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- Being Restless and Relentless to create a world for human flourishing and ecological healthLatin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Robert Jensen about cultivating the ability to persevere as we face a death cult. Activating multiple crisis, social, economic and ecological. We must become restless and relentless as we make the world by action.Being restless as we ask questions we may not have answers for, yet… in our wrestling with challenging problems we are striving to create a world for human flourishing and ecological health.Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month.https://latinwavesmedia.com/29 min
- Global Downturn, spending priorities, who pays and transitioning to new systemRobin Hahnel is a Professor Emeritus from American University in Washington DC where he taught for thirty-three years. During the past fourteen years he taught as a Visiting Professor at Portland State University, Lewis and Clark College, and Willamette University in Oregon.Host Sylvia speaks to Dr Hahnel about the war in Ukraine vs spending priorities at home, who pays for things in America and and what kind of system we can build to replace capitalism.Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. www.latinwavesmedia.com30 min
- Dr Aviva Chomsky “Her latest book Organizing for Power: Building a 21st Century Labor Movement”Latin waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Aviva Chomsky, about creating a labour movement for the 21st century. The triumph of Neoliberalism has meant that the state no longer works toward the welfare of its population but rather to improve corporations conditions to profit. She speaks of the changing face of the labour movement, the diversity of voices that are forging a wider and more inclusion vision of labour rights and responsibilities to social justice.Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. www.latinwavesmedia.com29 min
- An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity.
Robert Jensen is professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Texas in Austin and collaborates with the Ecosphere Studies program at The Land Institute.
Host Sylvia speaks to Dr Jensen on his newest book “An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity.”
How we come to terms with the fact that this high energy , high tech consumption culture is going to fail. How its better if it fails on our terms and not naturally, how we need to transition to a low energy culture, how we have to learn to live without and make different choices.
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30 min - The notion of rights/role of languages and women in paradigm shift
A professor at Carleton University, Marcelo Saavedra is an Indigenous Bolivian leader and founder of the Bolivia Action Solidarity Network.
He speaks to Latin Waves about the need to protect indigenous languages as these languages change how we view the world. He challenges the western notion of rights and how the paradigm shift that’s taking place must have women front and center.
“If we can harness that wisdom that is embedded in our ancestral cultures, we can get rid of capitalism, patriarchy , Globalization and colonialism. And Women are a central central piece in this puzzle”
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28 min - Ukraine, Global Food Shortages, Columbia and Summit of the Americas
Latin Waves’ host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Jorge Martin Secretariat of Hands off Venezuela, they speak about the growing global food crisis due to the war in Ukraine, how imperial powers like Russia and the US don’t mind starving the global population for their own imperial interests.
How the US is losing ground in Latin America, many countries are going left including Columbia whom is on the verge of electing their first ever left wing government.
How Mexico are other nations are making a mockery of the Summit of the Americas by not attending.
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30 min - Canadian colonial history and war in UkraineYves Engler (born 1979) is a Montreal writer and political activist. In addition to seven published books, Engler’s writings have appeared in the alternative press and in mainstream publications such as The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen and Ecologist. His The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy book was on a short list for the Quebec Writers’ Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction along with two other books.Host Sylvia speaks to Yves about the historic role of Canadian foreign policy and its current role in the world in places like Ukraine .Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. www.latinwavesmedia.com.28 min
- Dr Lebowitz latest book Between Capitalism and CommunityIn Between Capitalism and Community, Lebowitz demonstrates that capitalism contains within itself elements of a different society, one of community.Host Sylvia Richardson speaks to Dr Lebowitz about how capitalism creates accumulation but overlooked is how capitalism also deforms and changes those who work within it. How the communal councils in Venezuela profoundly changed those who worked within them and how struggle changes those for fight for it. Within the experience of struggle is embodied resilience,Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. www.latinwavesmedia.com.30 min
- The structure of empire with Justin Podur
Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with author Justin Podur about the structures of empire. The value transfers that fuel an economic system of inequity and injustice. How laws have been crafted to sustain empire and suppressed democratic processes.
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27 min - Aviva Chomsky’s latest book Central America’s Forgotten HistoryLatin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Dr. Aviva Chomsky, about the structured violence of empire. We are now in the grip of one of the worst economic crises in the history of modern capitalism.Millions displaced by hunger, military violence and ecological destruction that puts them in the eye of multiple storms. Aviva Chomsky’s latest book: Central America’s Forgotten History, answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” Centering the centuries-long intertwined histories of US expansion and Indigenous and Central American struggles against inequality and oppression.Consider Supporting the show by becoming a Member of Latin Waveshttps://latinwavesmedia.com/28 min
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Latin Waves a show about political, social and environmental justice