People-Powered Planet Podcast

June 9th, 2021
​Joanne Dufour, an anti-nuclear weapons educator, brings us a message of hope as we face humanity's greatest challenge.
 
She is a trainer in International Humanitarian law for the Red Cross and has the Disarming Our Planet blog.
 
Today China, Russia and the US are rattling the sabers of new arms races - yielding big profits for corporate bomb makers but threatening the very life of humanity.
 
Instead of U.S. government policies protecting the people, they've protected the corporations that have led us down a disastrous path that is already killing thousands of people from Marshall Islanders and other bomb test victims, to radiation burn victims, downwinders, and many more.
 
All this is being done with your tax dollars, and you hold the key to stopping it!
 
Joanne talks about how you can be a part of a movement to use smart actions to reduce the danger. Most importantly you can help get the money out of bomb-making - encouraging your universities, pension funds and banks to divest from bomb-makers - and other ways we, the people, can join with the overwhelming majority of nations to enforce the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Group
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Aura Kanegis, American Friends Service Committee's director of public policy and Merle Lefkoff president of the Center for Emergent Diplomacy share their unique first-hand perspectives on how to engineer peace in the Gaza Israeli conflict given the extreme power disparities.
 
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Group
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Todd Miller talks about his new book "Build Bridges, Not Walls".
 
Is it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival? Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned call to envision—and work toward—a bold new reality.
 
Todd Miller has been reporting from international border zones for over twenty-five years. In Build Bridges, Not Walls, he invites readers to join him on a journey that begins with the most basic of questions: What happens to our collective humanity when the impulse to help one another is criminalized?
 
A series of encounters—with climate refugees, members of indigenous communities, border authorities, modern-day abolitionists, scholars, visionaries, and the shape-shifting imagination of his four-year-old son—provoke a series of reflections on the ways in which nation-states create the problems that drive immigration, and how the abolition of borders could make the world a more sustainable, habitable place for all.
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Group
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​Karen D. Kendrick-Hands co-founded the Environmental Sustainability Rotarian Action Group (ESRAG)
 
She believes that the ultimate “Service above Self” is ensuring a stable climate for future generations.
 
Karen, an attorney, has been a volunteer public interest advocate for cleaner air, mobility and transportation choices, including serving on various local, state and regional advisory bodies, for over 30 years.
 
She has founded advocacy groups, including Transportation Riders United in greater Detroit , assisted non-environmental community and service organizations, including the Junior League, and League of Women Voters to frame and adopt environmental positions, worked with national US groups such as the Clean Air Network, participated in an official international environmental law exchange between the US and former Soviet Union, and created community connections with unlikely partners – finding common interests where none were obvious.
Karen, blessed to have been a RYE student in 1967-68 to Australia, is a past Chair and Communications Direction of ESRAG; Co-founder a member of the RC of Madison, WI, and its Going Green Fellowship Group in District 6250.
 
She is the Leader of the Rotary Action Team within Citizens’ Climate Lobby Community. Most recently Karen had the honor of being Rotary International’s first observer delegate to UNFCCC Climate talks, COP24 in Katowice, Poland, 2018.https://www.esrag.org/
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Group
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May 12, 2021
David just celebrated his 81 birthday and will be talking about his book "Waging Peace, the Global Adventures of a life-long activist".
 
It's an amazing story filled with action and adventure!
 
​David is a Co-Founder of World BEYOND War, a global movement to end war - making it as illegal to kill people outside countries as it is inside!
 
He has been Waging Peace since meeting Martin Luther King at age 15 - from civil-rights sit-ins to blocking nuclear weapons plants at LIvermore Laboratory.
 
He's blocked trains carrying munitions to fuel Central American wars -- enforcing international law as laid out at Nuremberg. He's Waged Peace in some of the most dangerous and war-torn places on the planet -- including the Philippines, Iran, Kosovo and even the Soviet Union.
 
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Group
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April 28, 2021
"YOUTH V. GOV" documentary -- 21 kids aged 8 to 19, who had their homes flooded, their land ruined by drought, their homes engulfed in forest fires and more brought suit against the US government for denying them a Future.
 
Join us and hear from Sahara Valentine, who became a plaintiff when she was 10 years old, and from the director!
 
Director Christi Cooper, a PhD scientist, and Emmy-award winning cinematographer has created a masterful film in Youth v. Gov -- one of the most thought provoking & compelling climate documentaries ever! An emotional roller-coaster, the film provides the most convincing case of any film we've ever seen that Climate change is real, caused in large part by government policies -- and devastating to our future survival.
 
At the same time the film is heartwarming and uplifting - the inspiring voice of young people who are the core of a new superpower that will save our world!
 
See Christi's many film awards and much more at barrelmakerproductions.com -- and you can watch the film now free at the Solutions Cinema virtual film festival : https://watch.eventive.org/solutionscinema/play/604fbf7ca644ad0030d8903f?m=1 (It follows the short film Water Queen)
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Group
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April 14, 2021
Robin Lloyd is a filmmaker, director of the video production company Green Valley Media, and active in the peace and justice movement in Burlington, VT.
 
Her grandmother, Lola Maverick Lloyd was one of the many founders of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom whose centennial was celebrated in 2015. Lola Lloyd also co-founded the Campaign for World Government in 1937, the first organizational attempt at a world government and world federalism, with close friend Rosika Schwimmer.
 
Robin has been toured with a ‘performance piece’ featuring Lola: Talking with Our Grandmothers: www.WW1womenspeacemovement.com.
 
​Also we were very pleased to hear Ellen Thomas' story as well as William Thomas' story" '!
https://prop1.org/ellen.htm
https://prop1.org/thomas.htm
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Group
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Kasha Sequoia Slavner is a Gen-Z, multi-award-winning first-time documentary filmmaker who at age 16 set out across the world to film The Sunrise Storyteller -- completing it in high school!
 
Passionate to use visual storytelling to make the world a better place and In 2019 she received the Diana Award for sustaining positive social change in the memory of Princess Diana. She is a global youth leader recognized by legendary music producer Nile Rodgers We Are Family Foundation, Global Changemakers, Yunus & Youth, WE, One Better World Collective and was selected as one of the Voices of SDG16+ launched at the UN HLPF.
 
Most recently, in 2021 she became a Climate Ambassador of the Global Youth Climate Network, Kasha is an 12x UN Youth Delegate of The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, and serves as an expert for the Women's Media Center, a non-profit co-founded by Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan.
 
At 17, Kasha wrote & published a 200+ page book of photography “Reflections of the Sunrise Storyteller – A Journey into the Heart as a Global Citizen”. She is also a contributor to several magazines, including National Geographic, Thrive Global, The Huffington Post, Good Magazine... The Sunrise Storyteller has screened at 60+ festivals and won 29 awards, including the Ron Kovic Peace Prize and the Eva Haller, Women Transforming Media Award. She is developing a second feature documentary “1.5 Degrees of Peace”, fiscally sponsored by The Redford Center.
 
Kasha's mom Marla Slavner is a social impact producer, is an entrepreneur with unbridled catalyst energy & creative vision. Founding director of the International Children’s Art Foundation, she has served as a United Nations delegate for the past 8 years at The Commission on the Status of Women.
 
The Global Sunrise Project brings a narrative of resilience, passion, and hope to visual storytelling to empower all of us to take action and come together as global citizens.theglobalsunriseproject.com
 
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Group
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Ann Frisch is a whirlwind of activism racing to save humanity from doomsday! She chairs the subcommittee on nuclear weapons of the Rotary Action Group for Peace (RAGFP ) and chairs St. Paul Rotary's Peace Fellow Integration Committee (D-5960).
 
Ann won Rotary International’s Rotary People of Action Award (along with 5 other Rotarians) in 2017 for her work in unarmed civilian protection. She received the Minnesota US Legislature Award in 2018. In 2019, she headed a RAGFP Delegation at the Nuclear Nonproliferation PrepCom and worked with 250 women around the world to support the UN Secretary General’s plea for a ceasefire in 2020.
 
She also works with Servas. Ann coordinated the first District Grant to train Rotarians in defusing the armed conflict in Southern Thailand and is building models for other Rotarians to do nonviolent, nonpartisan and grassroots based peacemaking.rotaryactiongroupforpeace.org
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Group
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Our Special Guests are Marna Anderson and Kalaya'an Mendoza of the Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP).
 
Whether it's silencing the guns in Darfur or training emerging women leaders in the Philippines, the NP is on the job -- forging a new form of Peacekeeping without guns.
 
Mel Duncan and David Hartsough founded NP in 2002, launching it right into action -- deploying the first Peacekeeping team to Sri Lanka​during a civil war between the government and the rebel Tamal Tigers ​where they worked with mothers for the return of child soldiers, accompanied journalists who were under threat and provided a protective presence in vulnerable areas.
 
Marna joined NP after seeing firsthand the devastation of war and the suffering it brought to El Salvador, where billions in US military aid led to neither side "winning" and over 75,000 people killed, communities devastated, and families traumatized for generations.
 
When a Philippines village of 1000 people were panicking and fleeing, with two armed patrols about to converge on them, elders called in an NP team. They succeeded in getting the armed patrols to back off without danger.
 
Join us and hear how NP is protecting civilians and building a culture of peace around the world.
 
​Marna Anderson is NP's "Director of USA" - bringing in her expertise in organizational effectiveness, fundraising, human rights as well as her focus in conservation and in protecting women and children from violence.
 
​Kalaya'an Mendoza is Director of U.S. Programs and co-founder of Across Frontlines, an organization that works alongside frontline human rights defenders to keep their communities safe from state and non-state actor violence.
 
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Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM, Universal Music Group
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