Resistance Radio

Rachel Stewart is a writer/Journalist, and current columnist with the NZ Herald, 2016 Winner of the ‘Opinion Writer of the Year’ at New Zealand’s Canon Media Awards. Ex-agricultural leader turned dairy industry critic, falconer, protector of rivers, and everything wild.

A licensed psychologist, biologist and educator, Susan Eirich has taught at universities around the world, worked in maximum security prisons, developed a university counseling center, directed a Nature Conservancy Preserve, and lived in remote corners of Nepal, the Mid and Far East, the Northwest Territories and the Amazon rainforest. Her goal is always to see through other’s eyes as a way to enhance understanding between cultures, peoples and species. She founded Earthfire Institute: Wildlife Sanctuary & Retreat Center in 2000 in order to give a voice to wildlife and help people find their own natural voice. Earthfire’s mission is to help humans change how they see, and therefore treat, wildlife and nature. Susan lives with these animals throughout their lifetimes, developing deep relationships and insights. This makes it possible for her to bring wild animals’ voices into our awareness and into conservation decisions.

Sam Mace is the Inland Northwest Director for Save Our Wild Salmon, a coalition of conservation organizations, sport and commercial fishing businesses, and clean energy advocates working to restore wild salmon & steelhead to the Columbia and Snake Rivers.  She works to build support for restoring the lower Snake River by removing four outdated dams on the lower Snake River that are preventing recovery of fisheries in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.  She lives in Spokane, WA.

David Holmgren is an Australian environmental designer, ecological educator and writer. He is best known as one of the co-originators of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison.

Jared Lloyd is a wildlife photographer and environmental journalist whose work takes him around the globe in search of stories and photographs. Most of the projects that Jared works on are centered around climate change, biodiversity, and coastal issues. He has worked on BBC natural history documentaries, PBS shows, and publications ranging from Audubon to National Wildlife.

Posie Parker.  She is a UK accidental activist and founder of Standing for Women.

Nathan Varley grew up in Yellowstone National Park in the tiny community of Mammoth Hot Springs.  His parents have been biologists and park rangers that have lived and worked in the park for 3 decades.   Following in the family footsteps, Nathan studied biology at Montana State University where he earned B. S. and M. S. degrees.  The ecology of mountain goats in the Absaroka Mountains on Yellowstone's eastern edge was his research topic.  Further adventure in wildlife studies took him among moose in Alaska, guanacos in Patagonia, and pine marten in Idaho.  His trails have led home as often as afar, where Yellowstone's coyotes, bears, river otters and gray wolves became primary study subjects.  As a contributor to the historic gray wolf restoration project he has often been in the field tracking wolves.  His research at the University of Alberta focused on the relationship between wolves and elk after wolf reintroduction.  With his wife, Linda Thurston, Nathan owns his own wildlife touring business group, The Wild Side, LLC, which specializes in outfitting groups to view wolves, other wildlife, and all that the Yellowstone wilderness has to offer.  A defining purpose, if one can be offered for any person, would be to champion a land ethic that places the highest value on our wildlife and their habitats, and in so doing, forever preserve and enjoy the places that have provided his life's inspiration.

Meghan Murphy is a writer and journalist from Vancouver, B.C. She founded Feminist Current in 2012, which has since grown to be the leading feminist website in Canada, as well as a global presence. Meghan is currently working on a book that critiques third wave feminism as a modern anti-feminist backlash.

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 Bill Gates’s plan for agriculture.

Renee Gerlich is a feminist writer and activist based in the Wellington region, in New Zealand. You can follow her writing at reneejg.net