Resistance Radio

Stephanie Winn is the host of  You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist  podcast, Associate Producer of  NO WAY BACK: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care , and a Senior Fellow at  Do No Harm . As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Oregon, she treats adults and couples, with an emphasis on serving detransitioners and ROGD parents. She also offers consultations for those seeking to improve their...

Keith Harmon Snow is a writer, photographer and naturalist. This is his second program with me focused on rare cats of the world. In 1993 he exposed a high-level racket in Japan involving trade in endangered species.  Today we talk about the endangered wildcats of Japan.

Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist. She is on the board of Deep Green Resistance, and is the founder and president of Prairie Protection Colorado. Deanna lives in the Pike National Forest and is currently working with a coalition to ban the trophy hunting of Colorado’s mountain lions, bobcats, and lynx.

Neil Kiernan is the host of V-RADIO and an activist going back to the Occupy Wall Street movement. His audience is made up of people from both the right and the left. He would describe his political leanings as a left-leaning independent who voted for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. Today we talk about some of what has gone wrong with the left.

Bob Watson grew up in a small town in NE Iowa, Strawberry Point. He worked on farms as a kid growing up, including in one of the first chicken confinements in NE Iowa when he was 12 or 13 years old. The last 35 years he was employed in the wastewater industry in Iowa, and has been an environmental activist mostly concerned with the industrial row crop, feedlot, and confinement modern model of agri...

Andy Mahler first became involved in forest protection efforts in 1985 after encountering Forest Service clearcuts in the Hoosier National Forest near his southern Indiana home. As President of Protect Our Woods, a local grassroots forest protection organization he helped found, he led efforts to protect the Hoosier from off-road vehicle trails, clearcuts, and oil and gas leasing. In 1991 he found...

Bill Finch is the founding director of the Paint Rock Forest Research Center in the Cumberland Plateau region of northeast Alabama. He has worked to conserve Southeastern biodiversity for more than 40 years, as an award-wining writer and editor, as conservation director of the Nature Conservancy in Alabama, and as director of Mobile Botanical Gardens. He continues to write a weekly column on garde...

Chris Vaughn is an activist living in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan. After learning of the proposal to develop a copper sulfide mine in the heart of a thriving eco-tourism area ­ right next to both Lake Superior and Porcupine Mountains State Park ­ he launched the website  www. ProtectThePorkies.com  , as well as the accompanying petition, found at  www.change.org/ProtectThePorkies  .

Greg King is an award-winning journalist and activist  credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in  Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars”  following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber  Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam.  Greg  King has spent decades researching redwood logging and preserv...

Lierre Keith and Melinda Hughes. Lierre Keith has been a radical feminist for 40 years. She is the author of seven books, including The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” She is coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Max Wilbert, of Bright Green Lies:How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Ca...

Otis Scops is trained as an electronics and chemical process engineer. He worked as a developer of tailor-made electronics and computer hard- and software and as a renewable energy systems consultant. Over the last 25 years, his interest shifted from mainly technology to ecology and sociology and towards true sustainability. He increasingly puts his acquired knowledge into practice with low-tech,...

Patrick Battuello is the founder and president of Horseracing Wrongs, the nation's preeminent anti-horseracing organization. Patrick and HW have been featured in, among many other publications, Forbes, USA Today, The Guardian, the Boston Herald, and Deadspin. Patrick has appeared on HBO's "Real Sports," and multiple CNN and ESPN segments. In addition, Patrick has testified before the NYS Senate an...

Paul Tyson is an independent scholar and an Honorary Senior Fellow with the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, at the University of Queensland, in Australia. He has academic qualifications in philosophy, theology, and sociology, and likes to mix them all up when trying to understand how strange the ordinary features of our contemporary way of life are. Three of his biggest intellectua...

Fred Gibson is a co-founder and Core Member of Communities that Protect and Resist. An environmental and social justice activist, he’s lived in Colorado off and on since 1970, and has witnessed the native beauty and biological diversity of the Front Range, as well as its ongoing destruction. He is determined to reverse that trend. Fred’s worked as an organizational psychologist and leadership scho...

Dave Stone was born in Ohio, moved to Oregon in 1980 to get his MS in Recreation Management. Undergrad degree in Community Organization (just like Obama) His passion passion is for protecting the natural world. His talent is photography and writing and organizing. His experience has been leading the successful campaign to achieve  60,000 acres of  Wilderness protection for the Waldo Lake area in t...

Richard Pearce, originally from the UK, is a long term resident of Tottori Prefecture, the least populated prefecture in Japan. He works as a nature guide and adventure tour leader in Japan and Bhutan. Alongside his love for nature, Richard is a practitioner of Shugendo, an ancient form of mountain asceticism. In 2021, along with his wife Kazumi, he founded a Non-profit organisation called Sustain...

Jennifer Lahl is founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network. She has 25 years of experience as a pediatric critical care nurse, a hospital administrator, and a senior-level nursing manager. Three times she has addressed the United Nations on Surrogacy and Human Egg Trafficking. In 2009 she was associate producer on her first documentary Lines that Divide: the great stem...

Amanda Kovattana is a biracial, tri-cultural writer who grew up in Bangkok, in a pre-industrialized Thailand before immigrating to California in 1968. She came of age as a lesbian in the San Francisco bay area and is the author of two memoirs, Diamonds In My Pocket, and The Girls Guide to Off Grid Living. Her recent book The Unexpected Penis: Conversations on the Gender Trail, is a primer and memo...

Perdita Finn is the co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the feral fellowship The Way of the Rose, which inspired their book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. In addition to study with Zen masters, priests, rabbis, and healers, she apprenticed with the psychic Susan Saxman, with whom she wrote The Reluctant Psychic. Finn now teaches popular...

Kate Harris is a life-long feminist and lesbian campaigner.  She worked at Brighton Women’s Aid – a refuge for women fleeing domestic abuse – in the 1970s and continued her activism when she moved into the corporate sector.  This included American Express, where Kate worked as Vice President Global Relationship Management, Corporate Services.  Kate was an active supporter of Europe’s largest gay r...

"Dr Chris Rynn is a Forensic Craniofacial Anthropologist (which is essentially an expert in the anatomy of skulls and faces, and the interrelationships between the two), who assists international police in human identification from skeletal remains (and helps museums to bring characters from the ancient past 'to life') by digitally sculpting faces on skulls."

Michael Kellett is executive director of the New England nonprofit organization, RESTORE: The North Woods, which he co-founded in 1992. He has been involved in national park, wilderness, public land, and endangered species issues for more than 30 years. In 1994, he developed the proposal for a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods National Park, which laid the groundwork for the 2016 designation by Preside...

Andy Mahler first became involved in forest protection efforts in 1985 after encountering Forest Service clearcuts in the Hoosier National Forest near his southern Indiana home. As President of Protect Our Woods, a local grassroots forest protection organization he helped found, he led efforts to protect the Hoosier from off-road vehicle trails, clearcuts, and oil and gas leasing. In 1991 he found...

Jakob Shockey is a human, father and husband. He works primarily with beavers and people, focusing on the restoration of complex natural processes and relationships that create and maintain resilient habitat and its wildlife. Jakob co-founded and leads Project Beaver, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering humans to partner with beavers and value their works. He also sings to himself, loves flying ki...

John B. Wallace is a retired public land manager for the City of Carbondale at Cedar Lake and an environmental educator at Southern Illinois University’s Touch of Nature Environmental Center. He is a founding member and president of the Shawnee Chapter of the Illinois Audubon Society and a founding member of Shawnee Forest Defense and the Shawnee Park and Climate Alliance. He has been a forest act...