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KURT RUSSO on the People Under the Sea ⌠ENCORE⌡ /127
Episode 127
Last summer, the world watched as mother Orca, Tahlequah, carried her dead calf on a “tour of grief” for more than 1,000 miles over a 17-day period. The Lummi Nation of the Salish Sea believes that T…
Published on 6 years, 5 months ago
LYLA JUNE on Resistance and Forgiveness in the Final Years of Patriarchy ⌠ENCORE⌡ /126
Episode 126
Lyla June retraces the origins of oppression of European women, men and earth-based cultures through to recent histories of genocide, inter-generational trauma, and the enduring forces that seek to d…
Published on 6 years, 5 months ago
EXTINCTION REBELLION on Mobilizing Mass Dissent /125
Episode 125
Ayana speaks to these three key members of ER about creating high-priority changes through nonviolent civil disobedience and economic disruption, while working with citizen’s assembly. They explore t…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
MICHAEL MEADE on Cultivating Mythic Imagination /124
Episode 124
Michael and Ayana discuss topics such as the power of creative imagination and youth, the danger of hyper-individualism, pretentious heroism, and the obsession with newness. Michael explores the rela…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
ROB GREENFIELD on Confronting Convenience /123
Episode 123
Rob and Ayana reflec on growing food and foraging, reimagining wealth and de-monetizing your life, how to hold and move through hypocrisy, and the importance of addressing intersectionality and struc…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
CHRIS HEDGES on Deflating the Ruling Elite through Civil Disobedience /122
Episode 122
Chris discusses wealth inequality, deindustrialization and the rise of the gig economy, the birth of fascism and Christian fundamentalism, and the fusion of corporate and government power under the r…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
MICHAEL MARTINEZ on Transforming Waste Relations /121
Episode 121
Michael and Ayana discuss our widespread culture of disposability, the ecological services and benefits of healthy soil, the beauty of decay and decomposition, the necessity of circular economies, th…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
Dr. MARY EVELYN TUCKER on Cosmological Re-inheritance /120
Episode 120
Ayana and Mary Evelyn explore how spiritual traditions can respond to environmental crisis, why it is so valuable to understand the emergence of the early universe as we navigate the Anthropocene, an…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
JOHN A. POWELL on Institutions of Othering and Radical Belonging /119
Episode 119
This week’s conversation between john and Ayana explores the frameworks of “othering and belonging” and "targeted universalism," as well as ideologies of supremacy, global dislocation, rethinking cit…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on the Emancipation of Seed, Water and Women ⌠ENCORE⌡ /118
Episode 118
Dr. Shiva explores how systems of domination have been artificially constructed, the pervasiveness of GMOs in our food, the roots of violent agriculture, the importance of seed saving, cultures of vi…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago