Resistance Radio

Max Wilbert is a writer, organizer, and wilderness guide. A third-generation dissident, he came of age in a family of anti-war and undoing racism activists in post-WTO Seattle. He is the editor-in-chief of the Deep Green Resistance News Service. His latest book is the Bright Green Lies. His first book, an essay collection called We Choose to Speak, was released in 2018. He lives in Oregon. Today we talk about actions against a proposed lithium mine in Nevada.

Justin McAffee produced his first short film Great Basin Water Protectors, about an indigenous people’s prayer run and a water pipeline that threatened a large area of rural Nevada. He is currently working on a film series, Desert Apocalypse, about the assault on the Mojave and Great Basin in Nevada, one of the largest intact ecosystems in the lower 48 states. He resides in Nuwuvi, occupied Southern Paiute lands in Southern Nevada.

Amie Ichikawa was formerly incarcerated in California. She recently founded the nonprofit organization Woman II Woman inc. This organization was originally created as a resource hub for reentry services but has become much more after California’s SB132 “The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act” which has allowed gender self ID in prisons creating an unbelievable violation of human rights.

Ralph Bloemers has been working on forest fire and climate issues for about 25 years. His work focuses on communities in Oregon, Washington, and California. He has spent thousands of hours in burned landscapes, documenting wildlife and forest regeneration. He’s a documentary filmmaker, environmental lawyer, and advocate for living with fire on the land.

Tony Povilitis is a wildlife biologist, conservation activist, and founder of Life Net Nature, a "mom and pop" nonprofit devoted to wildlife research, voluntarism, and advocacy. For more than a half century, Tony has witnessed ongoing destruction of wildlife and nature in numerous countries. His conclusion: Efforts to mitigate human impacts have fundamentally failed. The only sane way forward is to vastly scale down humanity's exploitation of nature, consumption, and population. His book "Slipping through our hands, imperiled wildlife of the Greater San Juans" appeared in 2000. You'll hear more about his background as he explains how that book came about.

Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein are evolutionary biologists who have been invited to address the US Congress, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Education, and have spoken before audiences across the globe. They both earned PhDs in Biology from the University of Michigan, where their research on evolution and adaptation earned awards for its quality and innovation. They have been visiting fellows at Princeton University, and before that were professors at the Evergreen State College for fifteen years. They resigned from Evergreen in the wake of 2017 campus riots that focused in part on their opposition to a day of racial segregation and other college “equity” proposals. They cohost weekly livestreams of the DarkHorse podcast. And you are the co-authors of a new book:  A HUNTER-GATHERER’S GUIDE TO THE 21ST CENTURY: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Alice Friedemann, the granddaughter of two scientists, is genetically predisposed to do extensive research and exhaustive reading. Much of this was accomplished as she read while walking 10 miles round-trip between home and office.  She was a systems architect and engineer for over 25 years.  She retired from Dilbert Land to devote more time to science writing on energy, ecology, climate change, whole grains, agriculture, infrastructure, pollution, and too many other topics to list (see her website www.energyskeptic.com). The past few years she has come to see that fossil-fueled western civilization will likely collapse from dozens of factors. Especially oil, the master resource that makes all others possible. Especially in transportation since heavy-duty trucks, locomotives, and ships depend on diesel fuel.  Manufacturing is also completely dependent on the high heat fossil fuels can generate to make cement, steel, microchips, glass, ceramics, bricks and other essential products. Today we talk about her new book Life After Fossil Fuels.

Kris is a parent of an18 year old desisted daughter.  She got involved in the gender-identity fight 3 years ago when her daughter declared she was really a boy and declared a new name and pronouns.  A life-long lefty, she had no idea what was really happening with transgenderism and gender-identity.  Despite the fact that her child has desisted, she continues to work to provide information and resources, through Cardinal Support Network, for other parents who are suffering.

Diane Wilson is a mother of five, a fourth-generation shrimp boat captain, and an environmental activist. She has been fighting to save the bays on the Texas gulf coast from chemical and oil development for the last 30 years.

Andreas Roos is a researcher and activist working to understand, expose, and challenge the environmentally destructive logic of industrial technologies. He recently defended his dissertation in the field of Human Ecology at Lund University (Sweden) entitled Renewing power: Including global asymmetries within the system boundaries of solar photovoltaic technology. The book deals with the mismatch between the conventional expectations of solar technology and the not so promising ecological reality of massively increasing the world’s solar capacity. Andreas has also done research on the promises and perils of information and communications technologies and compared energy flows in industrial vs. non-industrial food systems.