Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “American Civil Liberties Union”
Thomas Linzey. He is the executive director and an attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has assisted close to 200 communities across the country in eight states to adopt binding local laws that elevate community rights to sustainability over corporate rights and powers. Download this episode (right click and save)18
This is Camille Paglia’s speech and question/answer discussion at Seattle Library. It was posted on the notoriously difficult to use CSPAN website. Download this episode (right click and save)
Darrell Geist is habitat coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign, a position he’s worked in for 12 years. His experience with the Yellowstone buffalo dates back to the early 1990s when he worked with Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers and videographer Mike Mease to publicize the state of Montana’s slaughter of these majestic wild animals. After graduating from college he migrated to …
In this weeks show Vince starts off talking about what hes noticing in nature from his little part of the world and what we’re seeing with the insect population. Then he mentions a candidate for senate in Michigan that supports giving shotguns to homeless people but has a great foreign policy platform and gets in to the Illinois governor race where a multi …
Dr. Mike taught science for 6 years starting in 1975, while he earned a Master’s Degree in Environmental Health. Dr. Evangel has been a practicing chiropractic physician since 1986. He is a 7th degree black belt in tae kwon do. He was invited by the South Korean National Tae Kwon Do Team to be their attending physician at the Asian …
Fifty years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced a nationwide mobilization to back up a demand for real justice and equality for all, a revived “Poor People’s Campaign” today issues the battle cry again, the Trump administration specifically in its crosshairs. As Leid Stories reports, the Poor People’s Campaign may have lost momentum …
Nik Trowbridge is an educator, salon owner, mentor, mother and so much more. In our conversation, she dives right into her core beliefs on self-care and mastery. Her passion is helping single mothers to flourish in life and business. This was a very important part of her success. On her website she recounts, “Fortunately, I had brilliant mentors and …
Erosion of our civil rights in 2017 and what to expect in 2018 John Whitehead is a civil attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights for the the persecuted and oppressed. In 1982 he founded The Rutherford Institute, a non-profit civil liberties and human rights organization headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. …
Lots of rumbling about President Trump’s bizarre behavior and excessive vitriol, but not much evidence that he can be compelled to quit embarrassing himself, his office and the country with his vituperative talk and outrageous actions. Case in point: Pushing both the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the brink of war. Bucking the admonitions of …
From time to time, the travails of the world seem far more daunting, far more powerful, than our capacity to cope, let alone resist. Yet we go from day to day, trying we’re doing our best, we say. Is it our best? Or, are we living within boundaries already set, constantly trying to find a safe place within ourselves in …
