Episode 577 Global Town Hall Nov 2023
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The war in Gaza has been going on all month, so we talked most about it. Shane Steinman, Alan Haber, Paul Werbos all want a solution that does not involve exclusive sovereignty. Andre Sheldon and Alastair Farrugia both promote changes in process. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: .
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Episode 576 Empower Russian Escapees
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Both Konstantin Samoilov and Andre Kamenshikov have left Russia because of their opposition to the war. Jill Carr-Harris is a Gandhian leader in India. We discuss the possibilities and risks of producing educational forums about nonviolence to millions of expatriate Russians. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: .
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Episode 575 Rivers and Peace
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Aaron Wolf is a geography professor at Oregon State University. He heads a program teaching graduate students to work out treaties and other agreements among countries with transboundary disputes over water – mainly rivers that run through their lands. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: .
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Episode 574 Water Security
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Leila Harris is a professor in British Columbia who studies the political and social aspects of water. She began with a dissertation on the methods of irrigation in Turkey and more recently has spent time in African townships, seeing how the access to abundant clean water affects the social relationships among neighbors. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments:
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Episode 573 Food Security and Climate
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Cynthia Rosenzweig is a professor at Columbia University who studies the connections between food security and climate change. She reports that the number of hungry people has markedly increased since the Sustainable Development Goals were promulgated, promising to reduce it. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: .
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Episode 502a Indigenous Medicine
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Nicole Redvers was invited to discuss her book about indigenous medicine, The Science of the Sacred, which is described by Amazon: “Modern medical science has finally caught up to what traditional healing systems have known for centuries. Many traditional healing techniques and medicines are often assumed to be archaic, outdated, or unscientific compared to modern Western medicine. Nicole Redvers, a naturopathic physician and member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation, analyzes modern Western medical practices using evidence-informed Indigenous healing practices and traditions from around the...
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Episode 572 Global Town Hall Oct 2023
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Paul Werbos jokes about Shroedinger's cat, Marilyn Krieger tell us about California's cats, Andre Kamenshikov describes the present state of the Russia/Ukraine war as like the Western front of WW1 and Gordon Edwards reminds us that Canada was first to practice vitrification of nuclear waste. What a Global Town Hall! For the video, audio podcast, transcript and discussion: .
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Episode 571 New Weapons and Ethics
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Maj. Gen. Robert Latiff is a retired US military officer who was responsible for new technological means of intellligence-gathering. Now retired, he teaches a course every year at his alma mater, Notre Dame University, focusing on the ethical issues and principles governingn the use of such new weapons. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and public comments, .
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Episode 570 Global Town Hall Sept 2023
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Bill Leikam and Marillyn Krieger update us on the work of California naturalists -- re beavers and butterflies. After that, there was usually strong disagreement among participants about the Ukraine War, with some placing much of the blame on the US, but Andre Kamenshikov replying eloquently from Kiev. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments:
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Episode 569 Farming Sustainably
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Joel Salatin is a farmer who has turned a degraded farm into one that contains 8 percent organic matter in its soil – an achievement he attributes to using perennial plants, which can sequester large amounts of carbon and which are hosts to methanotropic bacteria. He teaches his skill to young would-be farmers. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: .
info_outlineMubarak Awad was a Palestinian Christian psychotherapist who found that his clients did not need therapy; they needed freedom. So he founded a center for nonviolence, which the Israeli government did not appreciate -- since it created an effective nonviolent intifada. But the work continues, and Metta speaks with Awad and three other leaders in nonviolent resistance: Michael Beer, Andre Kamenshikov (working now from Kiev), and Yeshua Moser Puangsuwan (working from both Thailand and Canada). At least three of the people are optimistic about being able to continue their work, even in the hard post-covid economy.
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