Caroline’s Visionary Activist Radio Show is a constantly evolving experiment in Radio Magic.
The show provides the Mythological News, the Themes of Now, and has as guests anyone with a piece of the puzzle for Dreaming, Conjuring and Implementing a more lovingly ingenious world.
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Intro and Outro Music: Amikaeyla Gaston (vocals) & Jaqui MacMillan (drums)
Midpoint break music: Betty Ball’s blues by Taj Mahal (on album ‘Conjure’)
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Most recent broadcasts:
June 10, 2021
Gemini Solar Eclipse-Liberating Language
Gemini Solar Eclipse-Liberating Language
Caroline welcomes the return of Miguel Rivera
who collaborated with Mentor Mahout Fran Quinn, to craft translations of their Beloved Poet ally, Humberto Ak’abal, K’iche’ Maya poet from Guatemala, recognized globally as voice for indigenous Guatemalan poetry and arts. Miguel remarks on the untimely death of Humberto in January 2019. “All I am moved to add at this time is that his poems are needed even more today given the monumental task we have ahead of us in restoring elegance, beauty, eloquence, grace and civility to the world in the years to come.”
In the Courtyard of the Moon, published by Tia Chucha Press
Let’s understand how a poetic voice emerges from the cruel faux underworld of humans, who were missing the whole point of life,
(Guatemala 1956-1995)- Ak’abal carries the language of delving into the poison, whereby to be diagnosing and proffering the antidote… Re-minding us of the liberating language of collaborative kinship.
Miguel: “When a country suffers from constant waves of violence, it is reflected in the collective at a high level of numbness and disori-entation. Many things are left unattended, roads, buildings, bridges, houses, and people. There is no reliable system of laws. The courts are corrupt, making the law of the gun prevail where common sense and respect for human life had been the norm.”
Onward to re-weaving the fabric of creation.
Re-member when Hercules was destroying the world with rampages (uninitiated Mars) – the gods sentenced him to the Underworld to learn spinning, knitting, and weaving.
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Starhawk (Credit- Stephan Readmond)
Confluencing of Allies, to protect water, become like water…
Caroline welcomes Starhawk, who be filing her scouting report, upon returning from the
1000 Grandmothers group in Minnesota, to stop the Line 3 pipeline which is threatening the pristine lakes where wild rice grows and the headwaters of the Mississippi.
“Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess and the ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, and its sequel City of Refuge.
Her most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics, power, conflict and communications.
Starhawk
Starhawk: starhawk.org
1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations: 1000grandmothers.com/stop-line-3.html
**Press Release below
· Support the upcoming Treaty People Gathering June 5-8 (treatypeoplegathering.com), when thousands will gather in Minnesota to stop the pipeline. If you can’t come yourself, help spread the word using the Outreach Toolkit (mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsletter/1415199264) for social media
· Support the indigenous activists on the front lines of this struggle:
https://donorbox.org/honor-the-earth-donation
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May 27, 2021
Remake the World
Photo: Shuttleworth Foundation
Caroline welcomes, ally of deep delving erudition and liberating lucidity, Astra Taylor,
Twitter: @astradisastra
Hidden Driver is the creative home of Laura Hanna and Astra Taylor, who use every medium at their disposal—documentary, animation, the written word, activist campaigning, and ethical spectacle making—to better understand the world, connect with others, and challenge the status quo.
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May 20, 2021
Power of effective dedication ~ Saturn stationing
Caroline welcomes denizen of Yosemite, Ron Kauk, who lives in El Portal, the doorway, which is deft because today we get to open portals between worlds, to suffuse the memosphere with sane reverent common sense.
“Ron Kauk is a legendary Yosemite climber. He recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his many accomplishments, within and beyond climbing. We talked about life in Camp 4 in the 70s, climbing ‘Astroman’ with John Bachar, influential music and books, stories from a brief career in Hollywood, doing the FA of ‘Magic Line’, his non-profit Sacred Rok, daily practices, connecting with Mother Nature, and much more.”
and a squosh of Star Hawk that we may bless her dedicated effective imminent adventure, on which she will file a full scouting report, upon her return. (See full press release from 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations below.)
Actions to support the dedication of the Grandmothers: www.1000grandmothers.com/stop-line-3.html
(Template to write a letter to the Bidens; Join the demonstration on May 26th in St Paul, Minnesota; & more)
& an ally says the best way to get in touch with Jill Biden is twitter! twitter.com/FLOTUS & twitter.com/DrBiden
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Press Release
For Immediate Release: May 19, 2021
1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations: www.1000grandmothers.com
Grandmothers Supporting Grandmothers to Stop Line 3!
Grandmothers from around the US are journeying to Minnesota this month to support the Anishanaabe Water Protectors at their camps along the route of Enbridge’s proposed new Line 3 pipeline, which would carry dirty tar sands crude oil through pristine watersheds, wild rice lakes, and sacred lands. 26 members of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations, along with five Lakota grandmothers will converge on May 22 to support indigenous elders and Water Protectors who have encamped along the proposed route to stop construction of Line 3.
1000 Grandmothers is based in Northern California, and their sister group of elders will be coming from South Dakota. The grandmothers are teachers, writers, homemakers, gardeners, ranchers and health workers, and include newcomers to environmental causes along with longtime activists.
Enbridge, a multinational energy transportation company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, was responsible for the largest inland oil spill in the U.S. It now seeks to build a pipeline corridor through untouched wetlands and sensitive Mississippi River headwaters, violating the treaty rights of Anishinaabe peoples and nations in its path. The pipeline expansion would allow Enbridge to abandon an older cracked and compromised pipeline, avoiding cleanup and restoration. The new line would bring nearly a million barrels per day of dirty tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin, contributing more to climate change than Minnesota’s entire economy.
“Our traditional responsibility as matriarchs requires us to go to Line 3 and visually show our support for the Water Protectors who are standing the line for Mother Earth,” says Lakota elder Madonna Thunder Hawk, a veteran of struggles for indigenous rights for more than half a century, from the Alcatraz occupation in 1969 to the No DAPL Pipeline encampments at the Standing Rock Reserve.
“You know how people say that a mother has the strength to lift a car up to save her baby?” adds Dr. Nancy Feinstein, a Bay Area organizational consultant and founding member of 1000 Grandmothers. “That is how we feel about the climate crisis – We will stop the fossil fuel industry because it is stealing our grandchildren’s futures.”
The Grandmothers will spend four days at the camps, and then take their message directly to the Governor’s Residence in St Paul for a noon rally on Wednesday, May 26, in coalition with 350 Minnesota and Interfaith Power and Light. They will follow up with an ongoing Grandmother-to-Grandmother letter writing campaign directed at Dr. Jill Biden, seeking her support to protect indigenous sovereignty and environmental sanity by stopping the pipeline and preserving clear waters and untainted land for all peoples’ grandchildren.
PRESS CONTACTS:
Carol Rothman
ca**********@gm***.com
510-684-1931
Pat St. Onge
ps*****@pa*****.net
510-604-9309
* Update on Diane Wilson (guest on April 29th “Protecting Lavaca Bay“) ~ On Wednesday, May 12th, Texas and CODEPINK activists, Diane Wilson and Ann Wright, were arrested in front of the Galveston District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (they were released the next day). On Thursday, May 13th, Diane Wilson ended her hunger strike after 36 days.
