Resistance Radio

George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.

Davoud Gerami. A cosmopolite by nature, Davoud is a filmmaker and visual artist with an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. His experience with the cinematic medium spans over two decades and has taken him to the four corners of the planet. His area of interest is the condition of human, as well as all the wide and interdisciplinary territories this subject covers; include Social Justice, Internationalism, the Environment, and the Culture Industry.

George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. This interview is about differences between wild and free buffalo on one hand, and fenced buffalo on the other.

Esther Figueroa Ph.D, is a Jamaican independent film maker, writer, educator and linguist with over thirty five years of media productions including television programming, documentaries, educational videos, multimedia and feature film. Her activist filmmaking gives voice to those outside of mainstream media and focuses on the perpetuation of local and indigenous knowledge and cultures, the environment, social injustice, and community empowerment. Figueroa’s films are screened and televised all over the world and taught at numerous universities. They include Jamaica for Sale (2009), the award-winning feature documentary about tourism and unsustainable development. Her latest feature documentary Fly Me To The Moon (2019) is about modernity and the global aluminum industry. She recently created and co-hosted GEFF 2020, the first online film festival focused on global extraction. Her environmental novel Limbo (2013), was a finalist in the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards for Multi-cultural Fiction.

Simon Bramwell is a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, a climate-activist group dedicated to the belief that real change will only come through mass civil disobedience. He is a bushcraft instructor who is looking after his terminally ill mother. Ian Bray is also an Extinction Rebellion Co-founder, and is a father of two, Quaker, and a salvage and repair worker.

Paul Cienfuegos is a national leader in the Community Rights movement, which works to dismantle corporate constitutional so-called “rights” and assert the people's inherent right to govern themselves. He has been leading workshops across the US since 1995. David Barsamian's internationally syndicated show 'Alternative Radio' has broadcast five of his speeches. Launched in October 2017, Paul is the founding director of Community Rights US. He lives in Portland, Oregon. More info at www.communityrights.us.

Mark Janeczko is an environmental enthusiast who had a 30-plus year career working as an environmental specialist on water quality and pollution issues. He holds a degree in conservation and wildlife management and served with Americorps as a ranger with the U.S. Forest Service. He continues to dedicate his life to a healthy and diverse planet. Diane Miller has tried to live her life as close to the land as possible. During the decade when she lived in an off the grid cabin in the woods, she learned from the plants and animals about the power of our actions, and sometimes, nonactions. She is a communication professor who encourages her students to question dominant narratives, expose logical fallacies, and advocate for interests beyond their own. Mark and Diane live at the edge of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Skylar Wilson is a wilderness guide, eco-activist, and ceremonial facilitator with over twenty years of experience facilitating connections within the more-than-human world. Skylar is the cofounding director of the Order of the Sacred Earth and author of the book: Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action with Matthew Fox and Jennifer Berit Listug.

Peter is a 61 year old family physician (also known as a General Practitioner) in the United Kingdom.  He has a conventional family and work life, but has been contemplating what he might do if our present comfortable way of life were to come to an end.  He is therefore learning to grow some of his own food, and is combining his interests in medicine, gardening and history by re-inventing plant based anesthetics, in the hope that one day, this knowledge might be useful to someone.  Listeners are reminded that they shouldn't try this at home.  His blog can be found at toxicplantsblog.blogspot.com.

Keli Hendricks is the Ranching with Wildlife Coordinator for Project Coyote. Keli and her husband Dean live and work on a cattle ranch in Sonoma County where Dean has managed the cow/calf operation for over 25 years. Keli is a long-time volunteer with Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue where she fosters orphaned wildlife, and she also serves as the VP of Little Trooper Ranch, a non-profit animal rescue.