end of the tunnel however, if humanity really 'gets the message' and changes its values, habits, lifestyles and ways.

Tune in for a fuller take on it and get the education--and ultimately inspiration--we all need!

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Mitchell sits down with Dr. Zach Bush, one of the leading holistic physicians in the U.S. and in the world, to discuss the issue that has been pre-empting normal life across the planet, the coronavirus.

In this interview, Dr. Bush provides both an historical context and biological understanding of what viruses in general are and their relationship to sentient life.  In short, the volume of viruses and bacteria in the human body so far outnumber human cells, as Dr. Bush says, that we have to re-think who it is we really are.

Additionally, we look at the crippling effect that the way the Covid-19 virus has been promoted world-wide which is far from what the underlying, independent science says.

Dr. Bush surveys Federal Agencies and notes that they are operating on 100+ year old science, not the breakthroughs of understanding that have occurred in the 20th century.  The fear-based perspective, Dr. Bush suggests, is now reaching into the "UFO space", as yet another way of controlling the narrative of the future.

In short, Zach provides a fascinating and highly educational interview, provoking people to think about official communications and shedding the light of science--and commonsense--on some of the most important subjects of our time.

For the interview on video, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9lYkVpFGmQ&list=PLy4ZU7M3n43fHFX5HLujl0NBhQtBfCega

Mitchell Rabin interviews nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, son of former Attorney General & Senator Robert F. Kennedy, environmental attorney and Chairman of The Children's Health Defense Org., Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  The interview centers on the new documentary film he released called Medical Racism:  The New Apartheid.  Replete with facts and representations of people directly affected by such overt racism, RFK tells Mitchell of a story, if we are ever to have justice in our country and our world,  that has to be told.

History shows us that the outstanding members of society who brandish the courage to stand for the facts & the truth, who uphold higher human values are often criticized by others and even ostracized.  In fact, when this occurs, it's often a sign that "a raw nerve" is being touched by those who seek to control others, and there is even more need for more people to speak up and challenge those who seek to suppress others.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is just such an example.  Despite his prestige, his long track record of doing good, in Civil Rights, protecting the environment and now the health of children and really everyone, because he insists on facts and the rule of law, he is being heavily criticized.

In this conversation, RFK gets to speak his truth and again, through the film.  See video of this at: https://youtu.be/8qsGJOOPQhA and sign up for our free Newsletter at www.abetterworld.tv

The melting ice of the Arctic Circle is one, if not the greatest tell-tale signs of Global Warming, of a crisis in Climate.  It leads to an entire downstream collapse of the eco-system, dying polar bears, marine life, rising sea levels threatening coasts all over the world and more.  Millions of tons of multi-million-year ice are breaking off and floating into the ocean at such a speed that computer modeling cannot keep up with it.

Dr. Leslie Field, MIT and UC Berkeley-trained materials scientist, set out to reverse this trend.  This interview is a description of what she has discovered and accomplished.  It is an interview you do not want to miss.

Social Activism in business is gaining new ground again as the injustices in society and damage being routinely done to our environment along with economic disparities have become utterly transparent to the point of embarrassment.   Thankfully, the space of social enterprise is picking up the ball here and running with it, offering change, if not transformation in many sectors of society.

But there's someone who started this long ago, the marriage of social change and business, today's guest, activist & environmentalist, David Fenton.  

In 1982, after having been a photo-journalist, hippie and with ties to the major movers and shakers of the 1960's, David took the spirit of his values and activism and shaped it into a company that had non-profits as its clients and people blowing the whistle on society's ills, from the chemicalization of apples while calling them healthy and his mounting a campaign that reached the Supreme Court to protect children--and everyone--from carcinogenic sprays on apples, to blowing the whistle on the ever-growing nuclear arsenal and producing a film about that.

The list goes on---from helping to build MoveOn.org to helping Nelson Mandela win the Presidency in South Africa.  David's life reads like an extraordinary adventure novel of a hero doing good and taking down the bad guys, with some humor and cheer, one by one.

In this interview, David takes us for a tour to meet the stars of the times, Abby Hoffman and others, and it's interesting as much as it provides some historical documentation of a time from which today, we can take a few pages, of not chapters from to inform and guide  needed actions today.

David's work has been a model for us here at A Better World.

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It is a tragic story yet one full of inspiration & hope.  Former journalist, Harvard Law School-trained, human rights attorney Steven Donziger visited the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador with a group of colleagues and were alarmed to see the human and environmental damage done by one of the world's largest corporations, Chevron while drilling oil wells and irresponsibly letting the contaminants enter the land and water supply of the entire area, an area where indigenous people have been living for generations.

Appalled by what he saw, he and colleagues took up the indigenous people's cause and initiated litigation against Chevron for the damage and were awarded 9.5 billion dollars, but which the people never collected because Chevron has been fighting, for 27 years, to protect themselves, and in so doing, have mounted a case against Steven Donziger himself.

The case against Chevron has been won and a settlement awarded.  But they are fighting to keep from having to pay and the humiliation they would suffer by losing to Native Peoples of the Amazon who they thought they could simply ignore and get away with exploiting this precious and sacred land.

This interview is with Steven, days before he is to go before a judge in this specious and completely frivolous case against him, further evidence of how our justice system is two-tiered and too frequently serves the corporate elite and not the average American.

If you would like to help by donating any amount to Steven Donziger's legal fund, any amount would help.  Go to: www.donzigerdefense.com.

To 'attend' the hearing virtually, currently scheduled for Nov. 9, 10am EDT, call 888 363-4734, code: 4645450.

Please forward this interview to your colleagues and friends to raise awareness about what is going on in the Amazon and in our judicial system, in dire need of reform.

To follow the case on Twitter: @sdonziger

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Glenn Aparicio Parry is an author and scholar, focusing largely on American Indigenous culture and examining its commonly unknown though significant influence on the original thinking, Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.  Parry's work goes far beyond this and into the depth of what is a Native articulation of mathematics, sacred geometry, governance, eco-systems and Physics.

In his most recent book, Parry parries with the political phenomenon of Trump, the diminishing of America's soul and the crying need to make America, not so much great, but sacred again.

Tune into Mitchell's in-depth dialogue with Glenn which will make you think, laugh, possibly cry, but come back home with a sense of inspiration and hope.

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100% Fossil Fuel-Free in Hawaii by 2045!

In his own words: I am a Dutch-born entrepreneur and clean energy visionary who has dedicated the past decade of my career to the research, development, advocacy and implementation of renewable energy sources in my adopted home of Hawaii. More recently, I have been a leading global advocate for space exploration as the Chairman of the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems and the founder of the International MoonBase Alliance, a group dedicated to building the first colony on the moon. I spent my early career in Japan as a video game developer and publisher, gaining distinction for producing the country’s first major role-playing game, The Black Onyx. I then went on to revolutionize the video game industry by securing the rights for the blockbuster Tetris, which 30 years later remains a bestseller and global icon of gaming culture.  Follow me on my journey to create a world in which humanity and nature can live in harmony.   https://blueplanetfoundation.org/

Mitchell interviews Henk on his work in moving society out of being fossil-fuel based to renewable and the serious progress being made in this direction.  http://abetterworld.tv/