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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.
Listen Live to the Visionary Activist Show!
Thursdays at 2:00 pm pacific / 5:00 pm eastern
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Tune in on the web or Pacifica Radio Station KPFA (94.1 FM) in the San Francisco Bay area.
In Southern California, catch a re-broadcast on KPFK (90.7) every Friday at 1:00 pm and again at 3:00 am from “Something’s Happening at Midnight,” hosted by Buzz and Diane, carrying the legacy of the late Roy Tuckman, aka Roy of Hollywood.
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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:
August 8, 2019
Replay: Sufi Aikido!
Caroline is away brewing more Trickster Medicine for us all,
So here be a worthy replay from June 6th with Terrence Ward, on “the Wahhabi Code”
and she wishes she hadn’t talked so much, more to & fro is future dedication…, and asks for our kind forbearance, because the content is way worthy for us now.
photo: World Affairs Council
We welcome the return of Terence Ward, part two, in conversing manner, whose splendid book, The Wahhabi Code, is the anti-dote… to the toxic tyranny of Wahhabism, and the liberating Medicine of Sufism..
Terence Ward grew up in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Egypt, then on to Berkeley, cross-cultural consultant, and pollinating agent, that we may feel our kinship with the beauty of Islam…
as Terence writes, “Few Westerners know that for 1,000 years up until 1924, Mecca was a center for Sufi ecstatic prayer, dance, music tolerant honoring of the Divine in all beings…”
Anything that’s anywhere is everywhere…tyranny and its beautiful anti-dote…
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August 1, 2019
Medicine of Kick-Butt
The cultivated Medicine of Kick-Butt ornery defiant effective creative dedication to protect what we love.
Caroline hosts long-time mega-ally, indefatigable Diane Wilson,
her spectacular hard won case against Formoso plastic, organizing on the Texas border for the children, parents, all of life…
www.texastribune.org/2019/06/28/federal-judge-rules-lawsuit-formosa-plastics-texas-pollution-case
Diane Wilson, a retired shrimper and an environmental activist, and San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper sued Formosa in July 2017. During the weeklong trial, which began in late March, the plaintiffs dragged in boxes full of thousands of milky white plastic they had painstakingly collected from Lavaca and Matagorda bays and Cox Creek with the help of volunteers.
“I have felt justice delivered and it’s a very rare feeling, and I’m having a hard time getting my head wrapped around what this feels like,” Wilson said Friday. “The judge saw us and he heard us.”
She said the next phase of the trial, in which penalties will be determined, is likely to take place in September.
The plaintiffs are seeking $162 million — $104,828 for every day Formosa was out of compliance with state and federal environmental permits and laws that require companies to report such violations. Any penalties would go toward cleanup costs.”
VICTORIA, Texas— A federal judge in Texas on Thursday found Formosa Plastics liable for polluting Texas waterways with billions of plastic pellets from its plant in Point Comfort. The Taiwanese company is currently seeking permits to build an even larger plastic-making plant along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, La., a project strongly opposed by local residents and national conservation groups.
Former shrimper Diane Wilson from Texas and the San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper sued Formosa after extensively documenting the plastic pellets and powders the company discharged for years into Cox Creek, Lavaca Bay and other nearby waterways. The trial now moves into the remedy and penalty phase, with Formosa facing fines of up to $184 million.
“We showed how recklessly Formosa Plastics pollutes our waterways and communities. The plastics industry clearly needs stronger regulations and oversight,” said Diane Wilson of San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper, the lead plaintiff in the successful civil lawsuit over plastic pollution from the Point Comfort, Texas plant. “As a former shrimper, I know how plastic pollution threatens seafood and other vital industries. And as someone who spent years documenting this plastic pollution, I think it’s time for the federal government to regulate this industry properly.”
“Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight. By 24 she was a boat captain. In 1989, while running her brother’s fish house at the docks and mending nets, she read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun County as the number one toxic polluter in the country. She set up a meeting in the town hall to discuss what the chemical plants were doing to the bays and thus began her life as an environmental activist. Threatened by thugs and despised by her neighbors, Diane insisted the truth be told and that Formosa Plastics stop dumping toxins into the bay.
Her work on behalf of the people and aquatic life of Seadrift, Texas, has won her a number of awards including: National Fisherman Magazine Award, Mother Jones’s Hell Raiser of the Month, Louis Gibbs’ Environmental Lifetime Award, Louisiana Environmental Action (LEAN) Environmental Award, Giraffe Project, Jenifer Altman Award, and the Bioneers Award. She is co-founder of Code Pink and continues to lead the fight for social justice.
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Molly Bang’s “Nobody Particular”From a renowned author/illustrator; a bold, daring, non-fiction picture book that tells the true story of one woman’s fight to protect her environment.
Sometimes we have to take a stand and do what’s right. That’s what Diane Wilson thinks. An independent shrimper in Texas, she ekes out a living in the same waters that her family has worked hard in for generations. When Diane learns that the chemical plants in Texas give out more pollution than in any other state, she decides to stop them.
One woman against a powerful industry is not much of a fair fight, but Diane educates herself, lobbies, protests, writes letters, and never gives up. Based on real events, this is an inspiring, heartfelt story of one woman’s struggle to take a stand against injustice and indifference.
Award-winning author/illustrator Molly Bang has created a compelling narrative, told inventively through a series of black and white graphic panels set against a richly colored gouache background.
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July 25, 2019
Caroline Hosts Astra Taylor
Caroline Hosts Astra Taylor, director of the essential-to-now, beautiful, powerful film What is democracy? (offered as pledge enticement for Fund Drive) author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, Debt Collectivist. zeitgeistfilms.com/film/whatisdemocracy
twitter@astradisastra
From www.whatisdemocracy.info:
Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, and political organizer. She is the director of the philosophical documentaries What Is Democracy? (TIFF 2018), Examined Life (TIFF 2008), and Zizek! (TIFF 2005); the author of the American Book Award winner The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age; and a co-founder of the Debt Collective. She has written for The New York Times, The London Review of Books, The Guardian, The Walrus, The Baffler, n+1, and many other outlets. She is a former Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and a former touring member of the band Neutral Milk Hotel. Her new book, Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, is now out from Metropolitan Books.
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Guest Astra Taylor
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July 18, 2019
Underworld Medicine
Caroline hosts Buddhist Prison Ministry Chaplain, Susan Shannon, that we honor the liberating medicine proffered to us all, from those under greatest adversity.
Susan Shannon, M. Div. is a seeker, student, mystic, poet, dharma lover, student, and teacher, earth and animal steward, and devotee of the heart, interfaith minister and chaplain…. Susan has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for over 45 years, studying with many of Tibet’s greatest teachers here in the United States and abroad.
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Underworld Medicine
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