IN THE SUMMER OF 2019, the climate activist Tim DeChristopher sat down with Wendell Berry. Berry is a poet and activist, author of over forty books, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, a 2013 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a...
Indigenous Oral Tradition and the Sacred Science of Sound- Sherri Mitchell
PAID RECORDED PROGRAM Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change Discover ancient, ancestral teachings to heal the world’s collective trauma and reconnect with your spiritual source.FREE RECORDED PROGRAMS Ancestral Guidance to Heart-Based...
Climate Chaos Carnival- The Yes Men
Vanguard, the biggest retirement fund company in the US and second-biggest asset manager in the world, is sinking our ship with $300 billion invested in fossil fuels. We decided to breach right in their backyard with a playful de-branding booth decked out to share the...
Remembering Diversity Compassion Orangutan, From The Era When Conservatives Pretended To Care- The Yes Men
In Andy's old haunt of the Castro, the "Bush campaign" went around with "Diversity Compassion Orangutan," the conservative answer to... well, compassion for diverse people. With the visual aid of DCO, they explained a program, modeled on SETI@home, to preemptively (as...
Point of View- Ed Tick
Seeking the most powerful healing practices to address the invisible wounds of war, Dr. Ed Tick has led journeys to Viet Nam for veterans, survivors, activists and pilgrims for the past twenty years. He writes: “During one of my annual reconciliation journeys to Viet...
Welcome to the Meddleverse- The Yes Men
Andy Bichlbaum is a guy from Tucson, Arizona who has held a bunch of jobs and was fired from pretty much all of them. He has a ‘terminal’ degree in experimental fiction writing, which enabled him to publish a couple of books that made him so rich and lazy that he took...
How We Scuttled Chevron’s Campaign- The Yes Men
Chevron's plan for the “We Agree” offensive was first leaked to Amazon Watch, when ecologist blogger Lauren Selman received a casting call to appear in one of Chevron's new split-screen television ads. Selman used the information she gathered to help our campaign....
Share the Safety- The Yes Men
Likely to be the funniest film you will ever see about the NRA's racism. In it, we impersonate NRA spokespeople and launch a "buy a gun, give a gun program" at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library; antics ensue.Andy Bichlbaum is a guy from Tucson, Arizona who has...
How I Came to Ask for Money- Kim Klein
Almost everyone I know, in whatever profession, will be asked a few predictable questions. For example, a gardener friend says people always ask, “Is it fun to be outside all day?” and a high school principal friend says the main question is, “What are the biggest...
Howard Thurman’s Spiritual Teacher- Matthew Fox
African American theologian Howard Thurman (1899–1981) was the spiritual champion of the civil rights movement. Thurman’s book, Jesus and the Disinherited, was a huge influence on Martin Luther King Jr., who took the book with him each of the thirty-nine times he went...