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 Show – November 19, 2009 at 2:00pm
November 19, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – November 19, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – From the Streets to the Stars
November 12, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes agent of Green For All and co-founder of Art in Action, Alli Chagi-Starr, and Ashel Eldridge aka Seasunz, Hip Hop artist and Educator with the Alliance for Climate Education. They are two of the founders of the CommuniTree Project, and are promoting a cosmological tour with urban youth, "From the Streets to the Stars." The post The Visionary Activist – From the Streets to the Stars appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – November 5, 2009 at 2:00pm
November 05, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – November 5, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – The Power of Story
October 29, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBPrompted by listener enthusiasm, Caroline welcomes Charles Eisenstein the author of The Ascent of Humanity: The Age of Separation, the Age of Reunion, and the convergence of crises that is birthing the transition – a book about the history and future of civilization from a unique perspective: the evolution of the human sense of self. www.ascentofhumanity.com www.realitysandwich.com/miracle The post The Visionary Activist – The Power of Story appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Trickster Medicine, Pragmatic Mysticism and More!
October 22, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline plays a great portion of the collaborative presentation that she and Dr. Andrew Weilgave at Bioneers on October 17th.The full presentation is available at www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – Trickster Medicine, Pragmatic Mysticism and More! appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – 2009 Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Cultural Leadership
October 15, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBTraditionally elders and youth leaders would gather at this Dark of Moon to guide humans back into collaborative cahoots with all our relations…So, more than perfectly Caroline welcomes 2 of this year's Brower Youth Awards winners: Diana Lopez (age 20) from San Antonio Texas, who created the Roots of Change Community Garden in a contaminated industrial area www.swunion.org , and Sierra Crane-Murdoch (age 21), co-founder and National Director of Power Past Coal, building national pressure to m...
The Visionary Activist Show – October 8, 2009
October 08, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline Casey welcomes long-time ally, fellow esotericist, Occ-sci major Dr. Andrew Weil, whose latest book "Why Our Health Matters" contains great common sense and guidance. The post The Visionary Activist Show – October 8, 2009 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – September 17, 2009 at 2:00pm
September 17, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – September 17, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Marie Laveau’s Birthday!
September 10, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBTo honor the great Voodoo Queen of New Orleans,Caroline welcomes back (for the 1st portion of the show) New Orleans native, research professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans, Martha Ward, author of the only reliable biography of Marie Laveau, "Voodoo Queen." The post The Visionary Activist Show – Marie Laveau’s Birthday! appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – September 3, 2009 at 2:00pm
September 03, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – September 3, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – The power of eloquence, story and metaphor
August 27, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe power of eloquence, story and metaphor:Composing the rubble of empire into encouraging nutrient for the Garden of Reverent Ingenuity.To remind us of this endeavour Caroline once again welcomes eloquent pragmatic mystic Martin Prechtelwww.floweringmountain.com "Martín Prechtel is a master of eloquence and innovative language…whose work, both written and oral, promotes the subtle irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language." The post The Visionary Activist Show – The powe...
The Visionary Activist Show – August 20, 2009 at 2:00pm
August 20, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBFour years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, 1/3 of the addresses in the city are vacant or abandoned, and an estimated 11,000 remain homeless. How has a change in the White House been felt in New Orleans? PLUS: as the Obama adminstration meets with coalfield residents and coal industry reps, how will they know the real residents from Big Coal mannequins? With host Kris Welch, noon to one. guests: Bill Quigley, human rights lawyer and law professor (Loyola University, New Orleans)...
The Visionary Activist Show – August 13, 2009 at 2:00pm
August 13, 2009 14:00 - 47 minutes - 54.8 MBThe Morning Show looks at the socalled Blue Dogs in the House. Do they Blue the Shots? Then Alan Boss, author of “THE CROWDED UNIVERSE, The Search for Living Planets" talks about the discovery of amino acids on a comet. In the second hour a discussion of the Sanctuary Policy in San Francisco which is Up for Debate. Wrapping up the program a preview of the Clifford Odets play “Awake and Sing” now at the Aurora Theatre. The post The Visionary Activist Show – August 13, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared...
The Visionary Activist Show – August 6, 2009 at 2:00pm
August 06, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – August 6, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Navajo Nation Leads Indian Country with New Green Jobs Legislation
July 30, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Wahleah Johns and Enei Begaye, 2 Navajo Tribal leaders, co-founders of Black Mesa Water Coalition www.blackmesawatercoalition.org to celebrate, encourage and nourish the passing of the Navajo Green Economy Legislation on July 21st the Solar Eclipse Care-taking of Mother Earth New Moon in Cancer. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Navajo Nation Leads Indian Country with New Green Jobs Legislation appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Honoring the Story-tellers Who are Leaving Us Now
July 23, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline pays homage to Rev Ike who is leaving us now, "If we can dream it up we can dream it down," playing excerpts from his great "Get your But Out of the Way," also playing excerpts from her "Summer Solstice Talk – The Wedding of Mars and Venus." The post The Visionary Activist Show – Honoring the Story-tellers Who are Leaving Us Now appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – July 16, 2009 at 2:00pm
July 16, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – July 16, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – The Hummingbird’s Daughter; Compassion Trumps Tyranny
July 09, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Luis Alberto Urrea, the author of her current favorite novel in the world "The Hummingbird's Daughter."His ancestress, the historically based heroine, Teresita, follows the path of The Medicine Woman as antidote to colonial tyranny.She is the part of us that never wavers, no matter how great the cruelty, from reverent ingenious spiralling dynamic collaborative peace as one's strategy and being.His latest work is "Into The Beautiful North."www.luisurrea.com The post The Vis...
The Visionary Activist Show – Raven Rattle Radio
July 02, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MB"See, that raven rattle says, this is how we are, inextricably one with everything, however tricked, riding in fact on the back of trickiness itself." William KittredgeJoining Caroline, to ride on the back of trickiness itself, are long-time allies Carolyn Raffensperger, Future Guardian, effective advocate for all us flora and faunawww.sehn.org as well as Alex Steffen, whose World Changing book and site constellate the global community of necessary dire critique and the wealth of ingenious ...
The Visionary Activist Show – Summer Solstice Celebration
June 25, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe Wedding of Venus and Mars, spiralling all that has been falsely estranged back into dynamic harmony. With Amikaeyla Gaston, recorded live at Ashkenaz in Berkeley, Sunday June 21, 2009 The post The Visionary Activist Show – Summer Solstice Celebration appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – This Solstice Wedding of Mars and Venus
June 18, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBIs a time for spiralling all that has been falsely estranged (a cheap trick of Empire) back into dynamic democratic accord. (Left and right hemispheres, pragmatism and mysticism, activism and magic, humans and pretty much everything else…all are called to this wedding dance.Sharing a dedication to the Compassionate Trickster, Caroline welcomes Dreaming Bear, Lebanese-Cherokee-American-Bard-Evangelical Juju Poet, that we may all contribute our sweet medicine to the collective elixir for the we...
The Visionary Activist Show – Wedding the land
June 11, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes story-teller-bard Martin Shaw, author of "A Branch From the Lightning Tree, Ecstatic Myth and Grace in Wildness," to co-narrate the sky-earth story guiding us to the Summer Solstice wedding of Venus and Mars. We draw upon dark chivalry to invite the man and woman within us all to wed the land once more. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Wedding the land appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – June 4, 2009 at 2:00pm
June 04, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – June 4, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – The Economics of Happiness, Building Genuine Wealth
May 28, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes ally Mark Anielski, ecological economist, Professor of Business and Economics, currently advising the Chinese government on greening GDP accounting, president of his family-owned corporation, which specializes in the economics of well-being, author of "The Economics of Happiness.""A genuinely wealthy community is one which has articulated its values and lives accordingly," dedicated to the flourishing well-being of all life in dynamic accord. May it be so!www.genuinewealth.n...
The Visionary Activist Show – The Big Necessity, Human Waste and Why it Matters
May 21, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Rose George, author of "The Big Necessity, Human Waste and Why it Matters," who, in the tradition of all great women, has journeyed to the Underworld, literally, and returned to tell a story essential to everyone who eats,"up-loads" and thus must "down-load." It is (way past) time to speak about the unspeakable, prima materia in alchemy, and our deteriorating global sanitation infra-structure which poses more risk, causes more death, than anything else we fear. Like the best...
The Visionary Activist Show – May 14, 2009
May 14, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes brain scientist, true Medicine Woman, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, presenter of the TED talk narrating her stroke, guiding us into intimacy with our brains, that we may remember, "we are the life force power of the universe, and may "choose to run the deep inner peace circuitry of the right hemispheres of our brain."She made her arduous journey of recovery, contributing essential narrative and knowledge to the collective elixir we are all brewing for the world at this time of dir...
The Visionary Activist Show – May 7, 2009
May 07, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes, in the midst of KPFA Fund Drive, with a few Mercury retrograde techno-kerfuffles, Woody Tasch, author of "Slow Money," an invocation of the necessary new slow earth-based local-global economy. The post The Visionary Activist Show – May 7, 2009 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist – April 30, 2009
April 30, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBRestoring Intimacy with Everything Full Venus Woof – Here comes the Energy of Amazon, Durga, Sekhmet, Nemesis, and the Trickster Wrathful Dakinis!Caroline welcomes long-time astrological ally Daniel Giamario www.shamanicastrology.com to navigationally guide us through the Mars-Venus cycles of now (with whom all indigenous traditions are intimate) with their pertinence to our personal and collective lives. The post The Visionary Activist – April 30, 2009 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Full-Woof Venus: The Gods’ Bail-Out Offer!
April 23, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes fellow Water Dragon astrological story-teller Antero Alli that we may animate the astro*mythological*political* meta-story of now, within which lies the bail-out offer to the humans from the rest of creation. Despite our befoibled bad manners as a species, we humans are proffered an opportunity to make good, as the protoplasm of reality becomes particularly susceptible to imaginative reverence. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Full-Woof Venus: The Gods’ Bail-Out Offe...
The Visionary Activist Show – KPFA-Pacifica’s Birthday Council of Calling in The Ancestral Voices
April 16, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBKPFA-Pacifica's Birthday Council of Calling in The Ancestral Voices (welcoming presents – donations from the listening community to KPFA on this most auspicious solar return!)an astrological reading of KPFA-Pacifica's chart, both delineating the powerful transits that provide navigational guidance for Pacifica and for each of us, and inviting power from the ancestor voices (Pacifica Archives) to gather clarity and woof for us all to best contribute to the culture of reverent ingenuity emergi...
The Visionary Activist Show – Rebroadcast of Spring: Green Fire! Address, Part 1
April 09, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline re-plays Part One of her Spring Address: Green Fire! Vernal Equinox CSIwith Celtic Harpist Lee Davenort. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Rebroadcast of Spring: Green Fire! Address, Part 1 appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Mending our broken treaties with Flora and Fauna
April 02, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBMending our broken treaties with Flora and Fauna: To further guide us humans to dynamic collaboration with animals and plants, Caroline welcomes Scotty Johnson Senior Outreach coordinator for Defenders of Wildlife , lover of wild places, dedicated to protecting our wild kin, and guiding us to have ever more-informed reverence for life. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Mending our broken treaties with Flora and Fauna appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Exxon Valdez: Vernal Equinox-CSI
March 26, 2009 14:00 - 46 minutes - 53 MBTo animate this New Moon in Aries,Venus' Underworld journey, and the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on Good Friday March 24, 1989 – we activate our inner and outer CSI, to investigate the crime, gather force for redress, and greater determination to protect the wild beauty with which we are entrusted, Caroline welcomes back Gwitch'in elder, Sarah James, and pragmatic environmental mystic, Dune Lankard…Right Now Mount Redoubt is continuing to e...
The Visionary Activist Show – Green Fire for Spring – Alcohol Can Be a Gas! part 2
March 19, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBGreen Fire for Spring – Alcohol Can Be a Gas! part 2Caroline welcomes back long-time permaculture bio-fuels teacher activist genie, David Blume, Executive Director of the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, dispelling objections with gleeful informed ingenuity, David opens the door for us all to go through into an ingenious and witty democratic community future (composting corporate tyranny as a bi-product).May every rude human kerfuffle catalyze human ingenuity! Onward team o...
The Visionary Activist Show – Pluto and Green Building!
March 12, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes Pluto as this week's guest, in myriad forms:"Illinois declares Pluto is still a planet!" and in one of her favorite Plutonic life-forms, mega-influential Green Builder , David Johnston. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Pluto and Green Building! appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – March 5, 2009 at 2:00pm
March 05, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – March 5, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Let Imagination lay the tracks for the Reality Train!
February 26, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBLet's invite Venus, art, beauty and intimacy back from her exile, to be honored as a leading evolutionary ally, with author Denis Dutton, joining us from New Zealand, with his book, The Art Instinct," a Darwinian honoring of the evolutionary adaptogen leadership of art.http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dutton09/dutton09_index.html DENIS DUTTON, a philosopher, is founder and editor of the highly regarded Web publication, Arts & Letters Daily. He teaches the philosophy of art at the University o...
The Visionary Activist Show – Trickster Council: Remembering Kinship, Composting Dread
February 19, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes long-time fellow Trickster Bard, David Grimes, that we may explore "the dawning of the Age of Aquarius," why not? Honor indigenous prophecy and call upon the Community of All Beings, past, present and future… The post The Visionary Activist Show – Trickster Council: Remembering Kinship, Composting Dread appeared first on KPFA.
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February 12, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBYo Team take heart! Caroline welcomes long-time mega-effective community organizer green activist Trickster, Paul Glover, whose manifest solutions to Philadelphia can apply to any city. While composting the snark (of those who derive status and/or identity from fear, cyncicism, privileged counter-democratic condescension) – as one of the ingredients from which the desirable future sprouts and blooms. Paul writes "To hell with tragedy. Let's quit dreading the news…There are Philadelphia soluti...
The Visionary Activist Show – Mid-Winter Alchemy
February 05, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes master animistic alchemist, Micah Nelson www.al-kemi.com to provide us with nutrient tonic, elixirs brewed in the cave of Mid-Winter, both metaphoric and literalthat we may be ever more effective players on the team of creation, availing ourselves of ancient wisdom given fresh vernacular voice. Yip! Yip! Awooooooo…… The post The Visionary Activist Show – Mid-Winter Alchemy appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Alcohol Can Be a Gas!
January 29, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes long-time permaculture bio-fuels teacher activist genie, David Blume,Executive Director of the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, dispelling objections with gleeful informed ingenuity, David opens the door for us all to go through into an ingenious and witty democratic community future (composting corporate tyranny as a bi-product).May every rude human kerfuffle catalyze human ingenuity! Onward team o tricksters and pragmatic mystics.www.alcoholcanbeagas.com...
The Visionary Activist Show – Inauguration Augury – Animating the Spirit of Democracy – January 22, 2009 at 2:00pm
January 22, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBInauguration Augury – Animating the Spirit of DemocracyAimistic pantheistic conjuring at the Jefferson Memorial, Washington DC.Three Native Washington DC women, Caroline Casey, Caroline Kenner, and Katrina Messenger, convene a ceremony of Blessing and Woof with contributions from many earnest and/or playful traditions dedicating to the magic of this time – Inauguration 09. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Inauguration Augury – Animating the Spirit of Democracy – January 22, 2009 at 2:...
Visonary Activist – Embodying Trickster Activism!
January 08, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBFor our live Breer Rabbit jump through the doorway into 2009, Caroline welcomes inspirational embodiment of Compassionate Trickster, Tim DeChristopher, who on December 19th, as a Trickster Agent of the CommonWealth, and supported by all the flora and fauna of this planet, saw the open door of opportunity and jumped right through to disrupt the BLM oil and gas auction by bidding against participating oil & gas companies. He ended up "winning" the leases for 22,500 acres of beautiful land near ...
The Visionary Activist Show – January 1, 2009 at 2:00pm
January 01, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – January 1, 2009 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Making Light of Darkness – December 25, 2008 at 2:00pm
December 25, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBBroadcast of Caroline's Winter Solstice address, Making Light of Darknesswith music by Imani.As Empire goes down (ED = "Empire Disfunction") into the roiling Cauldron of Rebirth,the culture of collaborative ingenious reverent cahoots spirals up from the froth.Navigating instructions for the transition from 2008-2009, complete with how to hitch a ride on a spiral. The post The Visionary Activist Show – Making Light of Darkness – December 25, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – Winter Solstice Cauldron of Re-birth – December 18, 2008 at 2:00pm
December 18, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBAs we dive into this Mother of All Winter Solstices, to compost tyranny within and withoutas rich nutrient for emergent culture of reverent ingenuity, Caroline welcomes Philip Slater,prolific author of the perennially pertinent "The Pursuit of Loneliness," the novel, "How I Saved the World,"and the just released at this perfect time, "The Chrysalis Effect."www.philipslater.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – Winter Solstice Cauldron of Re-birth – December 18, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared f...
The Visionary Activist Show – December 11, 2008 at 2:00pm
December 11, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – December 11, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – December 4, 2008 at 2:00pm
December 04, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – December 4, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist Show – November 27, 2008 at 2:00pm
November 27, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBThe post The Visionary Activist Show – November 27, 2008 at 2:00pm appeared first on KPFA.
The Visionary Activist: 30th anniversary of Jonestown Murders. – November 20, 2008
November 20, 2008 14:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBCaroline welcomes prize-winning LA Times journalist Tim Reiterman, author of the recently re-published "Raven-The Untold Story of the Rev Jim Jones and His People."Reiterman was wounded on the jungle airstrip attack that killed Rep. Leo Ryan and 3 reporters and a temple defector 30 years ago. 30th anniversaries are opportune times to glean lessons about leadership, and the toxic-mimic of leadership – the tyrannical father, reminding us to never surrender our autonomy, to break the spell of t...