Resistance Radio

Jonathan R Latham, PhD. 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 pesticides and the EU.

Wendy Murphy is the Director of the Women’s and Children’s Advocacy Project at New England Law|Boston, where she also teaches sexual violence law. In addition, she is an impact litigator, specializing in the constitutional and civil rights of abused women and children.

Deanna Meyer.is a long time environmental activist and is a member of Deep Green Resistance and is also the founder and executive director of Prairie Protection Colorado. Meyer's work currently centers on the protection and preservation of prairie dog communities up and down Colorado's Front Range.

Leslie Kline is an organic farmer and seed producer, and now manager of a seed producer coop called Triple Divide Seeds.  She lives in western Montana near the Flathead River, on the Good Egg Farm, named for the egg business that sustained her for many years. Now she focuses on seed and running a small business selling seed.

Thomas Linzey is the executive director and an attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has assisted close to 200 communities across the country in eight states to adopt binding local laws that elevate community rights to sustainability over corporate rights and powers.

Dr. Irakli Loladze earned his BA degree in Applied Mathematics in Georgia (the former USSR, not Atlanta :)). After earning his MA and PhD in Mathematics at Arizona State University, Irakli, as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, advanced a hypothesis that rising atmospheric CO2 is affecting human nutrition by worsening the quality of plants worldwide. It took him 12 years to collect the empirical evidence confirming the hypothesis; he is now an Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Bryan College of Health Sciences, Bryan Medical Center.

Andrew Y. Glikson is an Earth and paleo-climate scientist, graduated at the University of Western Australia in 1968. He conducted geological and geochemical surveys of the oldest geological formations in western and central Australia, South Africa, India and Canada; studied large asteroid impacts, including effects on the atmosphere, oceans and mass extinction of species. Since 2005 he studied the relations between climate and human evolution. He was active in communicating nuclear and climate change evidence to the public and parliament through papers, lectures, conferences and presentations.

Karla Mantilla is the author of Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral(2015). She is a longtime editor and collective member of off our backsnewsjournal. She has taught at Gettysburg College, University of Maryland, George Mason University, and McDaniel College.

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 "How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told Me" will be released by Homebound Publications in October, 2019. You can follow Will’s work at willfalk.org.

Richard Olson is chair of the board of Sustainable Berea, a community non-profit, and director of the Berea Urban Farm. He has advanced degrees in ecology and sustainable agriculture, and many years of experience conducting basic and applied research in forest ecology. He recently retired from the faculty of Berea College where he taught sustainability, environmental justice, and ecological restoration.  Cheyenne Olson is Executive Director of Sustainable Berea. She received her Ph.D. in communications from the University of Kentucky, and secured a Fulbright Post-doc in Australia to study the impact of Rupert Murdoch on the creation and presentation of news. Cheyenne has transformed her yard into an edible landscape and raises a small flock of chickens. In 2018 she designed and implemented Harvesting Hope, a job training program for women recovering from opioid addiction.