Peter and Mickey spend most of the hour in conversation with attorney Caitlin Henry and sociologist Laleh Behbehanian; their topic is the rise in state legislative efforts to suppress or punish political protest. At the end of the program, we hear an update about the Golden Rule, a historic sailboat used in anti-nuclear and pro-peace actions; crew members Helen Jaccard and …
Visionaries – 12.19.16
“Architecture and Design, Past and Future,” with John Lobell. Computation has changed everything about architecture and design.
Colin Todhunter – Pesticides, GMOs and corporate control: The poster child is Monsanto but Neil Young is the main act
Neil Young has a long history of activism. He is a co-founder of Farm Aid, which works to support small and family farmers in North America, while his song Ohio is often considered to be one of the greatest protest songs ever made. Last year, Young pledged a $100,000 donation to Vermont’s legal fight against the GMO-labelling lawsuit, and he …
Pratap Antony – Coexisting In Peace And Harmony With Earth’s Biodiversity
“What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her. Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn. And tied her with fences and dragged her down” ~ Jim Morrison Earths resources are being wantonly destroyed due to human greed, ignorance, cruelty and sheer recklessness. …