Apocalyptic Supper Club

History, math, and myth all tell us the same thing: breakthroughs happen in threes. From the Holy Trinity to the perfect stability of a tripod, a trio is a compelling foundation for change. This episode of the Apocalyptic Supperclub serves up the three core themes that spur on societal transformation: inner work, the rebuilding of kinship ties, and skillful strategic action.  You’ll meet guests th...

Are you tired of being a spectator to history? Ordinary people are often trapped on a political pendulum—swinging back and forth between partisan headlines while the fundamental power of big money stays exactly the same.  On the Apocalyptic Supperclub, we look at what breaks the pendulum with legendary urban anthropologist Ida Susser who has spent 50 years embedded in global resistance movements—f...

When the headlines feel like a storm, our natural instinct is to tighten up, tune out, or burn out, but teacher and author Lee Klinger Lesser suggests a different way to stay fed and focused. For more than fifty years Lee Lesser has been helping people find their center of gravity and embodied purpose through tuning into sensory awareness practices.  Now she distills her years of teaching and life...

Checking out from the news? Feeling overwhelmed about the American political situation? Want to put your head in the sand? Join Christine Barrington for the Apocalyptic Supperclub where she serves up stories to whet the appetite for the politically possible in these dire times. The April episode features the organization EveryLibrary, A 501(c)4 non-profit fighting to protect libraries and libraria...

Have your relationships with friends or family been negatively affected by politics?  In a recent worldwide survey, the United States was the only country to say that most of our fellow citizens are “bad people.” In America, the politics of contempt have reached Olympian levels, but this episode of the Apocalyptic Supperclub highlights one organization bold enough to take on the challen...

Feeling overwhelmed and discouraged about our present political reality?  Don’t believe you can make an impact? This episode will be medicine for your citizen heart, because Swing Left empowers you to be an effective agent of political change. What if winning back power comes down to simply changing the way we talk to voters? What if campaigns knocked on every door, asked open-ended questions abou...

Join the art activists of ARRT ( Artists Respond and Resist Together ) in Santa Cruz, California on their  journey to create a troupe of giant puppets to amplify protest voices on the streets as people gather in ever larger numbers to resist this current administration. Their adventure involved five teams, six months of work, mishaps, a bit of mayhem and, most of all,  joyous creation. KSQD joined...

If you feel overwhelmed and discouraged about what is happening in this country and don’t believe you can make an impact, this show about Red Wine+Blue will offer you good medicine, and, direct ways to see how you can take a stand, make a difference, and even experience joy while creating potent political change. Once a loose consortium of mid-western suburban women, Red Wine + Blue is now a natio...

Welcome back to the club! Right now your heart may be aching or your cynicism rising. You may be tempted to check out or lash out, but I want to assure you that together, with enough of us involved, we can blow open the doors of possibility, and my guests help show us how.  This episode features a couple who have been educators and activists their entire lives. Larry Jones and Marilyn Green are th...