Aaron Fowler & Laura Dungan are Kansas natives seeking to organize and improve their state, through their work, musical and non-musical. Laura founded Sunflower Community Action and now works for the National People's Action. Aaron worked years with Hope Street Youth Development and now focuses on music, including his Stories To Song project at SingItOut.org. All the songs in this program are by performed by Aaron Fowler & Laura Dungan: <#Table> This Is My Town written by Aaron Fowler (and students) Hardwood written by Aaron Fowler (and students) Chores of a Mother written by Aaron Fowler (and students) Seed on the Prairie written by Magpie Follow the Drinking Gourd traditional Bound for Freedom written by Pat Humphries <#/Table>

Aaron Fowler & Laura Dungan are Kansas natives seeking to organize and improve their state, through their work, musical and non-musical.

John Calvi was led to found QUIT (Quaker Initiative to end Torture), in part, because of the profound healing work he has done over the decades with victims rape and other sorts of torture, including refugees from Central America. John knows the external facts of torture, including statistics, laws and motivations, but because of his work as a healer, he knows the suffering from the inside as well. QUIT (Quaker Initiative to end Torture) will hold a consultation meeting November 12, 2011 in Durham, NC. Copies of his plenary presentation about ending torture can be purchased here. It is called "To Go Where There Is No Light".

George Lakey was a founder of A Quaker Action Group, Movement for a New Society and recently left Training for Change to do more direct action with Earth Quaker Action Team. With the experience & stories of 50 years of peace, justice and environmental activism, George is a treasure trove of inspiration.

Original Air Date: 08/08/2010

Peggy Seeger is especially known for her song of awakening women's consciousness, Gonna be an Engineer, but she sings of many concerns and causes, including economic justice and, especially, care for creation. She's put out a wealth of music on her own, with her husband Ewan MacColl, with her brothers, Pete & Mike Seeger, and with other fine artists. All the songs in this program are by Peggy Seeger: Gonna Be An Engineer Sing About These Hard Times Right To Life The Mother Woman On Wheels Ballad of Jimmy Massey

Original Air Date: 06/20/2010

Peggy Seeger is especially known for her song of awakening women's consciousness, Gonna be an Engineer, but she sings of many concerns and causes, including economic justice and, especially, care for creation. She's put out a wealth of music on her own, with her husband Ewan MacColl, with her brothers, Pete & Mike Seeger, and with other fine artists.

Dr. Ken Stone of Chicago Theological Seminary leads workshops on Eco-Justice & The Hebrew Bible and he's written and edited several books including Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective. His analysis is spiritual fuel for lives of justice.

Original Air Date: 05/09/2010

This is Azhar Usman's keynote address of the 2011 Ways of Peace II Conference on Nonviolence in the Islamic Tradition, sponsored by Friends for a Non-Violent World. Azhar is a comedian, lawyer, activist and writer.