KPFA - The Visionary Activist Show

  Paul Robeson (Wikipedia) Caroline welcomes ancestor Paul Robeson, (astounding athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and political activist) whose birthday is today… April 9, 1898 (- Jan 23,1976) Let’s invite his embodied positive Mars, expressed through his powerful baritone voice (advocate, for beauty, kinship, dedication to democracy) – into the testosterone fueled maelstrom of now...

  Liberating Trickster Kinship arising from Grief… Maundy Thursday – Maundy Thursday is named after the Latin word mandatum (“mandate”), referring to the new commandment Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper to “love one another.” Caroline welcomes Terry Tempest Williams, award winning author of over 20 books, dedicated cultural voice on behalf of what she loves, and what she is in Nature… t...

Visionary Activist Show 3.26.26 2 pm pt #KPFA (3.27.26 wee hours & 1pm pt #KPFK) “No to monarchy, no to having a supreme leader, Yes to Democracy-Equality!” Chant from students/citizens in Iran… Caroline plays a short clip of Maryam Ishani, And long proffering from Omid Safi’s recent teaching: “What we all need to know about Iran” We be Global Coalition: Re-imagining the world beyond false polarit...

  “I believe Earth is dreaming us into a new way, a new way of being, if we favor our senses and receive what is coming to us through heartbreak and love.”…” (Terry Tempest Williams )   Equinox Eve: Let’s ride this New Moon tide-RevelationAccountabilityStorm… Let’s not fear the storm – let’s become the storm! Let’s not fear the Chaos – but guide the chaos…”Who’s a good chaos? Yes you are, over the...

  “Reality is a dance” – whirling – spiraling Liberating Beauty out of the Cauldron of Calamity, Caroline welcomes great ally Banafsheh Sayyad, whose book “Dance of Oneness,” is a most welcome elixir of profound dedication, resonating within us all, that we too aspire to embody effective prayers for our world…   Banafsheh’s life and book are an invitation for us all to delve into our cultural and...

“If the King Attacks the Persians, He Will Destroy a Great Empire,” (ha! “it will be yours” quips Delphic Oracle) Offering this essential book in our Fund Drive, as a reciprocal blessing for pledging www.kpfa.org Spookily pertinent to now! Replaying portions of Caroline’s March 13, 2008 interview — Where there is Mars – Let there be Venus! May Americans know history!   Caroline welcomes Stephen Ki...

The Great De-Bamboozling·Revelation·Accountability Fest   In which we are all participants, with the help of the Beloved Ancestor Poets. “Bring in the poets and double the madness!” (Bly) Poetry will get us through! Just learned that great buddy colleague, Coleman Barks, has gone backstage. And Sean Padraic O’Donoghue, will join to help honor Coleman – and how Coleman may help us with Iran… Weavin...

Visionary Activist Show 2.19.26 #KPFA 2pm pt (2.20 #KPFK in wee hours & 1pm pt)   Raw sewage – literal and pervasive pandemic metaphor Water and Money: Re-directing the flow – from Cruelty, State Terror, Corruption – to infrastructure….health, protecting commonwealth…. Collective well-being… Empathic Sorrow be appropriate, and serves as incentive for dynamic kindness, dedicated to collective well-...

Visionary Activist Show 2pm pt 2.12.26 KPFA (2.13 KPFK in wee hours & 1 pm pt)   Dark o Moon – Friday the 13th ° Valentine’s Day ° Eclipse ° Chinese New Year ° Mardi Gras ° Ramadan –   Such dangerous skullduggery abounding, that the back-stage gods are proffering syncretized Metaphors as allies. Booo-Merangue! May anything up to no good- be revealed, rendered harmless & return to its source with  ...

“Time of Useful Consciousness “ (The aviation term for the time between when the oxygen cuts out, and the pilot is still conscious…) Caroline welcomes astro mytho colleague Judith Tsafrir, as we weave powerful testimony from Aliya Rahman, and Renee Good’s brothers, Luke & Brent Ganger, rousing music – with the increasing rapidly arising dangers – with the descriptive & guiding astrological narrati...

Visionary Activist Show 1.29.26 2pm #KPFA  /1.30 #KPFK, in wee hours & 1pm pt   Let’s Dive Deep to Rise Aroused – Caroline convenes Mid-Winter Council to gather our wits, dedicate to strategy…forge alliances… Waxing Leo-Aquarius Full Moon Apocalyptic Mid-Winter-Uranus Direct – Revelation fest What would we like to be revealed ? Not what’s gonna happen – but what’s available with whom to cooperate...

  Ladling Liberating Necessary Miracles out of the Cauldron of Calamity   Caroline, convening the Council of Sane Reverent, ingenious, effective, available  Beings Myriad worthy woofy guiding voices, from Greenland – Tillie Martinussen, Ireland, Jamaica, Minneapolis, Davos & more – all in accord with the Guiding Astro* Mytho Animist narrative….collapse of systems, and what be we brewing, envisioni...