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This week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Terry Patten about how to work for heart-based change. Terry comments on his book, a New Republic of the Heart, and explores inner and outer transformation with us on the show.

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"Find some friends with whom you can do thing to make a difference. Find ways to work within the system, against the system, and around the system. And do it knowing that you're in solidarity with the future of life and everything that is good and true and beautiful in this world." - Terry Patten

About the Guest:
Terry Patten speaks and consults internationally as a community organizer, philosopher and teacher. He's spent the past 15 years working on the integral project of evolving consciousness and healing our global crises through spirit-based activism. He's also involved with restorative redwood forestry, creating alternatives to fossil fuels, and building up sustainable economies.

Music by:
"Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio (Used with permission)
www.dianepatterson.org

A New Republic of the Heart by Terry Patten
https://www.terrypatten.com/a-new-republic-of-the-heart/

Resources Listed in the Book (A Great List - Check It Out!)
https://www.terrypatten.com/resources/

Nonviolence Minute Excerpt:
http://www.hopedance.org/home/awakenings/3112-the-soul-of-activism

About Your Co-hosts:
Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life

Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Edward Hasbrouck, who, while traveling across Europe by bicycle, is also organizing a campaign challenging the future of the US military draft. Find out where and when the next national hearings by the commission polling the public about the military draft are going to be held. And find out how the US military is eyeing the possibility of expanding draft registration to women . . . and also thinking about a universal conscription into the military that would included everyone from medical personnel to tech support to your grandmother.

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""It's not just that there's a threat of a draft. Resistance to the draft has been a tremendous victory. We need just a small step further to follow through on that to get draft registration ended, to abolish the Selective Service System, and most importantly to finally force the government to acknowledge that our people power limits the extent to which they can wage war." - Edward Hasbrouck, Draft Resister

About the Guest:
Edward Hasbrouck is author of the series "the Practical Nomad", one of the go-to authorities on international travel, an investigative journalist, and also a human rights activist and an advisor on travel-related civil liberties issues. He's a man with many hats, and he joins us today to talk about the effort to end the US military draft.

More Info About the Draft Commission Hearings and Draft Resistance:
http://resisters.info/

Where to submit a comment:
http://www.inspire2serve.gov/

Background on Draft Resistance
https://hasbrouck.org/draft/background.html

"A Speech: For Antidraft Rally, DC, March 22, 1980"
by Denise Levertov
http://www.peacebuttons.info/PDF/0322.1980_A-Speech-For-Antidraft-Rally.pdf

Women's Draft? Sign Me Up To Abolish War! by Rivera Sun
http://www.riverasun.com/womens-draft-sign-me-up-to-abolish-war/


Music by: 
"Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio (Used with permission)
www.dianepatterson.org

About Your Co-hosts:
Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life

Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love and Revolution Radio, we speak with Rev. Bruce Wright, one of the organizers of the 26-year old Poor Peoples Economic and Human Rights Campaign about their recent 140-mile march from Philadelphia to DC, and the revival of Dr. King's Resurrection City. (This campaign is different from the Poor People's Campaign with Rev. Barber, and we'll talk about the differences on the show.)

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"This campaign grew out of historic roots and the understanding that the best solutions for ending poverty and homelessness come from the people affected by it." - Rev. Bruce Wright

About Our Guest:
Rev. Bruce Wright is the cohost of the Revolutionary Road Show, a radio program broadcasting out of Tampa, FL. He is an organizer for the rights of unhoused peoples and a dedicated campaigner to the economic and human rights of all. He runs the Refuge, an international network of outreaches that work in solidarity with homeless and poor people. Rivera had the opportunity to meet him in Florida and see his work among those facing homelessness first hand, and it's an honor to have him on the show.

Contact Rev. Bruce Wright
refugestpete@gmail.com
727 278-1547

Refuge Ministry
http://refugestpete.org/

Poor People's Economic and Human Rights Campaign
http://economichumanrights.org/

2018 Poor People's March on Washington, DC
http://economichumanrights.org/2018-poor-peoples-march/

Images from the March on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/lisa.richards.752/posts/10214467418392566

Video:
https://www.facebook.com/ppehrc/videos/10156485175368011/

Poor People's Economic and Human Rights Campaign on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ppehrc/

Principles of Unity (check this out!)
http://economichumanrights.org/principles-of-unity/

Revolutionary Road Radio Show
https://www.facebook.com/events/2067054283569122/

Moving Onward: Beyond Racial Division to Class Unity by Nelson Peery and Brooke Haegerty
https://www.amazon.com/Moving-Onward-Racial-Division-Class/dp/0967668700


Music by: 
"Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio 
www.dianepatterson.org

About Your Co-hosts:
Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life

Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with mythologist Sharon Blackie, author of "If Women Rose Rooted" and "The Enchanted Life", about the power of myth and story in transforming ourselves and our world. Sharon speaks about her journey from a corporate office job into her deep dive into the world of nature, myth, and place. In this show, she shares insights and thought-provoking ideas about the importance of reconnecting with the rest of the Earth at this time in human history.

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"If women remember that once upon a time we sang with the tongues of seals and flew with the wings of swans, that we forged our own paths through the dark forest while creating a community of its many inhabitants, then we will rise up rooted, like trees. And if we rise up rooted like trees, well then, women might indeed save not only ourselves, but the world."- Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted.

Links:
Sharon Blackie
http://sharonblackie.net/

If Women Rose Rooted
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Rose-Rooted-Authenticity-Belonging/dp/1910463663

The Enchanted Life
https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Life-Unlocking-Magic-Everyday/dp/1910463884/

The Hedge School
www.thehedgeschool.org

Music by: 
"Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio 
www.dianepatterson.org

About Your Co-hosts:
Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life

Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

(Sorry for any confusion everyone, but we are having trouble with the system. Hopefully it is all worked out.)

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we focus on the powerful themes and subjects in Sherri Mitchell's newly released book, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. If your heart has been aching for ways to rethink this thing called life, this is the show for you! Sherri talks about Indigenous perspectives, cultural practices, and understandings that offer a different way of both looking at the world and living in it. Tune in for a lively discussion on rights and responsibilities, nature-based connection, balancing the divine feminine and masculine, and core cultural concepts that will leave you with lots of juicy concepts to think about all week long!

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"The status quo is maintained by the cycles of conquest that we have been participants in; and if we want to truly change the paradigm that we're living in, we have to be able to approach these things with a completely different set of values." - Sherri Mitchell, Weh'na Ha'mu' Kwasset

Find Sherri's book "Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change" here: http://sacredinstructions.life/ " Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org

About Your Co-hosts:
Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life

Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

After a year-long hiatus (during which Rivera healed from cancer and both of your favorite cohosts wrote new books), we're back with new episodes of Love (and Revolution) Radio!

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"Our modern day myths, our hero stories, are rooted in the stories of collective struggle that have gone on all over the world." - Rivera Sun

"Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org

About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. She is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: www.sacredinstructions.life

Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, Billionaire Buddha, and The Way Between. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with two anti-drone activists, Jerry Monroe Maynard and Eleanor Levine, about their work to raise awareness of the hidden dangers of drones both overseas and right here in our streets and neighborhoods.

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Related Links:
Shut Down Creech
http://shutdowncreech.blogspot.com/

Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control - Medea Benjamin
https://www.amazon.com/Drone-Warfare-Killing-Remote-Control/dp/1781680779


Music by:
"Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org

About Your Co-hosts:
Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline

Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with five amazing guests - Kathy Kelly, Tom Hastings, David Soumis, Gretchen Casey, Cindy Reinhardt - who are all working in the fields of peace and conflict resolution as we take a look at Rivera Sun's novel, The Way Between, as lens for the escalating conflicts in our real world.

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About Our Guests:
Kathy Kelly is a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, which sent over 70 delegations to Iraq from 1996 to 2003, in open defiance of deadly U.S./UN economic sanctions. Her most recent travel has involved extensive work with community organizers in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kelly's nonviolent activism has incurred frequent arrests including several lengthy incarcerations in U.S. prisons against whose conditions she also campaigns.

Tom Hastings is the Director of PeaceVoice, a professor of peace and conflict studies at Portland State University, and the author of several books including "A New Era of Nonviolence".

David Soumis is a member of Veterans For Peace. Along with Lars Prip and other local VFP members, he demonstrates for peace weekly in Madison, WI, as well as participates in numerous other nonviolent actions for peace and justice.

Gretchen Casey is the Training and Outreach Director for the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding in Gainesville, Florida. She is the founder of Unshame, a social media platform breaking the stigma around sexual violence. She has been a Victim Advocate with the Florida State Attorney's Office and Attorney General's Office for thirty-two years.

Cindy Reinhardt works with people in coaching and runs a bed and breakfast in Crestone, CO, offering multi-day retreats to help people harmonize with their self, others, and the planet.


Related Links:
The Way Between by Rivera Sun
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996639136

The Way Between (on Rivera Sun's website)
http://www.riverasun.com/the-way-between/

Voices for Creative Nonviolence
http://vcnv.org/

Afghan Peace Volunteers
http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/

PeaceVoice
http://www.peacevoice.info/

A New Era of Nonviolence by Tom Hastings
https://www.amazon.com/New-Era-Nonviolence-Power-Society/dp/078649431X

Veterans For Peace
https://www.veteransforpeace.org/

River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding
http://www.centerforpeacebuilding.org/

Dragonfly House (Cindy's B & B)
http://cindyreinhardt.com/dragonflyhousebedandbreakfast/

Cindy Reinhardt's Blog
http://cindyreinhardt.com/thezone/

Music by:
"Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org

About Your Co-hosts:
Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline

Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

On this week's Love (and Revolution) Radio show, we speak with author Robert Atkinson about his new book "The Story of Our Time" and how the long arc of human history is bending from duality to interconnectedness to oneness . . . and what that means for each of us as we move through a time of great change.

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About Our Guest:
Robert Atkinson, Ph.D., is an internationally acknowledged authority in helping people tell their life stories. He is a pioneer in the development of the life story interview methodology and among the first to apply Joseph Campbell’s classic work on the mythological journey of the hero to contemporary personal mythmaking. His books in these areas, The Gift of Stories: Practical and Spiritual Applications of Autobiography, Life Stories, and Personal Mythmaking (1995) and The Life Story Interview (1998), have been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Romanian and are widely used in personal growth and life review settings.

Related Links:
Robert Atkinson
http://www.robertatkinson.net/

The Story of Our Time
http://www.robertatkinson.net/the-story-of-our-time/

The Oneness Pledge
http://www.robertatkinson.net/about/oneness-pledge/

Music by:
"Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org

About Your Co-hosts:
Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline

Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/