This week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Terry Patten about how to work for heart-based change. Terry comments on his book, a New Republic of the Heart, and explores inner and outer transformation with us on the show. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ "Find some friends with whom you can …

This week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Edward Hasbrouck, who, while traveling across Europe by bicycle, is also organizing a campaign challenging the future of the US military draft. Find out where and when the next national hearings by the commission polling the public about the military draft are going to be held. And find out how …

This week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Rev. Bruce Wright, one of the organizers of the 26-year old Poor Peoples Economic and Human Rights Campaign about their recent 140-mile march from Philadelphia to DC, and the revival of Dr. King's Resurrection City. (This campaign is different from the Poor People's Campaign with Rev. Barber, an…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with mythologist Sharon Blackie, author of "If Women Rose Rooted" and "The Enchanted Life", about the power of myth and story in transforming ourselves and our world. Sharon speaks about her journey from a corporate office job into her deep dive into the world of nature, myth, and place. In this sh…

(Sorry for any confusion everyone, but we are having trouble with the system. Hopefully it is all worked out.) This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we focus on the powerful themes and subjects in Sherri Mitchell's newly released book, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. If your heart has been aching for ways …

After a year-long hiatus (during which Rivera healed from cancer and both of your favorite cohosts wrote new books), we're back with new episodes of Love (and Revolution) Radio! Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ "Our modern day myths, our hero stories, are rooted in the stories of collective struggle …

This week on Love (and revolution) radio, we speak with Gus Speth of the next system project about a paper he wrote called “The Joyful Economy: A Next System Possibility.” Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ You can check out Gus’ paper here: http://thenextsystem.org/the-joyful-economy/ James Gustave Sp…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with two anti-drone activists, Jerry Monroe Maynard and Eleanor Levine, about their work to raise awareness of the hidden dangers of drones both overseas and right here in our streets and neighborhoods. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links:…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with five amazing guests - Kathy Kelly, Tom Hastings, David Soumis, Gretchen Casey, Cindy Reinhardt - who are all working in the fields of peace and conflict resolution as we take a look at Rivera Sun's novel, The Way Between, as lens for the escalating conflicts in our real world. Sign up for our …

On this week's Love (and Revolution) Radio show, we speak with author Robert Atkinson about his new book "The Story of Our Time" and how the long arc of human history is bending from duality to interconnectedness to oneness . . . and what that means for each of us as we move through a time of great change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.r…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Allyson Criner Brown, the Associate Director of Teaching for Change, an organization provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About …

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Dr. Jus Crea, a member of the Penobscot tribe, ethnobotanist, and Naturopathic physician, about traditional Indigenous medicines, ways of life, and culture. She discusses history, challenges to maintaining practices, and how politics influences the ability of native peoples to maintain their c…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Co-Intelligence Institute Founder Tom Atlee about his new book, Participatory Sustainability, and the need for engaging everyone in our community and world as we look for solutions to our ecological crisis. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Dr. Margaret Flowers about the new HOPE Campaign - Health Over Profit For Everyone - to make a national improved Medicare for All healthcare system the best and only and most sane choice for ending the healthcare crisis. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, our guest L.A. Kauffman discusses her new book, Direct Action, which covers thirty years of creative nonviolent action and protest movement history . . . and the lessons that apply to the contemporary movement of movements. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Ab…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Dena Eakles of Echo Valley Hope about her recent time at Standing Rock, what's coming next for the movement, and how to bring prayerful, peaceful activism home to your heart and your community. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: D…

The week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we take a moment in the midst of the whirlwind to review and reflect, discussing how to stay grounded, continue engaging, and organize for the long haul in deep and powerful ways. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: Healing the Wounds of Turtle Isl…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Marie Principe about her new research on Women and Nonviolent Movements. We explore traditional and non-traditional gender roles, the dynamics of nonviolent struggle, and what it all means for our own movements at this time. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolu…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Chuck Collins of Inequality.org and the Institute for Policy Studies about his new book, "Born On Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home and Committing to the Common Good." Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolut…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Kali Acuno of Cooperation Jackson about a new collaborative endeavor called Ungovernable which builds resilient communities and organized resistance to the policies of hate, discrimination, and destruction. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Peace and Conflict Studies Professor Tom Hastings about the interconnections between militarism and destruction of the environment. We also cover the converse subject: the connection between protecting our beloved Earth and working for peace. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.…

On this week's episode of Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Dr. David Ragland, codirector of the Truth Telling Project for Ferguson and Beyond, about the role of truth telling in ending racism, police brutality, and systemic injustice and oppression. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Ou…

This week of Love (and Revolution) Radio, we cover Sherri Mitchell's recent trip to Standing Rock with a caravan of supplies and Water Protectors. She arrived just in time for the Army Corp of Engineers' denial of easement, the arrival of thousands of veterans and allies, and also a four day blizzard! Tune in for reflections, practical strategic ad…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Sarah Van Gelder, co-founder and Editor-At-Large for Yes! Magazine, speaks about the inspiring stories of change she found on a 12,000 miles odyssey across the United States searching for and writing about The Revolution Where You Live. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolut…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview Tom Llewellyn of Shareable about the creative, cost-effective, and community building ways that people just like us are sharing everything from housing to ideas to workspaces to tools, appliances, and children's toys. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-ra…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we take a moment to review and reflect on the tumultuous events of the past weeks, digging deeper into both the problems we face and the heart of change. We cover the elections, hate crimes, movement building, and how to center the heart for positive action as we move forward to address these times. Sign up…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Larry Spotted Crow Mann about his book, The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving, and dive into the history, truths, myths, and complex story of Thanksgiving so that we can all step up to the plate of acknowledging our history and committing to change in the present. Sign up for our weekly email: htt…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Buddhist Peace Fellowship co-director Dawn Haney about spiritual activism, interconnectedness, suffering, impermanence, non-attachment, and how to move off of our cushions and into action at a time when deep compassion and powerful change are needed more than ever before. Sign up for our weekl…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Sandra Hines with the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality and the Peace Zones for Life project about the long-term work to reduce violence and work for justice in the city of Detroit. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Sand…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Greg Mello from the Los Alamos Study Group speaks about the historic UN treaty that could ban the manufacturing, possession, and use of nuclear weapons. He shares sobering insights into the Dr. Strangelove mentalities of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, Kirtland Air Force Base nuke soldiers, and t…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we feature the recent experiences of three activists, Jerry Monroe Maynard, Josie Lenwell, and Chris Nelson, who joined the School of Americas Watch Border Convergence in Arizona earlier this month to decry the state-sponsored violence that is causing displacement and heightening the already heated tensions…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with four guests who are each organizing for renters' justice, stopping gentrification, forming cooperatives and affordable housing, and decommodifying buildings while asserting that housing is a human right. Join us as we speak with Andrea Chiriboga-Flor, Mike Dennis, Antonio Gutierrez, and Kali A…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we interview activist Margaret Flowers from the Flush the TPP campaign about the #NoLameDuckUprising next month to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. From secret negotiations to rigged trade courts to stripping away indigenous rights (as well as yours), this discussion about a nefarious trade dea…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're weighing in on the subject you've been waiting for: the presidential elections. We explore the dynamics surrounding female presidential candidates, and then dive into a broader concept of women and democracy. We boldly go into the discussion of how real democracy, feminine principles and nonviolent pe…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Ken Butigan, executive director of Pace e Bene, who shares exciting news about 758+ nonviolent actions and events that happened all 50 states and 18 countries during the Campaign Nonviolence Week of Actions to build a culture of peace and active nonviolence. Sign up for our weekly email: http:…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're hosting an Occupy Anniversary Special, bringing on guests Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight, Jerry Ashton of Rolling Jubilee and RIP Medical Debt, and Sue Sierralupe of Occupy Medical to discuss what has happened "because of Occupy". Joining us for the conversation is Occupy Radio cohost David Geitgey Sier…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with author Scott Brown about his new book, Active Peace: a Mindful Path to a Nonviolent World, and how we can apply the principles of restorative justice to activism and nonviolent social change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Sco…

This week's Review and Reflection Show on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we take a look at the indigenous and allied resistance to the North Dakota Access Pipeline, explore why the metaphor of war doesn't work for making nonviolent change, and reflect on the meaning of being human in a rapidly changing world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Rick Wayman of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation about the David versus Goliath story of how the tiny Marshall Islands (population 70,000) have filed lawsuits against the nine nuclear-armed nations to force them to start negotiations for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Sign up for our…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Michigan-Meta Peace Team trainer Kim Redigan about the remarkable work being done by peace teams both internationally and domestically, and how we might be able to use peace team training in our neighborhoods to reduce violence and create safe conditions under which conflicts and grievances ca…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy Intelligence Officer for the Near East, about her decision to leave the CIA and work for peace - including embarking on a recent peace delegation to Russia to find out just what all this saber-rattling is really about. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.ri…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with a group of women and participants in the Echo Valley Hope "Walk In Beauty" retreat, sharing messages of courage, hope, and inspiration. Our guests this week come from a diversity of backgrounds, speak several different languages, span the generations, and each offers a unique reflection from t…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Arla Patch about the groundbreaking work of the Maine Wabanaki-State Truth and Reconciliation Commission that sought to speak truth about the legacy of genocide, trauma, racism, and abuse both historically and in the context of the mistreatment of Wabanaki children in the state of Maine foster…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Judy Wicks about the idea of a peace economy, how the war economy maintains injustice, and how we can start to take action to change it. "People who live in highly self-sufficient local communities are less likely to get involved in large-scale violence than people whose existence depends on w…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Kazu Haga of the East Point Peace Academy about his work inside - and outside - California's prisons, and how his insights into restorative justice and Kingian Nonviolence can help turn our understanding of police brutality into constructive action for accountability, transformation, and deep,…

Now that the Fourth of July fireworks are over and the smoke of nationalism has cleared slightly, it's time to pick up the trash on the beaches and look at truth instead of flag-waving. This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we offer a special program. According to historian and researcher Walter Conser (not to mention President John Adams) the …

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, George Lakey, nonviolent movement strategist, organizer, teacher, and author, joins us to speak about his new book, Viking Economics, about how Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland used nonviolent action to gain long-lasting economic justice . . . and how we can follow in their footsteps here in the United …

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're taking a moment for reflection and exploration, covering strategy for nonviolent movements, and a few key dynamics, practices and understandings you can use in your work to make change. Powerful tools and startling insights! Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun teach strategy for nonviolent movements across…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with four guests who each offer a unique lens into the upcoming, historic Fellowship of Reconciliation Centennial Conference at Seabeck, WA, exploring the past, present, and future of the largest, oldest interfaith peace organization in the United States, and how one hundred years of working for pe…

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Margret Aldrich, the author of The Little Free Library Book, about the quiet revolution of community, sharing, and literacy that's popping up in more than 40,000 front yards, street corners, and coffee shops around the world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revo…