Resistance Radio

Darcia Narvaez is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Educational Research Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Born in Minnesota, she grew up living around the world as a bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican-German American but calls Earth her home. Her earlier careers include professional musician, business owner, classroom music teacher, classroom Spanish teacher, and seminarian, among other things. In her academic career, she employs a lifespan, interdisciplinary approach to studying evolved morality, child development and human flourishing, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental, evolutionary and educational sciences. She hosts EvolvedNest.org and is president of KindredWorld.org. See her 6-minute movie: http://www.BreakingTheCycleFilm.org.She has numerous publications, including books such as Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing and the 2022, Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth, and the forthcoming, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. A recent book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award.

Joaquín Hortal is a biogeographer and community ecologist working at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Natural History Museum) of the Spanish Scientific Council in Madrid. He also collaborates with the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes of the University of Lisbon, and the Department of Ecology of the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil, and Before he worked at the University of the Azores, University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London.He studies the effects of current and past environmental conditions and ecological processes on the geographic patterns of biodiversity, the role of species niche and ecological interactions in the organization of biological communities in time and space, and the use and misuse of biodiversity big data. He works with mosses, seed plants, vertebrates and insects, and has been studying the ecology and biogeography of dung beetles for more than 25 years.

Dr Chris Rynn is a Forensic Craniofacial Anthropologist (which is essentially an expert in the anatomy of skulls and faces, and the interrelationships between the two), who assists international police in human identification from skeletal remains (and helps museums to bring characters from the ancient past 'to life') by digitally sculpting faces on skulls.

Brenna Galdenzi is the President and co-founder of Protect Our Wildlife, Vermont’s largest wildlife protection non-profit organization whose mission is: “Working to make Vermont a more humane place for wildlife.”Protect Our Wildlife led the effort in Vermont to ban coyote killing contests in 2018 and wanton waste in 2022. They're currently leading efforts to ban recreational trapping and hounding, as well as advocating for peaceful coexistence with black bears and other wildlife.

Kajsa Ekis Ekman is the author of four books, among them Being and Being Bought, and Stolen Spring, on the eurocrisis seen from Athens, journalist and critic at Sweden's major daily Aftonbladet, lectures internationally on surrogacy, prostitution, capitalism and geopolitics. Founder of Swedish network Feminist No to Surrogacy, and Sweden's only worker's diary journal Arbetarbloggen. just returned from the International Forum on Human Rights in Buenos Aires where I spoke on women and reproduction among other issues. Her most recent book is On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts About the New Definition of Woman.She lives in Sweden.

Keith Harmon Snow is a writer, photographer and naturalist. Abandoning his career in the aerospace & defense sector in 1989, he set off to see the wild world as portrayed in National Geographic propaganda. The result led him to cycle across India, Africa, Madagascar and Mongolia, climb some very high mountains, raft hundreds of miles through war-torn Congo and down the Zambezi. He is the 2009 Regent's Lecturer in Law & Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, recognized for over a decade of work on war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. He has a 9 year old son, and he is developing a retreat center living  off-grid on a remote island in Maine.

Vaishnavi Sundar is a self-taught filmmaker, writer and feminist activist from Chennai, India. She’s been making films from 2013 and they are all centred around women’s lives and experiences. Her previous film was a 4 part documentary called Dysphoric which is available on YouTube to watch. Her upcoming film is called Behind the Looking Glass - a documentary logging the experiences of women whose partners ‘transitioned’ - and she’s seeking funds to complete it.

Julia Barnes is an award winning documentary filmmaker. She is the director of Sea of Life and Bright Green Lies. Her current work focuses on opposing deep sea mining. She is co-founder of Deep Sea Defenders, found at deepseadefenders.org

Bonnie Brady is executive director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing  Association. She lives in Montauk, NY, with her husband, a commercial fisherman, and their two daughters. Today we talk about harms caused by offshore wind energy facilities.

Dr Warren Hern is a physician and epidemiologist who has a private medical practice in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in women’s healthcare. But he has studied the issue of the effects of human activities on local and global ecosystems for over fifty years. Among his observations is that the human species seriously affects all ecosystems and habitats in which it is located; and the human species now has all the major characteristics of a malignant process on the planet.

This has come about because humans have culture, and cultural adaptations that have become malignant maladaptations that threaten the survival of not only human species, but many other species on the planet. His new book, Homo Ecophagus, a Deep Diagnosis to Save the Earth, is a presentation of this idea in detail. The comparison with cancer is a diagnosis not an analogy. Homo Ecophagus is Dr. Hern's new name for our species. It means “the man who devours the ecosystem.