Spirit In Action

Two powerful, and badly neglected, forces in our national history around race are featured in Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up To Change a Nation by author & educator Anna Mae Duane. The 1800's debate between wto students of the NY African Free School, James McCune Smith & Henry Highland Garnet, echoes to current issues.

Thom Hartmann is one of the most articulate voices of progressive radio in the USA, and he's a compelling writer as well. His most recent book is The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back combines history, current events, analysis, & insight into the most crucial threat to our representative democracy happening now. Featured Music: Vote - by Emma's Revolution

Two great guests, the amazing thinker & author, Parker Palmer, is joined by the wonderful singer, songwriter, & world healer, Carrie Newcomer. They share their various collaborations, the first being a word, song & connecting experience called Healing the Heart of Democracy, then there was What We Need Is Here, and their newest collaboration is called The Growing Edge. Your heart, mind, & spirit will be enriched and empowered by the gifts they bring. Featured Music: Three Feet or So - written & performed by Carrie Newcomer Sanctuary - written & performed by Carrie Newcomer The Music WIll Play On - performed by Carrie Newcomer, written by Carrie & Parker Palmer If Not Now - written & performed by Carrie Newcomer

Leslie Davis is from Milwaukee, WI, where she is a psychologist for the states largest free medical clinic, providing services to principally undocumented immigrants. In 2019 Leslie Davis expanded her compassionate outreach by making 4 extended sojourns on the US-Mexican border, starting with the Dilley Detention Center in Texas, attempting to provide much-needed service from both her general energy and compassion, and also from her skills as a clinical psychologist. Leslie invites you to contact her for additional resources at les.davis3@outlook.com, like Dilley Pro Bono Project, Al Otro Lado, & the Refugee Health Alliance. Also, give a listen to The American Life: The Out Crowd.

Kelly Lundeen was a founder of Just Peace from the Chippewa Valley back in 2001, spent time in Milwaukee at the Casa Maria Catholic Worker House, which led her to do accompaniment work in Columbia as part of the International Peace Observatory. But her work recently, back in Wisconsin, has been as a mother of 3 and as staff for Nukewatch, working for a nuclear-free future since 1979. The folks at Nukewatch have been sentinels for the safety, well-being, and future of our country by their investigation of and action on nuclear weapons and nuclear power in the USA. She also connects with immigrant rights in her area of Northern Wisconsin through the Immigrant Advocates of Barron County, including the Somali Stories of Family Separation video they helped produce.

Our guest is David Hartsough, author of Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist, a wonderful book combining the stories and inspiration for a better world that David has lived out and been witness to. David has gone inspirationally into the crucial events of the past 60 years, in the Civil Rights movement, across the Berlin Wall, working against nuclear weapons, traveling in solidarity with the people of Central America & Kosovo and making himself available everywhere that people need compassion and support. Hes a founder of many organizations including the Nonviolent Peaceforce and World Beyond War.

How we communicate frequently makes all the difference between war/peace, connection/division, and safety/danger, and the best tool for effective, compassionate, dialogue is Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Claire Bates has been passionate about learning and teaching NVC since 2013, teaching people how to live well with others. Trainings & resources for your area can be found at Center for Nonviolent Communication (cnvc.org), including the Needs Inventory mentioned in this interview.

In Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls, Monique W. Morris orchestrates a vision of ways forward for the healing of the black & brown girls in the USA. Drawing on the science & the art of human change, Monique identifies the obstructions, & spot-lights the ways over, around, & through them. Featured Music: I'm a Woman - performed by Koko Taylor God Bless the Child - performed by Billie Holiday Nobody Knows My Name - performed by Queen Latifa Collard Greens & Cornbread - performed by Fantasia

There's excitement as science seeks ways back from the brink of climate disaster. Peterson Toscano of Citizens Climate Radio talkes with Dr. Michael L Curry & Dr. Donald White about one potential solution, with Blair Bazdarich & Hannah Pickard of NNOCCI about communication strategies, with Catherine Pierce about her poem, Anthropocene Pastoral, and with Sean Dague, envisioning a fossil fuel-free world.

Hayat Imam is an American-Muslim of Bangladeshi origin. She is a feminist-activist committed to building global social justice movements. Former Executive Director of the Boston Womens Fund and Board Chair of Grassroots International, she is an active member of Mass Peace Action and Dorchester People for Peace. Hayat was a keynote speaker at the Boston Womens March in January 2017 and, in the summer of 2018, at the Poor Peoples Campaign on the War Economy. She offers a four-part Course on Islam called: Understanding Islam: A Muslim Womans Perspective on the Essence of Islam, the Diversity of the Muslim World, and its Relationship with the West. Here's a link to the course offered via Massachusetts Peace Action. Email with questions to IslamCourseBoston@gmail.com Hayat was one of 5 women who created the material for a book back in 1984, called Watermelons Not War: A Support Book for Parenting in the Nuclear Age.

Will the issues every stop repeating themselves? Everything is not about the Bible, but a good share of everything is in the Bible, at least if you look with the discerning eyes of Peterson Toscano, a gay man who produces the monthly Citizen's Climate Radio blog, and Liam Hooper, a North Carolinian trans man of Ministries Beyond Welcome. In this episode of Bible Bash they look at the experience of being the unacceptable/unloved child (like Ismael) and the foreign boy with a need for a caring adult (Daniel with Ebed Malech). Long ago stories, but so relevant today, like on the southern US border.

In Powerarchy: Understanding the Psychology of Oppression for Social Transformation, psychologist Melanie Joy helps us find a way to rethink power, rewrite our future by understanding the structure, workings, & consequences of powerarchy. Melanie is also author of Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, and currently lives in Berlin, Germany, doing her work of building compassion in the world.

Ralph Jacobson has been a steadfast advocate for solar since he founded IPS Solar in 1991. In 2017 they became the fastest-growing Twin Cities Business, all the more rewarding because of their practice of inviting women & people of color into the mostly male-dominated industry, and for Ralph's effort to use MnVest.org (Minnesota Investment Crowdfunding) to jump-start solarization of the Red Lake Nation reservation. Ralph is the founding president of MnSEIA (Minnesota Solar Energy Industries Association.

Michael Birkel is a Professor of Christian Spirituality at ESR (Earlham School of Religion) who became a self-taught friend of the Qur'an. In addition to the courses he has taught at ESR and Earlham College, he led a week-long workshop called Reading the Qur'an as Friends as part of the 2019 FGC Gathering. He is author of Qur'an In Conversation, and he's been guest on QuakerSpeak.org.

Betsy Raasch-Gilman has a lifetime of experience as an activist, feminist, anarchist, Quaker, and change-maker, so she has seen the ups-and-downs of organizing and burn-out. Hearing of the exhaustion of activists in the current political turmoil, she gathered her resources and shared a presentation on Reasons for Hope. Betsy's activism over the decades has included time with Movement for a New Society, Training for Change, and many other efforts & groups. She is currently active with SURJ-MN (Showing Up for Racial Justice - Minnesota) or SURJ on Facebook. Featured Music: Dancing at the Revolution - by Peter Alsop

A taste of Farm Aid 2019, the work & music, of the event & the organization. We have 2 amazing musicians from the 18 acts from this year's mainstage: Particle Kid (Micah Nelson, Willie's youngest son) and Lucas Nelson & Promise of the Real, (Willie's 2nd youngest son), joined by Jennifer Lahy, Communication Director of Farm Aid's staff. Find how to watch Farm Aid 2019 live. Find more about Micah, including his art, on his personal website, and about his Hawaii-based Farm Aid-ish non-profit, Mahi'ai Music & Food Festival, and the Hawai'i Farmers Union United. Featured Music: Turn Off The News (Build A Garden) - by Lucas Nelson & Promise of the Real Magic Mirror - by Particle Kid Radio Flyer - by Particle Kid

John Stoesz carries a ministry advocating land reparations with indigenous peoples as he has traveled 1000's & 1000's of miles on his recumbent trike, working with Dakota peoples in Minnesota, working with and alongside Unsettling Minnesota, coalition for Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery, and Waziyatawin, author of What Does Justice Look Like. He has also worked with the Kanza Heritage Society and Real Rent Duwamish. John is former executive director of the Mennonite Central Committee for the Central States.

A front-row look at the situation in Hong Kong with Jerry (Chiwei) Hui, currently Associate Professor of Music at UW-Stout in Wisconsin, but he is Hong Kong born-and-raised, and he was present for the first two of the massive protests there. Jerry provides an inside glimpse of the people, laws, history, politics, & character of Hong Kong, which can be supplemented by the BBC Hong Kong page. You can help support the protest movement by advocating for the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 (H.R. 3289, and S. 1838)

Kevin McMullin has created a powerful one-man show called Into the Black Sea: Stories of Darkness and Light to invite the audience to journey alongside the voyage of hurt, healing, and uncertainly he has traveled with the onset of a brain tumor. Kevin uses storytelling and music to walk a mile in his hospital bed, and out of it, show all a way to look honestly into the confusion, pain, and loving that confronts most of us at one time or another of our lives. Check Kevin's site for the full schedule, but there is a looming opportunity in Eau Claire, WI, on Saturday, Sept. 21, 7 pm, at the UU Eau Claire, 421 S. Farwell St, Eau Claire, suggested donation $15. Featured Music: My Brain Has A Tumor - parody of There's A Hole In My Bucket, new lyrics & performance in person by Kevin McMullin The Feller That Looks Like Me - by Unidentified (though I tried), performed by Kevin McMullin

Permaculture is much more than organic gardening because it uses whole systems thinking. It is explained eloquently by Carol Barta of the Kansas Permaculture Institute, one of the places where Carol teachest folks to see the world differently by focusing on the Big Picture, supported by the 3 core tenets and 12 design principles of permaculture. Their quest for a healthy and balanced way to meet our needs is supported by research by The Land Institute.