KPFA - The Visionary Activist Show
1,046 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsDedicated to “anything we need to know to have a democracy”: Democratic Animism, Pragmatic Mysticism, Applied Divination, Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity. Hosted by Caroline Casey. Her guests are allies contributing to a culture of reverent ingenuity. Critique and Solution.
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The Visionary Activist – November 18, 2010
November 18, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBTranspartison Harmony: in which Caroline honors the return of Venus from the Underworld with Medicine for the next stage of culture! by telepathically syncretizing Prince Charles (and his movie “Harmony”),Grover Norquist, the Wrathful Dakinis w/back-up from the actual Steve Bhaerman. The post The Visionary Activist – November 18, 2010 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – November 11, 2010
November 11, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBBrewing Part 2 CoyoteNetworkNews’ post-election coverage w/Pat Ewing. The post The Visionary Activist – November 11, 2010 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Electing a story, Inaugurating a Strategy.
November 04, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes the return of democratic political operative,former Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore, metaphysical scholar,Pat Ewing that we may gather our feisty pluck to metabolize this election’s story into nutrient for the emergent culture of sane reverence and dynamic ingenuity. The post The Visionary Activist – Electing a story, Inaugurating a Strategy. appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – October 28, 2010
October 28, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBPre-Election-Halloween Trickster Serendipitous Synchronicity Juju w/ great guest ally, Bob Gough, Secretary, Intertribal Council on Utility Policy Activist, Rosebud, South Dakota, mega-strategy guide for Red Green Energy http://www.nativeenergy.com Gough has been energized by Intertribal COUP’s success. “Fighting uranium, fighting coal mining, fighting the sulfur Exxon mine. All that fighting begins to take a lot of wear and tear on you,” he said. “It’s very good for us now working for re...
The Visionary Activist – Composting War on Drugs into Nutrient for the Dance with Sacrament
October 21, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Ethan Nadelmann. the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs; Described by Rolling Stone as “the point man” for drug policy reform efforts, Ethan Nadelmann is widely regarded as the most prominent proponent of drug policy reform. AND Harry G. Levine, phd, ardent advocate for actual democracy,Professor of Sociology Queens College, City University of NY, whose late...
The Visionary Activist – Trickster says: “VOTE!”
October 14, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBOn her birthday, Caroline welcomes the return of Paul Loeb from last week for part 2: discourse on democracy. Paul Loeb is an ardent advocate for democratic participation, author of “The Impossible Will Take a Little While,” and “Soul of a Citizen – Living with Conviction in Challenging Times,” that we may compost predictable righteous disappointment into nutrient for re-enthused engagement in the worthy, necessary experiment of democracy. www.paulloeb.org The post The Visionary Activist – ...
The Visionary Activist – The Impossible Will Take a Little Longer
October 07, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Paul Loeb, ardent advocate for democratic participation, author of “The Impossible Will Take a Little Longer,” and “Soul of a Citizen – Living with Conviction in Challenging Times,” that we may compost predictable righteous disappointment into nutrient for re-enthused engagement in the worthy, necessary experiment of democracy. The post The Visionary Activist – The Impossible Will Take a Little Longer appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Fund Drive show
September 30, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBStepping into the center of the storm, Caroline broadcasts with Pandora Thomas of Global Exchange and David Johnston www.whatsworking.com from the West Coast Green conference in SF, pitching to stabilize and fertilize KPFA, with segments of Caroline’s Equinox inter-woven. The post The Visionary Activist – Fund Drive show appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Synchronicity Radio
September 23, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Tony Vigorito, author of the splendid romp of a pertinent novel “Nine Kinds of Naked,” w/skookum counsel for navigating the wild seas of now. www.tonyvigorito.com The post The Visionary Activist – Synchronicity Radio appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – September 16, 2010
September 16, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBIndigenous Navigational Guidance for Now Caroline welcomes two Indigenous Women Stewards of Navigational lore: Elizabeth Lindsey. Polynesian explorer, keeper of ethnonavogational lore, first female fellow in the history of the NationalGeographic, currently collaborating withgoogle ongeospatial “Map of the Human Story.” And Melisaa Nelson (Anishinaabe/Metis Turtle Moumtain Chippewa, cultural ecologist andindigenous scholar-activist. Director of the Cultural Conservancu. www.elizabethlindsey.c...
The Visionary Activist – September 9, 2010
September 09, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes the return of David Blume, ally of synchronous ingenuity, essential inventive collaborative contributer of alcohol as fuel. Executive Director of The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA), the founder and Chief Technical Officer for Blume Distillation LLC, he is the author of the Amazon.com best selling book Alcohol Can Be A Gas! For more than 25 years he has focused on designing and implementing sustainable energy solutions for rural and urban comm...
The Visionary Activist – Honoring New Orleans JuJu-Resilience = necessary Medicine for Now!
August 26, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MB5th year of Katrina. The Ouija Board of Directors convene to sort the world out. Caroline welcomes Lee Barclay, editor of just released, “What Can’t Be Lost – 88 stories and traditions from the Sacred City” and contributor (co-founder Box of Wine Parade, 6t9 Halloween Parade) Ann Marie Coviello. The post The Visionary Activist – Honoring New Orleans JuJu-Resilience = necessary Medicine for Now! appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Woman Woof!
August 19, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Tamam Kahn, author of “Untold: A history of the woves of Mohammed” and Agnes Pilgrim, one of the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, to summon the Wrathful Dakinis within us all, feasting on tyranny, grrrr…that actual democracy rises now. The post The Visionary Activist – Woman Woof! appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Grief as Fuel to Catalyze Dynamic Reverence
August 12, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes environmental artist, Chris Jordan, leader of Midway Journey, an arts and media journey to Midway Atoll, to document one of the most profound and symbolic environmental tragedies of our time: the death by poisoning and starvation of thousands of albatrosses who mistake floating plastic trash for food. Also joining us on air: Manuel Maqueda, environmental strategist, a member of Midway Journey, and the cofounder of Plastic Pollution Coalition. (Plastic Pollution Coalit...
The Visionary Activist – Summer Solstice
August 05, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes David G. Gallo, deep ocean scientist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The post The Visionary Activist – Summer Solstice appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – July 22, 2010
July 22, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline co-riffs with skookum General Manager of WPFW,the Pacifica Washington DC sister station, Grigsby Hubbard, about democracy, leadership, Pacifica, radio, creativity. The post The Visionary Activist – July 22, 2010 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – July 15, 2010
July 15, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes David G. Gallo, deep ocean scientist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute to guide us into the realm of deep sea, for which he is an ambassador. “He is one of the 1st oceanographers to use manned submarines and robots to map the ocean floor with unprecedented clarity and detail.” That we may explore the dire beauty of the Gulf. www.whoi.edu/ The post The Visionary Activist – July 15, 2010 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – July 8, 2010
July 08, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBDay 80 of the Gulf Cataclysm, over 86, 237, 600 and climbing gallons into Gulf. Caroline welcomes (from TEDxoil). LaTosha Brown is an Alabama native and Director of the Gulf Coast Fund for Ecological Health and Community Renewal, a community-led social justice philanthropy in the Gulf South region. For the past five years, she has served as a founding Advisor to the Gulf Coast Fund that has provided $2.7 million dollars in grants, technical assistance and support to over 170 coastal groups ...
The Visionary Activist – Summer Solstice – Setting Sail with Yemaya, Part 2
July 01, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline plays Part 2 of her Summer Soltsice Talk and reports on the TEDx Council on the Gulf Cataclysm, 'cause we owe it to life to know the full horror of what humans have inflicted on their kin, in order to earn the redemptive Act V. The post The Visionary Activist – Summer Solstice – Setting Sail with Yemaya, Part 2 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Summer Solstice – Setting Sail with Yemaya, Part 2
July 01, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline plays Part 2 of her Summer Soltsice Talk and reports on the TEDx Council on the Gulf Cataclysm, 'cause we owe it to life to know the full horror of what humans have inflicted on their kin, in order to earn the redemptive Act V. The post The Visionary Activist – Summer Solstice – Setting Sail with Yemaya, Part 2 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – June 24, 2010 at 2:00pm
June 24, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – June 24, 2010 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – June 17, 2010
June 17, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBSummer Solstice – Hoisting our Sails of Willingness to set forth into this most dire beauty dynamic of earth-sea fields. Caroline welcomes Ally Story-teller, Martin Shaw, and Ally David Grimes journeying down from Alaska to co-cahoot, all converging in Point Reyes CA this weekend. Swoosh…swoosh… The post The Visionary Activist Show – June 17, 2010 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Dark of Moon, Dark of Oil Regime, Lifeboat Movement Goes Live
June 10, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes appropriately dire long-time prognosticator of peak oil industrial collapse, fellow presenter at Harmony Festival, Mike Ruppert. Critique and encouragement to build life-boats. "Localize or Die." http://www.collapsenet.com/ The post The Visionary Activist – Dark of Moon, Dark of Oil Regime, Lifeboat Movement Goes Live appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – June 3, 2010 at 2:00pm
June 03, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – June 3, 2010 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Live Like We Love the Ocean! Poignancy is kinship.
May 27, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes marine biologist, ardent protector of the seas, Wallace J Nichols that our grief may fuel our deeper dedication to all we love on this beautiful blue planet at this time of cataclysmic horror. http://www.wallacejnichols.org The post The Visionary Activist – Live Like We Love the Ocean! Poignancy is kinship. appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – May 20, 2010
May 20, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Lewis Hyde, professor, former director of Creative Writing at Harvard, author of "The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property" and "Trickster Makes This World," perpetually pertinent works with which we will conversationally cavort into pertinence into the Dire Beauty of Now. The post The Visionary Activist – May 20, 2010 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Tar and Voodoo Gulf Cataclysm Radio
May 13, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes 2 extraordinary voices for the sea: Diane Wilson, 4th generation Gulf Coast fisher-woman, from once beautiful Sea Drift, Texas, triumphant against all odds taker on of polluting corporations, Formosa, Dow Chemical, BP, author of "An Unreasonable Woman," and "Holy Roller." AND Martin Prechtel, master of eloquence, story guide to dynamic reverence, native of New Mexico, a leader in the Mayan village of Santiago Atitlan, author of innumerable books including "The Disobedience o...
The Visionary Activist – All Oil is Spilled – Gulf Coast Cataclysm: Convening the Council of Reverent Ingenuity
May 06, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBto animate our cultural leadership response to the Gulf Coast obscene oil cataclysm Caroline welcomes Dune Lankard, Atabaskan Eyak from Copper River Delta in Alaska, conservation economies derived from long-term unresolved impacts of Exxon Valdez disaster. Followed by Darryl Hannah, actress-environmental advocate, voice for the earth, Ambassadress from the Sea, and David Blume, sane, reverent fuel advocate author of "Alcohol Can Be a Gas" to infuse sense into our collective that we may compos...
The Visionary Activist Show – April 29, 2010
April 29, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBBecoming Agents of Cool Response in a Hot Reactive Climate: Caroline welcomes Lori Grace, effective agent for the earth, trained by Al Gore as Cultural Climate Green Guide, key player in helping Marin Energy Authority survive PR attacks of PG&E (conventional California energy interests.) fellow presenter at New Living Expo… that we all may calibrate – "complex fine-tune adjustment so that communication is clear and received well," says our KPFA tech ally Vini Beacham.) The post The Visiona...
The Visionary Activist – Earth Day
April 22, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBDick Russell, author of "Eye of the Whale" joins Caroline to guide us to the renewal of kinship offered by the Gray Whales of San Ignacio Lagoon which requires a responsibility on the part of all sane, reverent humans to do everything to honor and protect these whales, especially today, when a proposal to resume whale slaughter is being proposed to the International Whaling Commission. The post The Visionary Activist – Earth Day appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Happy Solar Return Pacifica Fund Drive
April 15, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBPlanting the Radio Garden – kinship via sacred plants. Caroline welcomes, for the 1st segment of the show, college professor and writer on the therapeutic uses of LSD, Mariavittoria Mangini ("Yes, Grandma took acid!") and Valerie Corral founder of WAMM – Wo/men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana – followed by excerpts from our premium- with Dr. Andrew Weil, botanist Stephen Buhner and more! The post The Visionary Activist – Happy Solar Return Pacifica Fund Drive appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – April 8, 2010
April 08, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBBaja Whales, Earthquakes, Pluto Stationing Big forces moving under the surface. Caroline invites us all to animate the story and strategy of now, while previewing the themes in her up-coming Greenfest SF presentation Trickster Medicine – Co-Operators Are Standing By! Trickster Medicine is the sine qua non for our Social Strategy Up-grade, because it brews all the other Medicines of Social Activism together into an irresistible elixir. that gives us the mojo to animate the most desirable sto...
The Visionary Activist Show – April 1, 2010 at 2:00pm
April 01, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – April 1, 2010 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – March 25, 2010 at 2:00pm
March 25, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – March 25, 2010 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist- Plant Co-Operators Are Standing By – March 18, 2010
March 18, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline and the waxing exalted Equinox Moon welcome back Stephen DeAngelo, Director of the Harborside Health Medical Cannabis Center in Oakland and San Jose…that we humans may come back into mannered cahoots with the rest of creation. The post The Visionary Activist- Plant Co-Operators Are Standing By – March 18, 2010 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – Venus Takes Energetic Cultural Lead
March 11, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBVenus Takes Energetic Cultural Lead Ally Carolyn Raffensperger and her dream are Caroline's guests: "I dreamed last night that environmentalists found a warp in the space-time continuum and we moved our work up to the future to prepare the way… We knew it was the only thing that would allow the world to have a sporting chance." www.sehn.org The post The Visionary Activist – Venus Takes Energetic Cultural Lead appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – March 4, 2010 at 2:00pm
March 04, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – March 4, 2010 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – February 25, 2010
February 25, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBHealing the Ocean! Full Moon High-tide now in Pisces is specifically indigenously known as the Heal the Ocean Full Moon, so our timing is apt. The currents and winds are with us…We welcome two great advocates and friends of the sea, to help us humans navigate back into harmony with the ocean.Caroline welcomes Roz SavageRoz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. She has rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean and is attempting to become the fir...
The Visionary Activist – Be the Change!
February 18, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes ally writer and documentary film maker Anneke Campbell, co-author with Thomas Linzey (The Democracy School) of "BE the Change: How to Get What You Want In Your Community" a catalyzing heartening collection of stories to guide us to be ever more effective players on the Team of Creation! The post The Visionary Activist – Be the Change! appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist –
February 04, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBJoining us from Bangkok, Thailand, Caroline welcomes back her favorite detective novel author, John Burdett, author of "Bangkok 8,"etc. and his latest, "The God-father of Kathmandu," (a multi-dimensional, deep-delving Underworld tour of Apocalyptic Buddhism, Tantric sex, "farang" (white people) spiritual third world narcolepsy, drug smuggling in service to Tibet, dedicated to the maturation of Global mind, profoundly pertinent, riveting,witty tale. The post The Visionary Activist – appeared...
The Visionary Activist – Carbon and Spirit: Creating a Reverent Energy Economy
January 28, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Chip Comins, long-time catalyst for a renewable energy economy,Founder, Producer and Executive Director of AREDAY- American Renewable Energy Day,and this week being the national coordinator for Clean Energy Week in Washington DC.In cahoots with last week's guest, Bob Gough, Comins produced the Public Service Announcement “Native Wind Powering America.” www.areday.net www.cleanenergyweek.org www.americanspiritproductions.com www.takepart.com The post The Visionary Activi...
The Visionary Activist – The New Green Economy
January 21, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Bob Gough, secretary for Inter-Tribal Coup, and lawyer for the Lakota Sioux, indefatigable agent of Red Green Power, the development of Wind Power, allying ancient infinite Power with reverently collaborative new technology on Native American reservations.as we both report/cavort on the Conference on The New Green Economy being held in DC.http://ncseonline.org The post The Visionary Activist – The New Green Economy appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – January 14, 2010 at 2:00pm
January 14, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – January 14, 2010 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – January 7, 2010
January 07, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBWe closed last year with Dolphin Radio, we open this New Year with Wolf Radio, that we may mend our broken treaties with our fellow companions on this beautiful planet. Caroline welcomes global activist, Professor and conservation specialist and part-Wolf in human guise -Wolf advocate Rick Steiner. The post The Visionary Activist – January 7, 2010 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – December 31, 2009
December 31, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBIlluminating the Obscene to Save our Dolphin kin – see the movie "The Cove."On this New Year's Eve Kinship with all life Full Moon in Cancer – – Caroline welcomes Ric O'Barry, who created "Flipper", and the dolphin "entertainment" industry and has spent the last 35 years dismantling this same industry of enslaving and slaughtering dolphins. We encourage all sane and reverent people to be informed, see "The Cove," the movie which illuminates the obscene ("obscene" is a Greek Theatrical stage...
The Visionary Activist Show – December 24, 2009
December 24, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBConvening the Compassionate Trickster Round Table to consider the guiding Cahoot of Now: astrological*political*mythological*story-telling with chief Trickster for Coyote Network News Caroline W. Casey that we may be ever more effective players on the Team of Creation at this time of Dire Beauty. The post The Visionary Activist Show – December 24, 2009 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – December 17, 2009 at 2:00pm
December 17, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – December 17, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – December 10, 2009 at 2:00pm
December 10, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – December 10, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – December 3, 2009
December 03, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Pir Zia, the spiritual leader of the Sufi Order Interational, and dedicated to Green Hermeticism,, the ecologically-oriented revivification of Hermetic and alchemical wisdom. He is dedicated to cultivating awareness of the unity of existence and the qualities of heart that naturally arise from this awareness: nobility of character, genuine civility, and creative optimism.www.sevenpillarshouse.org The post The Visionary Activist Show – December 3, 2009 appeared first on KP...
The Visionary Activist Show – November 26, 2009 at 2:00pm
November 26, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – November 26, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.