The Visionary Activist Show

The Visionary Activist Show – Sweet Tooth & Claw

Caroline hosts Kristin Ohlson, whose most recent invaluable book is Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World – Full Moon Waxing, that humans be inspired by such to rejoin the collaborative dance. Quoting Darwin’s contemporary, the Russian scientist-anarchist Peter Kropotkin: “Who are the fittest: those who are continually at war … Continued


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The Visionary Activist Show – Words to Live By

Caroline Hosts Sam Henry; the creator and curator of Daily Wisdom Texts (https://www.dailywisdomtexts.com). Daily Wisdom Texts is a subscription service that sends you text messages from wisdom literature each day to provide a daily moment of meditative reflection. Announcing a partnership with great ally-guest Egyptian aphorism artist, Yahia Lababidi, whom we will quote with abandon … Continued


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The Visionary Activist Show – Deliberate Dedication to Democracy

Caroline Plays excerpts from team Equinox presentation, honoring Democratic Animism Now! (a magnetizing pledge incentive for $75), and co-riffs with Patricia Ewing that we may all spiral into Equinoctial Equilibrium, to be agents of cool response in a hot reactive world…     Patricia is the former Deputy Chief of Staff to Vice President Al … Continued


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The Visionary Activist Show – Re-Storying Equilibrium at Equinox by re-wedding the Land

Caroline re-welcomes up-coming election magic council co-cahooter Patricia Ewing, bringing liberating political diagnostic strategy, and Sean Padraig O’Donoghue, contributing Bardic Equinox guiding for deliberate democracy…. Equal Night & Day, Equal Mars and Venus, Equal humans and rest of our kin! “Nae King, nae Quin, we willna be fooled agin,” sayeth the Wee Free Men (via Terry Pratchett). … Continued


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The Visionary Activist Show – Supporting Lake Merritt & Underwater Kin

  May our rogue species re-enter the choreography of creation, rather than disrupting Nature’s diverse equilibrium…   Caroline, segues from last week, again hosting Citizen naturalist Damon Tighe, on the unfolding die-off at Lake Merritt, Oakland, and the SF Bay… let’s keep this crisis on the altar of urgent pertinence.   Damon is a naturalist … Continued


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The Visionary Activist Show – Transformative Storycraft at Dark of Moon (Replay)

Dark o Moon, when we gather to determine the course of culture, Caroline welcomes, Baratunde Thurston (dedicated to humor, wisdom, and compassion in service to complex conversations.) “Baratunde is an Emmy-nominated host who has worked for The Onion, produced for The Daily Show, advised the Obama White House, and wrote the New York Times bestseller … Continued


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The Visionary Activist Show – “Demand the impossible, defend People’s Park!”

“Demand the impossible, defend People’s Park!” A rousing exhortation, by  Osha Neumann, whom Caroline hosts this hour: The tale of People’s Park in Berkeley – 1969 to now… humming…in ardent pertinence to our plight… Devastation into which flows Community Par; destruction makes its move again, again – the garden roots and bloom and here we are. Honoring Parks as … Continued


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The Visionary Activist Show – Courting the Wild Queen

 Full Moon Radio Magic! Caroline welcomes the return of Sean Padraig O’Donoghue, poet-bard-herbalist whose latest book be Courting the Wild Queen: “Our ancestors are speaking to us through the fever dream, reminding us that there are other ways to live.” https://otherworldwell.com         Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes … Continued