Inner Revolutionary Radio

African American women are often seen as oppressed, but they are much more! Their fight has been central to the fight of all women and the fight of us all. Meet Premilla Nadasen, author of Welfare Warriors and Domestic Workers Unite! Premilla is helping us rethink the role of Black women in our history. But she also helps us see that Black women cracked open the issue of the value of housework, which impacts every one of us. We all have to deal with housework. Either we provide unpaid labor in the home, we expect someone else to do it or we have to pay someone else, so that we can go out and make money ourselves. What is the value of housework? How does it relate to the labor movement? Who is going to take care of the house, the kids and us? How can we work inside and outside the home at the same time? How does welfare relate to housework, and how have black kids been hurt through the racialization of welfare. Women, housework, race and class: This topic will blow your mind. Join us!

The Potluck Revolution is a call for us to go back to our American roots of cooperation and mutual support. For decades we have been told that competition is the normal way to live. Not so. We also have a history and desire for cooperation. We’ve had barn raising, where folks got together to help one another, and potlucks, where everyone contributes what they have, and we all get fed. These models are cooperative and as American as apple pie. Bernie Sanders says that we need a political revolution, where millions of people take back our power from special interests, and we agree. But we also need an economic, social and spiritual revolution, all based on cooperation and caring. Tune into this show to find out about the Potluck Revolution, how to build it and what you can bring to the table. Call in live, if you can. And contact Beth to invite her to come into your world to speak via videoconference. The potluck is a model of how we can and want to be. Let’s spread it! Bon appetite!

St. Valentine and Madam Mazurka are battling to be the guest on this show. By legend, Valentine is a third century priest who defied the Romans and married couples, even though the empire wanted young men to stay unmarried so they would be more likely to be better killing machines. St. Valentine says his voice should be heard to counteract all the romantic and commercial nonsense about the day. He also claims priority because the day was named after him. Madam Mazurka is a hilarious dead Transylvanian psychic who knows all about love and who thinks she has more to say than a churchman. She says her experience and willingness to tell the truth will blow the lid off Valentine’s Day. Tune into our show to find out who nabs the guest spot. Whoever wins, this show will be a hilarious but searing conversation about love, relationships, fantasy and reality. It will also answer your Valentine’s Day gift prayer. Keep your money in your pocket and treat your Valentine to a great radio show!

For many Americans Super Bowl Sunday is an all-consuming spectacle, where money and mania coincide. Anxious fans overeat more than at any time except Thanksgiving and last week tickets start at $3100, with fans also vying for over-priced airfares. But that’s nothing compared to the price paid by football players themselves. Recent studies show 96% of NFL and 79% of college and high school players tested showed CTE, a serious brain disease. Former Super Bowl greats are bursting the bubble too. Tony Dorsett can’t remember where to pick up his kids and 36-year-old Antwone Randall El regrets ever playing. Are there healthy alternatives to football, starting with our kids? You bet. On this show, you’ll learn about Super Supportive Sundays, a family program emphasizing Fitness, Cooperation, Service and Thought. Kids love it! And you’ll hear excerpts from our 10/8 interview of Steve Almond, author of Against Football, a searing indictment of the game Steve loves. Tune in for a game changer!

In a world where 62 individuals own as much as half the world’s population, where 1% of people own MORE than the other 99% combined, where for decades DuPont knowingly poisoned us by using a toxic, cancer-causing chemical, where since the 1990s Big Oil has been denying climate change while secretly preparing for it, where workers are told that a $15/hour minimum wage is too much, where real wages are going down and money controls much of the media and the political system, don’t you think it’s time to ask if capitalism is working for US? We’ve been told that capitalism and democracy are the same. Are they? Dr. Richard Wolff, former Economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, has long had the guts to question the system. He says there is a better way – a form of socialism that is more democratic. What is it? Could it work? How does it relate to the Inner Revolution? Tune in. Big business and billionaires may control the government and the economy. But they can’t control us!

Human trafficking – including sex slavery – is happening all over the globe. Approximately 21 million people are victims of human trafficking worldwide, including hundreds of thousands of at-risk kids here. But guest Kendis Paris has discovered a secret weapon against it, and she’s unleashed a campaign that’s literally on a roll. It’s called Truckers Against Trafficking and it’s a program she co-founded to train truckers to recognize and report suspected sex trafficking activities. Believe it or not, lots of trafficking happens at truck stops on our major highways, and truckers are the invisible eyes and ears who can be mobilized to spot signs of this ugly business and help take it down. Meet Kendis Paris, a woman who is helping create a movement. Not even a trucker herself, hear how she got into this. Learn about the growth of the campaign. And let’s discover how we can help too! Human trafficking has no place in our world. Here’s how truckers are helping stop it.

The Rabid Right is NOT simply people expressing their opinions. It is people who are insulting, venomous and sometimes even threatening. They have been encouraged by candidates like Donald Trump who don’t care about facts or decency. So how do we respond to the anger, lies and downright meanness of the Rabid Right? Today’s show is a debate between the two sides of host Beth Green. In one corner is Beth, a woman trying to hang onto her humanity as she is being attacked, still trying to reach out compassionately to her attackers in the spirit of Oneness. In the other corner is Madam Mazurka, Beth’s alter ego, who is a hilarious Transylvanian psychic who’s been dead too long to care and is ready to duke it out with opponents. What IS the right approach for our times? Compassion or retort? You be the judge. If you feel upset by our nation’s current discourse and want a chance to think through how we should respond, tune in, and call in to ask questions or cast your vote.

Uh oh! Not another depressing story about how we need to change our lifestyle in order to change the world! Are we supposed to stop wearing clothes now? Well, not exactly. But cheap clothes come from cheap labor, and cheap labor is about misery and even death. And we could insist that clothing be made by people who have rights, safety and decent wages; that it be made to last rather than be quickly tossed into our dumps; and that it be made with minimum pollution. In this show, we’re interviewing Andrew Morgan, the Director of “The True Cost,” a powerful film about the fashion industry from top to bottom. And it is an eye opener. There are horror stories, like the collapse of a factory in Bangladesh, where 1,127 workers died because they were forced to go back into a dangerous building despite their complaints. And there’s hopeful stories about people who are trying to change all that. Andrew will inform our minds and touch our hearts. We can help! Andrew Morgan will show us how.

Well, if you’ve never met the hilarious Madam Mazurka, you’re in for a great treat. She comes out on special occasions when host Beth Green puts on a long scarf and turns into a dead Transylvanian psychic who tells it like it is and has enough insight to make us ALL feel uncomfortable. This year for our New Year’s show, we’re throwing a party featuring Madam Mazurka being interviewed by our fabulous alternate host Christine Benton. Madam M. will be joining us to offer her commentary on the year past and the year to come. She’ll be taking calls too. So join us for a wonderful time where we will be combining insight, humor and some New Year’s predictions. And call in, if you can. You never know when Madam Mazurka will rise again from the dead to delight, entertain and enlighten us, so don’t miss this rare opportunity to be with her and ask her questions. And Happy 2016 from Beth, James, Madam Mazurka, Christine and the Inner Revolutionary gang!

It feels kind of crazy, doesn’t it? The holidays are all about peace and good will, and we have presidential candidates threatening to carpet bomb ISIS in areas full of innocent civilians. Some of us are feeling really sick about it. But what are the solutions? On November 5, we interviewed Ani Zonneveld, founder of Muslims for Progressive Values. Ani talked about what she sees as the real Islam, in contrast to the distorted form of the religion practiced by some. Ani is deeply knowledgeable, and it was an education. But we would like to know more about what’s happening in the Muslim world to combat ISIS and we want to know more about how ISIS is attacking the Muslim world itself. Let’s get the view of a woman who is in touch with world events and the topics so much on people’s minds. And let’s see if she can’t help us sort out what’s happening in this troubled part of our globe. We’ve heard enough rhetoric. How about some information? Join us! And call in your questions.

Does this feel like the best of times to you? Probably not. Well, host Beth Green feels like they are, because we have an unprecedented opportunity for humanity to really transform, if we choose. Is she nuts? Tune in to find out. And if you happened to catch the show about a month ago, you heard Christine Benton interview Beth about her presidential bid under the flag of the Oneness Party. Beth discussed some of the issues wracking our world – particularly terrorism, Islam and intolerance, which were on all our minds following the Paris attacks. Many listeners want more. So this time around, you can call in and ask for Beth’s perspectives on the many other issues facing us today. Beth’s views are always insightful, balanced and usually unexpected. And somehow she manages to turn the grimmest realities into an opportunity for us to laugh at ourselves. Christine will interview Beth again, but call in too! Is this the best of all times or the worst? Tune in, call and judge for yourself.

We all have weather and we all eat food. In fact we do it several times a day. So here’s a topic for us all. With the UN conference on climate change, climate is in the news and so is a new focus on food and the environment: what we eat, as well as how we grow and distribute it. On December 3, we interviewed Keegan Kuhn, co-director of Cowspiracy, who gave us more information than some of us wanted about the impact of animal agriculture on the environment. But don’t despair, this week, we’re interviewing Laura Stec, co-author of Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming. Laura has been talking about food and the environment for a long time, but she is not just giving us gloom and doom. She’s offering lots of ways that we can change our diet, get healthier, eat better and help our planet. Laura is an expert. She’s a chef, a health consultant and a pioneer. So, if you want to make a painless switch to a diet that is better for us and our world, tune in! And Healthy Holidays!

The UN climate talks in Paris are happening now and almost everyone is thinking about fossil fuels. But what if a different kind of fuel is taking a huge toll on our environment, and we could change that by changing our diets? It’s true. Some of the foods fueling our bodies are devastating our water supplies, bringing other species to extinction, destroying our rainforests and creating major amounts of greenhouse gases, and most of us don’t want to know about it. In their ground-breaking documentary, Cowspiracy, Keegan Kuhn and Kip Anderson are shaking us up about the impact of animal agriculture on our planet, and it’s making lots of us feel really uncomfortable. Meet Keegan, co-director of the film. Hear the shocking facts about animal agriculture and learn the story of this film, which has gotten the backing of Leonard DiCaprio. Should we all phase out meat? Judge for yourself. In the meantime, check out our video, Cowspiracy Conspiracy, on Inner Revolutionary TV, VoiceAmerica.TV.

Elections are supposed to be a time when we come together to discuss our collective future. But is that what’s happening now? In the US, we’re going through the presidential primaries and seeing a lot of bickering, unsubstantiated claims, empty promises and grandstanding. Some of us feel really passionate about a candidate. Some of us don’t like any of them. But nobody can say that there’s much real discussion going on. And many of us feel uncomfortable even with our “own” candidates, because we don’t see substantial debate or we distrust their forthrightness or wonder if they’re just jockeying for votes. Imagine the Oneness Party has just nominated host Beth Green for president, with Beth running on a platform of Universal Human Values. Christine Benton returns to our show to ask Beth about her presidential campaign. Expect Beth’s special humor and integrity in a discussion of the challenges of our times. And tune in for some fresh perspectives, which may help you sort out your own.

We know that most of the cocaine that hits the streets of America comes from Colombia, and nothing has stopped the drug trade, because nothing has yet stopped us from using. But now let’s look at the drug trade from the other side. What impact has the trade, the War on Drugs and a decades-old civil war had on Colombia? On Central America and Mexico? How is the impact showing up at our borders? And what signs of Inner Revolution shine through? Anastasia Moloney, a British-born correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, has been covering the violence, the human rights violations and the astounding inspirational stories of some amazing Colombians from her base in Bogota. She’ll share stories of forgiveness and healing; resilience and courage; men confronting machismo; and women creating an Inner Revolution in the face of a culture of violence that has lasted for decades. Meet this inspiring journalist, who tells her own story and theirs. And see how their stories relate to us.

Malaysian-born Muslim Ani Zonneveld was radicalized by September 11, but she wasn’t radicalized in the way we traditionally think. She was appalled by how her religion was represented by extremists, and she decided to do something about it. Having tried to work with other groups, she finally founded Muslims for Progressive Values in 2007, and amazingly her work has spread throughout the US and internationally. Though she doesn’t use these terms, her organization is calling for what amounts to an Inner Revolution in Islam, advocating for equality, women’s and LGBT rights, freedom of expression, and freedom of and from religion or belief. Who is Ani? How did she come to step so far outside tradition? Why does she see her Islam as the true Islam? How have others reacted to her message? How did her organization grow internationally? Learn about an Islam based on Oneness, Accountability and Mutual Support. Tune into this amazing show. Ani’s voice deserves to be heard and spread.

Some months ago, host Beth Green interviewed the world-renowned lecturer, Dr. Larry Dossey. It was an amazing experience to hear these two talk about Oneness as a spiritual and scientific phenomenon. Dossey was so impressed with the interview, he sent Beth a spontaneous testimonial the next day. Here’s a snippet from what he said: “Do yourself a favor: Tune in. Pay attention. Follow Beth. Your life will be richer as a result.” We’ve been asked to encore the show, so here it is. Dr. Larry Dossey is a pioneer in integrative healthcare, a physician, executive editor of Explore: Journal of Science & Healing, former co-chairman of the Panel on Mind-Body Interventions at the National Institute of Health, world lecturer and author of ONE MIND. As a human being and a scientist, Larry says he knows that we’re not separate, but rather part of something bigger. Connecting to that One Mind is vital to our world and our personal health and well-being. Find out why. Tune in for a great experience!

If you think the world is too violent, competitive and polarized, if you think there’s too much greed and self-centeredness, join us for an exciting discussion about what we can do about it. Let’s shape a better future by creating programs to teach our kids alternative values. To do this, TheInnerRevolution.Org has launched a campaign called Unleashing the Power of Kids: Mobilizing Them Through Fitness, Cooperation, Service & Thought. This Campaign aims to encourage individuals and communities to offer fun and stimulating alternatives to violent sports and over-competition, while also supporting kids to experience the power of contributing to our world and exercising critical thought. Our guest, campaign lead Helen Hillix, MFT, will share about the campaign, as well as describe Super Supportive Sundays, a program already inspired by it. If you care about kids and the future, tune in! And watch Beth’s exciting video, Unleashing Kid’s Power, on Inner Revolutionary TV, VoiceAmerica.TV.

Remember the good old days, when family doctors really knew you, paid house calls and had time to talk? Would you be willing to pay a reasonable monthly fee for that? What if the fee also covered basic services and same day appointments? This model exists. Direct Primary Care (DPC) is the latest model of family medicine and doctors around the country are experimenting with it. Because they are freed from billing insurance, they have more time for you. How does it work? How do specialists and insurance fit in? Are they all equal in their care for you? We’ve invited some practitioners to talk about their version of DPC. But they add another revolutionary component. They are also Naturopathic doctors, incorporating nature’s wisdom, alternative modalities, modern medicine and old-fashioned doctoring. Find out more from Drs. Duncan and Myers, two of the three doctors whose Southern Oregon practice, Siskiyou Vital Medicine, is the only Naturopathic Direct Care clinic in the country!

Whether you love, hate or are neutral about football, listen to this show. The game affects us all. Parents, fans, advertisers, owners, tax payers, kids, every one of us is touched by football – a multi-billion dollar industry based on ego, greed, disregard for the welfare of players and our society’s taste for violence. Recent studies of the brains of dead NFL, college and high school players show 96% of NFL players and 79% of all players exhibit CTE, a progressive degenerative disease of the brain. And not just from concussions, but from sub-concussions that happen frequently in practice and play. Steve Almond is a man standing up to the NFL and to us. Author of Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto, Steve is a 40-year fan who is telling the story and turning off football because of the culture of violence, racism, greed and misogyny that football feeds and lives off. Steve gives us the facts. But we have the power to act. Tackle Football. Turn It Off! And pass the word.