The Green Flame

This interview with radical lesbian feminist, activist, and writer Julia Beck includes her insights on being politically homeless, girl gangs, the resilience of women (particularly women who have de transitioned), and our need for mutual respect and solidarity and support. Our skill share for this episode is a reading of DGR's Solidarity Guidelines. Music is by Ali Bee, radical feminist singer and songwriter, and by Thistle Pettersen, radical feminist, activist and musician. We invite our listeners to explore the diversity within the radical feminist community and to challenge ourselves at every level, personally, politically and socially, in the fight to end patriarchy.

Links to further explore the voices included in this podcast:

https://www.afterellen.com/general-news/568221-how-i-became-the-most-hated-lesbian-in-baltimore http://alibeemusic.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqxywAc4f3ETJVwHdkX06Kw (YouTube for Ali Bee) https://www.thistlepettersen.com/ https://wlrnmedia.wordpress.com/

This episode features Max Wilbert reading his article from 2019 entitled "Anti-Racist Strategy for a World in Crisis." The piece was originally published on Counterpunch. You can read it here:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/04/anti-racist-strategy-for-a-world-in-crisis/

In this episode, we speak with Ely Lunani of the Kakamega Forest Community Conservation Network in Kenya. The Network is a grassroots effort emerging from local youth in the Buyangu Area to protect and restore the Kakamega Forest through environmental education, conservation, reforestation, and programs to reduce local poverty.

You can reach Ely Lunani at [email protected].

This episode features music by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/).

This excerpt comes from Episode 21 with Vince Emanuele.

This full interview between Max Wilbert and Vince Emanuele covers mutual aid, organizing strategies, revolution vs. reform, coronavirus, survival, the Iraq war, the crumbling of the United States, and more. Vince Emanuele is an organizer who began his political journey after refusing to re-deploy into Iraq in 2005. After leaving the Marine Corps he joined the anti-war movement. Today Vince is co-founder of a community space called PARC (Politics, Art, Roots, Culture) in Michigan City, Indiana.

This is an excerpt from episode 23, our conversation with our comrade Shahidah Janjua. We conversed about women, writing, activism and the creation of a Women's Centre in Kerry.

On behalf of the Women of DGR: We lost you Shahidah in March, and we are gutted. We mourn no longer having the opportunity to work shoulder to shoulder with you, dear sister. We cherish the many gifts of your life's work. We dedicate our lives, as you once did, to being brave, to continuing that work, wherever we are, with whatever gifts we have to give. With all our love and respect

Shahidah Janjua, Thank You. Rest in Peace. Rest in Power.

Deep Green Resistance is a radical feminist organization, because all oppression is connected. The freedom of women as a class cannot be separated from the resistance to the dominant culture as a whole. Racism is connected to patriarchy is connected to the destruction of the planet.

"Pornography Men Possessing Women," one of Andrea Dworkin's most influential and important books, is the focus for this episode of the Green Flame. The Deep Green Book Club discussion provides the means by which we approach the heart of Andrea Dworkin's analysis and life's work.

We thank Trinity La Fey (https://trinitylafey.weebly.com/) for a special live recording of her poem "Tintinnabulation."

Thank you to Beth Quist for sharing her live acoustic performance of her composition, Angel of Death. Beth is playing all the instruments as well as being the solo vocalist. The "studio" is her RV!

Beth's website: http://bethquist.com/ Beth's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bethquist

Musicians and artists have lost much of their their ability to create a livelihood as a result of social distancing during the pandemic. Please, if you are able, send some love and support their way.

Like what you hear? Make it all possible by going to https://deepgreenresistance.org/en/support-us/donate-to-deep-green-resistance and making a one time or monthly recurring contribution.

We speak with Jeff Gibbs, director of the new film "Planet of the Humans" (produced by Michael Moore) about why green energy won't save the world, the need to focus on consumption, and how the environmental movement has gotten off track.

Since this interview was recorded, the film was viewed more than 8 million times and a copyright claim was filed against the film for using 4 seconds of copyrighted footage. The film has been taken off YouTube, but is now on Vimeo.

Watch the Film: https://planetofthehumans.com/

More Information https://planetofthehumans.com/fact-check/ https://planetofthehumans.com/2020/04/30/response-to-bill-mckibben-regarding-planet-of-the-humans/

This episode includes two tracks, "Shi-baytz" and "Radio-daylong" from the Filipino group Katribu Collective, off their new album "The Gathering."

Katribu Collective is the unified effort a few individuals from the Philippines playing indigenous instruments from different tribes all around the world. Their vision is to promote culture and unity. Katribu's passion and commitment to exploring the musically rich culture of the tribes of Mindanao leads its music to fuse these elements.

Katribu Collective: https://katributatu.godaddysites.com/records

Our guest for show is Esther Figueroa. Esther is a Jamaican filmmaker, writer and advocate who in 2006 returned home to live in Jamaica after being based in Hawa'ii for 25 years. She has a long history of filmmaking, art, and community engagement to protect traditional cultures and the land. Dr. Figueroa has a PhD in linguistics and a masters degree in east asian langauges and literature. We talk about modernity, colonization, and aluminum mining in Jamaica.

MUSIC: "Red Pill" by Minori.

POEM: "Cockpit Country Dreams" by Olivia Senior.

Check out Esther's video work on her YouTube channel, and two of her documentary films on The Paiute Salt Song Trail and the Reclamation of Polynesian Sailing Traditions.

Donate to this project

On this episode of the Green Flame we interviewed Shahidah Janjua and conversed about women, writing, activism and the creation of a Women's Centre in Kerry. She also shared a recitation of one of her soon to be published poems on our broadcast.

This episode is also dedicated to the memory of our beloved sister.

We share this memorial she wrote on the passing of Andrea Dworkin, whom she mentions in the interview saying, "I love that woman."

April 12, 2005 05:53 AM

"I am gutted. It is the end of an era; not of our resistance, but of an era. I am a Pakistani woman of 55, a mother, a grandmother. I read Letters from a War Zone when I was 36 and it did save my life, not in any cliched way, but really. Everything I have done, thought and understood since then has evolved from reading that book. It laid bare what I had known and experienced. I went on to read all Andrea's books. I wrote to Andrea to tell her this. Even if my voice was one of thousands, I felt it was important for her to know what she had given me. She replied with great humility.

At first I loved and looked up to Andrea as a child does to its mother, always wanting clarity, the truth, and cherishing the guidance when it came in articles, speeches, interviews and books. I grew from there into an adult and an equal, because this is the power that the truth gave me. It demanded that I grow in stature in the world and stand shoulder to shoulder with brave women, by becoming a brave woman myself. No other words, no other actions in the world had allowed me the full possibility of seeing myself in this way; someone of great worth and endless potential. Always her gendered analysis was the key. The abiding question it left me with in any circumstance was "where are the women in this, and what is happening to them?", the question that followed was "where am I in this, and what is happening to me?" Asking these questions requires brutal honesty, and no place for complicity. I have lost a friend and a sister, and the way that I can honour this very precious relationship is by carrying on the resistance to male supremacy and domination."

On behalf of the Women of DGR:

We lost you Shahidah in March, and we are gutted. We mourn no longer having the opportunity to work shoulder to shoulder with you, dear sister. We cherish the many gifts of your life's work.

We dedicate our lives, as you once did, to being brave, to continuing that work, wherever we are, with whatever gifts we have to give.

With all our love and respect Shahidah Janjua, Thank You. Rest in Peace. Rest in Power.

From Shahidah Janjua for our listeners:

Website: www.sjanjua.net Latest poetry and shorts book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dimensions-Poetry-Collection-Shahidah-Janjua-ebook/dp/B00PGWXWFC/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=shahidah+janjua&qid=1581967062&sr=8-2 Previous memoir for my dad: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Privileged-Witness-Air-Commodore-Janjua-ebook/dp/B00GGXW4XG/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=shahidah+janjua&qid=1581967130&sr=8-1

Kerry Women's Resource Centre: https://www.facebook.com/Kerry-Womens-Resource-Centre-722994534745446/

This conversation between Max Wilbert and Vince Emanuele covers mutual aid, organizing strategies, revolution vs. reform, coronavirus, survival, the Iraq war, the crumbling of the United States, and more.

Vince Emanuele was born and raised in America's Rust-Belt and lives in Michigan City, Indiana. In 2002, he joined the United States Marine Corps. In 2005, Vince refused orders for a third deployment and immediately began working with the antiwar movement. Today he works in Michigan City and is co-founder of a community space called PARC—Politics, Arts, Roots, Culture.

Vince's writings and transcribed interviews have appeared in teleSUR English, AlterNet, CounterPunch, the Christian Science Monitor, In These Times, CounterCurrents and ZNet.

Featured music: Perilune and Lights of Elysium by AERØHEAD. CC BY-SA 3.0. Banga by Chris Morrow. CC BY 3.0.