Spirit in Action

President Trump has been wreaking havoc in so many corners of our country, including the disruption caused by his executive order to dismantle all DEI (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion) programs throughout the country. Harvard has been the most prominent school to refuse the order, causing joy & celebration among many. Today we're talking with John Bach about Harvard's policies and ethics fr...

Most of the time it is the top officials in an organization who are interviewed to learn about & understand the group, but today we're exploring The Sierra Club from the ground up. Paul Wagner has been very active with The Sierra Club for over forty years, connecting at the local, Chippewa Valley level , within the state of Wisconsin , and also nationally.

Wayne Finegar is Executive Director of QuakerHouse , a resource located in Fayetteville, SC, which provides counseling and support to service members who are questioning their role in the military; educates them, their families, and the public about military issues, and advocates for a more peaceful world. Check out the GI Rights Hotline and also their Conscientious Objection resources .

Across the country, the  National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC)  links energies of folks like Anne Barron of the  Peace Resource Center of San Diego , the  Truth & Poverty Tour in San Diego , and War Tax Redirection, and Larry Bassett, the curmudgeon

We're going back in time to the end of World War II today for SIA, to get to know about one of the 151 Civilian Public Service camps, this one for the “bad boys” of the conscientious objectors. Our guest is Jane Kopecky , and we'll be visiting about her book, World War II Conscientious Objectors - Germfask, Michigan: The Alcatraz Camp .

We're seeking world healing in a different way today, for Spirit In Action. Our guest is Peter Anderson - author, mystic, misfit, & mountain dweller. His recent books have included First Church of the Higher Elevations: Mountains, Prayer, and Presence , and most recently, Riding the Wheel: Prose-Poems .

In order to restore harmony to our planet we need major changes in the relationships of people to the Earth & our neighboring species.

Today we're catching a glimpse of the organization Indivisible and, specifically, Chippewa Valley Indivisible , the local chapter here in the place I happen to live. There are hundreds, even thousands, of chapters nationwide.

More than 10 years ago I interviewed Betsy Leondar-Wright about her superb book, Missing Class , and today we'll visit with her about the book she researched and wrote with Jessi Streib called Is It Racist?

Today's guest-hosts are Nicole Diroff, Ben Yosua-Davis, and Peterson Toscano , of the Climate Changed Podcast from The BTS Center . In this episode they bring us a conversation that dives deep into the heart of what it means to find hope and community in a chaotic world.

Jan Spencer is guest-host today for the fifth time, sharing an episode of Creating A Preferred Future which takes a look at an unexpected topic. In Jan upcoming new book, A Primer For Paradigm Shift , he has found a new friend in the City of Eugene, Oregon's Strategic Planning Goals .

Guest-host Peterson Toscano  of  Citizen's Climate Radio is sitting in today for Spirit In Action, sharing climate info through a True Crime lens, in the 8 th and final installation of a series called Hot Mess .

The podcast, SmallTownBigGays , (also available on YouTube ) is produced weekly by Travis Gorell and Chance Smith, originating from Eau Claire, WI, and sharing the reality, the strengths, and the beauty of queer folks in places most often ignored or discounted. Travis also performs regularly in drag around the Chippewa Valley as Khloe Wold as one of many Dolls of the Valley .

With the passing last week of Joe Elder, a bright light for peace and justice and a dear friend and neighbor to so many has left us. We feel led to bring you again the interview we did with Joe 15 years ago, so that we can all hear Joe's voice once more. Back then, we told you that Joe Elder was the recipient on October 3rd, 2009, of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the  Wisconsin Network fo...

More than a decade ago I interviewed Daniel Hunter about a book he had written, and when I saw the article he had written just before the November election called 10 Things To Do If Trump Wins , I knew it was something I needed to check out. After all, Daniel has done organizing and training in a number of settings, in the United States and abroad, preparing folks to effectively make this a better...

Ximena Yáñez Soto is the author of  Healthy Planet, Healthy You: Simple Habits to Create a Brighter Future  which is an exploration of the health connections between what we eat, why we eat it, how it affects us, & how these are linked to the well-being of other inhabitants of our globe & of the planet as a whole.

Jori Lewis  is the author of  Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History .

We've visited with  Mike McCabe  several times in the past 15 years, about his work with the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, about the need for real people in government, and relative to his run for Wisconsin governor. Today we have Mike here for something different, a book of fiction called  Miracles Along County Q .

Are there alternatives to the expensive, complicated, healthcare system in the US?

This heart-opening episode is guest-hosted by  Peterson Toscano , Nicole Diroff & Ben Yosua-Davis of the  BTS Center  and is from their  Climate Changed Podcast , This program is possible because of the sound and journalism mastery of 

Alice Rothchild  is many things: a woman, a Jew, a doctor, a feminist, a poet, and the author of 6 books, the latest being  Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician .

We welcome back  Chuck Fager , a writer & activist with some 60 years of work, and we also welcome  Emma Lapsansky-Werner , the co-author of  Tell It Slant: Chuck Fager, A Prophetic Life of Adventure &am

Many of us have been in pain about events in the Middle East for years, a pain that was horribly amplified by the massacre of Jews on October 7 th , 2023, and the horrific and disproportional retribution that followed in Gaza by Israelis. Today's guest is Sandy Green, a Jewish Quaker, formerly a Zionist, who found she could not un-see the evils perpetrated by Israel on Palestinians, not just recen...

Jan Spencer  is back today to guest-host today Spirit In Action with the 4th installment of his series Primer for Paradigm Shift, and this one is fun for the positive and practical examples of this kind of work actually taking place. While keeping his eye on the needed ways of seeing and thinking about the world in order to become sustainable and to leave our world-wrecking ways behind us, Ja...

Guest-host  Peterson Toscano  of  Citizens' Climate Radio  is sitting in today for Spirit In Action, sharing climate info through a True Crime lens, in a series he's calling  Hot Mess .