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In this episode of The Green Flame we host a group discussion on the 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House. We discuss, amongst other things, the relevance of Baldwin's work today and our perspectives on the most powerful and moving scenes from the documentary.

Attorney and feminist Kara Dansky joins us to share how to contribute to the movement for women's sex based rights. She introduces us to the "Women Picket DC" event on March 8, the Equality for All Act, the 65th UN Commission on the Status of Women, the Declaration on Women's Sex Based Rights, and the Women's Human Rights Campaign.

For this episode we pay musical tribute to the women's suffrage movement. A century later, we share with them the same struggle for women's most basic human rights.

In this episode of the Green Flame we host a group discussion on Black Revolutionary Assata Shakur’s 1987 Autobiography. We discuss amongst other things the relevance of her story and political awakening and the lessons to be learned for revolutionary movements today. Thank you to the Freedom Archives (http://freedomarchives.org/) for their amazing work that allowed us to include Assata's voice and the Black Panther kids chant in this episode.

Activists aiming to stop Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass open-pit lithium mine – what would be the United States’ largest lithium mine, supplying up to 25% of the world's lithium – launched a permanent protest encampment hours after the Bureau of Land Management gave final approval to the mine on January 15. The Green Flame brings you the voices of land protectors Will Falk and Max Wilbert who mean to stay for as long as it takes to protect this old-growth sagebrush mountainside despite winter conditions at Thacker Pass. Rebecca Wildbear, river and soul guide, lover of the wild, joins us in honoring and calling for defense of the Great Basin, Thacker Pass and the whole of wild creation. Many thanks to Green Flame sound editor Iona and to the many non-human voices – Golden Eagle, Coyote, and Greater Sage Grouse – speaking to us in this Protect Thacker Pass episode of the Green Flame.

In this urgent episode of the Green Flame Lierre Keith comments on a new development in the war on women. That development is Biden's executive order on "gender identity" signed the day of his inauguration, and it will eviscerate Women's Rights. Lierre Keith is the founder of the Women's Liberation Front, WoLF founder and board member, a radical feminist for over 40 years and is the author of 6 books.

Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of both Local Futures and the International Alliance for Localization. A pioneer of the local economy movement, she has been honored with the Right Livelihood Award, the Goi Peace Prize, and the Arthur Morgan Award. She is the author of "Ancient Futures" and "Local is Our Future, Steps to An Economics of Happiness" and producer of the documentary film "The Economics of Happiness".

We discuss the problems of globalization and advocate that the global industrial economy must be dismantled to save ecology and human futures.

This episode of the Green Flame podcast is a discussion around nuclear waste, the nuclear waste industry, nuclear waste dumping, and the production of nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and nuclear medicine that results in this highly dangerous and long-lasting radioactive material.

This episode, recorded January 7th, is a round table discussion of January 6th protest and riot in Washington D.C. at the U.S. Capitol. Max Wilbert and Jennifer Murnan are joined by Saba Malik and Will Falk.