The Green Flame

Ahjamu Umi is a revolutionary organizer/activist, adviser, and liberation literature author. He is vastly concerned about the current state and future of this planet. Ahjamu has worked with the All African People's Revolutionary Party for decades.

His latest book, a manual of revolutionary community defense, is titled "A Guide for Defense Against White Supremacist and Fascist Violence."

http://www.abetterworld.me/

This episode features the track "Therapy" by Alas.

On this 50th Episode of the Green Flame, Max and Jennifer share a retrospective of the 20-month Green Flame adventure leading into a lightly edited recording of DGR's recent live streaming event, "Drawing the Line: Stopping the Murder of the Planet." The event features Lierre Keith, Derrick Jensen, Chris Hedges and the voices and work of comrades across all fronts, worldwide. We call on all our listeners to join in listening to this Feast de Resistance. Happy Holidays!

In this episode we interview Sue and Esteban from the Shale Must Fall Campaign. The campaign works to increase the global visibility of frontline struggles against fracking and other extraction, and educate about the dangers of shale gas and the fracking industry. December 11, 2020 is the Day of Action for the Shale Must Fall Campaign, with actions across Europe, Africa and Asia to show global solidarity against fracking.

The episode also features the music of wind chimes and a recording from Ina-Maria Shikongo in Namibia.

For more information about the Shale Must Fall Campaign: https://shalemustfall.org/

For this episode of The Green Flame, Jennifer Murnan and Max Wilbert discuss extreme weather around the world. As the Arctic is experiencing catastrophic low ice formation, wildfires have swept western Turtle Island this summer and fall, and storms have pounded southeast Asia and the Caribbean. We include excerpts from a January podcast covering the megafires in Australia, discuss the rise of extreme weather under global warming, the basic science of why this occurs, and more. Music is from DENNI: https://www.facebook.com/denni420/

On this episode of the Green Flame, we converse with Fred Gibson, co-founder of Communities that Protect and Resist. CPR is a support group, clearinghouse, resource bank, and facilitator for activists who want to build strong communities and leverage them to pursue a sustainable and just existence and resist the dominant culture.

We are grateful to our editor Iona, for the harmonious blending of the voices of grasslands and in house improvisational piano solo.

https://www.facebook.com/Communities-that-Protect-and-Resist-100969171337864

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For this episode, we speak with Laura Cunningham of Basin and Range Watch (http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/) about dozens of large solar energy projects threatening the Mojave and Great Basin deserts in Nevada and eastern California. We explore why utility-scale solar built on habitat is not a solution.

Our music for this episode is Melodi från Vest-Agder by Tim Eastwood of Dic Penderyn.

Industrial civilization is killing the planet, and it's not good for human beings either. But how can we live without it? We are dependent and addicted. In this episode of The Green Flame, we ask what comes after and speak with two people: Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth, Deep Green Resistance, Bright Green Lies, and more; and Michel Jacobi, an ecologist working in western Ukraine to preserve and revive ancient pastoral traditions and the Carpathian water buffalo.

http://www.karpaten-bueffel.eu/en.html

http://www.lierrekeith.com/

Our song for this episode is "Wake Up Call" by Nicholas Tippins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eIzJHVDM1I

Frank Forencich is an internationally-recognized expert on health and human adaptation. As an engaging speaker and movement teacher, he brings a unique perspective to the human predicament and offers practical solutions for some of the most pressing problems of our age. Frank is the author of several books on health and the human predicament, most recently The Sapience Curriculum. He is a black belt in karate and aikido.

https://www.sapience.earth/

https://www.exuberantanimal.com

Our music for this episode is the track "Run Billy Run" by Dana Lyons. http://cowswithguns.com/

This episode of The Green Flame revolves around a group discussion of Naomi Klein's 2007 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. We discuss the points of the book that are on point, other areas where the book fails, and how in some ways Klein's own analysis describes how her mainstream climate movement operates.

Our music for this episode is "Drag the Forests Down" by Foxpockets: https://soundcloud.com/foxpockets