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Circles of Trust & the Body Politic - Parker Palmer, Part 2

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:00:00 -0700

Parker J. Palmer is author of 9 books including his latest Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit. In his writing and in his work with the Center for Courage & Renewal, he transforms minds & lives. You can see him in person on 4/27/12 at a song & spoken word benefit concert, A Gathering of Spirits for the Common Good along with wonderful singer/songwriter Carrie Newcomer.

Healing The Heart of Democracy - Parker Palmer

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:00:00 -0700

The Obama Question: A Progressive Perspective

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:00:00 -0700

Gary Dorrien is author of The Obama Question: A Progressive Perspective, in which he looks at Barack Obama, the man & his history, and his policies, to see whether they pass muster from a progressive political & theological perspective. Gary is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of 14 books and around 250 articles on a range of topics.

Living Illegal - The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:00:00 -0700

Marie Friedmann Marquardt is co-author of Living Illegal - The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration, a book that combines head & heart to look at the realities around this political whipping boy of an issue. Marie is currently scholar-in-residence at Emory University's Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Healing Burns at a Distance - Fire Burn Doctor

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:00:00 -0700

Fireburn Doctor provides a simple, free, miraculous, service - healing of your burns with a single phone call. It sounds absolutely unbelievable, but what are we to believe when the evidence is there? We visit with Alison McDermott of the Fireburn Doctor team & 3 who've experienced it - former Judge Charles Barnhardt, actress Mary Badham, Vitaly Korobov of the US Patent & Trademark office. Plus, in Excerpts, a 3-time user, 1998 Mr. Ohio bodybuilder, Greg Trail.

Help participate in the validation of this healing work - either post or add 818-332-6445 to your cell, and provide feedback via comments on this site as to any experience you have with Fireburn Doctor.

Peak Oil & Druidry - John Michael Greer

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:00:00 -0800

John Michael Greer is a prolific author writing on diverse topics like peak oil, nature-based economics and, of course, druidry, because he is the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America. His knowledge is vast and his presentation makes even complex topics understandable and compelling. His books include The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World and The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if survival Matter.

Music included in this program:
Circle of Stone - Magpie
Forgetting Home (Unwelcomed Prophecy of Global Warming) - Joachim Eriksson

A Peace of My Mind - Fostering a Larger Public Conversation

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:00:00 -0800

John Noltner is photographer and author of a new book, A Peace of my Mind: Exploring the meaning of peace, one story at a time, a captivating inquiry into how common folks - and some not-so-common folks - think about peace. It attempts to bring diverse, sincere, voices into a big tent, to do the work of listening for possibilities.

Music included in this program:
Looking for the Dove - Peter Mayer
Peace Will Come - Tom Paxton

Hip Hop Council of All Beings - Pacha's Pajamas

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:00:00 -0800

Aaron Ableman & Dave Room have founded Balance Edutainment to use a wide range of media in order to light young people's dreams with a vision of making a better world. They've just released Pacha's Pajamas and are rolling it out in many different forms - video, audio, app and book - with prominent names like Talib Kweli & Mos Def taking part.

Music/Recordings included in this program:
Butterfly Life - from Pacha's Pajamasperformed by Talib Kweli
Captain Planet Intro
The Coolest Dream - from Pacha's Pajamas performed by Teana
Call Heard Round the World - from Pacha's Pajamas performed by Mos Def
We Are Lovers of our Lost Earth - Jon Watts from The Art of Fully Being
Eco Boogie - Gina Citoli

Segregated Blackball to Major Leagues - The Saga of Satchel Paige

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:00:00 -0800

Larry Tye's recent book is SATCHEL: The Life and Times of an American Legend. Satchel Paige was a trail-blazer in the times when African-Americans were segregated from whites in their neighborhoods, schools, drinking fountains and on the ball field and Larry Tye chronicles Satchel's long march to color-blind recognition with the feel of an gripping adventure.

Music included in this program:
Cross That Line - by John McCutcheon on Sermon on the Mound

Sanctity of Life - Vasu Murti - Part 2

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0800

Vasu Murti asks a disturbing question - if world hunger, climate change, and, importantly, abortion are the karma for our animal-based diet, can we get liberals and conservatives to come together to affirm the sanctity of all life? Vasu Murti is author of The Shall Not Hurt or Destroy: Animal Rights and Vegetarianism in the Western Religious Traditions and also The Liberal Case Against Abortion.

Music included in this program:
Do No Harm - Carrie Newcomer
A Piece of Paper - Gladstone

Karma, Vegetarianism & Abortion - Vasu Murti - Part 1

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0800

Vasu Murti is a powerful liberal voice for "consistent peace", and he supports his concerns by extensive research of eastern religious thought, western religious thought, and the best of secular thought & reasoning. In this 2-part interview he speaks about global warming, war, karma (and many more topics) and their relationship to vegetarianism & abortion. He's author of They Shall Not Hurt or Destroy: Animal Rights and Vegetarianism in the Western Religious Traditions and also The Liberal Case Against Abortion.

America Beyond Capitalism - Gar Alperovitz

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0800

a href="http://www.garalperovitz.com/" target="_blank">Gar Alperovitz</a> is author of America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy, about democratizing wealth and empowering communities through worker-ownership, co-ops, community land trusts, decentralizing control, and many other strategies.

Gar draws on personal experience in Washington as a legislative director in both houses of Congress, and as a special assistant in the State Dept, in addition to his extensive academic knowledge & research as a professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and as a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University; Harvards Institute of Politics; the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution.

Featured Music:
The Corporate Welfare Song - Anne Feeney

Books by Gar Alperovitz:
America Beyond Capitalism
Cold War Essays
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam

Gar Alperovitz co-wrote and edited:
Unjust Deserts: Wealth and Equality in the Knowledge Economy (with Lew Daly)
Making a Place for Community with Thad Williamson & David Imbroscio)
American Economic Policy: Problems and Prospects
Strategy and Program: Two Essays toward a New American Socialism
Rebuilding America: A Blueprint for the New Economy

The Whole-Brain Path to Peace - James Olson

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:00:00 -0800

James Olson is the author of The Whole-Brain Path to Peace about the role of left and right brain dominance in the polarization and reunification of America. It's an investigation into the effects of brain perspective on government, corporate life, war, and our personal lives. James Olson is a management-trained philosopher with studies in business, engineering, art, eastern and western religion, yoga, qigong, neuro-linguistic programming, philosophy and brain perspective. Plus, he's a former farmer & church deacon

Featured Music:
All The World Is One - Peter Mayer
We Are Not Alone - John McCutcheon

Spirit In The Digital Age: Quakers & Technology

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:00:00 -0800

In this episode, Spirit in the Digital Age, producer Madeline Schaefer takes a look at the role of technology in spirituality and, specifically, with Quakers. Included are interviews with Martin Kelley about QuakerQuaker.org and the convergent Friends movement; Stephen Dotson and Facebook; Chris Pifer and Aaron Crosman on what makes a Quaker website, "Quaker"; and the diary of a one week "Technology Fast."

Madeline Schaefer produces a series, Friend Speaks My Mind, out of Philadelphia.

Racial Innocence - Civil Rights, Racism, Dolls & Uncle Tom's Cabin

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:00:00 -0800

a href="http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~rbernst/" target="_blank">Robin Bernstein</a> traces the roots & mechanisms of racism in Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. Robin's piercing analysis and thorough research ferret out gems of both fact and insight, providing powerful resources for those working to reduce racism and its propaganda. Robin Bernstein is an associate professor at Harvard University in African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Featured Music:>
Number One In America - David Massengill

Occupy the USA - Emma's Revolution

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:00:00 -0800

Pat Humphries & Sandy O are Emma's Revolution and they use their music in the service of activism and, as their web site notes, they're "like Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart with guitars". Their latest CD, Revolutions per Minute, chronicals & participates in many of this year's dramatic movements & concerns - like Iraq, Arab Spring, the Wisconsin Uprising & the Occupy Movement. They think and sing powerfully, providing fuel for change we really can believe in!

All the songs in this program are written & performed by Emma's Revolution
Change
Not My War
Stand Together
Better Days
Rise
Occupy The USA

Bridge-builder Reggie Harris (BROADCAST) - Music to Heal & Make Changes

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:00:00 -0800

Reggie Harris has been creating great change-making & bridge-building music for decades, spanning barriers of race, religion, politics and other forms of identity and division.

All the songs in this program are performed by Kim & Reggie Harris
Wade In the Water
Rock of Ages
Four Walls
In the Shelter
Window of the Heart

Purple Peace Wagon - War and Peace Talk Between Parents and Kids - Judith Myers-Walls

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:00:00 -0700

Purple Wagon is the site of Perdue Professor Emerita of Child Development & Family Studies, Judith Myers-Walls. In 1989 she began research and applications around parent/child communication about war & peace, a passion that comes out of her background with the Church of the Brethren, one of the traditional peace churches.

Nuclear Sanity? Investigating Nuclear Power

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:00:00 -0700

Karen Street had a jarring experience in 1995 - she found that her prejudices and beliefs opposing nuclear power were ill-founded, and that the alternatives were doing much greater damage to people, other animals & the Earth. Carefully researched and examined, Karen provides a compelling, compassionate case for using nuclear power.

Karen's most recent articles in Friends Journal can be found in the Nuclear Power in a Warming World section of her blog, A Musing Environment.

She is associated with Friends Energy Project

If the Church Were Christian - Philip Gulley

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:00:00 -0700

Philip Gulley is the author of 16 books to date, including the popular fictional series based in Harmony, Indiana. Phil's latest is If the Church Were Christian: Rediscovering the Values of Jesus, and it's a powerful challange to the anti-gay, pro-war, pro-wealth messages of Christians out of step with Jesus.

Music featured:
Follow Me - Bryan Sirchio
Who Would Jesus Bomb - David Rovics
When Jesus Was a Kid - Peter Alsop