Spirit In Action

Mark Neumann was a Franciscan brother for 20 years, including 6 years working as a medical missionary in Zaire, now called the Congo. After a total of 35 years as a pediatrician, he is making his 1st run for office, in the Democratic primary for Wisconsin's 3rd district in the US House of Representatives, currently occupied by Ron Kind. As a world-healer and a people-healer, he is now seeking to further heal our country as a politician.

Extinction Rebellion has a take on addressing the climate crisis that is refreshing, since their plan is to step pass the log-jam of the political process in the US, and taking the power right back to the people. And instead of talking about things like carbon neutrality by 2050 or the like, their plan is to do it by 2025. Impossible is not in the vocabulary of Extinction Rebellion, and they've already got a hefty track record to show they can get things done. Daniel Yildirim is what they call a mass mobilizer for this area of the country, operating out of Viroqua, Wisconsin.

The KKK experienced a "rebirth" in the early 1900's, growing virulently across the country, differently manifesting depending on the area. Dr. Michael Luick-Thrams is founder & director of TRACES Center for History and Culture, sponsors of the upcoming BUS-eum display & tour with 5 displays for 2020, Topic today is The White Cancer: America and its Ku Klux Klan, including the current 3rd wave which we are still in. Michael helps us see current events more clearly in the reflection of our history. Watch Traces' YouTube Channel for videos on current & past exhibits. Contact Kristine, TRACES operations coordinator, to sponsor a BUS-eum tour to your area.

Mike McCabe is a political reform activist. Farm-raised, Peace Corps-deepened, journalist-honed, Mike worked 15 years with the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. He ran in the 2018 Democratic primary for Wisconsin Governor, and shares the motivations, experiences, & lessons of that run in his new book, Unscrewing America: Hopes from the Heartland . He currently works with Our Wisconsin Revolution.

Consummate journalist & author,Larry Tye shares about his new book, DEMAGOGUE: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy, full of lessons completely applicable to today, especially considering that the McCarthy playbook was passed directly to his assistant, Roy Cohn, and from Roy to Donald Trump. Larry Tye makes history accessible & enthralling, and serves it up for the betterment of the world. Larry worked at the Boston Globe and a number of other newpapers before writing, up to this moment, 8 books, and founding the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship

Carl Fields emerged from 16 years in prison with a passion & a gift for healing. In addition to his work a program manager with the Hospitality Center at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, he has been on the board of EXPO Wisconsin, heads ROC (Restoring Our Communities) with Racine Interfaith Coalition, and was just appointed to the new Mayoral Task Force on Police Reform for Racine, WI.

Barbara Luetke recently retired after 10 years as the Outreach & Literacy Coordinator at the Northwest School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children and decades more in the field. She's written a number of textbooks in that field. Her latest book is an historical novel, The Kendal Sparrow about Elizabeth Fletcher, an early Quaker teacher & activist in an century that did not empower 15-year old females to speak in public, especially as equal with male preachers. Book review in Friends Journal

Chad Seales writes & speaks eloquently on neoliberal capitalism, religion, spirituality, & their intersection with U2 star, Bono, in his book Religion Around Bono: Evangelical Enchantment and Neoliberal Capitalism. Scrutinizing secularism, sincerity, and the factual effects of well-intentioned attempts to be helpful, Chad spotlights the realities behind the forms. Chad Seales teaches in the Dept of Religious Studies at UT-Austin.

Guest-host Peterson Toscano of Citizens Climate Radio brings special depth & insight into the emotional & human consequences of living in this time of crisis, both due to climate change & the coronavirus. In this episode 8 women talk about working through grief to a place of action. They use their expertise to connect the impacts of climate change to what we are now seeing with Covid-19. Visits with Dr. Nathasha DeJarnett, Interim Associate Director Program & Partnership Development National Environmental Health Association, Dr. Lise VanSusteren, psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, DC with a special interest in the psychological effects of climate change, Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Solemi Hernandez, Citizens Climate Lobby Southeast Regional Coordinator, Edie Lush, co-host of Global GoalsCast podcast, Laura Schmidt & Aimee Lewis-Reau, co-founders of the Good Grief Network, and Anna Jane Joyner, co-host of No Place Like Home podcast.

More visits with 3 authors of the 40 essays in Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation. More from editor Carolyn Karcher, professor emerita of English, American studies, and womens studies at Temple University, and author of a number of books, and including visit withs Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber (Assiociate Professor of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University and author of Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yeminite Babies Affair) and Emily Siegel, Program Director for Eyewitness Palestine.

There are 40 essays in Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation, all personal, touching, transformative, & ringing with a cry for justice. We speak today with contributors Chris Godshall, founder of JVP Columbia & student at Georgetown University Law Center, Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago and author of Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi's Path to Palestinian Solidarity, & editor Carolyn Karcher, professor emerita of English, American studies, and womens studies at Temple University, and author of a number of books.

Back in 2012 we explored the amazing healing of Fire Burn Doctor. Today we speak again with Alison McDermott of ECN (Earthcare Network), this time about the offer by Philip Savage to prevent or cure COVID-19. For further info, visit Fireburn Doctor & PSProof.com. Contact info is on page 15 of the ECN website. For a skeptical, but not cynical, take on proving the efficacy of the Fire Burn Doctor method, read skepticblog: Can burn patients really be healed by phone? The opinions and beliefs expressed by Northern Spirit Radio interviewees are their own and do not necessarily represent the opinions or beliefs of Northern Spirit Radio employees or board members.

Dr. Michael Luick-Thrams is founder & director of TRACES Center for History and Culture, sponsors of the upcoming BUS-eum display & tour entitled Hidden or Forbidden No More: Prequels to the Greatest Generation, which includes The Killer: 1918's Flu Pandemic, with lessens for dealing with Coronavirus today. Contact Kristine, operations coordinator, to sponsor a BUS-eum tour to your area.

Chief Richard Quiet Thunder Gilbert served as tribal chief of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape of Bridgeton, NJ, for 13 years. His 86 years on the planet has included 2 books co-authored with Greg Vizzi, The Seventh Generation: Quiet Thunder Speaks (coming soon), and also The Original People. Ruthann Purchase is active with Lenape Everywhere. Check out Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware and Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape of New Jersey On-line Museum. Featured Music: We Belong To The Earth - by Magpie

Guest-host Peterson Toscano of Citizens Climate Radio (CCR) is the main host today, after some thoughts on our times from Mark Helpsmeet. Then CCR looks at crisis living & response, both in terms of COVID-19 and Climate Change. Guests include Dr. Natasha DeJarnett, the interim Associate Director of Program & Partnership Development at the National Environmental Health Association, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, the director of the Sustainable Finance Center at the World Resources Institute, Alice C. Hill, a senior fellow for Climate Change Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, plus a performance by the Climate Stew Players. A portion of the preface by Mark Helpsmeet to this episode: I'm especially interested in the side effects and potential side effects of this crisis, particularly the whole stay at home thing. I know many people are fearful and frustrated, and I certainly share some of those emotions, but I find myself musing about some other possibilities. For example: What if all of this stay at ho

Nonprofit groups are at the forefront of care for the homeless, hungry, needy & oppressed. Given the deep compassion and connection of these non-profits, it is all the more remarkable how often their own staffs face issues of equity and near-poverty wages. Among those looking for a solution to this conundrum are Betsy Leondar-Wright, Anastasia Lynge, & other members of the organization Class Action. They share some of the problems, insights, & solutions that they have found in their report, Staffing the Mission: Improving Jobs in the Nonprofit Sector.

Lincoln Rice and Ruth Benn of NWTRCC (National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee)share the essentials from the January 2020 on-line war tax resistance counselor training, including the methods, mechanics, motivations, & consequences of refusing to pay for war.

3 guests, 2 writers of fiction touching on the Indian Boarding Schools, William Kent Krueger, author of This Tender Land, and Patricia Reynolds, author of the Keeper of the Souls series, and they are joined by a guest from trom Alberta, CA, Celina Loyer, Aboriginal Programmer of the Michel Band Exhibit and the Residential Schools display at the Muse Hritage Museum in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. Celina is, herself, Mtis, with her mother having attended the Residential School in St. Albert. More stories of the Canadian Residential Schools can be read & heard via the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

Many myths, misconceptions, & motivations have kept the USA mired in racism for centuries. Margaret L. Andersen helps move us in productive directions with her new book, Getting Smart About Race: An American Conversation. She is Rosenberg Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Delaware, and was chair for many years of the National Advisory Board of Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity. Featured Music: Erase Racism - by Kool G Rap, DJ Polo, Big Daddy Kane, & Biz Markie (watch the video) Where I Grew Up - Chester McCoy

Guest-host Peterson Toscano of Citizens Climate Radio brings inspiration & courage to us through the work of the Better Angels work of Adam Rosenbalm and Austin Ramsey, and the voices of the editors of Rooted & Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis, Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade and Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas. Other guests include Solemi Hernandez, who is Citizens Climate Lobby's Southeast Regional Coordinator, and playwright Chantal Bilodeau, and CCL founder Marshall Saunders, recorded before his death.