[caption id="attachment_368655" align="alignright" width="194"] Diane Wilson portrait by Robert Shetterly[/caption] Full Moon Tide of Effective Wrathful Dakinis, Caroline hosting Diane Wilson returning with the dedicated Trickster woof that she inspires and encourages in all of us; that, against all odds composts dementor despoiling tyranny…into nutrient for the Community of All Beings. The Sun’s Image today is “Men toiling in a dark pit- a woman calmly lowers a rope!” And Mercury’s degree is “Coal miners emerging from a deep pit- into sunlight,” while trining Ceres, dwarf planet = Flora Fauna = “bold woman asserts self on behalf of life." “We’re losing ground. This planet is losing ground. So things need to happen and they need to happen quick. Our message should be — loud and clear — there comes a time when the home needs protecting and the line needs drawing and anybody that dares cross it acts at their own peril.” “I believe at some time in everyone’s lifetime, they will receive a piece of information and what they do with that information will determine the rest of their lives. No excuses are allowed. Not that they don’t have the money. Or they don’t have an organization already up and running on the ground to support the issue. Or no one will help and the town doesn’t like it and you have no one to babysit the kids. No excuses. Either you don’t or you do and sometimes all that doing requires is picking up a phone and calling a meeting. Then trust that life or the universe or Gaia will step in and your life will become a fantastic roller coaster ride. That’s what happened to me.” Bio: Zinn Education Project/Americans Who Tell the Truth profile on Diane Wilson [1] "A little over four months after launching its first oil shipment from the Texas Gulf Coast, Max Midstream appears to be sailing in hot water. The young oil pipeline and shipping company — founded by Houston real estate developer Todd Edwards and British financier Azad Cola — shipped its first oil in May, shipped its last in June and has since been hit with a brace of expensive lawsuits alleging crimes from fraud to forgery, as well as a lien against its properties for $1.4 million in unpaid bills. Article from Capital & Main: Texas Pipeline Company Max Midstream Goes Quiet [2] [1] https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/wilson-diane/ [2] https://capitalandmain.com/texas-pipeline-company-max-midstream-goes-quiet

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The Visionary Activist Show – Full Moon · Max Midstream Goes Quiet

Originally Broadcast October 27, 2011 - this ever-pertinent interview with Lily Yeh is the medicine and dedication we need now in the world - Beauty Out of Darkness. … invoking Akhilandishvara! the goddess of the power that comes from being broken! Caroline welcomes Lily Yeh, author of “Awakening Creativity,” founder of Barefoot Artists whose encouraging work in Rwanda, China, Ecuador, Haiti, Ghana, Kenya, Syria, Italy, North Philadelphia etc. is dedicated to nourishing and animating redemptive beauty from broken lives. www.barefootartists.org [1]   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [2] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [3] [1] http://www.barefootartists.org [2] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [3] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Beauty Out of Darkness (Archive Show)

Stop the Money Pipeline and Defund Formosa, by uniting with with formidable, dedicated Women: Caroline welcomes Sharon Lavigne and Long-time ally Diane Wilson.   [caption id="attachment_367838" align="alignright" width="178"] Credit: Goldman Environmental Foundation[/caption] Sharon Lavigne is the Founder and Director of RISE St. James, a Black-led community organization based in St. James, Louisiana, dedicated to prevailing over environmental racism. Unite with them to defeat/dissolve the massive Formosa plastics plant, a toxic petrochemical complex that is slated to be built within one mile of an elementary school that serves an almost entirely Black population. RISE St. James on Facebook → www.facebook.com/risestjames/ [1] Sharon is the North American winner of the 2021 Goldman Environmental Awards for her success in halting the construction of Wanhua's $1.25 billion plastics manufacturing plant alongside the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, Louisiana. "Lavigne mobilized grassroots opposition to the project, educated community members, and organized peaceful protests to defend her predominantly African American community. The plant would have generated one million pounds of liquid hazardous waste annually, in a region already contending with known carcinogens and toxic air pollution." (200 petrochemical plants along 80 miles of the Mississippi!) https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/sharon-lavigne/ [2]   [caption id="attachment_318009" align="alignright" width="172"] Credit: Moni Hofler[/caption] The indefatigable Diane Wilson, fisher-woman-activist, fourth-generation shrimper from Seadrift, Texas, became involved in environmental issues in 1989 when she learned of neighbors’ health problems, dolphin die-offs and reduced fishery catches, and found that Calhoun County topped the list of most polluted counties in the United States, per the Toxic Release Inventory. With San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeepers, Diane Wilson successfully sued Formosa Plastics Corp., for their discharge of plastic pellets into the Bay. The settlement included $50 million for funding of environmental projects in the local area, the largest citizen CWA settlement. Formosa has also accepted a zero-discharge goal, with full recycling of their wastewater stream. 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 be a leader for social justice. https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/03/texas-judge-approves-settlement-agreement-water-pollution-formosa/ [3] Previous Shows with Diane Wilson on Coyote Network News: here [4]   KPFA is in Fund Drive. We are offering the Visionary Activist Show Feisty Women Collection of hand-picked radio archives and other talks: Inspiring tales of formidable, dedicated Women: protectors and allies of life on Earth; practitioners of ally etiquette Aikido; guides leading us to dynamic peace, beauty, and how to rejoin the choreography of Creation.   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [5] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [6] [1] http://www.facebook.com/risestjames/ [2] https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/sharon-lavigne/ [3] https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/03/texas-judge-approves-settlement-agreement-water-pollution-formosa/ [4] https://coyotenetworknews.com/?s=diane+wilson [5] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [6] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Stop the Money Pipeline and Defund Formosa

[1]Caroline is delighted to welcome the return of Susan Shannon, as we honor the radiant resilience of the "former lifer" community, those “Returning Citizens” who have completed their sentence, and are now part of the team of Mentors, having much earned medicine to contribute - to us all… Inner work allows for synchronicity. Power of changing the narrative. Redemption. The rituals of healing betwixt those who have harmed, and those whom they have harmed. Milarepa, thug, highwayman and others who go on to be great Saints… Diving into the Dark to glean “Power with” vs. “power over." Susan Shannon 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. https://chaplainoftheheart.com [2] Since ordination, Susan’s ministry has been focused on prison chaplaincy projects and transformational programs at San Quentin State Prison, including working with the renowned Guiding Rage Into Power program through Insight-Out.org [3] and providing Buddhist Chaplaincy on Death Row. www.buddhistprisonministry.com [4]   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [5] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [6] [1] https://coyotenetworknews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/susan-shannon-scaled.jpeg [2] https://chaplainoftheheart.com/ [3] http://insight-out.org/ [4] http://www.buddhistprisonministry.com/ [5] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [6] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Underworld Ministry

Animism is not a belief – but manners. Caroline hosts Carl Safina through whom our animal kin convey their beautiful community complexity; from knowledge comes respect – on to reverent collaborative intimacy…. Carl Safina’s lyrical non-fiction writing explores how humans are changing the living world, and what the changes mean for non-human beings and for us all. His work fuses scientific understanding, emotional connection, and a moral call to action. His writing has won a MacArthur “genius” prize; Pew, Guggenheim, and National Science Foundation Fellowships; book awards from Lannan, Orion, and the National Academies; and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He grew up raising pigeons, training hawks and owls, and spending as many days and nights in the woods and on the water as he could. Safina is now the first Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the PBS series Saving the Ocean, which can be viewed free at PBS.org. www.carlsafina.org [1]   KPFA Fund Drive We are offering "Animal Allies" Visionary Activist Radio audio collection for donors at the $75+ level   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [2] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [3] [1] http://www.carlsafina.org/ [2] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [3] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Animism as Manners

Grief as compost for Resilient Human Goodness. Caroline welcomes the return of Jerome McGeorge, astro*animist*enviro-farmer-wizard, co-founder Organic Valley, founding member of Coulee Region Organic Produce Pool (CROPP), for another spirited romp of applied pragmatic mysticism for collective well being, allied with Nature’s Trickster Genius, we can, and we gotta, do impossible things...   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [1] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [2] [1] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [2] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Astro*Animism allying with Nature’s Trickster Genius

*Replay from August 20, 2020*  As so much life is at risk, Caroline welcomes award-winning science journalist, Judith D Schwartz, whose latest book The Reindeer Chronicles, & other inspiring stories of working with Nature to Heal the Earth, proffers myriad heartening stories of devastating deserts than can return to blooming, as can our hearts… Judith Schwartz is an award-winning science journalist and leading voice in regenerative agriculture and ecological restoration. Her latest book, The Reindeer Chronicles, shares the inspiring stories of a passionate group of eco-restorers who are following nature’s lead to help revitalize some of the most degraded places on earth—and succeeding. With the UN declaring the next 10 years as the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, Schwartz’s book will help raise awareness about the importance of regenerating natural systems to resolve climate change, by humbly cooperating with Nature’s Guiding Genius.. “Our natural systems are under great stress,” she says. “However, nature’s inclination is toward healing, and we can work with the logic of ecology to restore landscapes and waterways.” JudithDSchwartz.com [1]   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [2] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [3] [1] http://JudithDSchwartz.com [2] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [3] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Cooling Mists on the Conflagration

This month is the 25th Anniversary of The Visionary Activist Show! See the Radio Collection Offering in exchange for Donations [1]   [2]Caroline hosts Molly Chester, co-creator of “The Biggest Little Farm,” (whose husband, John co-crafted the film, with human, animal, plant guiding Mentors…)   Woman Hero makes Beauty, Food and Story, does something wonderful, that becomes a story that travels and inspires others to do something wonderful, which then becomes a story that travels -and so on- until the Earth blooms with altruistic ingenuity…   www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com [3] www.apricotlanefarms.com [4]   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [5] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [6] [1] https://coyotenetworknews.com/schedule/25th-anniversary-radio-collection/ [2] https://coyotenetworknews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Molly-in-Greenhouse.jpeg [3] http://www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com/ [4] https://www.apricotlanefarms.com/ [5] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [6] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Cooperation Composts Control

The Virus is spiky- so let’s be smooth, and cool... So - Caroline welcomes the return of Deborah Felmeth, cross-pollinating cultural agent betwixt Middle East and West, that - where there be too much heat (everywhere) toxic mimic of Mars - we honor Venus… Rumi (born in Afghanistan) reminds us - "let the Beauty we love - be the Beauty we do-there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the earth…” And “Stop-be still-and listen- because you’re drunk - and we’re at the edge of the roof." (Beautiful break music today by Homayoun Sakhi "Josh")   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [1] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [2] [1] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [2] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Cross~Pollinating Beauty

Pouring Cool Waters on the Conflagration… Caroline welcomes the return of collegial Celtic Wizard Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, author of “The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are - Connecting to the Living Medicine of Wild Plants" that we may cool the fever dream of the world If All war is a failure of imagination Then All Peace is a Triumph of the Imagination… What shall we do when the world is on fire? Tend each thing proffered to us with solicitude and kindness not adding to the heat, cooling the fever dream of the world...   otherworldwell.com [1]   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [2] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [3] [1] https://otherworldwell.com/ [2] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [3] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Pouring Cool Waters on the Conflagration…

[caption id="attachment_354722" align="alignright" width="307"] Michael Stocker (center) with OCR team in Alaska[/caption] Caroline welcomes the return of Michael Stocker, emissary from the Ocean World to human culture, alerting us to the danger of currently ill-designed off-shore wind farms, having not-yet-considered the harm to Whales etc… Venus design Council… Biomimicry… Let’s become like the Ocean to protect the Ocean... Ocean scientist, Marine acoustician, jazz musician – Michael is dedicated to all true chorusing on this planet. He has written and spoken about marine bio-acoustics and the impacts ocean noise pollution on marine life since 1992. Michael’s book Hear Where We Are: Sound, Ecology, and Sense of Place - human and animal sound perception cultivated over a lifetime of interdisciplinary thinking incorporating his studies in world cultures, western intellectual history, physics, architecture, biology, acoustics, signal processing, music, theology, and literature. Ocean Conservation Research: www.OCR.org [1] & all fluid like Ocean, we will be joined also by Dave Gallo - deep Ocean scientist - that we may spiral forth the swoosh of Ocean guiding us to appropriate design response... https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/oceanexploration2020/speakers/gallo.html [2]   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [3] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [4] [1] http://www.OCR.org [2] https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/oceanexploration2020/speakers/gallo.html [3] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [4] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Allying with Ocean

Caroline welcomes Rupa Marya and Raj Patel authors of Inflamed: Deep Medicine & the Anatomy of Injustice. When will the pandemic end? “'Twill end when the conditions that gave rise to it are resolved." (Dion Fortune) 'Tis a prodigious work, an invaluable contribution to Group Mind, convening Dark of Moon, close to True Lammas, ritual reverent bonfires - or arson. Our guests dia-Gnosing the insidious virus of colonialism ("I've got mine") and the cure ~ Reciprocal Blessing and Mutual Aid, Democratic Animism Now!   "Raj Patel teams up with the physician Rupa Marya to offer a radical new cure: the deep medicine of decolonization. Decolonizing heals what has been divided, reestablishing our relationships with the Earth and one another. Combining the latest scientific research and scholarship on globalization with the stories of Marya’s work with patients in marginalized communities, activist passion, and the wisdom of Indigenous groups, Inflamed points the way toward a deep medicine that has the potential to heal not only our bodies, but the world."   [caption id="attachment_363755" align="alignright" width="240"] Raj Patel (Photo Credit: Sheila Menezes)[/caption] Raj Patel is a research professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, a professor in the university’s department of nutrition, and a research associate at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved and the New York Times bestselling The Value of Nothing, and the co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A James Beard Foundation Leadership Award winner, he is the co-director of a groundbreaking documentary on climate change and the global food system, The Ants and the Grasshopper.. He serves on the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, and has advised governments worldwide on the causes of and solutions to crises of sustainability.   [caption id="attachment_363756" align="alignright" width="185"] Rupa Marya[/caption] Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, artist and writer who is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the founder and executive director of the Deep Medicine Circle, a worker-directed nonprofit committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration. Marya is a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a group of healthcare workers committed to changing social structures that make health impossible for different groups of people. In addition to her work in medicine and writing, Rupa is also the composer and front-woman for Rupa and the April Fishes, a polyglot band who has traveled to over 29 countries sharing musical soundscapes.   Inflamed: MacMillan website with Excerpt [1] Dr Rupa Marya: rupamarya.org [2] Twitter: @DrRupaMarya [3] Dr Raj Patel: rajpatel.org [4] & Twitter @-RajPatel [5]   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [6] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [7] [1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374602529 [2] http://rupamarya.org [3] https://twitter.com/DrRupaMarya [4] http://rajpatel.org [5] https://twitter.com/_RajPatel [6] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [7] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – “The Fire Next Time” Dark of Moon Lammas Radio

Riveting Radio, on-going celebration of the Visionary Activist Show – 25 years on the air, rummaging in the archives, we have conjured potent radio collection #2, as incentive to pledge, of which we will be weaving clips from Tim Reiterman on Jonestown (lessons of which highly pertinent to our present conundrum) and with Diane Wilson and I honoring Molly Ivins, (as the antidote to Jonestown…) Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [1] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [2] [1] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [2] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Riveting Radio ~ Storytellers Continued

[caption id="attachment_362924" align="alignright" width="288"] Shérazade et le sultan, Sani ol-Molk (One Thousand and One Nights)[/caption] Magnetizing, Animating and Spiraling Forth the astro*mytho*politico guiding Story of Now whereby to ride this Full Moon Tide. Caroline honors the quintessential Trickster story-teller Scheherezade, who, as Venusian hero liberates the entire circumstance. The Tale of the Princess Perizada; We close with the powerful, poignant, pertinent last words of John Lewis, who hands us the baton...   We are approaching the 25th anniversary of The Visionary Activist Show, Caroline has been finding gold in the archives, and is proffering a fantabulous collection of worthy story-tellers as pledge incentive to the Show and KPFA.   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [1] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [2] [1] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [2] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – The World Belongs to the Story-Tellers

Caroline hosts long-time Trickster ally David Grimes, on the occasion of his birthday - today, That we may honor all Lunar Yang- within and without.“Strong Enough to be Gentle” “If we’re not having fun - we’re just not serious enough,” quips Bre’r Grimes…   David Lynn Grimes on Spotify [1]   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon [2] for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more... *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* [3] [1] https://open.spotify.com/artist/27PFSiJ8dvkxNCVY0BNnS0 [2] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow [3] https://www.patreon.com/TheVisionaryActivistShow

The Visionary Activist Show – Gathering to Segachuate

Dedicated 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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