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WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio ArchivesWERU Special 5/13/25 Americans Who Tell The Truth – Rivera SunOn Sunday, May 4, at the Bay School in Blue Hill, ME, artist Robert Shetterly unveiled his most recent portrait: Rivera Sun. This is the 276th addition to the Americans Who Tell The Truth project, whose subjects include Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez, and others. At this celebratory unveiling, artist Rob Shetterly, previous portrait subject Sherri Mitchell – Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset and Rivera Sun all offered remarks. Recorded and produced by Matt Murphy. You can also watch a video of the event here.
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2025-05-1328 minWERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio ArchivesAmericans Who Tell the Truth: Rivera Sun 5.4.25On Sunday, May 4, at the Bay School in Blue Hill, ME, artist Robert Shetterly unveiled his most recent portrait: Rivera Sun. This is the 276th addition to the Americans Who Tell The Truth project, whose subjects include Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez, and others. At this celebratory unveiling, artist Rob Shetterly, previous portrait subject Sherri Mitchell – Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset and Rivera Sun all offered remarks. Recorded by Matt Murphy. You can also watch a video of the event here.
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Soul Soil: Where Agriculture and Spirit Intersect with Brooke Kornegay024, Sherri Mitchell: Adapt, Overcome, and Integrate Through LoveThe Coronavirus pandemic is catalyzing many things…and forcing us to take a good look at the systems we depend on. During this period of isolation, we have the opportunity to disconnect from large systems that do harm, and redesign our lives with the help of systems aligned with life and love. Do our communities have enough resources to support everyone to live their lives with dignity and allow for the spirit that lives within them to emerge and benefit the rest of the community? This situation can be viewed through a lens of fear, or it can be an...
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Love (and Revolution) RadioA New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries with Author Terry PattenThis week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Terry Patten about how to work for heart-based change. Terry comments on his book, a New Republic of the Heart, and explores inner and outer transformation with us on the show.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/"Find some friends with whom you can do thing to make a difference. Find ways to work within the system, against the system, and around the system. And do it knowing that you're in solidarity with the future of life and everything that is...
2018-07-1059 minLove (and Revolution) RadioAbolish the Draft! (Or Extend It To Everyone?) Edward Hasbrouck on the US Military DraftThis week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Edward Hasbrouck, who, while traveling across Europe by bicycle, is also organizing a campaign challenging the future of the US military draft. Find out where and when the next national hearings by the commission polling the public about the military draft are going to be held. And find out how the US military is eyeing the possibility of expanding draft registration to women . . . and also thinking about a universal conscription into the military that would included everyone from medical personnel to tech support to your grandmother.Sign up fo...
2018-07-0259 minLove (and Revolution) RadioPoor People On the Move For Economic and Human Rights with Rev. Bruce WrightThis week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Rev. Bruce Wright, one of the organizers of the 26-year old Poor Peoples Economic and Human Rights Campaign about their recent 140-mile march from Philadelphia to DC, and the revival of Dr. King's Resurrection City. (This campaign is different from the Poor People's Campaign with Rev. Barber, and we'll talk about the differences on the show.)Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/"This campaign grew out of historic roots and the understanding that the best solutions for ending poverty and homelessness c...
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Love (and Revolution) RadioWe Are Mythmakers: Sharon Blackie on the Power of Myth and Story in Transforming Our WorldThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with mythologist Sharon Blackie, author of "If Women Rose Rooted" and "The Enchanted Life", about the power of myth and story in transforming ourselves and our world. Sharon speaks about her journey from a corporate office job into her deep dive into the world of nature, myth, and place. In this show, she shares insights and thought-provoking ideas about the importance of reconnecting with the rest of the Earth at this time in human history.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/"If...
2018-06-1159 minLove (and Revolution) RadioSacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom For Living Spirit-Based Change(Sorry for any confusion everyone, but we are having trouble with the system. Hopefully it is all worked out.)This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we focus on the powerful themes and subjects in Sherri Mitchell's newly released book, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. If your heart has been aching for ways to rethink this thing called life, this is the show for you! Sherri talks about Indigenous perspectives, cultural practices, and understandings that offer a different way of both looking at the world and living in it. Tune in for a lively discussion...
2018-06-0659 minLove (and Revolution) RadioWe're Back! Love (and Revolution) Radio Returns!After a year-long hiatus (during which Rivera healed from cancer and both of your favorite cohosts wrote new books), we're back with new episodes of Love (and Revolution) Radio!Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/"Our modern day myths, our hero stories, are rooted in the stories of collective struggle that have gone on all over the world." - Rivera Sun "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.orgAbout Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist...
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Love (and Revolution) RadioGus Speth: Setting the Stage for a Joyful EconomyThis week on Love (and revolution) radio, we speak with Gus Speth of the next system project about a paper he wrote called “The Joyful Economy: A Next System Possibility.”Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/You can check out Gus’ paper here:http://thenextsystem.org/the-joyful-economy/James Gustave Speth, who goes by “Gus” and speaks with a soft South Carolina drawl, is nobody’s picture of a radical. His resume is as mainstream and establishment as it gets: environmental advisor to P...
2017-05-2400 minLove (and Revolution) RadioDrone Warfare: Launching a Vicious Cycle Domestically and AbroadThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with two anti-drone activists, Jerry Monroe Maynard and Eleanor Levine, about their work to raise awareness of the hidden dangers of drones both overseas and right here in our streets and neighborhoods. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/Related Links: Shut Down Creechhttp://shutdowncreech.blogspot.com/Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control - Medea Benjaminhttps://www.amazon.com/Drone-Warfare-Killing-Remote-Control/dp/1781680779Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit...
2017-05-1659 minLove (and Revolution) RadioWar, Peace, and The Way Between: Activists, Educators, Organizers On the Role of Story in Waging PeaceThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with five amazing guests - Kathy Kelly, Tom Hastings, David Soumis, Gretchen Casey, Cindy Reinhardt - who are all working in the fields of peace and conflict resolution as we take a look at Rivera Sun's novel, The Way Between, as lens for the escalating conflicts in our real world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guests:Kathy Kelly is a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, which sent over 70 delegations...
2017-05-021h 00Love (and Revolution) RadioThe Story of Our Time w/ Author Robert AtkinsonOn this week's Love (and Revolution) Radio show, we speak with author Robert Atkinson about his new book "The Story of Our Time" and how the long arc of human history is bending from duality to interconnectedness to oneness . . . and what that means for each of us as we move through a time of great change.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Robert Atkinson, Ph.D., is an internationally acknowledged authority in helping people tell their life stories. He is a pioneer in the development of the...
2017-04-2500 minLove (and Revolution) RadioTeaching for Change: Building Social Justice Starting In the ClassroomThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Allyson Criner Brown, the Associate Director of Teaching for Change, an organization provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Allyson Criner Brown is the associate director of Teaching for Change and leads the Tellin’ Stories parent empowerment project, recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Harvard Family Research Project as a leading innovation in family en...
2017-04-0459 minLove (and Revolution) RadioHealth and Politics of Indigenous Traditional Medicines w/ Dr. Jus CreaThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Dr. Jus Crea, a member of the Penobscot tribe, ethnobotanist, and Naturopathic physician, about traditional Indigenous medicines, ways of life, and culture. She discusses history, challenges to maintaining practices, and how politics influences the ability of native peoples to maintain their cultural traditions. Dr. Jus Crea also offers reflections on why these issues matter to everyone - regardless of background - at this critical time on planet Earth. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Dr. Jus Crea...
2017-03-2859 minLove (and Revolution) RadioParticipatory Sustainability w/ Co-Intelligence Institute Founder Tom AtleeThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Co-Intelligence Institute Founder Tom Atlee about his new book, Participatory Sustainability, and the need for engaging everyone in our community and world as we look for solutions to our ecological crisis. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Tom Atlee is a social theorist, visionary, and writer. He is the founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute and the author of many books, including his newest, Participatory Sustainability.Related Links:Participatory Sustainability by Tom Atlee
2017-03-2159 minLove (and Revolution) RadioHealth Over Profit for Everyone with Dr. Margaret FlowersThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Dr. Margaret Flowers about the new HOPE Campaign - Health Over Profit For Everyone - to make a national improved Medicare for All healthcare system the best and only and most sane choice for ending the healthcare crisis. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Dr. Margaret Flowers M.D. is a pediatrician and mother from Baltimore, MD. Margaret left medical practice in 2007 to advocate full-time for single payer health care. She served as Congressional Fellow for Physicians for...
2017-03-1559 minLove (and Revolution) RadioDirect Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism w/ Author L.A. KauffmanThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, our guest L.A. Kauffman discusses her new book, Direct Action, which covers thirty years of creative nonviolent action and protest movement history . . . and the lessons that apply to the contemporary movement of movements. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:L.A. Kauffman has spent more than thirty years immersed in radical movements as a participant, strategist, journalist, and observer. She has been called a "virtuoso organizer" by journalist Scott Sherman for her role in saving community gardens and public...
2017-03-0700 minLove (and Revolution) RadioBringing Standing Rock Home: Dena Eakles On The Changing FrontlineThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Dena Eakles of Echo Valley Hope about her recent time at Standing Rock, what's coming next for the movement, and how to bring prayerful, peaceful activism home to your heart and your community.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Dena Eakles is the founder of Echo Valley Hope and lives at Echo Valley Farm in Wisconsin. She has traveled several times to Standing Rock, participating and supporting the peaceful, prayerful actions to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
2017-02-2800 minLove (and Revolution) RadioResponding to the Now; Preparing for the Long HaulThe week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we take a moment in the midst of the whirlwind to review and reflect, discussing how to stay grounded, continue engaging, and organize for the long haul in deep and powerful ways.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/Related Links:Healing the Wounds of Turtle Island July 14-16https://www.facebook.com/events/139392306480617/Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.orgAbout Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous...
2017-02-2159 minLove (and Revolution) RadioWomen and Nonviolent Movements w/ Researcher Marie A. PrincipeThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Marie Principe about her new research on Women and Nonviolent Movements. We explore traditional and non-traditional gender roles, the dynamics of nonviolent struggle, and what it all means for our own movements at this time. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Marie A. Principe is the Program Associate for the Women in Public Service Project and Global Women's Leadership Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Having traveled extensively in Asia, Africa and Europe, Marie most recently worked...
2017-02-1459 minLove (and Revolution) RadioBorn On Third Base: A One Percenter Makes The Case For Equality w/ Chuck CollinsThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Chuck Collins of Inequality.org and the Institute for Policy Studies about his new book, "Born On Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home and Committing to the Common Good."Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Chuck Collins was born on third base - an inheritor of his great-grandfather's meat-packing fortune - but chose to give it up at the age of 26 and dedicate his life to ending inequality...
2017-02-0759 minLove (and Revolution) Radio#Ungovernable: Build and Fight w/ Kali AkunoThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Kali Acuno of Cooperation Jackson about a new collaborative endeavor called Ungovernable which builds resilient communities and organized resistance to the policies of hate, discrimination, and destruction.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Kali AKuno lives in Jackson, MI, and is the codirector of Cooperation Jackson, as well as being one of the co-instigators of #Ungovernable.Related Links:#Ungovernablehttps://www.ungovernable2017.com/Here's How We Prepare To...
2017-01-3159 minLove (and Revolution) RadioWar On Earth: Militarism and Environment w/ Tom HastingsThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Peace and Conflict Studies Professor Tom Hastings about the interconnections between militarism and destruction of the environment. We also cover the converse subject: the connection between protecting our beloved Earth and working for peace. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Tom Hastings is the Director of PeaceVoice, a professor of peace and conflict studies at Portland State University, and the author of several books including "A New Era of Nonviolence". Related Links: PeaceVoice
2017-01-1759 minLove (and Revolution) RadioThe Truth Telling Project: A Truth Initiative for Ferguson and Beyond w/ Dr. David RaglandOn this week's episode of Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Dr. David Ragland, codirector of the Truth Telling Project for Ferguson and Beyond, about the role of truth telling in ending racism, police brutality, and systemic injustice and oppression.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Dr. David Ragland is the codirector of the Truth Telling Project. He is also on the board of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Peace and Justice Studies Association. Related Links:The Truth Telling Project
2017-01-1059 minLove (and Revolution) RadioStanding Rock: Sherri Mitchell's Journey and More!This week of Love (and Revolution) Radio, we cover Sherri Mitchell's recent trip to Standing Rock with a caravan of supplies and Water Protectors. She arrived just in time for the Army Corp of Engineers' denial of easement, the arrival of thousands of veterans and allies, and also a four day blizzard! Tune in for reflections, practical strategic advice for nonviolent action, and our solstice reflections as heart-based activists in a time of great change.Correction: In the show, Rivera mentions that 5.2 trillion dollars worldwide have been or have been promised to be shifted about of fossil fuels...
2016-12-2059 minLove (and Revolution) RadioThe Revolution Where You Live - The 12,000 Mile Odyssey of Sarah Van GelderThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Sarah Van Gelder, co-founder and Editor-At-Large for Yes! Magazine, speaks about the inspiring stories of change she found on a 12,000 miles odyssey across the United States searching for and writing about The Revolution Where You Live. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Sarah is co-founder and editor at large of YES! Magazine. Sarah writes articles and conducts interviews for YES! Magazine, and speaks regularly about solutions journalism, grassroots innovations, and social change movements. She is the editor of several...
2016-12-1300 minLove (and Revolution) RadioThe Growing Sharing Movement & Everything Shareable Under the SunThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Tom Llewellyn of Shareable about the creative, cost-effective, and community building ways that people just like us are sharing everything from housing to ideas to workspaces to tools, appliances, and children's toys. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Tom Llewellyn is the Strategic Partnerships Director at Shareable.net. He is a lifetime sharer and commoner located in Canyon, CA outside San Francisco.Related Links:Shareable.nethttp://www.shareable.net/...
2016-12-0659 minLove (and Revolution) RadioCenter the Heart for Taking Action: Review and Reflection ShowThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we take a moment to review and reflect on the tumultuous events of the past weeks, digging deeper into both the problems we face and the heart of change. We cover the elections, hate crimes, movement building, and how to center the heart for positive action as we move forward to address these times. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/Related Links:Countering Hate and Discrimination: Inspiring (and Replicable) Storieshttp://www.riverasun.com/countering-hate-and-discrimination/Rivera's New Book...
2016-11-2959 minLove (and Revolution) RadioThe Mourning Road to Thanksgiving and Finding a Path ForwardThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Larry Spotted Crow Mann about his book, The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving, and dive into the history, truths, myths, and complex story of Thanksgiving so that we can all step up to the plate of acknowledging our history and committing to change in the present.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Larry Spotted Crow Mann is citizen of the Historical Nipmuc Tribe of Massachusetts. He is a internationally acclaimed writer, poet, cultural educator, Traditional Story Teller...
2016-11-2259 minLove (and Revolution) RadioBlock, Build, Be: Buddhist Peace Fellowship On Spiritual ActivismThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Buddhist Peace Fellowship co-director Dawn Haney about spiritual activism, interconnectedness, suffering, impermanence, non-attachment, and how to move off of our cushions and into action at a time when deep compassion and powerful change are needed more than ever before. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Dawn Haney is the co-director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, which was founded in 1978 to serve as a catalyst for socially engaged Buddhism. Their purpose is to help beings liberate themselves...
2016-11-1500 minLove (and Revolution) RadioPeace Zones For Life: How Detroit is Building Community, Stopping ViolenceThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Sandra Hines with the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality and the Peace Zones for Life project about the long-term work to reduce violence and work for justice in the city of Detroit.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Sandra Hines is a resident of Detroit, MI, and a life-long organizer who has worked on numerous issues including police brutality, preventing the privatization of the schools, economic justice, and ending violence. She is the president of Peace...
2016-11-0859 minLove (and Revolution) RadioBan the Bomb vs. Dr. Strangelove Warhawks: How a UN Treaty Aims for a Nuke-Free WorldThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Greg Mello from the Los Alamos Study Group speaks about the historic UN treaty that could ban the manufacturing, possession, and use of nuclear weapons. He shares sobering insights into the Dr. Strangelove mentalities of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, Kirtland Air Force Base nuke soldiers, and the nuclear warhawks on Capitol Hill. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Greg Mello is the director of the Los Alamos Study Group which has been providing leadership in nuclear disarmament since 1989.
2016-11-0100 minLove (and Revolution) RadioBorder Convergence: Challenging the School of Americas State-Sanctioned ViolenceThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we feature the recent experiences of three activists, Jerry Monroe Maynard, Josie Lenwell, and Chris Nelson, who joined the School of Americas Watch Border Convergence in Arizona earlier this month to decry the state-sponsored violence that is causing displacement and heightening the already heated tensions over immigration issues. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guests:Jerry Monroe Maynard is a young, Catholic, Mexican American activist and an organizer with Campaign Nonviolence. Josie Lenwell is a long-time peace activist since...
2016-10-2559 minLove (and Revolution) RadioNational Renters' Day of Action & the Struggle to Assure Housing As a Human RightThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with four guests who are each organizing for renters' justice, stopping gentrification, forming cooperatives and affordable housing, and decommodifying buildings while asserting that housing is a human right. Join us as we speak with Andrea Chiriboga-Flor, Mike Dennis, Antonio Gutierrez, and Kali Acuno about the Homes For All campaign and the National Renters' Day of Action that took place in 55 cities throughout the United States.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guests: Andrea Chiriboga-Flor is from Denver, CO...
2016-10-1859 minLove (and Revolution) RadioFlush the TPP! Stop the Global Corporate Coup - with Margaret FlowersThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview activist Margaret Flowers from the Flush the TPP campaign about the #NoLameDuckUprising next month to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. From secret negotiations to rigged trade courts to stripping away indigenous rights (as well as yours), this discussion about a nefarious trade deal is bound to shock you into action.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Dr. Margaret Flowers, MD, is the cofounder of Popular Resistance.org, one of the organizers of the Flush The TPP campaign...
2016-10-1101 minLove (and Revolution) RadioWomen and Democracy: Beyond the Presidential ElectionsThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're weighing in on the subject you've been waiting for: the presidential elections. We explore the dynamics surrounding female presidential candidates, and then dive into a broader concept of women and democracy. We boldly go into the discussion of how real democracy, feminine principles and nonviolent people-power go hand-in-hand for re-balancing everything in our world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/Related Links:Why Civil Resistance Works by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephanhttps://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820
2016-10-0400 minLove (and Revolution) RadioCampaign Nonviolence: A Movement for a Culture of Active NonviolenceThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Ken Butigan, executive director of Pace e Bene, who shares exciting news about 758+ nonviolent actions and events that happened all 50 states and 18 countries during the Campaign Nonviolence Week of Actions to build a culture of peace and active nonviolence. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Ken Butigan is the Executive Director of Pace e Bene, the organization that runs Campaign Nonviolence. He is a professor in the Peace and Justice Studies Department of DePaul University in Chicago...
2016-09-2759 minLove (and Revolution) RadioBecause of Occupy: Stories of Action and ChangeThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're hosting an Occupy Anniversary Special, bringing on guests Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight, Jerry Ashton of Rolling Jubilee and RIP Medical Debt, and Sue Sierralupe of Occupy Medical to discuss what has happened "because of Occupy". Joining us for the conversation is Occupy Radio cohost David Geitgey Sierralupe. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guests: Comedian and commentator Lee Camp is the host of Redacted Tonight, which airs weekly on RT America. His stand-up comedy has been featured on Comedy...
2016-09-2000 minLove (and Revolution) RadioActive Peace: A Mindful Path to a Nonviolent World w/ Author Scott BrownThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with author Scott Brown about his new book, Active Peace: a Mindful Path to a Nonviolent World, and how we can apply the principles of restorative justice to activism and nonviolent social change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Scott Brown is the founder of Active Peace, and the author of a book by the same title. He is currently on a 50-city book tour, and was also the cofounder of the Colorado Center for Restorative...
2016-09-1359 minLove (and Revolution) RadioWater Protectors, Pipelines, and Strategy: Reflecting on Change with Love (and Revolution)This week's Review and Reflection Show on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we take a look at the indigenous and allied resistance to the North Dakota Access Pipeline, explore why the metaphor of war doesn't work for making nonviolent change, and reflect on the meaning of being human in a rapidly changing world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/Every so often, Sherri and Rivera take an episode to explore with the listeners some of the deeper reflections from previous shows and current events. These Review and Reflection Shows offer depth and...
2016-09-0659 minLove (and Revolution) RadioTiny Marshall Islands Takes on Goliath Superpowers to Stop Nuclear ProliferationThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Rick Wayman of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation about the David versus Goliath story of how the tiny Marshall Islands (population 70,000) have filed lawsuits against the nine nuclear-armed nations to force them to start negotiations for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Rick Wayman, Director of Programs at Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, is working closely with the international legal team and representatives from the Marshall Islands to coordinate a collaborative effort of...
2016-08-3000 minLove (and Revolution) RadioNeighborhood Peace Teams: Building Skills to De-escalate ViolenceThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Michigan-Meta Peace Team trainer Kim Redigan about the remarkable work being done by peace teams both internationally and domestically, and how we might be able to use peace team training in our neighborhoods to reduce violence and create safe conditions under which conflicts and grievances can be aired, addressed, and hopefully resolved.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Kim Redigan is a nonviolence trainer for Michigan-Meta Peace Teams. She has served on both international and domestic...
2016-08-231h 00Love (and Revolution) RadioSaber-rattling or Peace Delegations? Relations With Russia w/ Elizabeth MurrayThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy Intelligence Officer for the Near East, about her decision to leave the CIA and work for peace - including embarking on a recent peace delegation to Russia to find out just what all this saber-rattling is really about.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Elizabeth Murray was the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the US' National Intelligence Council before retiring after twenty-seven years of service. She is now a...
2016-08-1659 minLove (and Revolution) RadioWalk In Beauty: Voices From Echo Valley HopeThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with a group of women and participants in the Echo Valley Hope "Walk In Beauty" retreat, sharing messages of courage, hope, and inspiration. Our guests this week come from a diversity of backgrounds, speak several different languages, span the generations, and each offers a unique reflection from their heart to yours. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/Special thanks to our many guests: Dena, Lauren, Holly, Jan, Ryan, Kinley, Azeeza, Catalina, Miriam, Margaret, Liz, the crickets, cicadas, and kids. And thank you...
2016-08-0959 minLove (and Revolution) RadioTruth and Reconciliation: Addressing the UnspeakableThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Arla Patch about the groundbreaking work of the Maine Wabanaki-State Truth and Reconciliation Commission that sought to speak truth about the legacy of genocide, trauma, racism, and abuse both historically and in the context of the mistreatment of Wabanaki children in the state of Maine foster care system. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Arla Patch is an artist and educator who uses art as a tool for healing. She began working as a volunteer for the...
2016-08-0259 minLove (and Revolution) RadioBuilding a Local Peace Economy with Judy WicksThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Judy Wicks about the idea of a peace economy, how the war economy maintains injustice, and how we can start to take action to change it. "People who live in highly self-sufficient local communities are less likely to get involved in large-scale violence than people whose existence depends on world-wide systems of trade." - E.F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Judy Wicks is a sustainable and ethical...
2016-07-2600 minLove (and Revolution) RadioPolicing Isn't Working: Kazu Haga of East Point Peace AcademyThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Kazu Haga of the East Point Peace Academy about his work inside - and outside - California's prisons, and how his insights into restorative justice and Kingian Nonviolence can help turn our understanding of police brutality into constructive action for accountability, transformation, and deep, systemic change.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Kazu Haga is a Kingian Nonviolence trainer based in Oakland, California. Born in Japan, he has been involved in many social change movements since he...
2016-07-1900 minLove (and Revolution) RadioBeyond Fireworks: How Nonviolent Action Shaped American IndependenceNow that the Fourth of July fireworks are over and the smoke of nationalism has cleared slightly, it's time to pick up the trash on the beaches and look at truth instead of flag-waving. This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we offer a special program. According to historian and researcher Walter Conser (not to mention President John Adams) the Revolutionary War was not what won our independence from Great Britain . . . and the answer to what did may surprise you to the point of rethinking everything you've been told about the founding of the United States of America....
2016-07-1359 minLove (and Revolution) RadioViking Economics: George Lakey On How Nordic Nations Used Nonviolent Action to Oust the 1%This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, George Lakey, nonviolent movement strategist, organizer, teacher, and author, joins us to speak about his new book, Viking Economics, about how Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland used nonviolent action to gain long-lasting economic justice . . . and how we can follow in their footsteps here in the United States. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:George Lakey is a long time activist, strategist and trainer for nonviolent movements, the cofounder of Training for Change and Earth Quaker Action Team, and the author...
2016-07-051h 00Love (and Revolution) RadioGot Strategy? Tips for Making Effective Nonviolent Change w/ Rivera Sun and Sherri MitchellThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're taking a moment for reflection and exploration, covering strategy for nonviolent movements, and a few key dynamics, practices and understandings you can use in your work to make change. Powerful tools and startling insights! Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun teach strategy for nonviolent movements across the country . . . and in this week's episode, we're bringing this knowledge to your ears!Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/Related Links:Contact us about nonviolent action workshops! (We love to teach them!)Sherri Mitchell...
2016-06-2759 minLove (and Revolution) RadioFellowship of Reconciliation Centennial: 100 Years Of Nonviolence, Action, Peace, and JusticeThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with four guests who each offer a unique lens into the upcoming, historic Fellowship of Reconciliation Centennial Conference at Seabeck, WA, exploring the past, present, and future of the largest, oldest interfaith peace organization in the United States, and how one hundred years of working for peace, justice, and nonviolence affects us all in our contemporary lives. As Fellowship of Reconciliation celebrates its centennial year, we can almost trace the arc of social justice through their history, for indeed, FOR has been entwined in nearly every struggle for peace...
2016-06-0759 minLove (and Revolution) RadioLittle Free Libraries Movement: Literacy, Sharing, CommunityThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Margret Aldrich, the author of The Little Free Library Book, about the quiet revolution of community, sharing, and literacy that's popping up in more than 40,000 front yards, street corners, and coffee shops around the world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Margret Aldrich is the author of The Little Free Library Book, and a writer and editor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Nonviolence Minute:Our Nonviolence Minute on AJ Muste was sent to us this...
2016-05-3159 min
Love (and Revolution) RadioDecolonizing Your Life While Working for Change w/ Idle No More Washington's Sweetwater NannauckThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Sweetwater Nannauck, the director of Idle No More Washington, about culture, spirituality, social change, and how to decolonize our lives as we work to protect both people and planet.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Sweetwater Nannauck is the director of Idle No More Washington, a workshop leader and presenter, a spiritual activist, and is very active in advocating for the protection of the fragile environment of the Northwest Coast, for tribal sovereignty rights, and the traditional...
2016-05-2559 minLove (and Revolution) RadioTeach, Inspire, Be Real: Talking Art, Music, and Change with Folkgoddess Diane PattersonDiane Patterson, singer/songwriter, and creator of our theme song, joins Love (and Revolution) Radio to speak about art, music, life, loving, and making social change through heart, spirit, and human connection. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Folkgoddess Diane Patterson sings the world awake with strong voice, rocking guitar, sweet ukulele, and revolutionary lyrics. Her sincere spirit and wild heart joyfully plant seeds of love and light in every listener. Diane has been performing at festivals and venues since 1991, and for the past 20 years has been...
2016-05-1759 minLove (and Revolution) RadioPutting Gandhi Into Practice, Right Where You Are - with Kit MillerThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Kit Miller from the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Rochester, NY, discusses how to ground huge philosophies of nonviolence, permaculture, and systems change, into tangible, hands-on action in local neighborhoods for powerful, transformative change.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Kit Miller is the Director of the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Rochester, NY. She is a mother and step-mother, and works on applications of nonviolence to projects related to racism, restorative justice, and sustainability. Related Links:...
2016-05-1200 minLove (and Revolution) RadioEnding Just War Theory in the Heart of the VaticanThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Ken Butigan shares the exciting news about the Nonviolence and Just Peace conference at the Vatican . . . and what throwing out 1700 years of just war theory might mean for the Catholic Church, and the world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Ken Butigan is the Executive Director of Pace e Bene and Campaign Nonviolence. He is a peace and conflict studies professor at DePaul University in Chicago. Ken was part of the planning committee for the "Nonviolence and Just Peace Conference...
2016-05-0400 minLove (and Revolution) RadioModern Science Meets Ancient Wisdom For Making ChangeThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Stephan Schwartz, editor of the daily Schwartz Report and author of the book, The Eight Laws of Change, explains how modern science and ancient wisdom are coming full circle . . . and why that's great news for everyone working for social change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Stephan Schwartz is the author of Eight Laws of Change, the editor of the daily Schwartz Report, columnist for the journal Explore, and has spent over forty years exploring extraordinary human functioning, and how...
2016-04-2600 minLove (and Revolution) RadioFortune's Fools: A Pair of One Percenters Who Gave It All AwayThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview two men who had millions of dollars . . . and chose to give it all away. Chuck Collins and Dariel Garner share their stories of finding the true meaning of wealth, and how they've dedicated their lives to creating more just, equitable, and sustainable economies, wealth, and incomes. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guests:Chuck Collins is great-grandson of 19th-century meatpacking mogul Oscar F. Mayer. He is now the senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, and cofounder of...
2016-04-1200 minLove (and Revolution) RadioEmergence and Global Transformation In Movements for ChangeThis week of Love (and Revolution) Radio, Rhonda Fabian, the digital editor of Kosmos Journal and coauthor of the Connecting for Change study, joins us to discuss the movement of movements, self-organizing, emergence, and the personal practices that guide us through these times of great change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Rhonda Fabian is the Digital Editor of Kosmos Journal, and the coauthor of the Connecting for Change study. She is the founder partner and CEO of Fabian Baber Communication, a digital learning company. She is...
2016-04-0559 minLove (and Revolution) RadioAmericans Who Tell The Truth - Art and Education As ResistanceThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with painter Robert Shetterly, creator of the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, about the events that galvanized him into action, and brought courageous truth-telling and powerful stories into peoples' lives all across America.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest: Robert Shetterly is a painter, educator, and activist. He is the creator of the Americans Who Tell The Truth portrait series, which uses paintings and narratives to highlight citizens who courageously address issues of social, environmental, and...
2016-03-2900 minLove (and Revolution) RadioThe Commons: Reclaiming Our Humanity - with David BollierThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, David Bollier joins us to explore the role of the Commons in using ancient and new practices to break free of the outdated, unsustainable economic systems of our world. Speaking about natural systems, digital commons, urban commoning, and some looming challenges over the patenting of genomes, smell, and "flows of natural systems", our conversation dives into uncharted territories and thrilling new possibilities. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:David Bollier is an activist and author (Think Like a Commoner). He...
2016-03-2200 min
Love (and Revolution) RadioNonviolent Classrooms & Public SchoolsThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Robin Wildman of Broad Rock Elementary School about how she integrated nonviolence into her classroom . . . and inspired parents, teachers, and students to work together to create the nation's first nonviolent public school.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Robin Wildman is a fifth grade teacher at Broad Rock Elementary School. She has been a public school teacher for twenty-five years, and a nonviolence trainer for students and teachers for the past fifteen years. She loves to grow organic...
2016-03-1500 minLove (and Revolution) RadioChallenging the Divide; Connecting Inner and Outer ChangeThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Simon Dennis of the Center for Transformational Practice about how to integrate the inner and outer work of creating powerful, meaningful, and long-lasting change. We explore constructive action, direct action, contemplative practice, and self-reliance. Along the way, we shake up the notion that those processes of change can be separated from one another . . . and we challenge the idea that any one form is more important than the others.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Simon Dennis is the...
2016-03-0859 minLove (and Revolution) RadioTransforming Cops, Kids & Whole Communities With PeacebuildingThis week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Heart Phoenix and Jeffrey Weisberg of the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding in Gainesville, Florida about how to use peacebuilding, restorative justice and conflict resolution to help heal and strengthen our local communities. "Peacebuilding is an amazing way to build the resilience of young people." - Heart Phoenix"The antidote to despair is empowerment." - Jeffrey WeisbergSign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guests:Heart Phoenix is the president of the River Phoenix...
2016-03-0100 min
Love (and Revolution) RadioThe Heart of Economic DemocracyThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Alex Jackimovicz, an activist and small businessman, speaks with us about economic democracy, worker cooperatives, public banks, participatory budgeting . . . and how transnational trade deals, like the TPP and TTIP threaten everyone.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Alex Jackimovicz is an activist, spiritualist, and small businessman living in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Alex has been active as a organizer with a variety of social and economic justice campaigns in Maine and nationally and has worked with a network volunteers on issues...
2016-02-1000 minLove (and Revolution) RadioLet Kindness Win - with Dena EaklesDena Eakles of Echo Valley Farm, and the author of the blog, Let Kindness Win, joins us on Love (and Revolution) Radio this week to speak about growing change from the ground up and reconnecting humankind to the community of the land.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/Know Your Nonviolent History: Gayanashagowa or The Great Law of Peacehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_PeaceLinks and Resources Mentioned:Echo Valley Farmhttp://echovalleyfarmwisconsin.com/Echo Valley Hopehttp://www...
2016-01-2700 min
Love (and Revolution) RadioWaging Peace with Paul ChappellThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we talk with Paul K. Chappell about the intersections of heart, spirit, strategy and action, exploring his unique vantage point on conflict studies that comes from spending years in both the US military and in the peace movement. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:Paul K. Chappell (http://paulkchappell.com/) is one of the most powerful voices for peace of our day. He was born to a Korean mother and an American father who was half black and half white...
2016-01-2059 min
Love (and Revolution) RadioBraiding Sweetgrass, Stopping MinesOn Love and Revolution Radio, we seek out real people and real stories about the heart of change. This week, we speak with Sandy Lyon of Northern Wisconsin about thirty years of nonviolent organizing that has asserted treaty rights, stopped mines, and driven out a US naval base. We'll be asking about the role of love, community, and the community radio station in creating a culture of creative, bold change.To learn more and connect:www.honorearth.orgBooks and Resources Mentioned:"Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn
2016-01-1300 min
Love (and Revolution) RadioNew Show! Love (and revolution) Radio: Exploring the Heart of Change in 2016It's a brand new radio show for a brand new year. Love and Revolution co-hosts Rivera Sun and Sherri Mitchell set intentions for this new weekly broadcast, including covering the importance of stories, myths, questioning everything, and rethinking every aspect of our lives from the small stuff we don't sweat to the large stuff we can't ignore. Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/Rivera Sun is a novelist, and nonviolent mischi...
2016-01-0659 min
Love (and Revolution) RadioThe End of Occupy Radio The End of Occupy Radio That clip you just heard was March 14th, 2012, Occupiers. Left Out became Occupy Radio, and in the four years since, we’ve kept an eye on the corporate takeover of America, and the rise of the police and surveillance states. Join us for a final retrospective on the time Rivera and I have shared, on this final episode of Occupy Radio. March 14th, 2012 Episode of Occupy Radiohttps://occupyeugenemedia.org/media...
2015-12-3059 min
Love (and Revolution) RadioChaos Theory Radio: Methane Demons, 6,000 Year Old Earth and the Real Enemy Within! Chaos Theory Radio: Methane Demons, 6,000 Year Old Earth and the Real Enemy Within! Intro LinksAnti-Austerity Fever Spreads Across Europehttp://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/12/21/spanish-election-results-anti-austerity-fever-spreads-across-europeDocumentary on the Threat to Democracy in Greecehttps://theintercept.com/fieldofvision/thisisacoup-episode-four-surrender-or-die/ Absurd TheaterAgrabah the Land of MagicWritten by JKD Freedom FriesDoes the CISPA Threaten Internet Access?
2015-12-2959 minLove (and Revolution) RadioOccupy Radio: Remembering Our Favorite Guests Occupy Radio: Remembering Our Favorite GuestsThis is the end of a nearly four year run of Occupy Radio, Occupiers, and this week, Rivera and I are looking back at some of the best shows from our two years of sharing the mic.Oligarchy, wealth, and debt, Basic Income, and constructive programme. A residents bill of rights, our favorite Marxist, Richard Wolff, and some fun with one half of the Yes Men. You should find something to spark your interest on this week’s Occupy Radio.Music: Ca...
2015-12-1659 min