XRNOW!

Select clips from just a few of our favorite shows in our first year.

The inimitable Marlow joins us to explore a positive vision for a world beyond the influence of extractive capitalism. Listener warning: Your perspective may be widened.

An inspiring hour with aerial artist John Quigley, who’s also the founder of SpectralQ and the founding director of Artists for Amazonia.

The co-founder of XR Africa and XR Uganda, Annette speaks to the unique demands of organizing on the continent, and the importance of elevating voices from the Global South. 

Scott gives us an inside view of Climate Week in NYC, plus a major call to action in the Bay Area this November.

Esme and Niko from XR Youth LA join us to discuss their Youth Climate Strike this past week at City Hall, plus Meredith Rose on the upcoming Mothers Rebellion action.

Lina Blount, Director of Strategy and Partnerships for Earth Quaker Action Team, joined by Eric Gill of XRLA, both fresh off the VANGUARD SOS campaign action in LA this week... plus a discussion of the longer-term campaign strategy to disrupt the money pipeline coming from one of the largest fossil fuel investors in the world.

Sonali Kolhatkar, author of the new book Rising Up, on the power of narrative in service of racial and economic justice, and her solutions-focused approach to journalism.

We spend the hour with Mun and Tom of Seven Circles Alliance, fresh off their well-publicized blockade of the road into Burning Man. There’s a lot to unpack!

Our second interview with Hardi Yakubu of Africans Rising, where we get an update on the progress of the Pan-African movement to organize for unity, justice, peace, and dignity.

Simone Johnson on how March On and the Future Coalition fund intergenerational activist groups across Indigenous, Frontline and BiPOC communities.

Shekinah Deocares and Sim Bilal of Youth Climate Strike LA and Youth Interest PAC on the under-appreciated intersection between the labor and climate justice movements, plus their wake-up call to City Hall.

The second part of our series on the burgeoning Climate Necessity Defense (CND) legal strategy, joined by Troy Horton, a great-grandfather standing trial in Phoenix for his climate activism, and Ted Hamilton, an attorney with Climate Defense Project who successfully used CND to defend Standing Rock activists and more. 

Lauren Regan, founder and executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center, discusses the Necessity Defense as a legal strategy to amplify climate activism.

Investigative Journalist Aaron Cantu takes us through his recent reporting on the climate crisis at the state and local level, plus XRLA’s Cate Swigart and Mary-Linn Hughes discuss Mothers Rebellion.

Part II with City Hall insider Andy Shrader, who gives us his climate advocacy to-do list for the new City Council. Plus XRLA founding member and Arts Working Group superstar Mary-Linn Hughes on the intersection of art and activism.

Andy Shrader, the recently departed Executive Director of Environmental Affairs for City Council member Paul Koretz, on the inner workings of City Hall, the environmental urgencies facing our current LA City Council, and more.

Today's show features the conclusion of last week's interview with futurist Daniel Pinchbeck, as well as a segment with conscientious objector Francesco Da Vinci, plus a visit from Taylor Nichols of KPFK's own Bike Talk.

The first part of our interview with futurist Daniel Pinchbeck, in which he discusses his experiments with psychedelics as a way beyond materialism, and the potential of collective consciousness to mitigate climate disaster.

With governments across the West cracking down on climate activism, we bring you Henryk Garberg and Janine O’Keeffe of Restore the Wetlands in Sweden, two activists facing prison time for their role in a blockade. Plus a personal reflection from XRLA member Joshua Hirsch.

Our roundtable with members of XR US West, the rapidly growing coalition developing actions and building allyship with Indigenous and front-line communities all over Turtle Island West.

Melanie Winter brings her 30 years of experience to our ongoing discussion of the LA River, especially the Sepulveda Basin Restoration Project.

Steven spends the hour with the amazing and indefatigable Lydia Poncé, plus the latest news in climate activism.

Voices from the burgeoning movement's Mothers Day weekend events in 21 countries and 62 cities on six continents!

Steven interviews Bill Moyer, Executive Director of Backbone Campaign, and a long-time strategy and tactics guru for social movements all over the US.