Resistance Radio

After more than a decade working on the conservation of reptiles in the American southwest, Melissa Amarello co-founded Advocates for Snake Preservation in 2014 to change how people view and treat snakes. She holds a Masters in biology for her studies of rattlesnake social behavior.

Ja Reyalidad, currently located in Archipelago so-called-Philippines is a community organizer, promoting the idea of non-violent direct action and community defense. He also runs an autonomous space he calls Pirate Studio, where he creates and produces short films or documentaries, does podcasts, runs a community library, offering free workshops or skills sharing, practicing growing his own food, to breed radical consciousness and promote creative resistance. Jedd Lefthander is a member of the local coalition called Negros Environment Watch, Food Not Bombs, in Bacolod City.

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. He leads Earth-based, participatory, peer-to-peer ceremonies and mentoring programs for teens and adults, including a Soul Initiation group for men and the Cosmic Mass. Email: [email protected] or visit: www.orderofthesacredearth.org.

Laura Cunningham is an artist-naturalist, author, and biologist, who also co-founded a conservation organization, Basin and Range Watch that works towards saving the California and Nevada deserts. She is the author/illustrator of the extraordinary book A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California.  Today we talk about California condors.

Ralph Waldt is a naturalist and author. He spent nearly two decades working for The Nature Conservancy as an interpretive naturalist in Montana and Arizona. Now semi-retired, Ralph lives along the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona, where he continues to speak and write on behalf of the land and its life. He is the author of a new book on the San Pedro River, called The Life of the San Pedro River. This book is available through links at his blog, www.RalphWaldt.com

Vaishnavi Sundar  is a self-taught filmmaker, writer, and grassroots activist. She is from Chennai, the south of India. Her last film "But what was she wearing?" gave her the title of " canceled feminist." Even though that is India's only film on the topic that covered voices from women across caste, class, region and religious differences, it was cancelled on the basis of Vaishnavi's political opinion that men shouldn't be in women's sex segregated safe spaces. When she is not filming or writing scathing rebuttals to liberal feminist drivel, she is busy logging all things WTF on her new VLOG channel on youtube. Her most recent film, released January 29, is called Dysphoric.

DIANA JOHNSTONE, Ph.D. A native of Minnesota, raised in New Deal Washington, Diana Johnstone has spent more than half her life in Europe as a political observer and journalist, working for Agence France Presse, for In These Times as European Correspondent, and as press officer for the Green Group in the European Parliament. She holds a BA in Russian Area studies and a PhD in French literature. She is author of three books including Fools Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions., and coauthor with her father, Paul H. Johnstone, of From Mad to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning

Will Falk is a biophilic writer and lawyer. The natural world speaks and Will’s work is how he listens. He believes the intensifying destruction of the natural world is the most pressing issue confronting us today. His first book is "How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me." You can follow Will’s work at willfalk.org.  And you can follow the Thacker Pass campaign at protectthackerpass.org

Jennifer Bilek is an artist, a journalist and an activist working for the liberation of women in society, as well, the protection of children and the planet. She has been researching the money and power behind the trans lobby since 2013 and is author of The 11th Hour Blog, which covers her research.

Heidi Perryman is a child psychologist who became an “Accidental beaver advocate” when a pair moved into Martinez California. The city was concerned that their dam would cause flooding and recommended trapping. She formed the group “Worth A Dam” to find solutions and educate the community about their benefits”