Tag Archives: pacifism

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis month, we begin sharing an ambitious two-part interview with Doug, a life-long deserter, commune-dweller, and bioregionalist organizer currently living in western Canada.  Doug is interviewed by his nephew, a contributor to a militant network of communes in the region. Doug shares invaluable recollections on the experience …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:05 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast week I spent a few days with Bloomington’s Scott Russell Sanders, a well-known writer of novels, short stories, children’s books, and essays. His work is generally described as “nature writing” though as we’ll hear, Sanders does not accept this, insisting he’s an “earth” writer. To clarify, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:12 — 40.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis episode originally aired on January 8, 2019. In November 2016 today’s guest, Bruce Laurie, published an essay called ‘”Chaotic Freedom” in Civil War Louisiana: The Origins of an Iconic Image.’ This image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:09 — 42.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist; in such a world a non-revolutionary pacifist is a contradiction in terms, a monstrosity.* A.J. Muste was referred to throughout the world as the “American Gandhi,” and he’s probably best …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:10 — 39.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn the late 60s, one man imagined creating a place that would radically undermine the societal values of his time—an alternative space that subverted color lines, gender norms, and war. That man was Fred Rogers and that place was Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Our opening song is, of …