Resistance Radio

Josh Slocum is the host of the new podcast Disaffected, which examines the role of abuse dynamics in society and politics. He believes that the personality disorders behind domestic and family abuse are becoming normalized on the American left, and have put us all in a relationship of domestic abuse with social justice activism.

Bill Plotkin, PhD,‚ is the author of The Journey of Soul Initiation. As a depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and founder of western Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute, he has led thousands of women and men through nature-based initiatory passages. His previous books include Soulcraft, Nature and the Human Soul, and Wild Mind. He lives in Durango, Colorado and you can visit him online at http://www.animas.org.

Kara Dansky is a feminist and an attorney. She serves on the steering committee of the U.S. chapter of the Women’s Human Rights Campaign and chairs the Women’s Human Rights Campaign’s Committee on Law and Legislation. She is currently coordinating the Women’s Human Rights Campaign’s plan to present a panel at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

Dr Susan Hawthorne is an Australian radical ecofeminist lesbian. She joined the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1973 and it changed her life for the better. She is a poet, novelist and feminist theorist with degrees in Philosophy, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and a PhD in Women’s Studies/ Political Science. She is the author of nine collections of poetry, three works of fiction and five non-fiction books. Her books have been translated into five languages. She has worked in publishing for more than thirty years and is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at James Cook University, Townsville. She lives in tropical Queensland surrounded by wildlife (cassowaries, goannas, wallabies, lots of butterflies) and lush vegetation. The publishing website is: website: http://www.spinifexpress.com.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spinifexpress/ Twitter handle: @spinifexpress. Her most recent book is Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy.

Chris Jones leads the river and beaver restoration programme for Beaver Trust, helping communities to develop projects that will recover biodiversity and build climate resilience. He is a farmer and ecologist based in Mid Cornwall. He has worked as a policeman in Africa, as a forester in SW England, as a drilling fluids engineer in the North Sea, Middle East and Africa, and as a theme running throughout as a farmer in Cornwall. He has been interested in the idea of reintroducing beavers to the UK for many years, and has been practically involved setting up and running the Cornwall Beaver Project with Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Exeter University since 2014.

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.

Lierre Keith has been a radical feminist for forty years. She is the author of six books. The seventh, Bright Green Lies, will be out the end of February.

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 forthcoming 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.

Jonathan R Latham, PhD. He is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering. Dr Latham talks frequently at international events and scientific and regulatory conferences on the research conducted by the Project. He has written for Truthout, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, Resilience, and many other magazines and websites. Today we talk about the article, “The Biosecurity Myth That Is Destroying Small Farming.”

Cayte Bosler is an investigative environmental journalist and a graduate student at Columbia University. She researches solutions for protecting biodiversity and has worked with land-based communities and wildlife defenders throughout Latin America. Her interest is in chronicling community-led resistance to exploitation and ecological abuse to inspire resistance elsewhere. Today we talk about whales.