Spirit in Action

Kelly Lundeen was a founder of  Just Peace from the Chippewa Valley  back in 2001, spent time in Milwaukee at the  Casa Maria Catholic Worker House , which led her to do accompaniment work in Columbia as part of the  International Peace Observatory . But her work recently, back in Wisconsin, has been as a mother of 3 and as staff for  Nukewatch , working for a nuclear-free...

A valuable, even vital, addition to the resources for dealing with mental health challenges is called 'Peer Support', and a primary sources of peer support the wide range of mental health diagnoses is the  Wellness Shack . Their director, Bob Schrader, speaks of the operation and functioning of the Wellness Shack and the specifics of peer support groups.

Guest-hosts today are Nicole Diroff & Ben Yosua-Davis, of the BTS Center & the brand-new Climate Changed podcast, accompanied by Peterson Toscano. They will explain who they are and what their podcast is all about, but, in short, they are addressing the need for spiritual leadership in a climate-changed world. Their guest is Mariama White-Hammond, Ch...

Today's Spirit In Action guests, both strongly pacifist, moved to areas that were overwhelmingly and oppressively military-oriented, and had to figure how to deal with that, both for themselves and for their families. Lucretia Humphrey's journey took her to Great Falls, Montana, surrounded by nuclear warheads, and Molly Wingate ended up in Colorado Springs, in the midst of a number of military bas...

Monica Tetzlaff  is an associate professor of history at the University of Indiana of South Bend, and her special interest is in African-American history.

Peterson Toscano  of  Citizens' Climate Radio  guest-hosts today, and he brings some amazing, inspiring, & insightful guests with him, among them: Caroline Harmon of  Christian Climate Action , Sophie and Josie Davis, fighting for climate sanity as found

Our main topics today are tyranny & nonviolence.  Andrew Fiala  is  Professor of Philosophy  & also director of the  Ethics Center  at Cal State Fresno.

Lisa Miara is at the center of  The Hope Centre/Springs of Hope Foundation  in the Kurdish region in Northern Iraq. The Yazidi minority in that area was devastated by the 2014 attack of ISIS on them, and Lisa found a leading to live among and nurture back to wholeness the victims of ISIS, bringing hope & love to reclaim child soldiers and horribly abused & enslaved girls & wo...

Throughout his career,  Dwight L. Wilson  has held many jobs: educator, administrator, chaplain. In each role, he worked to advance equality, opportunity and understanding. He continues this work in his carefully researched historical fiction series Esi Was My Mother , which follows the lives of an enslaved black family from 18th century Africa to the American Civil War. He strives to po...

Many hands were needed to help in the transition for the immense number of Afghans that fled Afghanistan with the fall of the government there to the Taliban last year. Among those answering the call was  Sahar Taman , providing legal assistance to the 13,000 Afghans located to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, last fall. The personal situations & the legal requirements were complex, demanding deepl...

Amar Ahmad  is a young Muslim who has been working with  Mass Peace Action  the past 2 years, serving as co-chair of the Legislative/Political Committee as an organizer with the  Fund Health Care, Not Warfare

Jane Addams, founder of Hull Settlement House in Chicago, was a powerful inspiration and aid to the poor and downtrodden, like Nellie Wicks, who was great-grandmother to  singer/songwriter Kristin Lems .

Bahareh Zare Bahari is distinct in so many ways - as an Iranian woman who, in her early 20's, started her own school, soon shut down by the regime in Iran, who then moved to the Philippines to become a Doctor of Dentistry, and who won 3 beauty queen crowns, using the opportunity to both hold up the beauty & power of the Iranian women and people. Because of her witness, she has been threatened,...

Casting out the chest-beating & shade-throwing from the Bible with the skills & insights of a Jewish Trans Educator ( Liam Hooper ) and a Cantankerous Hermit-ish Mendicant Farmer ( Don Durham ) is an important goal of  Bible Bash .

One of the issues we face in dealing with problems in the USA is the frequent divide between “the common folk” - rural, often farm folks - and the urban populace, often dismissed from the other side as “ ivory tower intellectuals ”.

Peterson Toscano  of  Citizen's Climate Radio  guest-hosts today, with poignant, inspirational, & intriguing visits with  Flannery Winchester , 

Steve Chase has been involved with impressive and world-changing activism all of his adult life. He has his PhD in Environmental Studies from  Antioch University , where he also taught for 15 years, after first working as an editor and writer for the  More Than Money Journal .

George Lakey 's new book,  How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning  brings it all together and changes the prospects for a better world. Drawing on some 60 years experience in all kinds of social change movements & having trained activists from dozens of nations, George is a true expert and a great communicator.

When Billy Talen puts on his big hair, a clerical collar, & his brightly-colored blazer, he becomes  Rev. Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping , raising spirits & a holy ruckus for the Earth in myriad ways. With creativity, humor, & grim seriousness, Billy, Savitri D, & the other members of the Stop Shopping Choir put their bodies & voices on the line for issues like ra...

Carl Magruder , born in 1969, multiracial, & growing up around Berkeley, is a real child of the 60's, complete with his TheEarthQuaker email identity. Along the way he got schooled by Spirit, led to seminary, & into his current work as a palliative care chaplain. Carl Magruder sees wide and deep, & brings forth the words to excite healing energy for the Earth & humans, around race,...

Listen in on the chilly Dec 20th  JONAH -sponsored vigil on homelessness, with presentations by governmental, activist, and homeless participants.

We'll learn from our civil rights elders as guest-host  Patricia Stansbury  (AKA Sunny Gardener) interviews three Virginia residents who were involved with civil rights and integration efforts in the 1950s, 60s, and since, Charles Carter, Janet Worsham, and Sallie Rugg. Patricia originally broadcast this interview back in July, 2020.

Peterson Toscano  of  Citizen's Climate Radio  guest-hosts today, and he explores hospitality in a time of Climate Change with 

The topic today for Spirit In Action is the mental health of our children, and who better to talk about it than the director of Wisconsin's  Office of Children’s Mental Health ,  Linda Hall .

Most of the talking points about the current worker shortage play to conservative messaging about lazy folks living off the government teat, but Eau Claire's own  Zoe Roberts , county board  representative for District 27 ,