Posts in Direct Action
PUA CASE on the Heart of a Mountain ⌠ENCORE⌡ /130
PUA CASE on the Heart of a Mountain ⌠ENCORE⌡ /130

This week we rebroadcast Pua Case’s interview in honor of the heart of a mountain and the rising of a Nation.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom Keepers, Sacrifice Zones, Direct ActionFor The WildHawai’i, Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Hualalai, Kohala, Kohakohau, Waikoloa, Waimea, Kumu Hul, traditional dance, Hawaiian Language and culture, reindigenization, cultural education, Idle No More Hawai’i Warriors Rising, sacred places, life ways, Wisdom Keepers, Frontline DefenseComment
EXTINCTION REBELLION on Mobilizing Mass Dissent /125
EXTINCTION REBELLION on Mobilizing Mass Dissent /125

Extinction Rebellion has become the biggest civil disobedience campaign in modern British history, taking over the peace movements of the 1980s. In this podcast, Ayana speaks with three core members of the mass movement, Extinction Rebellion, a response to governmental inaction towards our climate and ecological crisis.

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Direct Action, Climate Change, Activism AllyshipFor The Wildpolitical pressure, biodiversity loss, cliamte emergency, radical change, citizens assembly, nonviolent civil disobediance, economic disruption, international rebellion, regenerative culture, ecofacism, democratic systemsComment
ROB GREENFIELD on Confronting Convenience /123
ROB GREENFIELD on Confronting Convenience /123

Take a moment to drop in this week and meditate on your own practices as you listen to Rob and Ayana’s insightful reflections on growing food and foraging, reimagining wealth and de-monetizing your life, how to hold and move through hypocrisy, and the importance of addressing intersectionality and structural oppression in this work.

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Direct Action, Design+Strategy, Transition Transformation, Activism AllyshipFor The Wildglobal economies, food systems, individual impact, meaningful action, structural transformation, systemic healing, adventurer, activist, humanitarian, global issues, end food waste, end hunger, cycling campaign, food freedom, grow food, forage food, de-monetization, Waste & ConvenienceComment
CHRIS HEDGES on Deflating the Ruling Elite through Civil Disobedience /122
CHRIS HEDGES on Deflating the Ruling Elite through Civil Disobedience /122

Ayana and Chris discuss wealth inequality, deindustrialization and the rise of the gig economy, the birth of fascism and Christian fundamentalism, and the fusion of corporate and government power under the reigning umbrella of the security state.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Direct Action, Political Ideology, GlobalizationFor The Wildneoliberalism, corporate capitalism, two-party divide, sociopolitics, fascism, economic forces, journalist, Truthdig, Presbyterian minister, wealth inequality, deindustrialization, gig economy, Christian fundamentalism, security state, civil disobedience, mass resistance, Essential Listening Comments
ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER on Solidarity with Unist'ot'en /107
ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER on Solidarity with Unist'ot'en /107

Eriel articulates how narratives that surround the developments at Unist’ot’en Camp show how colonization has deeply warped our perspective on who get labeled the heroes and villains. While the state continues to prioritize the protection and expansion of infrastructure over people, we must encourage each other to see with clear vision where the true threat lies.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, The Cost of Capitalism, Direct Action, Indigenous Sovereignty, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildLNG Pipeline, resource expansion, Wet’suwet’en Territory, Gidumt’en territory, surveillance, frontline protectors, tools of assimilation, Canadian governments, cultural identity, Indigenous land reclamation, Indigenous governance, Indigenous sovereignty, Denesuline, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, coaltion builder, coalition builder, Frontline DefenseComment
ANGELO BACA on the Elders of Bears Ears /63
ANGELO BACA on the Elders of Bears Ears /63

Angelo Baca is a Navajo and Hopi filmmaker, and a PhD candidate, he has created numerous documentaries and collaborative works around such subjects as Indigenous food sovereignty, and Indigenous international repatriation.

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Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Direct ActionFor The Wildanthropolgy, indigenous international repatriation, indigenous food sovereignty, sacred lands protection, traditional knowledge keepers, documentary film-maker, digital storytelling, Shash Jaa': Bears Ears, Frontline Defense Comments
PUA CASE on the Heart of a Mountain /60
PUA CASE on the Heart of a Mountain /60

Pua’s life path and purpose has led her to become a Kumu Hula… she address the issues and challenges facing sacred places and life ways of the people of Hawaiʻi.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom Keepers, Direct Action, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildHawaii, Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Hualalai, Kohala, Kohakohau, Waikoloa, Waimea, Kumu Hul, traditional dance, Hawaiian language and culture, reindigenization, cultural education, Idle No More Hawai'i Warriors Rising, sacred places, life waysComment
CLAYTON THOMAS-MÜLLER on Disrupting Planetary Destruction /58
CLAYTON THOMAS-MÜLLER on Disrupting Planetary Destruction /58

Join Ayana in conversation with organizer, facilitator, public speaker and writer on Indigenous rights and environmental & economic justice, Clayton Thomas-Müller.

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Colonial Violence, Direct Action, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildTreaty 6, Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, Pukatawagan, Northern Manitoba, traditional territories, Alaska Natives, Native Americans, Stop it at the Source, Tar sands, fossil fuel resistance, land defendersComment
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS on Sacred Rage and the Battle for Public Lands /54
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS on Sacred Rage and the Battle for Public Lands /54

Terry Tempest Williams guides us to explore acts of the imagination into our shifts of consciousness and expanding our sense of family to both human and wild. For the identity of Americans, we are facing a welcome and necessary shift towards mindful reverence, active respect, and intentional renewal of our remaining open public spaces.

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Direct Action, Wisdom KeepersFor The WildBear Ears, National Monuments, Utah, Terry Tempest Williams, sacred activism, National Parks, Pubic Liands, Essential Listening, naturalist writing, freedom of speech advocate, The Hour of the Land, memory, family, gender, community, landscape, public lands protection, imagination, wilderness trails Comments
CHIEF CALEEN SISK on the Fight for Free and Wild Salmon Rivers /47
CHIEF CALEEN SISK on the Fight for Free and Wild Salmon Rivers /47

We talk with Chief Caleen Sisk, spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu of Northern California, to explore how the forces of industrial society have attempted to tame and exploit living waters, and how these native stewards are facing the ecological predicament that has ensued.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom Keepers, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Deep Ecology, Direct ActionFor The WildWinnemem Wintu, living waters, Chinook Salmon, Northern California, New Zealand, Maori, McCloud River, California salmon restoration, Human Right to Water, Indigenous sacred sites, spiritual medicine ways, the spirit of water, global warming, tribal lifeways, A Love Song To Cascadia, More-Than-Human-Kin Comments
ERIEL DERANGER on Radicality Amid Expanding Tar Sands /45
ERIEL DERANGER on Radicality Amid Expanding Tar Sands /45

In this episode we speak with activist Eriel Tchekwie Deranger about the largest industrial project in the world, the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, and strategize about the future of fossil fuel resistance.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial Violence, Direct Action, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildExtractivism, fossil fuel resistance, extractive industry, Indigenous sovereignty, land rights, Boreal forest, carbon sink, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, traditional territory, Indigenous Cliamte Action, Indigenous rights advocate Comments
FAITH GEMMILL & PRINCESS LUCAJ on an Arctic Untouched by Oil /39
FAITH GEMMILL & PRINCESS LUCAJ on an Arctic Untouched by Oil /39

Today we’re speaking Faith Gemmill, a Pit River/ Wintu and Neets’ aii Gwich’in Athabascan earth defender from Arctic Village, Alaska. Also joining us is Princess Lucaj. She is the former Executive Director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee and Alaska Director at the Indigenous Leadership Institute.

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Ancient Ice, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Colonial Violence, Direct ActionFor The Wildarctic, indigenous activists, oil extraction, wildlife, Arctic Village, Alaska, Gwich’in, earth defender, pocupine caribou, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Native Voices, wildlife protection, Honor the Earth, indigenous activism, wild water wild ice Comments
MONIQUE VERDIN & CHERRI FOYTLIN on the Gulf Coast’s Unsound Future /36
MONIQUE VERDIN & CHERRI FOYTLIN on the Gulf Coast’s Unsound Future /36

Today we will look deep into the challenges faced by frontline Indigenous activists in one of America’s most vibrant, and imperilled, regions, the Mississippi Delta.

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Direct Action, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Shore Ocean CommunitiesFor The Wildwetlands restoration, indigenous activists, fossil fuels, climate change, Frontline Defense, frontline activism, indigenous activism, Mississippi Delta, My Louisiana Love, Houma nation, documentary film, environmental filmmakingComment