Nonviolence Radio
FM Radio Program out of our Mother Station KWMR, Point Reyes Station; syndicated; transcribed; and podcast across the usual suspects of podcast channels.
Hosted by the Metta Center's Stephanie Van Hook and Michael Nagler, Nonviolence Radio airs every other Friday at 9:00 am PST, broadcasting live from community radio station KWMR, at 90.5 Point Reyes and syndicated via the Pacifica Network, iTunes, Spotify, and beyond. Listeners tune in from around the world. Additionally, we archive and syndicate the show via our partners at Waging Nonviolence.
Nonviolence Radio is a 60-minute program featuring news about nonviolence culture and movements around the world. The show typically includes inspiring discussions with nonviolence practitioners and movement-builders and The Nonviolence Report with Michael Nagler, an analysis of nonviolence in the news from the week.
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Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy
Dr. Vandana Shiva joins us on Nonviolence Radio this week to discuss her latest book from Synergetic Press, Philanthrocapitalims and the Erosion of Democracy: A Global Citizens' Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture.
The Politics of Reparations
An interview with Charles Henry from UC Berkeley, who is also the former president of the National Council for Black Studies and former chair of Amnesty International USA on reparations.
The Art of Being Peace
We are pleased to be able to share with you, thanks to receiving permission from his monastery, Plum Village, this dharma talk by Thay, entitled The Art of Being Peace from May 13, 2008 at the 5th International Buddhist Conference. The talk includes chanting and a meditation at the end.
“We are not terrorists”
Journalists Sher Kashimov and Colleen Wood join Stephanie and Michael this week on Nonviolence Radio to give background about the current situation in Kazakhstan.
How one California city is healing climate from the ground up
This week, Stephanie and Michael are joined by community leader, Natasha Juliana, who is currently hard at work on “Cool Petaluma,” a project that aims to heal the climate from the ground up.
How listening to diverse experiences builds power
Stephanie and Michael welcome three guests this week on Nonviolence Radio. First, they talk to Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh and Steve Chase about their work together in Solidarity 2020 and Beyond. Responding to the isolation and suffering caused by COVID, Solidarity 2020 and Beyond offers hope and support to grassroots activists and organizations, providing them opportunities to network, to learn from each other and to collaborate through webinars and trainings. Solidarity 2020 and Beyond draws on the power inherent in sharing experiences and using them to educate and increase solidarity amongst all those who are striving -- nonviolently -- to bring about change for good, wherever in the world they may be.
How to Escalate Nonviolence
Robert Levering comes to Nonviolence Radio this week to talk to Stephanie Van Hook and Michael Nagler about the film “The Boys Who Said No!” and the powerful draft resistance movement that helped to end the Vietnam War.
Bearing Witness in Afghanistan
A discussion with Kathy Kelly, life-long nonviolence activist, co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and co-coordinator of the Ban Killer Drones Campaign on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Rooted in Nonviolence – Ela Gandhi
An interview with Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi about the importance of actively modeling compassion, decency and kindness, and the crucial Gandhian idea of constructive program
No Greater Love? Moral Injury and Sacrifice
An interview with Kelly Denton-Borhaug who has written extensively on issues of war culture, moral injury and the ways that sacrifice can be used as a means to dehumanize and oppress marginalized people.
Enough for Everyone: A Nonviolent Approach to Economics.
What kind of wealth system, what kind of thinking about human life and our shared ecology would pose a fundamental challenge to the nuclear mindset?
Forgiveness: Its challenge and necessity
An interview with Wim Laven on the immense power of forgiveness as well as the very real difficulties involved in the act of forgiving. How does forgiving release us and allow us to move forward? What are the conditions needed for meaningful forgiveness? How can we forgive the unforgivable?
Utopias and the Political Imaginary
An interview with Safoora Arbab on the power of utopian thinking and how it relates to building a nonviolent world.
Simple Living Rooted in Nonviolent Ideals
How does the way that we live contribute to a nonviolent society? As the pace of society speeds up, fewer and fewer people are finding fulfillment in the promise of a world that is based on advancing technology, consumerism, and depersonalization. Yet there are pockets around the world who are experimenting with community life as a solution to our society’s ills. While this does not mean that there will not be any conflicts (remember, conflict is natural--violence is not), or that the experiment is perfect (for Gandhi, all was an experiment, a learning opportunity), it is precisely in community living infused with high ideals like those of the nonviolent path, that we can see ourselves and our human potential more clearly.
A Palestinian’s Journey to Nonviolence
A Conversation with Mubarak Awad on Nonviolence and the Conflict in Israel-Palestine.
How Gandhi Influenced James Farmer and the US Civil Rights Movement
University of Mary Washington Professor P. Anand Rao discusses the connection between Gandhi and the civil rights movement and how it ties into the legacy of CORE co-founder James Farmer.
A Door Into Ocean
A conversation with author Joan Slonczewski, whose 1986 novel "A Door into Ocean" is a master work of nonviolent, feminist literature.