The Green Flame

For this episode of The Green Flame, we're joined by Diane Wilson. Diane is a fourth-generation shrimper, boat captain, mother of five, author, and an environmental, peace, and social justice advocate. During the last 30 years, she has launched legislative campaigns, demonstrations, hunger strikes, sunk boats, and even climbed chemical towers in her fight to protect her Gulf Coast bay. She is a co...

On this episode of the Green Flame, an anonymous voice from Nepal speaks to us eloquently on behalf of her land and of the environmental struggles in her country.  We thank her. We also thank Jore for permission to share his music. You can find his work at  https://jore.cc/ .

Ja is a community organizer, film maker and podcast host living with the land in the Philippine Archipelago.  You can find out more about his work by going to piratestudio.net and samalahatadvocacy.org .  Visit Deep Green Resistance Asia Pacific on FB for upcoming events. The music Ja plays in this episode is performed on the 2 stringed ethnic instrument, the Hegalong.

Come hiking with Rebecca Wildbear in the Sonoran Desert. Rebecca teaches people how to listen deeply to the Mysteries that live within the Earth community, Dreamtime, and their own wild Nature, and to encounter and live their Souls, or truest selves. She is a guide with Animas Valley Institute and the creator of Wild Yoga. To explore all that she offers, go to  www.rebeccawildbear.com

This edition of the Green Flame offers you an incredibly rich conversation centered on discussion of the 2002 documentary film Drowned Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnSsK-ZHTg . We thank Franny Armstrong at Spanner Films for allowing us to use audio clips from the documentary in this episode.

This episode is a set of deeply personal ruminations on permaculture experiences, practices and ethics between two radical environmental activists. .Music is provided by Solebound with their song Seeds and cover of Pacha Mama, an old rainbow gathering song. Solebound can be found on facebook  https://www.facebook.com/ soleboundmusic/  and bandcamp  https://solebound.bandcamp. com/releases

This episode features a launch party for the new book Bright Green Lies: How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It , by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert. The book tackles the greenwashing surrounding so much so-called "green" technology and other false solutions. The authors read excerpts from the book, discuss it's themes, and answer audience questions....

In this episode, Max gives a brief update on the Protect Thacker Pass action, and Elisabeth Robson interviews Jamie Kneen, Communications & Outreach Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada, an organization that works to protect the public and the environment from destructive mining practices. https://miningwatch.ca/ Elisabeth also reads two excerpts about mining from Bright Green Lies, a new book by D...

In this episode Max Wilbert interviews Danish historian of Religion Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen who runs the youtube channel Nordic Animism. Danish Viking folk band Gjaldulei provides the perfect accompaniment with their original composition Lyset Vågner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Bd50fqIRk

In this episode, Max Wilbert and Will Falk sit around the campfire at Thacker Pass to share the latest updates from the #ProtectThackerPass campaign, which aims to stop Lithium Americas Corporation from strip mining this place and more broadly to shift power in the environmental movement away from extraction and towards degrowth. Our music for this week is "The Way It Is" by The Filthy Politicians...

In this time sensitive urgent appeal Max Wilbert interviews forest defenders Joshua Wright and Carole Tootill concerning the Fairy Creek old growth forest in British Columbia. Please listen then act to defend Fairy Creek. https://www.fairycreekblockade.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FairyCreekBlockade    

In this episode of The Green Flame we host a group discussion on the 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript  Remember This House.  We discuss, amongst other things, the relevance of Baldwin's work today and our perspectives on the most powerful and moving scenes from the documentary.

Attorney and feminist Kara Dansky joins us to share how to contribute to the movement for women's sex based rights. She introduces us to the "Women Picket DC" event on March 8, the Equality for All Act, the 65th UN Commission on the Status of Women, the Declaration on Women's Sex Based Rights, and the Women's Human Rights Campaign. For this episode we pay musical tribute to the women's suffrage mo...

In this episode of the Green Flame we host a group discussion on Black Revolutionary Assata Shakur's 1987 Autobiography. We discuss amongst other things the relevance of her story and political awakening and the lessons to be learned for revolutionary movements today. Thank you to the Freedom Archives ( http://freedomarchives.org/ ) for their amazing work that allowed us to include Assata's voice...

This episode of the Green Flame podcast is a group discussion about the 2003 documentary The Corporation. The documentary revolves around the fact that under U.S law corporations are seen as individuals and asks the question 'what type of person would a corporation be?' Amongst other things we discuss the relationship of corporations to civilization and patriarchy and what could be worse than livi...

Activists aiming to stop Lithium Americas' Thacker Pass open-pit lithium mine – what would be the United States' largest lithium mine, supplying up to 25% of the world's lithium – launched a permanent protest encampment hours after the Bureau of Land Management gave final approval to the mine on January 15. The Green Flame brings you the voices of land protectors Will Falk and Max Wilbert who mean...

In this urgent episode of the Green Flame Lierre Keith comments on a new development in the war on women. That development is Biden's executive order on "gender identity" signed the day of his inauguration, and it will eviscerate Women's Rights. Lierre Keith is the founder of the Women's Liberation Front, WoLF founder and board member, a radical feminist for over 40 years and is the author of 6 bo...

Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of both Local Futures and the International Alliance for Localization. A pioneer of the local economy movement, she has been honored with the Right Livelihood Award, the Goi Peace Prize, and the Arthur Morgan Award. She is the author of "Ancient Futures" and "Local is Our Future, Steps to An Economics of Happiness" and producer of the documentary fi...

This episode of the Green Flame podcast is a discussion around nuclear waste, the nuclear waste industry, nuclear waste dumping, and the production of nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and nuclear medicine that results in this highly dangerous and long-lasting radioactive material.  

This episode, recorded January 7th, is a round table discussion of January 6th protest and riot in Washington D.C. at the U.S. Capitol. Max Wilbert and Jennifer Murnan are joined by Saba Malik and Will Falk.

Ahjamu Umi is a revolutionary organizer/activist, adviser, and liberation literature author. He is vastly concerned about the current state and future of this planet. Ahjamu has worked with the All African People's Revolutionary Party for decades. His latest book, a manual of revolutionary community defense, is titled "A Guide for Defense Against White Supremacist and Fascist Violence." http://www...

Welcome to the final Green Flame episode of 2020.  In this episode, a discussion with Trinity La Fey is woven into a chorus of other poets. We revisit the words of Dominique Christina which were a part of our December 2019 Radical Feminism episode, celebrate Shahidah Janjua with Aimee, and share poems from Max, Jennifer, Ross, Ben, and Salonika. The episode concludes with a medley of music from pr...

On this 50th Episode of the Green Flame, Max and Jennifer share a retrospective of the 20-month Green Flame adventure leading into a lightly edited recording of DGR's recent live streaming event, "Drawing the Line: Stopping the Murder of the Planet." The event features Lierre Keith, Derrick Jensen, Chris Hedges and the voices and work of comrades across all fronts, worldwide. We call on all our li...

In this episode we interview Sue and Esteban from the Shale Must Fall Campaign. The campaign works to increase the global visibility of frontline struggles against fracking and other extraction, and educate about the dangers of shale gas and the fracking industry. December 11, 2020 is the Day of Action for the Shale Must Fall Campaign, with actions across Europe, Africa and Asia to show global sol...

For this episode of The Green Flame, Jennifer Murnan and Max Wilbert discuss extreme weather around the world. As the Arctic is experiencing catastrophic low ice formation, wildfires have swept western Turtle Island this summer and fall, and storms have pounded southeast Asia and the Caribbean. We include excerpts from a January podcast covering the megafires in Australia, discuss the rise of extr...