Steppin' Out Of Babylon
produced by Sue Supriano

NEW PROGRAMS - October 2006

Ramon Ramirez
Ramon Ramirez of PCUN (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United) describes their new low power FM radio station
Ramon Ramirez, president of PCUN (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United) discusses his plans for the new multilingual, low-power FM radio station (KPCN) which PCUN members have erected in the town of Woodburn, Oregon. Ramirez gave this interview at PCUN's "barnraising"-- a gathering of union members and their families and and people who came from far and wide in the United States, from Mexico and Venezuela to work with the Prometheus Radio Project (http://prometheusradio.org) and PCUN to build this low power FM radio station, train people and get it on the air in one weekend in mid-August, 2006.
The PCUN community radio station (KPCN-LP: 96.3FM) is offering music, culture and information in several languages of the indigenous people of the area, Spanish and English. One of PCUN's goals is to use low power FM radio to educate listeners to influence US Foreign and domestic policies, particulary US mmigration policy which directly affects many of the members of PCUN who are immigrant workers from Mexico, especially the state of Oaxaca. Ramirez talks about the enormous negative economic effects of NAFTA (eg- under-selling locally grown corn with genetically modified corn grown by agribusiness in the United States) on Mexico and other countries, causing workers to migrate to the US to literally survive. He also mentions how differently Mexican and Chinese immigrants are treated from Europeans immigrants. The radio station will also be used to provide information concerning domestic violence, women's leadership and sexual reproduction rights, to help people release some of their cultural and religious conditioning which leads to sexual repression and violence, and to create allies within the social justice movement, such as from African American communities, gay and lesbian organizations, and to help educate and organize against the widespread war and violence. PCUN needs help and support to get this wonderful community station fully operating.
Recorded August 2006.
Link: http://www.pcun.org
Date: 2006-10-18
Download: ramonramirez.mp3 - (TRT 27'59")

Luz Ruiz
Independent media activist in Mexico and the US with COMPPA & Prometheus Radio
Luz Ruiz works with a group called COMPPA which, translated into English is "Coalition of Popular Communicators for Autonomy". She also works with the Prometheus Radio Project out of Philadelphia. This interview took place at the Barnraising with Prometheus assisting PCUN ( Treeplanters and Farmworkers United) to set up a low power FM radio station in Woodburn, Oregon where the union is based. Ruiz shares some of her experiences and goals with using community radio as a tool for bringing about peace and social justice. Most of COMPPA's work has involved facilitating the appropriation of media tools for indigenous organizations setting up media outlets in Mexico. Their work focuses there largely on farmworker and immigrant rights.
Ruiz hopes to see her work providing relief in the struggle between people who wish to live their lives with dignity and mutual respect versus huge corporate enterprises often notorious for their heartless agendas. Individuals controlling such enterprises have ruined entire communities for a profit by monopolizing the relay of information and promoting themselves as some kind of help to the national economy even thought the facts tend to reveal the opposite. Ruiz thinks that if the people of a community have the resources to voice their dissent when faced with the threat of corporate plunder dressed up as "development", they may have a much better chance to avoid ruin. She points that with radio as a communications tool, illiteracy does not present a barrier to getting information.
Although she does not discourage the use of licensed low-power community radio station, Ruiz makes the decision to refer to unlicensed radio broadcasting as "free radio" than "pirate" radio, indicating a conscious awareness that participation in the free flow of information constitutes a basic natural right for which we must show respect.
Recorded August 2006.
Link: http://www.comppa.org
Date: 2006-10-18
Download: luzruiz.mp3 - (TRT 28'19")

Janaea Donaldson
Co-Producer/Host of Peak Moment TV: Community Responses for a Changing Energy Future
Janaea Donaldson Co-produces (with Robyn Mallgren, Director) and hosts Peak Moment TV- Community Responses for a Changing Energy Future, a half hour TV show dedicated to exploring solutions and responses to the emerging Peak Oil/Energy shortage scenario.
They call themselves "The Yuba Gals" since they live near the Yuba River in the Grass Valley/Nevada City area in Northern California. This summer of 2006 they have traveled around Washington and Oregon and up to Vancouver, Canada discovering that "people have a lot more options and resources than we and they might think in terms of energy conservation and sustainable living" says Janaea. she then gives examples they have found of groups of people salvaging building materials from run-down buildings and recirculating these materials-- which conserves resources, avoids adding to landfills and makes for less expensive building projects. They have found numerous growers' markets and co-ops which help create independent communities as well as individuals actually circulating lawful local currencies (talk about solution-think!), as well as rainwater collection methods, car co-ops so people don't have to own cars (it works!), electric bikes, energy farms and so many more equally inspiring ways in which individuals have taken this kind of conscious action.
Janaea stresses that her approach does not include trying to convince people that "Peak Oil is real or "Global Warming is real" or fill-in -the-buzz-word "is real" but rather to go to those who already have awareness of these issues and asking the question "what can we do?". She also expresses the opinion that the examples set by conscious, creative individuals will then bring about more awareness simply by proxy and in a non-confrontational way.
The Yuba Gals would appreciate it if you let your local TV station know you would like to see their weekly half hour show.
Recorded in August 2006.
www.peakmoment.tv
Link: http://www.globalpublicmedia.com
Date: 2006-10-18
Download: yubagals.mp3 - (TRT 28'51")

NEW PROGRAMS - September 2006

Maria de los Angeles
Venezuelan journalist talks about her country since President Hugo Chavez, the important proliferation of community and independent media there and some impressions of her 3 years in the USA.
Maria de los Angeles is from Venezuela. She is a journalist who came to Minnesota, USA three years ago on a scholarship to study. In this interview she talks about her home country and the exciting things happening there as well as a few of her impressions of the United States. De los Angeles says that a lot of things in Venezuela have changed for the better since Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela won in the elections of 2000. Although the alternative media started before Chavez it exploded when the coup happened. In 2000 there were 25 independent media outlets. Now there are 323 independent media outlets. Now there are hundreds of newspapers, television channels and radio stations. She says it's so important for people to explore their own way of saying things and fight against the monopoly of how to think. The diverse people of Venezuela need to explore their own culture, laws and language. The diversity of over 36 indigenous groups and the Afro-Venezuelan people want to reflect this diversity in their media.
During the coup of 2002 when the US tried to overthrow President Hugo Chavez it was painful to see how the corporate media said nothing about what was going on and that it was obviously part of plan. Another president was in power for 3 days. The alternative media was ONLY media that went out in streets to find out what happened during that time. The Associacion de Medios. de Medios Communitarios is a collective of collectives of independent media organizations. This is being organized to have an umbrella to better react to covering something like another coup. In December of 2002 the second coup attack failed. So media now is organizing to be strategic when, in the future, it could be threatened with more attempted coups by the United States.
But Chavez is not the revolution, people are the revolution. Elections will happen again on Dec. 24, 2006. Chavez encourages people to read the Constitution, which is a best seller and sold on street corners, and know the law. People are very educated about both global and local issues. They read a lot. They will have to stay alert with the coming election. Maria plans to go back to Buenas Aires, live in community and work with media.
Date: 2006-08-20
Download: mariadelosangeles.mp3 - (TRT 29'19")

Susan Gleason and Daniel Hannah
Reclaim the Media: Reform, policy and education to promote critical thinking about media and a bio-regional community radio conference in Sept. 2006
Reclaim the Media is based in Seattle, Washington. It focuses on media policy reform, media reform and support for independent media. Susan Gleason and Daniel Hannah are the co-founders and co-directors and they speak to us about the specific activities of the organization. Hannah focuses on media monitoring, media literacy and education and media analysis. Reclaim the Media TV focuses on the coverage of news and can be seen on the public access channel in Seattle. It looks at how media works -- the impact of the corporate media, where the inherent biases are, the independent media and it's perspectives, advocacy media and the effects of advertising so that we can understand how we're affected by media. The goal is to get people to think critically. We can ask, for example, why there are stories about certain things and not others and learn, not surprisingly, that it is often because of who is sponsoring the particular media. Reclaim the Media also teaches about media and racism, media and body image and other such connections. They ask how does the media represent issues.
Gleason focuses on the coming Northwest Community Radio Summit and media literacy conference September 15-17, 2006. The purpose is for folks from Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska and Idaho to network and to share content throughout this bio-region. These areas share many things in common locally but often don't get to hear news from other places. They need more exchange about about their local issues. Community radio/media offers media that is of, by and for the local community. The new PICUN ( Union of Farmworkers and Treecutters) low power FM station is a wonderful example of community radio because it can create radio content about issues that are relevant to it's community. Most information is disconnected from community and from its central source. Reclaim the Media hopes to build a bio-regional infrastructure and share content over the internet. New stations are coming on, doing skill sharing, etc. so the stations with more resources train and help less resourced stations train people locally. Democracy needs the free flow of information so we can know what's being done to us and in our name. We need to know in order to be good citizens and have a democracy.
They also mention that the issues of media ownership rules with regard to low power FM, cable franchize agreements, etc. are still up and that these issues impact our lives so it's important to take an interest.
nwcommunityradio.org
Link: http://www.reclaimthemedia.org
Date: 2006-08-01
Download: reclaimthemedia.mp3 - (TRT 27'35")

NEW PROGRAMS - July 2006

Kelvin Long, of Navajo Nation Clan Bitter Water, is the director of ECHOES (Educating Communities while Healing and Offering Environmental Support), based in Flagstaff northern Arizona. In this interview, Calvin Long discusses ecological imbalance and interconnectedness of all people and all life, and he urges everyone to take personal responsibility for the consequences of our actions. 
Long speaks of the "Save the Peaks" campaign which is a project of Echoes. It's an effort-- largely on the part of indigenous North Americans-- to save from corporate desecration a circle of 4 mountains in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. These four Mountains are held sacred by 22 nations of the Southwest. Long says that the sacred mountain of the West, San Francisco Peaks, faces a particularly foul threat. It stands surrounded by deserts and maintains a delicate ecosystem. The company Arizona Snowbowl owns a ski resort there and it intends to expand the resort by making artificial snow with reclaimed wastewater and then dump it on the mountain. Reclaimed wastewater contains endocrine disruptors, which have been found to cause mutations and gender shifts in plant and animal species. Long says this wastewater would throw off the natural bio-harmony existing on the mountain and endanger much of the flora and fauna, including a few specimens found nowhere else on Earth. The effects of soaking the entire mountain with these toxins would not only poison the life on the mountain, but the toxins would also find their way into the bodies of human beings. He believes also that if the scheduled desecration takes place, the young people will likely not consider the mountain as a sacred living symbol, and will lose touch with the cultural stories relating to this symbol of the circle of 4 sacred mountains. This, he says, could serve to destroy the cultures of 22 indigenous American nations which have historically held this circle of mountains sacred for so long. Because of the serious consequences of the actions of Snowbowl ECHOES is taking the company to circuit court over this matter.
Date: July 2006
Download: calvinlong.mp3 - (TRT 27'10")

NEW PROGRAMS - June 2006

Marissa Moorman is Asssistant Professor of African History at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana. Her particular area of expertize is Angola and the formation of an Angolan culture during the end of Portuguese control of this African country. She pursued this subject in Angola where she has lived because there was so much happening with music during the struggle for independence from Portugal. Little had been written in English about this phenomenon of music and political struggle. Moorman talks about the history of the long and violent struggle for independence and how the country is, since the Peace Accords in 2002, finally free of war and able to focus on re-building and healing. She also mentions how she thinks that-- even though it has that much desired resource of oil -- Angola will not be attacked by the countries that need oil since, unlike in Nigeria, the oil sources are very difficult for protestors to reach since they are far off shore and technologically difficult to bring up the oil from the very very deep water where it's found. Also, the Angolan national oil company and other oil companies already control the oil and the government is insisting on the nationalization of the employee base. She talks about the presence in Africa of China and India as they are looking for oil.
The second half of the interview is focused on the development of Angolan culture, particularly their own music, where people could put forth their feelings and opinions about politics as they went about their daily life. The the music that Moorman focuses on was written mostly between 1961-'65 and was later repressed from '75-'80 and has been brought back more recently as well as many more new types of popular music in which political and social comments are included. She finds that the connections between people and the good that has come out of this truly Angolan music that has been created in the wake of repression is even more important than the repression itself as it leads to the further formation of community.
Date: January 2006
Download: marissamoorman3.mp3 - (TRT 28'13")

Laura Wells is running on the Green Party ticket for State Controller of California. She has run for this office before and says intends to continue to run because it's important even if she doesn't win. She has been noticing that, like her, more and people are concerned about the disappearance of the "democracy" the US has been known for and she gives some examples of what we can do and are already doing. For example, Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), which is sometimes called, "rank voting" where the voters rank their choices is more democratic. IRV has gone well in San Francisco, CA. Wells visited Canada where the Canada Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation formed citizen committees to deliberate what to do with nuclear waste. In Ottawa citizen committees deliberated about what would improve their electoral system and their suggestions for ranked choice and proportional representation were implemented. "Dialogue and deliberation" can be done at any time and place. As for the US-- clean money in elections is crucial as otherwise, as now, it is money that determines who and what wins.
Wells speaks very highly of what's happening in Venezuela where she has been several times since President Hugo Chavez was brought to power by a big movement of people in 1998. After that the two parties, which were really similar to one party trading political power back and forth for over 40 years, dissolved. She thinks Venezuela is the best kept secret of real democracy where grassroots citizens make the decisions regarding their neighborhoods and have real control over their elected officials. She gives many examples including one where neighborhoods control the funds of the services-- e.g. health services.
Date: May 2006
Download: laurawells1.mp3 - (TRT 28'00")

NEW PROGRAMS - May 2006

Carol Brouillet has been a major activist since 9/11/2001 in getting out the word about the 9/11 cover-up. The Green party asked Carol Brouillet to run for Congress and she is doing that on a platform of 911 truth and impeachment. There are several other Congressional candidates who have similar platform-- Sandor Hicks in NY, Robert Bowman (sp) in Florida who's been speaking up about 911 and calling it treason. Craig Hill in Vermont.
Brouillet helped develop the very popular "Deception Dollars" which resemble real dollars and have websites on them where people can get information about the details of the deceptions of the US Government story and evidence about what really happened. She also organized the first San Francisco Independent Inquiry of the tragic events of 9/11/01 and has worked tirelessly organizing demonstrations, selling books, pamphlets, speaking to groups, etc., etc.. Brouillet says that because the media ( both corporate & independent) hasn't covered the issues of questions about the official US Government's version of what happened on 9/11 it is important to be creative in using film, art, deception dollars--whatever possible-- to inform people. Europeans are much more aware that the official US Government story is not true. Recently the US press is beginning to report on the 9/11 cover-up. Since actor Charlie Sheen recently spoke on CNN an online poll done by CNN revealed that 84% of people who responded thought there was a cover-up. In the SF Chronicle in mid- April, there was an article with a subtitle of "9/11-Inside Job?", including a photo and report by David Ray Griffin who calls the 9/11 Commission Report a "511 page lie".

More films are coming out as well. 

Since fear is constantly encouraged and fed and so many people (including those in the peace and justice movements) are afraid to look at the reality of their government partly because it brings up the deep questions of who they are, it's even more important to have many types of media looking at the issue. Brouillet believes that the fear and psychological barriers, not the lack of evidence, keep the truth from coming out. Comedy is good for getting around that. Brouillet was behind the film "Behind Every Bush There's A Terrorist". She suggests we should get rid of those who support lack of freedoms and the false securities of Homeland Security to protect the elite from everyone else, while "real" security is good health, access to food and shelter, meeting basic needs. If we re-directed the budget away from the military to meet basic needs we could have a paradise. She thinkgs that what we see now is a "transnational fascism" and impeachment would be good to redeem ourselves in the eyes of the international community that sees the US population putting up with our government. Our hope lies in the grassroots movements to recognize how we're manipulated and take things into our own hands. The refusal of something like 200 cities to follow the Patriot Act is one example of that. Journalists and politicians haven't spoken up because it's threatening to the system and therefore most terrifying for them. They have, in fact, suffered negative consequences. 

Brouillet says the Peace Movement is finally beginning to open up to look at the official story of 911 as untrue. A strategy and educational conference in Chicago in June, at which a lot of people are expected, is going to be put on by the 911 Truth Movement and this will be an opportunity to break the mainstream press barrier if it hasn't already broken by then.

http://Communitycurrency.org
http://Deceptiondollar.org
http://911truth.org to learn more about June conference in ChicagoFeb. Date: Feb 2006
Download: carolbrouillet.mp3 - (TRT 28'39")

NEW PROGRAMS - April 2006

Dr Masaru Emoto, author of Hidden Messages of Water, and several other books, has been a doctor of Alternative Medicine in Japan for many years. English speakers have heard of him in the popular film "What the Bleep Do We Know...? He has learned that water has the ability to retain information and to be influenced by thoughts, music, written words, prayers, etc.. He wanted to be able to show this visually so that anyone could see it and thus, believe it. Twelve years ago he started taking photos of water crystals that had been frozen for three hours at less than 25 degree selsius. He would divide each sample into 50 petri dishes, freeze them and look at each of them under a microscope. If examining spring or tap water he would use that but if exposing water to images or sounds he always uses distilled water of the same quality to assure uniformity. It is clear from looking at the images of the water crystals that they vary enormously depending on the words that were said to them, the music it was exposed to, the toxins in it, etc.. This is enormously important and has huge implications as to the ability of humans, for instance, to purify toxic water. He gives the example of the very polluted Lake Biywa in Japan going from extremely toxic to almost totally unpolluted due to the gathering of people a few times to meditate, pray and send love and appreciation to the water.
Dr Emoto says, as do many non-western models, that sickness is caused by disharmony at the elementary particle vibrational level. What he calls "Hado" is what we may be accustomed to calling "chi". Since water is so primary, including us humans, we have an enormous potential to influence ourselves and everything else in our world in these times of serious toxicity and breakdown. It is this possibility that motivates Dr. Emoto to do his work, hoping that people will learn to give appreciation, love, gratitude and respect to water everywhere at all times-- in the shower, in ourselves, in the rain, etc., etc. He had nightmares all his life every night about the Mayan prophecy and "end of the world" scenario. Since he started doing this work with water these nightmares have stopped. Dr. Emoto is adamant about the importance of this work at this time on earth and has started an institute on the island of Hawaii to teach Hado instructors and do research. Several sessions have already been completed. Dr. Emoto has also written a book in English and Japanese directed to children to learn about our ability to influence water as he thinks it's probably too late for most adults and the importance of knowing our power to improve the situation of ourselves and all things on the earth is imperative at this time. He begs us to take this information SERIOUSLY.
This interview was translated by Ayano Fuyuo.
Date: Feb 2006
Download: DrMasaruEmoto.mp3 - (TRT 27'41")

Eloise Engman is the founder of GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) FREE MAUI (one of the Hawaiian Island) which is also part of the greater GMO FREE HAWAII. She says that Maui has the most open air field tests of experimental organisms per acre of anywhere in the world-- mostly dealing with plants though it's possible there are animals experiments as well. It is especially of concern because some of the plants are "biopharmaceuticals" which have already "contaminated" food crops and been destroyed by the local government due to concern about the contamination of food crops. In Maui much of the papayas are genetically modified, have an antibiotic resistant gene, a string of ecoli and a string of amino acids which are identical to a known allergan. She tells a chilling tale of the sickness of her partner attributed to these papayas. Monsanto, the major company doing 90% of all genetic modification (and makers of major toxics-- agent orange, dioxin and PCB's), is also working on patenting the sacred Hawaiian crop of taro.
Engman says that about 80% of what is on the food market now is genetically modified. We wouldn't know that since it is not labeled. Most canola, soy, and corn have already been contaminated and are gentically engineered. Of particular concern is the addition of antibiotic resistant genes ("markergenes") which have been shot with "gene guns" into plants. Hawaii has a huge seed corn crop and much of it is genetically modified. Since corn, and corn oil are in most all "processed" food this is very dangerous and should be avoided altogether.
The good news is that the Hawaiian coffee growers have insisted there must be no genetic modification of Hawaiian coffee. In defense of our own health we need to plant and eat organic and fight Monsato and GMO food before it has contaminated all the organic seeds and organic food becomes impossible. We should organize and add our communities to those counties and countries who have taken a stand against genetically modified organisms.
Date: Feb 2006
Download: EloiseEngman.mp3 - (TRT 28'40")

NEW PROGRAMS - FEBRUARY 2006

Paul Goettlich writes and lectures on the health and socioeconomic effects of technology and plastics, pesticides, genetic engineering among other things he deems to be important. He is on the Board of In this show he concentrates on endocrine disrupters-- ie, chemicals, or combinations of chemicals that synergistically interfere with our endocrine systems which are crucial for normal and healthy human development as well as for other animals and living things. When these extremely finely tuned systems are disrupted the result is disease. Plastic is a major endocrine disrupter. It is oil-based in all it's forms and toxic for our bodies. As we know all too well plastic is everywhere in our modern industrial world and affecting all of us in negative ways. According to Goettlich, these toxins always leak out and into the systems of living things where they affect our hormones and therefore our lives. Though heat can make it worse this leakage occurs even without heat. Goettlich strongly advises us to avoid all plastics as much as possible-- not an easy task, but an important one. We can use paper, glass, cloth, metal, etc.. We need to eat lower on the food chain where the toxins are less concentrated and stay away from commercial food. Also recycle, reuse, etc..
He thinks that technology is most usually bad for us and gives some examples. He also gives examples of the plastic in the oceans -- six times more than plankton in the middle of the Pacific -- killing sea birds and fish.
To learn more about endocrine disruptors as well as other toxins and other issues of his investigations go to Paul Goettlich's website as well as listening to this interview. It is <http://www.mindfully.org>
Date: January 6, 2006
Download: paulgoettlich.mp3 - (TRT 28'18")

Leuren Moret, a geologist, is an Environmental Commissioner of Berkeley, and Past President for Women Geoscientists to name just a couple of responsibilities she has and has had. Moret worked for the Lawrence Berkeley Lab (Moret refers to it as a "bomb factory") for five years and ultimately blew the whistle on the fraud and corruption, etc. at the lab. Since then she has devoted herself to activism-- speaking up with information and organizing others to also take a stand for the environment and the health of it and us on the earth.. One of her particular areas of focus and expertise is educating people about the horrors of "depleted uranium"-- i.e., exposure to radioactive waste which, since the beginning of the Manhattan Project atomic bomb testing from 1957-1963, we have all been exposed to some degree as it blows around as fine dust and there is no getting rid of it or avoiding it for thousands of years. It comes from nuclear power plants as well. DU, as it is called for short, is a neurotoxin and is responsible for the rise in autism, cancer, ms, and other neurological diseases. She goes into some detail about the evidences for the extremely horrible effects of DU on children, fish, many living things and especially people who are exposed to weapons utilizing DU-- such as the people of Afghanistan who were recently bombed, the Iraqi people and the US military who were there. The results are obvious in not only their own cancers, sickness, but that of their spouses and children. DU exposure doesn't go away and it's everywhere. It was introduced as a weapon for the first time in 1991 in the first Gulf War and is the cause of Gulf War Syndrome-- yet another cover-up. The San Francisco Bay Area, where Moret lives, is especially toxic and she says the reason for Marin County (near the Golden Gate Bridge) having the highest breast cancer rate in the US..
When asked how she is so seemingly fearless and motivated -- and even cheerful-- Leuren Moret says that it is we, the grassroots folks, that are paying for all these toxic horrors -- paying with our money and our children's future-- and it is we who can stop it by standing up. She feels good about her truth telling and encourages other to do the same.
Date: January, 2006
Download: leurenmoret1.mp3 - (TRT 28'39")

Leuren Moret-II
In this interview geo-scientist, independent researcher, whistleblower, Leuren Moret focuses on the issue of "nonlethal weapons", sometimes known as "exotic weapons". They are as horrible and disturbing as any weapons can be and are ultimately aimed at the control of the earth as well as space. Moret thinks that the real purpose of what is, in her opinion, excessive nuclear testing really is to learn about the earth's atmosphere, and how to develop and use the weapons of weather control, mind control, spying, etc-- control of everything possible. She describes what the weapons system, HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) is, it's connections to "chem trails" (aerosol spraying), health and mind control among other things. Some examples are atmospheric and weather control. Weather control has been going on since the 1970's and has gotten more and more sophisticated. Based on the same understanding that science now has that life is an electromagnetic dance which, if disturbed, results in illness and malfunction it's been discovered that illnesses each have their own frequency. This knowledge has led China, Eastern Europe and Russia to use electronic frequencies to correct illnesses in people whereas in the USA these practices are illegal.
Date: January, 2006
Download: leurenmoret2.mp3 - (TRT 27'13")

Richard Heinberg is a writer and teacher whose focus in these times is "peak oil". He has become one respected as one of the country's experts on peak oil and travels and lectures nationally and internationally on the subject. He also teaches Human Ecology at New College of San Francisco in Santa Rosa, California. Two of his several books are  The Party's Over-Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies and Powerdown:Options and Actions for a Post Carbon World.   He explains that "peak oil" means that the cheap oil we've had available to build our industrial world is over and our industrialized world has already started coming to the end that is inevitable and which is likely to be a huge dislocation from the way of life to which we are accustomed in the "first world". It will affect the energy that we're used to having and transportation, food supply, common materials that we're used to which are based on oil-- plastic, clothes, buildings and on and on. As for the timing of this huge dislocation to our life-styles-- he thinks it's quite soon, that we may already have hit peak or will hit or soon, but really no one knows for sure and we will ony know for sure in retrospect. In this talk he explains the history, what's happening now with oil and how, whenever this long change and depression comes about, preparation and living sustainably without oil (and natural gas) will make the transition easier so there is no reason to put it off.
Date: January 10, 2006
Download: heinberg eugene1.mp3 - (TRT 67'00")

NEW SHOWS - January 2006

Brandy Gallagher-McPherson is the Exec/ Director of OUR (One United Resource) Ecovillage Development team which is a 25 acre demonstration sustainable community on Vancouver Island, British Columbia in Western Canada. Brandy has a lot of experience living in community. She lived with her parents in an intentional community in rural Canada for her first 10 years and during that time was also very close to a First Nations (Native American) community and its strong sense of "community". She brings that experience to her OUR Ecovillage.
The notion of "Ecovillage" is really just a concept and intention of sustainable living including sustainable relationships and connection with the land. We know, in fact, that relationships with our space and our environment is our survival. She sees things from a place of possibilities and looks at the ecovillage movement as a way of putting back the pieces we've lost and that we are in great need of to make a whole and sane world. An "ecovillage" can take any form from a rural kibbutz to a downtown urban situation and anything in between. It is usually designed within a context of a full featured life style. A very useful and successfull project that others wanting to do an ecovillage can learn and profit from is that OUR Ecovillage has taken on a legal re-zoning package and worked through two and a half years of full-featured package for an ecovillage design. This is a precedent in Canada for working hand in hand with authorities. OUR Ecovillage also has a full program of work and classes and gives a class called Topia, which means "place or space", sustainability and a 3 month residential program in natural building with teachers from many parts of the world. There are residential programs in permaculture and sustainable community design as well. Gallagher-McPherson speaks of the global ecovillage movement and network which includes over 600 ecovillages and intentional communities. The website is http://wwwgen.org http://www.IC.org is the website for the Federation of Egalitarian Communities. The website for OUR Ecovillage is http://ourecovillage.org The telephone is -250-743-3067
Date: January 2006
Download: brandygallaghermcpherson.mp3 - (TRT 28'49")

NEW PROGRAMS - DECEMBER 2005

Michael Abelman is a farmer, educator, founder and the executive director of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens, Ca.. Abelman is also author/photographer of From the Good Earth, On Good Land and Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People who Grow it. He is also the subject of the award-winning PBS national broadcast "Beyond Organic".
Abelman talks about the huge affect that the industrial age has had on the earth. We might not think that farming is the industry that uses possibly the most oil-- in terms of fertilizer, processing soil and plants, moving the food, and on and on. And organic food uses just as much oil since it too is shipped long distances. It is also the case that, due to industrial agriculture, the minerals have been taken out of the soil and the soil is incredibly depleted thus making the food much of the population eats extremely lacking in nutritional value. Soil is the basis for life in many ways and sustainabilty means keeping in balance what is taken out of the soil with what is returned. This is not what's been happening for the most part in the industrial world. Since cheap oil is soon to end, thus changing dramatically much of what we're used to in the industrial world, it is extremely important that we compost and improve our soil everywhere from the city to rural areas.
He discusses the options available for changing our ways such as gray water and compost toilets and the wonderful ways to grow a lot of food in urban areas. There is the example of using the heat from an urban cleaning establishment to heat the green house on the roof of the city building in the winter. There are many great and good aspects of dry farming with very little, if any, water. However, government agencies often make these totally sensible approaches more difficult rather than easy. Abelman says about sustainability and "organic" that it means much more than just eliminating toxins (though, obviously, this is crucial!) and it builds community which is so important for our health, well-being and survival.
Link: http://www.fairviewgardens.org
Date: October 2005
Download: michaelabelman.mp3 - (TRT 27'31")

Paul Glover, founder of the local currency, Ithaca Hours (Yes, it's legal. It's not called "dollars"), has been a community organizer for the past 35 years. He has degrees in marketing and city mangagement and lived in Los Angeles for many years where he wrote a History of the Future about ecological urban development in Los Angeles. He agrees that the future will look very different than the past due to less availability of oil among other things, and continues to contribute greatly to how that future can be more in the hands of local grassroots, community folks who know best their own needs and preferences.
Glover has been in the small college town (15,000 residents, 13,000 students, 51,000 in metropolitan area) of Ithaca, New York since the early 1990's.
There he has organized the successful Ithaca Hours local currency which has been the means of exchange for several millions of dollars in transactions. He goes into detail about how he and others organized this currency so that listeners can learn from the Ithaca experience and create more local currencies, thus keeping our wealth in our communities benefiting the well-being of our communities and their members since who makes the decisions on how the money gets spent remains local. Glover emphasizes keeping the overhead low and says that the Ithaca Hours were centered in his house for many years. Now the center is above a store where the owner is very supportive of the local currency. Ithaca Hours give interest free loans, it is used by 500 businesses of all kinds- to pay rent to landlords, garage sales, hardware stores, etc., etc.. The currency is designed with pictures of waterfalls and children playing-- a change from pictures of financially powerful white men.
Since the private sector is taking less and less care of people, a health cooperative has recently been organized as well. It costs $100 per year for an adult and $50 per child. The care is done by licensed medical people who are paid by the coop.
Link: http://www.ithacahours.org
Date: October 2005
Download: paulglover.mp3 - (TRT 28'12")

Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is the indigenous oil campaign organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. He works across Alaska, Canada and the lower 48 States of the US with grassroots indigenous communities to defend their human and environmental rights against transnational oil corporations. Clayton has been recognized by Utne magazine as one of the top 30 under 30 young visionary activists in the U.S.. Sue Supriano interviewed him at Bioneers where he was a presenter.
Thomas-Muller says that 35% of all fossil fuels found in North America are on or near indigenous lands so corporations and government organizations concentrate on exploiting them and socio-economic conditions are worsening for the people who live near the sites of these nonsustainable energy sources such as oil and gas. Like so many people, some of the leaders go for the money offered them by the corporations and government agencies and things get worse and worse in terms of the toxicity of the land, water, and air where the indigenous people live. He goes into some detail with the example of the proposed oil refinery in Fort Berthold, North Dakota which is already subjected to a huge amount of toxicity due to being close to coal fired power plants. The oil refinery would only worsen the situation. Parents are very concerned for the health of their children on the Reservation. He says that already the amount of oil spilled into the water and polluting it in one year is equivalent to 1,000 Exon Valdez oil spills. Then the oil would go from Fort Berthold to Chicago and would be driven by the oil extracted from tar sands in Native lands in Alberta, Canada. In fact those lands (a huge number of miles and acres) are being ruined by being drilled with water to get a bit of oil, and then the water is polluted to the point of being undrinkable with toxicity from the chemicals from the oil. So it's all connected and continues the long tradition of exploitation of Native peoples and their land.
We also speak about climate change and the disprportionate hardship for people of color and poor people. The Houma indigenous group in Louisiana being a current case in point as they were severely affected by Hurricane Katrina and got absolutely no government help whatsoever. The Indigenous Environmental network, when invited by local people, comes in and educates and help grassroots groups to fight this exploitation of the people and their environment and, in the example of the Houma, to help them with basic needs.
Link: http.www.ienearth.org
Date: October 2005
Download: claytonthomasmuller.mp3 - (TRT 26'41")

Tom Kelly and his wife, Jane Kelly, started the organization, Kyoto USA at the end of 2004. They understand that serious climate change is becoming ever intense and dangerous for all of us on the planet-- e.g. glaciers are melting even faster than anyone expected, species are going extinct at a rate never before experienced in millions and millions of years, islands are going under and becoming uninhabitable as the salt water rises, methane--which speeds up global warming even more-- is being released as permafrost melts, and on and on. All of these changes affect those who are poor and of color the most so far.
We know that although Clinton signed the Kyoto Protocol-- an international agreement which reduces greenhouse gases which, in turn, speed up global climate change-- he never presented it to the Senate and that Bush withdrew the signature of the United States Government to this agreement. The US and Australia, another country which didn't sign the Kyoto Protocol, are the 2 biggest contributors to greenhouse gases. It is the opinion of Tom and Jane Kelly that, given these political realities which can lead citizens to feel powerless, it is more fruitful to concentrate on the local level where it's possible to have more effect since we are more likely to know local officials and be able to influence and hold them accountable. It is also just as likely that many small efforts will help deal with what is happening and will very likely continue to worsen. We can do what we can to both lessen effects and prepare for them.
Kelly tells the story of how climate change is evident in Washington State as it has been getting only 40-50% of the snow it used to get and this, in turn, affects its electricity generation which comes from water. Progress is being made in local organizing and mayors of 180 cities have signed onto the Kyoto Protocol. Thirty percent the of the total US population lives in these cities and the momentum, including from Universities, is growing. The generally agreed upon goal is to reduce greenhouse gasses by 70% and not to wait for the US Government to take a stand. In fact, it is on the local level where the most greenhouse gases get produced. So we are urged to get involved locally and can get more up-to-date information at <http://www.kyotousa.org>
Date: October 2005
Download: tomkelly.mp3 - (TRT 28'00")

Greg Watson is Vice President for Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. He works with the Renewable Energy Trust Fund and leads the Offshore Wind Initiative for them. Watson has been Executive Director of The New Alchemy Institute, The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and the Nature Conservancy
Eastern Regional Office. He was also Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture.
This show focuses on the issue of the rapidity and seriousness of effects of climate change and the urgency of getting renewable energy in place of fossil fuel use since fossil fuel use makes climate change speed up even more and oil is peaking (becoming much harder to access!!) as well. Though people tend to have their heads in the sand about this issue even the New York Times is writing about it as insurance companies are canceling people's insurance. The companies understand that the amount of damage which will occur from the computer predicted growing intensity of storms in the future is beyond their ability to cover. Places in the Arctic are now barren that have been under water and ice, methane is being released, things are moving faster and faster and are unpredictable. The pace of climate change is too fast for us to adapt to.-- eg., agriculture is so centralized. Things are in a dire state and the Federal Government is fiddling while the changing environment and it's affects on people are burning. Watson talks a lot about the lack of government response to the disasters caused by Katrina and Rita hurricanes, how racism and lack of social justice result in blatent racist policies and how poor people suffer most in such emergencies. He says there is a growing lack of trust of the US Government.
States aremore likely to come up with solutions and try to wean us from fossil fuel use. Natural gas has also peaked, energy rates are going up and up and, again, who is most hurt are the poor who have no place to turn. People can't live in Massachusetts without heat. It is a dire situation and there is no energy plan.
It is looking like Northern Europe might have an ice age as the warmer gulf waters go further and further north, thus speeding up the imbalance of the water temperature which can reach a "tipping point" and lead to an ice age. Watson says that even though there is no magic answer there are things that can be done to lessen the impact of these severe climate changes. His organization promotes using less, green buildings, solar, biomass, and most of all wind which is the fastest growing source of renewable energy in the world because it can compete with coal and natural gas in terms of cost.
Wind is how we can build utility scale renewable energy on a big scale which is crucial! Unfortunately some agencies in Massachusetts are holding off on giving the final ok to build the offshore windmills in Massachusetts and, shockingly, it's in large part due to the windmills being in view of some rich people who don't seem to understand that climate change affects everyone. We are at the point now where we need to concentrate on minimzing it's affects for everyone.
Greg Watson can be reached at watson@masstech.org
Link: http.www.masstech.org
Date: 2005-10-05
Download: gregwatson.mp3 - (TRT 38'00")


NEW PROGRAMS - OCTOBER 2005

Malik Rahim lives in Algiers-- a section of New Orleans that was not hit by Katrina, the huge hurricane that destroyed so much of New Orleans although it did flood somewhat because some levees broke. Rahim talks about his experience of the scandalous lack of response to help people who were suffering from the effects of the hurricane and floods-- especially poor Black people. In fact, due to these racist policies many people died needlessly. We may never know how many. He tells the story of a dead body lying rotting for days in front of the health clinic and how the army even put a tent over it, but didn't remove it for a week or so. Horrendous stories!

Rahim stepped forward as an organizer since there was no person, people, or organizations doing the job. He was a Black Panther in the past and knew the importance of organizing. One of the first things that he, along with others, did was to set up a health clinic out of his mosque. Of course the needs of evacuees who were coming to Algiers was very great and no help was forthcoming for a week. During that time hunger, thirst (no fresh water or ice available) grew and violence and despair ensued. When aid did come from FEMA and the Red Cross, it was mostly on the outskirts of the urban area. He describes having to scrounge gas for a vehicle with no gas stations open, in order to get to where the "ready to eat" meals were distributed. Some people walked miles and miles for their food and water. He talks about folks coming from the Astrodome in New Orleans with the same clothes on for a week and those clothes being soaked with the toxic substances that were released. As usual, poor and Black people were the hardest hit by the disaster since they were less likely to have a car and gas or a way to get evacuate before the hurricane hit. Those who got out were the more affluent. There was no organized help for the poor at all!

Rahim describes that when the US Military arrived he was pleased because it kept order which was important, but he also acknowleges that at the time of this interview it is a police state with a curfew. His absolutely main point is that we cannot depend on any level of government to help us and urges us to take it into our own hands and prepare our communities for catastrophies that could well come at any time. They've always been happening, and especially in these times of climate change and other potential catastrophies they are almost certain to occur in many places so organize and prepare locally!! He also invites people to come and help rebuild New Orleans and get to know the people there.
Learn more and to send donations-
Link: http.www.buildgreen.org
Date: 2005-10-05
Download: malikrahim.mp3 - (TRT 27'17")

Jeffrey M. Smith exposes the risks of genetically modified food in his book, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating. He has been a guest on Steppin' Out of Babylon in the past. In this show he focuses especially on his recent experience in Southern Africa from where he returned only hours before the interview.

Smith holds up the people of Zambia as heroes in that they refused the genetically engineered corn offered them by the US even though such a large number of Zambians are infected with AIDS and there are immune systems are weak due to a variety of reasons, including hunger. Eventually they accepted asking that they not receive the seeds, but milled corn, so their corn would not be polluted by the GM seeds. They US refused and a US official is quoted as saying they want to pollute the Zambian seed supply to make the farmers dependent on buying Monsato genetically engineered seeds. Fortunately South Africa milled the seeds first so they are not getting raw seeds but it is clear that Monsato intends to control all the seeds in the world. It is corn and soy that are almost all genetically engineered right now.

Smith gives one example after another of the corruption and manipulation of science and scientists in order to get the ok to continue with their genetically engineering of seeds-- whistleblowers are threatened, studies and distorted and full of lies, etc., etc.. Given these facts he also talks a lot about the importance of diet (so many chronic and acute diseases are based on diet!!) and avoiding GM foods. Eating organic is best, not only because it avoids genetic engineering, but also because it is MUCH more nutritious than non-organic food. Even food that is labeled non gmo is better than gmo food however. Smith's website is www.seedsofdeception.com He's also produced a video/dvd, Hidden Dangers in Kid's Meals-- which can be downloaded for free and distributed to educate and protect our children and their parents. Soon he'll be working on two new books.
Link: www.seedsofdeception.com
Date: 2005-10-05
Download: JeffreyMSmith.mp3 - (TRT 28'21")


NEW PROGRAMS - SEPTEMBER 2005

Michael Ruppert
Peak Oil: The Future of Food Security, Fuel and the Economy
Mike Ruppert, Editor and Publisher of www.fromthewilderness.com and author of Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil spoke at SolFest at the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, California in August 2005 where this interview occurred. Ruppert, a former Los Angeles narcotics police officer, has been a teller of truth as he sees it for many many years. He was shot at, his life was threatened and when he reported it to LAPD Chief Darly Gates, Gates responded (through an aide) that he was too busy to see Ruppert, and that he'd see him in a week to 10 days if he (Ruppert) was still alive. At that Ruppert resigned from the LAPD. He has retained, and possibly strengthened his committment to telling the truth.
He was one of the first independent investigators to look into what really caused the tragic events of 9/11/2001 and has continued to be a leader in the movement to uncover the 9/11 cover-up. From the beginning of this investigation and discussion he has claimed that the peaking of oil and natural gas and diminishing natural resources were central in why some people in high places in the US plan and carry out such terrorizing actions in order to convince people that the US needs to attack, for instance, Afghanistan and Iraq, in order to control what oil there remains. This is not the only reason, but one of the main ones.
In this recent interview he shares that, in his opinion, the issues of peak oil (the end of cheap oil and therefore the end of the industrial world as we know it) and gas and climate change now overshadow any other issues facing us because the survival of humans and other life on earth are at stake. Our very survival is the issue due to the natural and political threats facing us. He explains what he sees happening geopolitically in the world in terms of China, Venezuela, Iran, etc.. It is Ruppert's opinion that the US economy will collapse by December 2005 (and this was before the hurricane tragedy that just happened in Louisiana and Mississippi). As usual, Mike Ruppert, has much of interest and importance to say.
CORRECTION: I want to publicly apologize to Mike Ruppert and let my audience know that it was totally my error when I stated previously in this write-up that Ruppert was fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. The truth is that he RESIGNED from the LAPD while was he earning the highest rating reports possible as well as having been certified for promotion of Detective. He had no pending disciplinary actions of any kind and perfect LAPD record. The mistake has now been corrected in the write-up.
See:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/mcr_lapd.shtml
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/full_disclose_2.shtml
-- Sue Supriano, Host/Producer. Steppin' Out of Babylon
Link: http://www.fromthewilderness.com
Date: 2005-08-15
Download: ruppert05.mp3 - (TRT 28'11")

Gary Braasch
World View of Global Warming
Gary Braasch spoke at the Green Cities Conference in Oakland, Ca. in May 2005 where this interview took place after seeing his presentation which included his incredible photos. Braasch is a photo journalist who has been photographing and documenting ecosystems of the earth in all their beauty and complexity for many years. Since he visited many of the same places from the Arctic to Antarctica, from the glaciers to the oceans, across all climate zones year after year he noticed the extreme changes in temperature and its effects on the landscape. There is no doubt that rapid and extreme climate change is real, is accelerating across the globe and will affect more people than does war. Some of the animals and plants with whom we share the planet are adapting and some are going extinct. We humans are animals as well and our fate is in question as the climate and ocean temperatures warm. It is believed that the recent enormous destruction of the hurricane that hit Louisiana and Mississippi is a result of global warming as are the droughts and other climate changes resulting in a much harder life on earth. Braash's direct experience and witnessing of these changes has led to his commitment to inform people about the urgency of taking action to slow down global warming which is threatening life on earth including our own.
Check out his website about global warming at www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org and his photography website at www.braaschphotography.com.
Link: http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org
Date: 2005-08-14
Download: brashall.mp3 - (TRT 28'00")

NEW PROGRAMS - JULY 2005

Kevin Pina is an independent journalist and filmmaker who is from California and has been living in Port of Prince, Haiti for last 5 years. He has formed the Haiti Information Project and has trained local Haitian reporters as well. They are all very brave as they film on the ground and report what's going on with the poor and disenfranchised people in this Caribbean island country, especiallly since their duly elected President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was removed from his office and the country, to be replaced by a government that seems to be making life much more difficult for Haiti's people, the majority of whom are poor and suffering.
In this show Pina gives history, analysis and up-to-date information about what is going on in July 2005 in Haiti. It seems the United Nations "peacekeeping" force is breaking into people's shacks in the poorest areas of Port of Prince, and sometimes even killing people, including young children, with shots to the head. Pina has very graphic, sad, shocking and awful film of these horrible killings. As this is being written, Fr Jean Juste, an incredible priest who works to feed as many people as possible, mostly children, is being imprisoned for speaking out against the present regime.
Link: http://haitiaction.net
Date: July 2005
Download: kevinpina05.mp3 - (TRT 27'31")

Dominie Cappadonna, Ph.D. describes herself as a lifelong explorer of many dimensions of our human and nature experience. She has been teaching for the past 27 years in the fields of Transpersonal Psychology, Ecopsychology and Education. Currently she teaches at the Naropa Institute in Boulder Colorado, as well as the California Institute for Human Science and other places. She has published many articles and is currently working on her first book, True Nature: Essence Teachings in Nature. She is committed to engaged spirituality in all its forms and humanitarian projects (eg., in Cambodia and Brazil) with people exploring life transitions and rites of passage. She works as a psychotherapist as well as teaching. She says about the new field of Ecopsychology that it recognizes that human health, identity and sanity are integrally linked to the health of the earth and must included sustainable and mutually enhancing relationships between humans and the more than human world.
Cappadonna has done an amazing amount of things which integrate into her mind set and work. She leads hikes into the wilderness, sailboat journey's for spiritual and psychological transformation, workshops and Sue Supriano met her at a Lifeboat gathering discussing the issues of peak oil, climate change, etc. and how we can and must live at this time.
Date: July 2005
Download: dominiecapadonna.mp3 - (TRT 28'05")

Matt Savinar, has spent his life in California where he is a licensed attorney. He has recently focused his time and energy letting people know about how life as we know it is about to soon change due to the coming end (it might be here already, in fact) of cheap and easily available oil on which our industrial society is built. His website is www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net and there you can find most of the information, facts and figures about the end of oil and how we can prepare for our new lives. His website has been the #1 "Peak Oil" site on Boogle since January 2004 and has been instrumental in rasising the awareness of "peak oil". He is also the author of "The Oil Age is Over: What to Expect as the World Runs Out of Cheap Oil, 2005-2050" In May of 2005 when US Representative Roscoe Barlett presented a report on Peak Oil, stressing the gravity and urgency of the coming crisis, he quoted extensively from Savinar's book.
This show is the speech Savinar gave at the Lifeboat Conference in Astoria, Oregon this June 2005. The Conference was put on by the Titanic Lifeboat Academy whose website is http://lifeboat.postcarbon.org/
Link: www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
Date: June 2005
Download: mattsavinar.mp3 - (TRT 29'00")

Dave Room is the Director of North American Operations, Post Carbon Institute http://postcarbon.org. He is a social entrepreneur and post carbon activist with a strong interests and experience in environmental affairs and the use of technology for communications and collaboration. He manages Post Carbon Institute's US operation, organizes events, write policy, conducts local outreach and speaks at numerous events. He is also editor and interviewer for Global Public Media http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/, the umbrella foundation for Post Carbon Institute. He is co-authoring a new book (with Julian Darley and Celine Rich of Post Carbon Institute)-- Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil. He has a Masters Degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University.
This show is a speech Room made at the Lifeboat Conference put on by the Titanic Lifeboat Academy in Astoria Oregon http://lifeboat.postcarbon.org/. He defines the issue of societal changes coming up and some inspiring and creative ideas for how we can make the most of these changes by starting to think and plan about work, businesses, etc. which will be satisfying and make sense to fill our needs in those/these times.
Date: July 2005
Download: daveroomlifeboat.mp3 - (TRT 29'15")

Thais Mazur is the author of the recent book, Warrior Mothers: Stories to Awaken the Flames of the Heart. Mazur herself is a warrior mother. She's a dancer, martial arts teacher, investigative journalist, radio producer, activist and the mother of a young child. She has been granted awards for her work as a choreographer and is the artistic director of the acclaimed Women in Black dance project.
In this show she talks about her book, Warrior Mothers, and goes into the stories of several of the 25 women in her book. They represent a range of age, ethnicities, backgrounds and issues. The stories are very very moving and inspiring and most definitely "awaken the flames of the heart". The serious issues facing us today concerning climate change and peak oil, loss of democracy, etc. are discussed. Mazur describes the good work being done in the community of Mendocino County in norther California where she lives. An institute of sustainability is being developed and more and more people are working together to live more sustainability as community. Thais Mazur's website is www.mazurarts.com
Date: July 2005
Download: taismazur.mp3 - (TRT 28'33")


NEW PROGRAMS - JUNE 2005

James Howard Kunstler is the author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. He is also the author of three other nonfiction books, The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere, and The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, as well as nine novels. He has been an editor with Rolling Stone and his articles have appeared in the NY Times Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly.
In this interview he addresses the issues of the decline of the cheap energy from fossil fuels on which the industrialized world is built. He predicts epochal changes to our social relations, economy , and political system that are today are unimaginable for us to grasp, though it would be to our benefit to do so in order to develop a smoother transition to the post industrial age. Climate change is also part of the emerging catastrophes leading to this emergency which will change everything. Life will become more local, globalism and the consumer economy will wither, we will struggle to feed ourselves and the United States may not hold together as a nation. Epidemic disease and faltering agriculture will synergize with energy scarcities to send nations reeling and all that could mean to our national and international relations. There is no Techno-fix" that will permit us to run things the way we are and to which we are accustomed. Suburbia will really have to be farm land.
As he says "We are entering uncharted territory of history" and we will have to downscale every activity of everyday life, from farming, to schooling, to retail trade. We will be staying where we already are. In Kunstler's opinion, based on the true story of where we are won the downward slope of "peak oil", this process has already begun. It is incumbent on us to voluntarily start to scaledown, cooperate, and live sustainably because soon enough it will not be a choice. Let's get started!!
Link: www.kunstler.com
Date: June 05, 2005
Download: jameshowardkunstler.mp3 - (TRT 28'02")

Evon Peter is the Chief of the Neetsaii Gwich'in people in Alaska. He is an amazing young man who, though he grew up carrying water to his one room house which was remote and without energy from gas or oil (no electricity, etc), now travels the world speaking about his people and all indigenous people and the welfare of all living things. He especially makes a plea for us in the United States to stop the US and the oil companies from drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Region. This bill is in the US Congress as we write right now. Quote Evon Peter from his website www.nativemovement.org.
"The relationship between the Indigenous Peoples of Alaska and the United Stated needs to be addressed. This relationship is out of balance. Indigenous Peoples are struggling for basic human rights, quality education, and jobs. Yet, the colonial governments 6 and European based corporations are making billions of dollars in profit from Indigenous land and resources in Alaska every year.
Our place as human beings in the world is out of balance. Through greed, fear, and over-consumption, we have hurt many relationships between one another and our relationship with the earth. Our path as humankind needs to be altered to incorporate values of respect, unity, and balance."
The things we discussed in this interview are those in the above two paragraphs-- the need for getting off our addiction to oil, the extraction of which is damaging to the environment and its inhabitants whether it be in Ecuador or Alaska. It makes people sick, hungry, destroys societies, the land itself and the animals and plants that live on it. We agreed that oil has peaked and will cheap oil will become unavailable very soon, but even sooner we can begin making those necessary transitions to sustainability in energy, our lives and our societies. He invites anyone who shares the values and sentiments expressed in the native movement website to join in creating a harmonious and sustainable world.
Link: www.nativemovement.org
Date: June 05, 2005
Download: evonpeter.mp3 - (TRT 27'12")

Myrna Bullock is a noted artist, teacher and spiritual activist with decades of experience in dance from around the world. In 1998 she and her husband, Tim Bullock, walked the year-long Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage: Retracing the Journey of Slavery. Based in part, on this life altering journey, Myrna and Tim developed the long-term project, AIDS Pilgrimage Africa: A Walk for Global Healing, as a spiritual and physical response to the ever-growing pandemic of AIDS on the African continent. The mission of this project is to create a community of healing energy to share with the people of sub-Saharan African as they (and whoever joins them) walk in prayer and meditation, as well as transforming the people who walk and work with them through self-discovery by facing their personal issues and beliefs. 
They have been stopping to work in communities and do concrete projects of education and healing. Myrna Bullock speaks about their experience in Africa, and what it's like to live with almost no water, food, electricity as do the people in the villages they stay in as well as the joy of seeing the smiles on faces of sick people who have a chance to do art, dance, share information and be together in healing ways.
Link: http://www.spiritwalkers.org/site/pilgrimage/section.php?id=7042
Date: May 05, 2005
Download: myrnabullock.mp3 - (TRT 27'51")


NEW PROGRAMS - MAY 2005

Richard Register is the founder of Ecocity Builders, a nonprofit organization based in Berkeley and Oakland, California. Register has been working with this organization and these issues for many many years. He is also the founder of the organization, Urban Ecology, based in Berkeley, and is the author of many books including Ecocities: Building Cities in Balance with Nature,  Ecocity Berkeley, and chief editor of Village Wisdom, Future Cities, and many articles. He is the founder of the International Ecocity and Ecovillage Conference Series as well. Conferences have been held in North America, South America, Australia, Africa and China. 
It is evident that Register is very focused on the incredibly important issue of sustainable development solutions. Since most of the population of the world lives in cities, how we can live in cities in balance with nature is a crucial issue of survival at this time with declining oil, climate change, species extinction and the other challenges we humans and other living things are facing. He links these problems to to our auto-dependent sprawling cities and towns and focuses primarily on what can be done and what is being done to craft creative, inspiring and community oriented solutions. 
Date: May 2005
Download: richardregister.mp3 - (TRT 28'18")

US Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (Rep, Maryland), was interviewed by Dave Room of the Postcarbon Institute. Bartlett, a former teacher among other things, is the only person in Congress who speaks on peak oil and says that he's willing to repeat and repeat until Congress understands, which at the time of this interview almost no one did. He mentions that his assistant, Dr. John Darnell, is also a scientist and very well informed about peak oil. He suggests to call your Congressman and ask about "peak oil" so they will know of our concern.
Bartlett's impetus to speak has been his long concern for the prediction of MK Hubbard that the US would peak in oil in 1976, and Hubbard was correct. He predicted that world oil would peak in 2000 and the fact is that oil is probably peaking right now. It is obviously a limited resource and is diminishing. It's made even worse because the demand for oil is growing along with the diminishing supply. When that larger need (China is biggest demand), along with less oil availability coincide (and it's beginning) it can lead to major issues of war and economic breakdown. Natural gas will be exhausted at about the same time as oil. Since our whole food system-- growing and delivery (average food on our plates travels 1500 miles)-- and society rest on the use of these fossil fuels it's in the interest of the United States to take these realities into consideration in planning to lessen the pain and suffering the reality of declining oil will bring.
Bartlett says that we should have started 25 years ago to develop other methods of creating energy and already, with less time, it's getting more challenging to develop alternative energy at a fast enough rate. to make the difference we need. The US uses 25% of all the world's oil-- even more reason to be a leader in cutting back our use and changing the deeply engrained oil dependence of our society. Europe uses half as much energy as the US. He suggests that we should grow our own food locally. Also, just the change of having two people in a car rather than one would make a huge difference in oil use. Coal is not an answer since it is also limited. We need a new yardstick by which to judge success other than how much energy we use. We need to change the US culture-- get off the grid, out of debt, and into alternative energy and focus on conservation and efficiency NOW.
Link: http://www.bartlett.house.gov/biography.asp, http://www.postcarbon.org
Date: March 2005
Download: roscoebartlett.mp3 - (TRT 28'38")

John DeGraaf is known for being the author of Affluenza- The All Consuming Epidemic which is both a book and a film. DeGraaf is presently working on TV films on hunger, Fair Trade, and he also works with the Take Back Your Time Campaign which is the first national initiative of the Simplicity Forum, and an unofficial think tank for the Simplicity Movement. This interview took place at a Simplicity Conference in Oakland, California.
DeGraaf talks about how we Americans are overworked as a society due to obsession with consuming. We tend to be stressed, our health is affected, as is our family life. And the sad thing is that our workaholism and consumerism does not lead to happiness. In fact, studies show that we're at the bottom of the list of quality of life indexes for industrialized nations. Since 1980 our health and happiness indexes have been falling until we are tied at 27th with non-industrialized countries such as Cuba, while the US is even below Costa Rica, also a "poorer" country monetarily. It is clear that having more "stuff" is less likely to make us happy than having good friendships. DeGraaf also mentions how every day five times as many children die of hunger as were killed in the World Trade Centers in NY in 2001 and that we would be a much happier and more secure country if we spent money on alleviating hunger and poverty rather than the military on which more than 50% of the US budget (our tax money) is spent.
The importance and benefits of Fair Trade and sustainablity are discussed, especially in relation to coffee and chocolate.
Link: http://www.timeday.org
Date: May 2005
Download: johndegraaf.mp3 - (TRT 29'15")

NEW PROGRAMS - APRIL 2005

Pepperspray Case Interviews
Pepperspray victims and plaintiff-lawyer interviews, followed by a Depavers song
Jan Lundberg interviews (1) Jennifer Banka Schneider and (2) Kerry Liz McKee, peppersprayed as passive resisters in sit-ins to protect ancient redwoods, and (3) Bill Simpich who is a lawyer for the plaintiffs in the civil rights lawsuit against law enforcement agencies and the County of Humboldt, California. The police swabbed pepperspray in the eyes of nonviolent forest defenders who were locked together with heavy steel sleeves that immobilized the protesters. Despite this summary punishment that the ACLU has called "tantamount to torture," the protesters did not back down and are having their third trial in federal court in San Francisco which began April 12, 2005. Jan Lundberg's daughter Spring is one of the plaintiffs in this case, and his band The Depavers (www.culturechange.org/depavers.html) provides a short song, Mother Earth First, at the end of the half-hour program.
Link: http://www.nopepperspray.org
Date: 2005-04-28
Download: pepperspraydepavers.mp3 - (TRT 27'15")

David Seaborg
Rainforests and Global Warming
David Seaborg, evolutionary biologist, speaks with Jan Lundberg for Steppin' Out of Babylon. David Seaborg is founder and president of the World Rainforest Fund based in Walnut Creek, California. As global warming and climate change dry out the rainforest and cause unprecedented fires, and development such as timber and oil extraction ravage the rainforest and the indigenous cultures, the need escalates dramatically to save species, the climate and the local tribes. David Seaborg links the plight of the rainforests to the consumption habits of U.S. consumers and whether nature preserves can rescue critical habitat. Jan Lundberg's website www.culturechange.org .
Link: http://www.worldrainforest.org
Date: 2005-04-24
Download: davidseaborg.mp3 - (TRT 29'07")

Jan Lundberg
Peak Oil and Cultural Change
Jan Lundberg is an environmental activist of many years. His former firm was well known for publishing the "bible of the oil industry." There he noticed the unsustainable consumption of highly polluting "unending" oil extraction, and eventually left the family business he was running. He later founded the Alliance for a Paving Moratorium and the Auto-Free Times magazine. Jan now publishes and lives in the San Francisco Bay area. As the only oil industry analyst who came to fight oil expansion, he speaks in this interview about the impending energy crisis due to the imminent "peak" in global oil supply. Rather than the technofix, which his research found is really not possible, he advocates social and cultural change towards community and sustainability.
Link: http://www.culturechange.org
Date: 2005-04-22
Download: janlundberg.mp3 - (TRT 26'46")

Jennifer Washburn
University, INC.- The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education
Jennifer Washburn is a freelance journalist and a fellow at the New America Foundation. She writes for Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, The Nation and other national magazines. She speaks of how commercial forces have quietly transformed virtually every aspect of academic life during the past two decades and how universities are now acting more like for-profit patent factories while professors are behaving more like businessmen. Universities now often hold financial interest in the same companies that stand to profit from their professors' research. Washburn exposes how financial conflicts of interest in the academy can even endanger public health. One example she gives is that of academic professors who buried negative trial data and/or downplayed negative results of their research on the effects of Paxil and Zoloft on the behavior of children and teens. Washburn paints an alarming picture of how the academy-- the nation's last refuge for independent thought-- is being colonized by a market ideology that is fundamentally at odds with what have been thought to be the core values of the university.
Date: 2005-04-22
Download: jenniferwashburn.mp3 - (TRT 26'38")

Starhawk - The Earth Path
Starhawk is an author, speaker, and leader in paganism, nature-based spirituality, and a highly respected activist and leader in the anti-corporate-globalization movement. She also is a permaculture gardener and teacher and a founding member of the Reclaiming tradition of witchcraft, a highly influential branch of modern Pagan religion with which she is very active bringing techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. She leads seminars in both permaculture and Earth Activist Training in both Europe and the United States. In other words, she is a strong and sensitive, well-rounded, talented and committed feminist woman. Some of her books are The Spiral Dance ,The Fifth Sacred Thing ,Webs of Power-Notes from the Global Uprising and the latest is The Earth Path- Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature .
This interview focuses on "The Earth Path", a primer on how to view the natural world and draw upon its tremendous powers. Starhawk talks with Sue Supriano about her personal stories and the tools of observation, awareness and magic to deepen connections with the natural world. They discuss the importance and usefulness of the many simple exercises described in the book to stay centered and in touch with the magic, harmony and guidance of the natural world and our own spirit. These teachings are incredibly important in these times of planetary disaster! It's so important for all of us to get in touch with our home, the earth.
2005-04-02, 27'33"
Download: starhawk.mp3 - (TRT 27'33")

Starhawk - Palestine, West Bank, Occupied Territories: A Direct Experience
Starhawk is an author, speaker, and leader in paganism, nature based spirituality, and a highly respected activist and leader in the anti-coporate-globalization movement. She also is a permaculture gardener and teacher and a founding member of the Reclaiming tradition of witchcraft, a highly influential branch of modern Pagan religion with which she is very active bringing techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. She leads seminars in both permaculture and Earth Activist Training in both Europe and the United States. In other words, she is a strong and sensitive, well-rounded, talented and committed feminist woman. Some of her books are The Spiral Dance ,The Fifth Sacred Thing ,Webs of Power-Notes from the Global Uprising and the latest is The Earth Path- Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature .
In this radio interview Starhawk speaks about her direct experience in the West Bank/ Occupied Territories/ Palestine where Palestinian refugees live and have been living for years as they have been pushed out of Israel. This interview took place in Berkeley, Ca. when Starhawk was on her way to speak at a memorial for Rachel Corrie, a young American woman activist who was in Palestine in support of the rights of the Palestinian people 2 years ago. Rachel Corrie was run over and killed, it seems very knowingly, by the driver of a US made Caterpillar special bulldozer, used over and over again to plow down houses of Palestinian people. Starhawk arrived for one of her visits a day or two after this murder occurred and speaks about the killing and the conditions in Palestine where she has been several times and plans to return again soon. She describes the continuing worsening hardships of the Palestinian people who are separated from their fields, food, livlihood, education, etc. by check points and a huge new wall. They are subjected to curfews and incredible hardships by the Israeli Military.
2005-04-02, 27'26""
Download: starhawkpalestine.mp3 - (TRT 27'26")

NEW PROGRAMS - MARCH 2005

Webster Tarpley is the author of the new book,"9/11-Synthetic Terror- Made in USA" and "George Bush: The Unauthourized Biography" which he wrote in 1992 with Anton Chaikin, connecting Prescott Bush, the grandfather of George W. Bush with Hitler and the Nazi Party. The book came out in 1992, has been on internet since 1996 and can be downloaded for free which it has been by literally millions of people. It's been referred to as an internet legend. Both are available in book form from <www.progressivepress.com>
In this interview Tarpley focuses on the events of 9/11/01 having been carried out by members of the "secret government" -- powerful people in the US government and corporations who are responsible to powerful financial institutions. They have been operating since Bush I. He explains the roles of the "patsies" (Mohammed Ata, Osama Bin Ladin), moles (powerful people in the government) and "professionals" in this major crime and maintains that this way of operating has been standard in the US for many years.
He believes that the reason for the crime and tragedy of 9/11 is to save the US-British Empire from falling by providing an excuse to destroy countries that have planned to change the currency in which they trade from US Dollars which support the Empire to Euros thus leading to the fall of the US/British dollar Empire of the world. The fall of the US Dollar would bring down the US
world domination he says. The so-called "War on Terror" is really a war on the countries that threaten to bring down the US Empire.
Tarpley also believes that the elections of 2004 are a coup d'etat which was engineered by elections where the results were fabricated and fruadulent. He says we are now part of the breakdown of the US Dollar crisis which is the collapse of the US Empire and we must organize and fight back against the neo-con madmen and secret government.
March 2005, 28'27"
Download: webstertarpley.mp3 - (TRT 28'27")

Barrie Zwicker, maker of "The Great Conspiracy- The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw", is from Toronto, Canada where he was, for many years, the host of a national tv show and a media critic. He is also a long-distance runner and writer. The film addresses what Zwicker calls the "9/11" cover-up which he says became obvious to him when he saw that no planes intervened in the 2 hours they had to stop the planes from going into the Twin Towers in New York, he saw how the Bush Administration didn't do much of anything (Bush continued to read to children in school in Florida), and how there was no investigation into the crime until over 400 days later when Kissinger, the master of many cover-ups, was put in charge. The 911 Commission Report didn't even address the most important issues of the crime.
Zwicker says he has decided to devote the rest of his life to uncovering what happened on 9/11/01 He goes on to talk about a book he's writing now about 9/11 with some emphasis on exploring the issue of why people don't question that the US military didn't intervene in this attack, that the US Government had the names of the alleged perpetrators minutes after the attack, but didn't stop them before, etc.--many pieces of information that should cause people to question the official story. Zwicker divides people generally into 3 groups-- 1) those that "got" that it was a cover up intuitively fairly soon after the tragic event, 2) those that have been convinced to question it over time and after seeing evidence to the contrary of the official story and 3) those that can't bear to even consider that the official story is not true. This third category is especially perplexing considering how long governments have been doing brutal and secretive things such as testing nuclear weapons in the US and letting huge numbers of Americans, even whole cities, be exposed to radiation while the government kept secret track of how the health of these people was affected by the radiation.
He explains that people often act against their own interests and gives the broad support for Hitler as an example saying that the only folks who stood against Hitler in Germany were the Socialists and the Communists. It is the "conscious left" and we must stand up and speak out. He speaks highly of Malcolm Gladwell's books "Blink" and "The Tipping Point" which explain how very quickly the right brain can kick in and people can "get" the truth about something. When enough people do "get it" the "tipping point" is reached and change happens.
http://www.greatconspiracy.ca/
March 2005, 29 min.
Download: barriezwicker.mp3 - (TRT 29'00")

Sue Supriano, Host/Producer of Steppin' Out of Babylon, interviewed by Jan Lundberg of <www.culturechange.org>
The story is that when Sue Supriano was about to interview Jan Lundberg about their common concern of "peak oil" and positive responses to it, Supriano was too tired so Jan Lundberg turned the microphone and interviewed her. You can learn a bit about her and her activist background, how the name Steppin' Out of Babylon came about and what it means. Supriano also responds to Lundberg's questions about her impressions of activism then and now. This could be the beginning of a new working relationship for Steppin' Out of Babylon.
March 2005, 27'46"
Download: suesupriano.mp3 - (TRT 27'46")

Reverend Eloise Oliver, an African American elder who is Pastor of the East Bay Church of Religious Science speaks about her life, the Bible, our addictive society, and other things of spiritual and social import. The East Bay Church of Religious Science is a "new thought" church and the East Bay Church, based in Oakland, California is especially inclusive in terms ethnicity and religious traditions. The majority of the members are African American and all of the members of many ethnicities may come from a range of traditions of Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Chrisianity. It has a very very positive approach and emphasizes the the empowerment of individuals as well as love. Rev. E, as she is called, is very inspiring and contributes much to the community.
February 2005, 28'29"
Download: reveloiseoliver.mp3 - (TRT 28'29")

Miguel Pickard White is an economist and one of the founders and collective members of CIEPAC which, in English is translated to mean The Center for the Economic and Political Investigation for Community Action. It is based in San Cristobal in the Mexican State of Chiapas. It is an activist research organization/think tank whose goal is to get their information and research that is not covered in the corporate media in Mexico out to people.
In this interview White focuses on two issues especially-- 1) the Zapatista movement in Chiapas which has created an independent, democratic and egalitarian society with its own structure in certain areas that are populated especially by the indigenous people of Chiapas. Even though the military is present in many areas of Chiapas it has not stopped the Zapatistas from developing such things as food coops, their own justice and court system, etc.. The people themselves are involved at every level of decision making. Other areas of Mexico are duplicating the revolution and ideas of the Zapistas in Chiapas but having an even more difficult time as they don't have such high visibility in and support from the international community which has made a big difference for the Zapatistas.
White also talks about 2) Plan Puebla Panama -- the plan to "develop" a long corridor from Puebla, Mexico to Panama for corporations with the funding of the World Bank and IMF. This "development" has dire consequences for the people and the environment and people are fighting it. <www.ciepac.org>
January 2005, 27'56"
Download: miguelpickardwhite.mp3 - (TRT 27'56")

Stephen Lieper, an independent journalist/activist/researcher who has worked with the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The San Francisco Oracle, and has been Senior Editor of Propaganda Review talks about aerosol trails in the sky sometimes referred to as "chem trails"-- those big, long white lines in the sky coming out of airplanes that one can see over much, although not all, of the earth. Seems they might be only over NATO countries. Lieper has been investigating this issue for several years since he saw planes putting these lines in the sky. Since no information is really available from agencies of the US government to whom inquiries have been addressed and there is evidence which can be seen with our own eyes that these trails in the sky do exist and are not just the natural pollution trails from airplanes one has to wonder what is going on. There is evidence that the US Government must be involved and that aluminum oxide and barium are being released at the very least. Some websites that Lieper recommends for further information and theories are <www.carnicom.com>  <www.weatherwars.info> <www.this-must-stop.com>  <www.bariumblues.com>
February 2005, 29'33"
Download: stephenlieper.mp3 - (TRT 29'33")

Dahr Jamail is one of the few "unembedded", truly independent journalists on the ground in Iraq. He has spent 8 of the past 14 months in Iraq, interviewing Iraqi people, taking and collecting photos of others and seeing for himself the devastation of the people of Iraq. He cites that over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed. He especially talks about the horrors and massacre of Fallujah which he refers to as similar to Dresden, Germany or the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam. He also describes the illegal weapons used and the DU ("depleted uranium) which really means radiation exposure from which there are already 125,000 Gulf War I veterans on disability not to mention the horrible effects on the people of Iraq. Now the US is actually using twice as much DU as it did in Gulf War I.
Jamail also talks about the evidence for the elections in Iraq having been manipulated by the US and, even though the Iraqi people who voted (and whole cities did not)voted for, as Jamail says, "electricy, jobs, water"-- ie, against thecontinuance of the US Occupation-- it probably won't matter since the Iraqi
Governing Council won't be able to do anything without the ok of the US. TheIraqi resistance is growing exponentially while the US already has 4 militarybases in Iraq with 10 more in the process of being built. All this is paid forthe tax money of the US population.
Right now the future doesn't look bright though Dahr Jamail will probably returnto Iraq in May.
Check out his blog/website to keep up on what's happening in Iraq  <http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com>
February 25, 2005; 27' 36"
Download: dahrjamil.mp3 -(TRT 27'36")


NEW PROGRAMS - FEBRUARY 2005

Jose Stevens is a psychotherapist, shaman, author and international lecturer. He and his wife and colleague, Lena Stevens live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jose Stevens has taught at the Psychology Graduate School and the Dept. of Transpersonal Counseling at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, Ca. Jose Stevens and Lena Stevens founded an organization based in Santa Fe-- Power Path Seminars (www.powerpathseminars.com) which does a variety of things including educational seminars and workshops on personal and spiritual matters including shamanism. They lecture and lead seminars nationally and internationally, tours to South American where the members learn from indigenous shamans and more. Some of Stevens' books are "The Personality Puzzle- Solving the Mystery of Who You Are", "Tao to Earth" and "Earth to Tao", "Secrets of Shamanism- Tapping the Spirit Power Within You", co-authored with Lena Stevens, and "Transforming your Dragons- How to Turn Fear Patterns into Personal Power".
In Program 1 Stevens explains the system he uses for helping people understand themselves and others. It's a classification of people and their personalities, issues, challenges, strengths and weaknesses. He also focuses on the issue of fear and its importance on what is going on in the world and especially the US, how we are purposely made to feel afraid and manipulated by fear by the "powers that be". Therefore, it's especially important to get beyond our fear and thinking clearly and constructively.
Program 2 - Stevens focuses on the readings/predictions he and Lena Stevens have been doing yearly for approximately 10 years. The readings are based on the same system as the personality system mentioned earlier. Their predictions for this year of 2005 are that it will be somewhat quiet before the storm although they also say that generally things are going to get rockier and rockier on the planet. Stevens goes into some detail about the themes of this year being nurturance , spiritual growth, and taking care of business before things become almost certainly more chaotic and deteriorate for the next 7 years at least. He talks at some length about the changes in technology which may have very bad consequences for health, well, being, freedom and privacy using the example of microchips on products to keep track of them (and maybe us). He agrees with the prophesies that speak of 2012 as a very monumental year for the planet and those of us who live on it. He says that by 2020 the world will be unrecognizable compared to what we are presently accustomed to. Exactly how it will look will depend on us and how we create it. He talks about trends both nationally and geopolitically, the need for much healing including especially the healing of military returning from war situations. Of course, climate change and peak oil are mentioned too. We are hearing from scientists as well about the seriousness of these changes.
January, 2005-- Program 1-28'04 "; Program 2- 27'23"
Download Program 1: josestevens1.mp3 - (TRT 28'04")
Download Program 1: josestevens2.mp3 - (TRT 27'23")

Father Jean Juste is a Catholic Priest and a prominent activist for social justice and the rights of immigrants in Haiti and the United States. On Wednesday, October 13, 2004, Haitian police forcibly entered the St. Clare Catholic Church Rectory in Port-au-Prince and arrested him without a warrant while he was feeding 600 hungry children a meal his congregation serves twice a week. He was imprisoned and then released seven weeks later as a result of an outpouring of international pressure.
In this interview he speaks of the situation and suffering in Haiti under the present regime which was put into place after President Aristide was kidnapped with the aid of the US, and taken out of the country in 2004. Fr. Jean Juste had visited South Africa just before this interview where he visited many times with President Aristide who is in exile there. Both President Aristide and Fr. Jean Juste plead for the people of the world to support Aristide returning to Haiti to finish his term as democratically elected President with a term through 2006. He also speaks of Haiti as part of America and asks especially that the U.S and Canada may see the Caribbean, South and Central America as part of America and replace the strife, colonialism, oppression that is the order of the day with support for people (there have been hurrica