The Green Flame

On this episode of the Green Flame, we converse with Fred Gibson, co-founder of Communities that Protect and Resist. CPR is a support group, clearinghouse, resource bank, and facilitator for activists who want to build strong communities and leverage them to pursue a sustainable and just existence and resist the dominant culture. We are grateful to our editor Iona, for the harmonious blending of t...

For this episode, we speak with Laura Cunningham of Basin and Range Watch ( http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/ ) about dozens of large solar energy projects threatening the Mojave and Great Basin deserts in Nevada and eastern California. We explore why utility-scale solar built on habitat is not a solution. Our music for this episode is Melodi från Vest-Agder by Tim Eastwood of Dic Penderyn.

Industrial civilization is killing the planet, and it's not good for human beings either. But how can we live without it? We are dependent and addicted. In this episode of The Green Flame, we ask what comes after and speak with two people: Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth, Deep Green Resistance, Bright Green Lies, and more; and Michel Jacobi, an ecologist working in western Ukraine to p...

Frank Forencich is an internationally-recognized expert on health and human adaptation. As an engaging speaker and movement teacher, he brings a unique perspective to the human predicament and offers practical solutions for some of the most pressing problems of our age. Frank is the author of several books on health and the human predicament, most recently The Sapience Curriculum . He is a black b...

This episode of The Green Flame revolves around a group discussion of Naomi Klein's 2007 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism . We discuss the points of the book that are on point, other areas where the book fails, and how in some ways Klein's own analysis describes how her mainstream climate movement operates. Our music for this episode is "Drag the Forests Down" by Foxpockets...

This episode of the Green Flame comes to you from Germany. We interview Heide Goettner-Abendroth, philosopher and researcher on culture and society, focused on matriarchal studies. She has published various books on matriarchal society and culture, and has become the founding mother of Modern Matriarchal Studies. We also include three poems by Heide in German and English. The International Academy...

This episode of The Green Flame podcast focuses on the proposed Batoka Gorge Dam on the Zambezi River on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, just downstream from the world-famous Victoria Falls. The Batoka Gorge Dam would damage some of the most important habitat in the region and harm the local indigenous communities while profiting transnational corporations to the tune of billions. We hear from...

For this episode of The Green Flame, we speak with Sergio Alexander Kochergin, a filmmaker, organizer, former U.S. Marine, and native of Ukraine. He did two deployments to Iraq in 2003, 2004, and 2005, and testified before members of Congress in 2008 as part of the new Winter Soldier hearings organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War. Sergio lives in Michigan City, Indiana where he is the co-foun...

Radical Discourse: The Wind That Shakes the Barley This episode of The Green Flame is a group discussion of the 2006 Ken Loach film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley." We recommend watching the film before listening to this episode to better understand the discussion. You can view the film for free on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/TheWindThatShakesTheBarleyFULLMOVIE The title of the film...

For this episode of the Green Flame we celebrate the United States launch of the Women's Human Rights Campaign with WHRC U.S. co-contact Thistle Pettersen and U.S. WHRC media moderator Austin DeVille. Our skill-share highlights the efforts of the Women's Human Rights Campaign's work to offer mutual support in the face of inevitable push back. We thank Thistle for permission to include her performa...

In this episode of The Green Flame, we interview Joshua Wright about a new forest protection blockade established last week on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The blockade protects ancient old-growth forest stands, including the 9th largest Alaska Yellow Cedar known to exist and other trees thousands of years old, in the Fairy Creek area near Port Renfrew, on unceded Pacheedaht terri...

In this episode we discuss the film Planet of The Humans, directed by Jeff Gibbs and produced by Ozie Zehner and Michael Moore. The film shows how the environmental movement -- as defined by large environmental organizations, what we call big green environmentalism -- has been largely been co-opted by corporations and finance, and refocused from the natural world to so-called green technology that...

In this episode we speak with Dahr Jamail. In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself, where he has spent more than one year in Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr has also reported from Syria, Lebanon,...

This episode of The Green Flame features an interview with James Darling who is currently on the 3rd day of a hunger strike against logging of old-growth forests in British Columbia, Canada (occupied First Nations territory). You can contact James at: (250) 816-4321, or at james0darling@gmail.com. Press release: https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/letters/6/ Music: "Weightless" by LiQWYD. https://sound...

This podcast features two interviews. First, we speak with Joshua Wright about current logging of old-growth forest in the Mattole River Watershed, as well as on Vancouver Island and in Alaska. Second, we speak with Will Falk. Will is currently journeying the length of the Ohio River (the most polluted river in the United States) exploring the history and ongoing colonization and desecration of th...

This interview with radical lesbian feminist, activist, and writer Julia Beck includes her insights on being politically homeless, girl gangs, the resilience of women (particularly women who have de transitioned), and our need for mutual respect and solidarity and support. Our skill share for this episode is a reading of DGR's Solidarity Guidelines. Music is by Ali Bee, radical feminist singer and...

This episode features Max Wilbert reading his article from 2019 entitled "Anti-Racist Strategy for a World in Crisis." The piece was originally published on Counterpunch. You can read it here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/04/anti-racist-strategy-for-a-world-in-crisis/

In this episode, we speak with Ely Lunani of the Kakamega Forest Community Conservation Network in Kenya. The Network is a grassroots effort emerging from local youth in the Buyangu Area to protect and restore the Kakamega Forest through environmental education, conservation, reforestation, and programs to reduce local poverty. You can reach Ely Lunani at kafcocon2019@gmail.com . This episode feat...

This excerpt comes from Episode 21 with Vince Emanuele. This full interview between Max Wilbert and Vince Emanuele covers mutual aid, organizing strategies, revolution vs. reform, coronavirus, survival, the Iraq war, the crumbling of the United States, and more. Vince Emanuele is an organizer who began his political journey after refusing to re-deploy into Iraq in 2005. After leaving the Marine Co...

This is an excerpt from episode 23, our conversation with our comrade Shahidah Janjua. We conversed about women, writing, activism and the creation of a Women's Centre in Kerry. On behalf of the Women of DGR: We lost you Shahidah in March, and we are gutted. We mourn no longer having the opportunity to work shoulder to shoulder with you, dear sister. We cherish the many gifts of your life's work....

Deep Green Resistance is a radical feminist organization, because all oppression is connected. The freedom of women as a class cannot be separated from the resistance to the dominant culture as a whole. Racism is connected to patriarchy is connected to the destruction of the planet. "Pornography Men Possessing Women," one of Andrea Dworkin's most influential and important books, is the focus for t...

We speak with Jeff Gibbs, director of the new film "Planet of the Humans" (produced by Michael Moore) about why green energy won't save the world, the need to focus on consumption, and how the environmental movement has gotten off track. Since this interview was recorded, the film was viewed more than 8 million times and a copyright claim was filed against the film for using 4 seconds of copyright...

Our guest for show is Esther Figueroa. Esther is a Jamaican filmmaker, writer and advocate who in 2006 returned home to live in Jamaica after being based in Hawa'ii for 25 years. She has a long history of filmmaking, art, and community engagement to protect traditional cultures and the land. Dr. Figueroa has a PhD in linguistics and a masters degree in east asian langauges and literature. We talk...

On this episode of the Green Flame we interviewed Shahidah Janjua and conversed about women, writing, activism and the creation of a Women's Centre in Kerry. She also shared a recitation of one of her soon to be published poems on our broadcast. This episode is also dedicated to the memory of our beloved sister. We share this memorial she wrote on the passing of Andrea Dworkin, whom she mentions i...

This conversation between Max Wilbert and Vince Emanuele covers mutual aid, organizing strategies, revolution vs. reform, coronavirus, survival, the Iraq war, the crumbling of the United States, and more. Vince Emanuele was born and raised in America's Rust-Belt and lives in Michigan City, Indiana. In 2002, he joined the United States Marine Corps. In 2005, Vince refused orders for a third deploym...