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The Visionary Activist Show – Finding Freedom Under Limitation

Visionary Activist Show Equinox! Finding Freedom Under Limitation Caroline once again hosts, Susan Shannon, that we be finding freedom by cooperating with limitations, at this Big Spooky Opportune Time. Look! fish in Venice canals! Susan Shannon, M. Div.is a Buddhist Prison Ministry Chaplain, pragmatic mystic, poet, dharma, lover, mentor, mentoree, earth and animal steward, and … Continued


Caroline welcomes Shahid Buttar, running for California’s 12th Congressional District (currently held by Nancy Pelosi.) “Since graduating from Stanford Law School in 2003, Shahid has worked in both San Francisco and Washington as a legal advocate, a non-profit leader, a grassroots organizer, and a poet & musician. His wide-ranging work reflects a commitment to intersectional feminism, … Continued


Caroline hosts Ayana Young, land steward/protector, animating stories  of environmental and social justice, deep ecology (“Ecologia  profunda”), and land-based restoration through her podcast & radio  show For the Wild. For The Wild is a love song to disappearing wild  places. (That they may they re-appear!) For the Wild spirals forth voices from the grassroots, featuring … Continued


Live from Jamaica, Caroline welcomes Jamaican Rasta Writing, film and film festival producing, author of 5 books, Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah. The first Black Woman journalist on BBC, she was nonetheless enticed back home to Jamaica in 1972 when Chris Blackwell and Perry Henzell offered her a job as Public Relations Officer for the first … Continued


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The Visionary Activist Show – The darker the lyrics – the jauntier the tune – the Genius of Jamaica

The darker the lyrics – the jauntier the tune – the Genius of Jamaica Astro*politico debriefing: to triumph over chicanery, This Fund Drive, Caroline is offering 2 of her favorite novels, The Harder They Come, by Michael Thelwell (barely 20 copies available in world, and we have them! as pledge enticements.) In this potent, pertinent … Continued


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The Visionary Activist Show – The Joyful Activist!

Electing an irresistible guiding story! On Valentine’s Eve, Caroline welcomes to the Visionary Activist Show, the Joyful Activist, Francis DellaVecchia, that we may honor his splendid article: “Tired of old white men running things?” – wait for it – tis an unexpected encouraging, liberating narrative that ensues.   Francis has been energetically cahooting with Bernie … Continued


Caroline welcomes the return of Max Dashu, that we may partner with everything to compost the war on life — as nutrient to grow a culture of sane, reverent ingenuity, “a wonderful life for the children of all species.” “Max founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in January of 1970 to document women’s history and heritages … Continued


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The Visionary Activist Show – Metabolizing Poison into Nutrient for Democracy

Caroline hosts Stephen Kinzer, author of crucial “All the Shah’s Men – an American Coup & the Roots of M.E Terror (with a “new” preface, written in 2008! “The Folly of Attacking Iran.”) – and his latest book “Poisoner in Chief, Sydney Gottlieb & the CIA Search for Mind Control.” CIA inspired by poisoner Empress … Continued


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The Visionary Activist Show – The Hofeller Files – Trickster be afoot!

Stephanie Hofeller will be my radio guest today! That we may all engage in Liberating Cultural High Jinx! Waxing Lunar Eclipse, as Uranus – Trickster revelatory keeper of democracy, and Eris- goddess of disrupting the up-to-no-good, be stationing to bound onto stage. Anything can happen & it must! Stephanie Hofeller @SHofeller Link to my drive … Continued


We begin the year with inspiring, effective kick butt protection of life, as Caroline welcomes the return of indefatigable, dedicated ally – Diane Wilson, Sea Drift Texas fisher-woman-activist, recently triumphant, “This feels like Justice!” legal victory over Formosa Plastics! “TRLA said the $50 million settlement is the largest in U.S. history involving a private citizen’s … Continued