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Environmental news and interviews with scientists, authors and activists. Matt Soltys explores the scientific, social, and spiritual issues behind western culture's relationship with the natural world, inspiring healthy action, healing, and change. Produced in relationship with CFRU at the University of Guelph. Visit Matt at www.resistanceisfertile.ca.
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Tangled Roots: Dialogues exploring ecological justice, healing and decolonization | Healing the Earth Radio was produced in Guelph, Ontario, on CFRU 93.3 fm, from 2005 to 2010. Healing the Earth also had a popular podcast on the Rabble Podcast Network. Since the end of the show, producer Matt Soltys has been working on a book that is a collection of Healing the Earth Radio's most powerful interviews. Tangled Roots: Dialogues exploring ecological justice, healing, and decolonization is due out this summer, published by Healing the Earth Press. Chosen from more than 100 interviews and hundreds of on-air hours, Tangled Roots explores critical yet marginalized intersections of social and ecological issues, and offers solutions that speak to the depth, complexity, and urgency of the challenges facing us today. This podcast is a sneak peak at the book, with an excerpt from Healing the Earth's interview with Waziyatawin, Dakota activist and scholar. The podcast begins with a description of the Tangled Roots, and an audio recording of the introduction to Waziyatawin's chapter in the book. Any fans of Healing the Earth Radio should check out www.healingtheearthpress.org. The book is much more than simply an interview book - each of the 12 interviews comes with an introduction, extensive endnotes, and an original illustration drawn by an artist after contemplating each interview. Altogether, Tangled Roots is a unique project that hopes to build connections between different movements and get more people taking decolonization and ecological justice seriously. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hanlon Creek 5: Land defence and SLAPP Suits in Guelph, Ontario | After a community-led occupation shut down a contentious industrial park in Guelph, 5 people were named in a $5 million lawsuit by the City of Guelph and a private developer. This is the audio from their press conference from April 23, where they outline their reasons for their actions, how this lawsuit is affecting their lives, and why it should be dropped. The press conference was in front of city hall and attended by upwards of 40 people. This lawsuit is framed as a SLAPP suit, which stands for Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation. These are heavy-handed legal tactics designed to intimidate and silence people. Please check out the support site of The Hanlon Creek 5, to learn more about SLAPP suits, and their case in general. The SLAPP suit alleges the 5 community activists are responsible for "conspiracy, interference with economic relations, inducing breach of contract, trespass, nuisance, and intimidation." The $5 million is intended to hold the 5 responsible for potential lost future investment. | 5/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defenders of the land: Indigenous survival and liberation in times of collapse | Waziytawin is a Dakota writer, scholar, and activist, who urges Indigenous People as well as non-Indigenous to think seriously about the threats of collapse and need for land defence. She is from The Place Where They Dig for Yellow Medicine, also known as the Upper Sioux Reservation in southwestern Minnesota. She also holds the Indigenous Peoples’ Research Chair in the Indigenous Governance program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. She is the author of numerous books on the Dakota nation and decolonization, and has been a strong community activist working on truth-telling initiatives in the Minnesota/St. Paul area. You can learn more about her at www.waziyatawin.net. Recently Waziyatawin has been intertwining her interest in decolonization and Indigenous liberation with research around climate collapse and peak oil, and believes that we can't simply wait for an end to the extreme destruction caused by industrial civilization - we need to take action and help bring it to and end, so that our chances for future survival are the greatest. Waziyatawin offers something very important with this interview, that is, connecting a recognition of the great changes upon us with an anti-colonial perspective as an Indigenous woman. Industrial civilization now threatens not just our individual landbases, but the entire earth, and more than ever we are in need of people who are willing to be defenders of the land. Waziyatawin talks about some of the cultural myths that colonialism has infected all of us with to varying degrees, myths about the legitimacy and permanence of the US and Canadian governments, myths of technological prowess, myths of passivity to authority, and myths of the moral purity of non-violence. In a time of such dire need, she urges us to re-consider all of these and seriously consider how we can best serve our landbase, and best prepare our community for an end to an industrial way of life. As an action plan to base a community's preparation on, she has put forth several steps: having a spiritual and cultural foundation, building a culture of resistance, arming yourself and your community, building lifeboats of skills, tools, and knowledge to be self-sufficient, taking back land, halting the industrial infrastructure that is destroying the land, and defending the land at all costs. She asks questions that need to be asked and answered. I hope you enjoy this interview and are able to give it some serious thought. Learn more at www.waziyatawin.net. | 3/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Dave Schultz, Manager of Communications with the Grand River Conservation Authority | -- | 9/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The struggle to protect Guelph's Old Growth Forest and thwart Guelph's newest and largest industrial development | Guelph's Old Growth forest is under threat of being surrounded by a 675-acre corporate industrial development. Community efforts to protect this land continue, and time is running out. Recent efforts have been spearheaded by several groups, including LIMITS (Land Is More Important Than Sprawl), which began organizing in the community and raising awareness in late 2008. This interview with a member of LIMITS gives an overview of the issues at stake, including recent updates on impending construction, the status of Federally and Provincially-protected species on the site, and the connections between colonialism, public health, sustainable growth, biotechnology, and other related issues. The grassroots struggle to protect this land has included, over the years, many public educational events, walking tours of the land, Ontario Municipal Board hearings, standing-room-only town hall debates, packed public hearings, countless meetings between activists and city staff and consultants, camp outs on the land, months of door-to-door conversations, healing ceremonies, and much more. Participation in this struggle has included long-time environmentalists, citizens watchdogs, youth and elders, musicians, dance groups, anarchists, Indigenous People of the Anishnabe and Haudenosaunee, and many many more. The first stage of infrastructure construction is already beginning on the land. Check out www.LandIsMoreImportantThanSprawl.com for more information. Also, email guelphlimits@gmail.com for more information. | 7/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Root Force: Examining the Costs of Infrastructure and Industrial Culture | Ben and Toby from Root Force explore many different angles on industrial infrastructure - from major highways, shipping networks, mines, oil and gas industries, etc - and its connections with colonialism in the western hemisphere, labour issues and the state of the economy, its cumulative costs to the earth, and the need to strategically resist industrial projects. The analysis of Root Force differ greatly from mainstream environmentalism, in that it offers a systemic look at the foundations the system, and sees the need for a complete overhaul, rather than various reforms. Interestingly, though it might seem overwhelming to consider one's ability to do anything about such large systems of power, Ben and Toby suggest that because these infrastructure projects affect so many different areas and issues, there is more of an opportunity for relationships of solidarity between people from different landbases opposing the same projects. An example would be the I-69 highway, which travels through Ontario to Indianapolis, via Michigan. Especially in this time of ecological and economic collapse, amid a flurry of 'stimulus' packages and such, you may find their analysis and suggestions relevant and useful to your own life. | 5/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ramona Africa on the 24th Anniversary of the Police Bombing of MOVE Headquarters | On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia police bombed the home of MOVE members and murdered 11 people. Ramona Africa is the sole adult survivor, and has been organizing on behalf of the dead and imprisoned ever since. In this interview with Ramona Africa, conducted on the 24th anniversary of the May 13, 1985 police bombing of MOVE headquarters, Ramona shares life lessons about freedom, standing up for oneself and one's family, being true and honest with ourselves and our principles, and her concept of 'total revolution' - all learned through enduring violent repression, maximum prison terms, and decades of community organizing. MOVE is a revolutionary organization based in Philadelphia, advocating peace, justice, respect for all life, and revolution, for over 35 years. Ramona was the sole adult survivor of the 1985 police bombing, which killed 6 adults, five children, and numerous animals. This is an astounding historical conflict between grassroots organizers and the state, and is entirely relevant to today. I highly recommend checking out their website, www.onamove.com, and reading more elsewhere from the plethora of articles, about the numerous full-out assaults on MOVE members. As Ramona describes in this interview, it is truly mind-blowing that 8 people remain in prison for 31 years now, for a crime they did not commit. Check out their website, learn about this important history, and consider what you can do to help get the remaining MOVE prisoners out of prison. | 5/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Swimming With Dolphins: Freedom, Captivity, and Our Many Interconnections | Leah Lemieux is the author of the book Rekindling the Waters: The Truth About Swimming wtih Dolphins. Leah has lectured, written about and worked on dolphin protection, education and conservation issues for twenty years, collaborating with individuals and NGOs from a number of countries, including the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots Environmental and Humanitarian program. Most recently she has contributed an essay on Cetaceans and Eco-tourism for The Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships. In our interview, Leah explains the dark side of the increasinly-popular tourist activity of swimming with dolphins, and touches on the shared issues of captivity that plague humans and many other creatures. We talk of this issue's connections with the capitalist system that forces most of us into some form of captivity, and the conundrum of people engaging in destructive activity in order to feed their families and pay rent and mortgages. Leah sees it being all connected, and thus anything we are doing to help in turn supports other issues for freedom and justice. Dolphins in particular are a powerful species, who have had brains proportionally bigger than our brains for 15 times longer than us. Once living as land-based mammals, about 50 million years ago dolphins went back in the water, and have evolved to have an amazingly complex social system. In many ways dolphins are more communicative and social than humans (or at least industrialized and civilized humans; those still living with a semblance of tribalism may be a different story). Leah has had the fortune of interacting with wild dolphins in a mutually voluntary setting, where the dolphins were actually there because they want to be, not because they were forced to. It is these voluntary interactions with wild creatures that can touch something deep inside of us, a part of us that has been smothered with layers and layers of disconnection. Leah ends our interview with her vision of a path towards a solution, which includes several steps: realization of what's going on, taking responsibility, reconnection with our surroundings, including people and place, and restoration, and getting active. | 3/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Air quality and pollution in Southwestern Ontario | Quentin Chiotti works with the environmental organization Pollution Probe, as both the Director and Climate Change Program & Senior Scientist. Pollution Probe, now in it's 40th year, focuses on researching and advocating for changes to do with climate change, energy, air, water, environmental health effects, and policy. Wondering what's in the air? Or what's going on with air pollution these days? Quentin and I talk a whole bunch about air pollution, its main sources, components, health effects, and such. We also get into the topic of climate change, including how it connects to air pollution. And we also address the conundrum that the main sources of pollution are industrial operations that people have come to depend on, and have forgotten how to live without. This interview focuses on Southwestern Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area, but is still completely relevant to those in other areas. | 3/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Developing Community Responses to Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence, part 2 | Erin Crickett is the campaign coordinator with the Guelph-Wellington County Neighbours, Friends and Families campaign, which is organized through the Guelph-Wellington Action Committee on Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. This is a 24-member agency that includes Women in Crisis, the Humane Society, school boards, mental health workers and more, working together to develop a protocol to respond to sexual assault and domestic violence. As the campaign coordinator, Erin leads workshops with all kinds of groups about warning signs of abuse and effective responses. Galya is a midwifery student at McMaster University in Hamilton, a past volunteer with Women in Crisis, she is training with the Sexual Assault Center of Hamilton Area (SACHA), and is a co-founder and organizer with the SMASH Collective (Students at McMaster Against Sexual Harassment), which consists of mostly midwifery and nursing students. Galya’s work includes creating action and awareness of sexual violence on campus, learning how to support survivors through pregnancy, childbearing, and postpartum, and working to better understand how midwives can provide compassionate and empowering care to survivors. In their conversation, Galya and Erin talk about developing community responses to sexual assault, crisis support, harm reduction strategies that are non-judgmental when dealing with survivors using what might seem like risky or damaging behaviour, and supporting survivors in ways that remind them how powerful they are, and that acknowledge how strong of a person it takes to survive. They also talk of how many of the dynamics of abuse, power, and control that manifest in abusive relationships, how emotional abuse can be harder to get over than physical abuse, the need to support survivors of abuse as well as the need to work with perpetrators, particularly abusive men, shifting focus from always seeing abuse and violence as an individual problem to seeing it also as a societal problem that is embedded in a context that enables abuse to happen and makes it harder for survivors to leave, or to find help through institutionalized means like police, the legal system, the medical system. By the end of it they talk about the challenge and excitement of ridding ourselves of all the subtle assumptions that creep into us through our messed up, unhealthy, patriarchal culture, and particularly how this affects our sex lives. They remind us that consensual sex is hot sex, and talking about our likes and dislikes, comfort zones, boundaries, birth control, and such, can lead to amazingly close and hot relationships. Not just with ourselves, but with our friends and lovers, our communities, and the earth. For further reading check out the links above, as well as the Power and Control Wheel and the Advocacy Wheel, and the homepage of Philly's Pissed. | 2/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Developing Community Responses to Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence, part 1 | Erin Crickett is the campaign coordinator with the Guelph-Wellington County Neighbours, Friends and Families campaign, which is organized through the Guelph-Wellington Action Committee on Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. This is a 24-member agency that includes Women in Crisis, the Humane Society, school boards, mental health workers and more, working together to develop a protocol to respond to sexual assault and domestic violence. As the campaign coordinator, Erin leads workshops with all kinds of groups about warning signs of abuse and effective responses. Galya Sipos Randor is a midwifery student at McMaster University in Hamilton, a past volunteer with Women in Crisis, she is training with the Sexual Assault Center of Hamilton Area (SACHA), and is a co-founder and organizer with the SMASH Collective (Students at McMaster Against Sexual Harassment), which consists of mostly midwifery and nursing students. Galya’s work includes creating action and awareness of sexual violence on campus, learning how to support survivors through pregnancy, childbearing, and postpartum, and working to better understand how midwives can provide compassionate and empowering care to survivors. In their conversation, Galya and Erin talk about developing community responses to sexual assault, crisis support, harm reduction strategies that are non-judgmental when dealing with survivors using what might seem like risky or damaging behaviour, and supporting survivors in ways that remind them how powerful they are, and that acknowledge how strong of a person it takes to survive. They also talk of how many of the dynamics of abuse, power, and control that manifest in abusive relationships, how emotional abuse can be harder to get over than physical abuse, the need to support survivors of abuse as well as the need to work with perpetrators, particularly abusive men, shifting focus from always seeing abuse and violence as an individual problem to seeing it also as a societal problem that is embedded in a context that enables abuse to happen and makes it harder for survivors to leave, or to find help through institutionalized means like police, the legal system, the medical system. By the end of it they talk about the challenge and excitement of ridding ourselves of all the subtle assumptions that creep into us through our messed up, unhealthy, patriarchal culture, and particularly how this affects our sex lives. They remind us that consensual sex is hot sex, and talking about our likes and dislikes, comfort zones, boundaries, birth control, and such, can lead to amazingly close and hot relationships. Not just with ourselves, but with our friends and lovers, our communities, and the earth. For further reading check out the links above, as well as the Power and Control Wheel and the Advocacy Wheel, and the homepage of Philly's Pissed. | 2/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Since the Last Ice Age: Original People In and Around Guelph, and the Proposed Hanlon Creek Business Park | Dana Poulton is an archaeologist based in London, Ontario. He was commissioned to do an archaeological assessment of the proposed Hanlon Creek Business Park, based on the south end of Guelph. It turns out that humans have been using this particular land for as long as 11,000 years ago, since the land shifted from a colder tundra to a fertile garden of eden, that lasted up until European immigrants clearcut the land to create an agricultural colony, now called Guelph. Dana and his crew found things like spear tips, arrowheads, and other stone tools for preparing animal hides and cutting animal bones. Other things that would have been there, things made out of wood, sinew, and hide, have long since decayed. Dana talks about some of the history of the Neutral nation, the original people who lived around the Guelph area, but who mainly settled around the western shore of Lake Ontario, the headwaters of the Niagara river, and to a lesser extent around the Grand river, near present-day settlements of Fergus and Elora. The Neutrals lived in between the Huron nation and the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations/Iroquios), until they were wiped out and displaced by the Haudenosaunee in 1651. Also on this particular piece of land is a spectacular old growth forest, situated right in the center of the proposed industrial development. The old growth forest and the surrounding land contains more than 100 old growth trees, including 200-300 year old hemlock, beech, yellow birch, blue beech, shagbark hickory, and sugar maple trees, a 400 year old black cherry tree, and a 500 year old hop hornbeam tree. The proposed Hanlon Creek Business Park is a sprawling 675-acre corporate and industrial development that the city wants to surround this old growth forest with. Besides the old growth forest, it is also home to deer, coyote, fox, salamanders, turtles, snakes, five different species of hawk, and many, many more special creatures. Also, it is a provincially significant wetland and the recharge zone for the Hanlon creek, which supplies 20% of Guelph's drinking water. A newly-formed group of Guelph locals has formed to oppose the HCBP as it nears it's date of destruction. You can learn more here: http://royalcityrag.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/land-is-more-important-than-sprawl-january-12/ You can also read the mainstream news article about Dana's findings here: http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/410075 | 2/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTyendinaga: The Struggle for Drinking Water and the Health of the Land Continues | I spoke with Dan Doreen, from the Mohawk community of Tyendinaga. Despite a boil water advisory, stolen land, and internal corruption, the gov't wants to bring in a $2 million police station. | 12/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFor a Soft Landing: Transition Towns, Peak Oil, and Climate Change | Sally Ludwig is involved in the Transition Guelph project, an effort to transition off dependence on fossil fuels and other unsustainable and exploitative aspects of the modern era. | 12/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Long-Standing Conflict With the Algonquins of Barriere Lake | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Speaking About Land Reclamations with 'Boots' from Six Nations | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ending Industrial Culture, Building Cultures of Resistance | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Industry and Military vs. Marine Life: Seems They Can't Coexist | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Revolution Will Not be Microwaved: Speaking with Sandor Katz | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Story of Eric McDavid, Trapped by a Paid FBI Informant | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Government of Newfoundland Labrador Seeks to Evict Innu | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Does Decolonization Look Like? | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Two Six Nations Men Facing Extraordinary Imprisonment in the US | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tyendinaga Mohawks Successfully Stop Another Illegal Developement | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Native Bumblebees are Going Extinct | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Courage, Culture, and Sacrifice | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pre-Dawn Paramilitary Raid on Bear Mountain Tree Sit | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bear Mountain Tree Sit Under Threat | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Hard Look at Agriculture, and Strategies for Collapse | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Talking Decolonization with Waziyatawin, Part 1 | -- | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 30 Episodes |
