Conversations with Michael Stone on KVMR

Farmageddon is a powerful film documenting the U.S. government’s constant attacks on innocent farmers and consumers in an attempt to protect massive corporate interests. When the government controls the food you eat and the healthcare you receive, sickness is pervasive – this is exactly what has happened in the U.S.” farmageddonmovie.com Kristin Canty Kristin Canty is the Director/Producer of Farmageddon; The Unseen War on American Family Farms. When Kristin learned that farmers and co-ops all over the country were increasingly getting raided by the government, she set out to make a film about it. She hopes that when people see it, it can change the tide of public pressure so that our government stops harassing and adding costly burdens to our small, organic farmers. Cathe' Fish Cathe’ Fish is the Leader of the local Gold Country chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Director of Practical Permaculture Research Institute, a Permaculture Designer, Consultant and Teacheras well as a Local Food Activist in Nevada County. Mark McAfee, CEO, Managing Member Founder of Organic Pastures Dairy, Mark is internationally recognized as an expert in raw milk production, and has spoken in over fifteen states and three countries on the subject. He invented the first -dietary supplements- made from fresh raw colostrum, and secured their certification from the FDA and DHS. Mark created and published the first international raw milk safety standards at www.rawusa.org

Dr. Edward Tick, author of the groundbreaking book “War and the Soul” and founder of Soldier’s Heart, is a practicing psychotherapist specializing in veterans with PTSD. He has been in private psychotherapy practice since 1975 and began focusing on veteran’s issues in 1979. A practicing psychotherapist for more than 25 years, he is a nationally recognized authority on the psychological, spiritual, historical, and cultural aspects of war in the healing of PTSD. For more go to soldiersheart.net

Dr. Barbara Fields is Executive Director of the Association for Global New Thought (AGNT) and is the co-founder and project director of the Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence. She is Co-founder and Project Director of the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama of Tibet and Co-director, with Dr. William Ury, of the Harvard Global Negotiation Network’s Abraham Walk Initiative in the Middle East. She serves on the Boards of Earth Action, the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and La Casa de Maria in Santa Barbara, CA. She is co-founder of The Earth Network, a non-profit alternative television organization dedicated to the environment, social action, and the human spirit. www.agnt.org

Will Keepin, Ph.D., President and Executive Director. Will co-founded the Satyana Institute in 1996, and founded its Power of Reconciliation project (formerly Gender Reconciliation), which has organized more than fifty intensive gatherings in six countries for healing and reconciliation between women and men. A mathematical physicist with thirty scientific publications on sustainable energy and global warming, he presented testimony to European and Australian parliaments and the US House of Representatives. Will is author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men. www.satyana.org Cynthia Brix, M.Div, MA., Program Director. Cynthia is an interfaith minister specializing in international peacemaking, and spiritual direction for young adults. She is co-founder of the Women’s Spiritual Mastery project, and she co-directs the Power of Reconciliation project. A long-time student of Eknath Easwaran's Passage Meditation, Cynthia leads retreats on interfaith spirituality, and she is adjunct faculty at Holy Names University. Cynthia is contributing author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men, and co-author of Women Healing Women. www.satyana.org

Kathy LeMay is the founder, president, and CEO of Raising Change, which helps organizations raise capital to advance social change agendas and individuals create Generosity Plans to help change the world. LeMay, who began her global activism in war-torn Yugoslavia where she worked with women survivors of the siege and rape-genocide camps, has been a social change fundraiser for 15 years, raising more than $150 million dollars in the fields of women's human rights, hunger and poverty relief, and movement building. In addition she has directed an additional $100 million in philanthropic dollars to organizations working to make a difference. www.raisingchange.com

Lisa Schrader, the Founder of Awakening Shakti, has impacted the lives of thousands of women over the past 10 years as a workshop leader, author, speaker and coach. Her work has been featured on Oprah, Oxygen and VH1. She is the author of "Kama Sutra 52: A Year's Worth of the Best Positions for Passion and Pleasure" from Quiver Books. She has a private coaching practice supporting clients worldwide and is certified through the International Coach Federation. www.awakeningshakti.com

Matthew Stein is an author, engineer, inventor and specializing in hurricane resistant, energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes. He is the author of When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency. www.whentechfails.com

Sark (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is a best selling author and artist who has empowered millions to live their creative dreams, manage their businesses, and savor personal connections… Her books have sold over two million copies. She is the founder and creative fountain of Planet SARK, A thriving business that creates fabulous products and services to support empowered living. www.planetsark.com

Derrick Jensen is an American author and environmental activist. Jensen is a leading voice of cultural dissent. He explores the nature of injustice, how civilizations devastate the natural world, and how human beings retreat into denial at the destruction of the planet. His work examines the central question, “If the destruction of the natural world isn’t making us happy, then why are we doing it?” Jensen and Keith are the authors of Deep Green Resistance. His new book Dreams, is about to be released and the subject of this show. www.derrickjensen.org

Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., was an adjunct professor of history and psychology for 11 years and a psychotherapist in private practice for 17 years. Much of her writing offers emotional and spiritual tools for preparing for living in a post-industrial world. Carolyn’s latest book is Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition. Her other books include Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse, Coming Out From Christian Fundamentalism: Affirming Sensuality, Social Justice, and The Sacred, U.S. History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn’t Tell You and The Journey of Forgiveness. http://carolynbaker.net

Nipun Mehta is the co-founder of CharityFocus.org-- a fully volunteer-run organization that leverages technology to inspire greater volunteerism and shift our cultural ethos towards generosity. CharityFocus has grown into an incubator of "gift-economy" projects ranging from web services to a film production company to a print magazine to a restaurant; with a growing membership base of 200K, they serve millions of global viewers to their websites and send more than 50 million solicited newsletters every year. In 2005, Nipun and his wife embarked on an unscripted walking pilgrimage in India that dramatically deepened their understanding of gift-economy values. Nipun’s mission statement of his life simply reads: "Bring smiles in the world and stillness in my heart." www.charityfocus.org

Will Tuttle, Ph.D. is a professional pianist, composer, and teacher. For the past fifteen years he has presented at progressive churches, vegetarian and human potential conferences, and intentional communities throughout the country. He trained in Korea as a Zen Buddhist monk and has worked extensively in Tai Chi, yoga, mediation, intuition development, and spiritual healing. He is the author of The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony. http://willtuttle.com

Research paleoanthropologist Hank Wesselman is one of those rare cutting edge scientists who truly walks between the worlds. He has spent much of his life working among traditional tribal peoples, primarily in Africa and Polynesia. For the past 30 years, he has conducted research with an international group of scientists, exploring eastern Africa's Great Rift Valley in search of answers to the mystery of human origins. He is also a shaman in training, now in the 20th year of his apprenticeship. He is the author of many books including his latest, The Bowl of Light. www.sharedwisdom.com

It has been 50 years since the Freedom Riders boarded buses, trains and planes bound for the Deep South to challenge that region's outdated Jim Crow laws. The Freedom Rides were intended to highlight the South's non-compliance with a U.S. Supreme Court decision that prohibited segregation in all interstate public transportation facilities. This week, many of the estimated 350 Freedom Riders who put their lives on the line are making their way to a reunion in Chicago — and to join in the taping of a show about the Freedom Rides on the Oprah Winfrey Show, set to air May 4. Nevada City resident and longtime peace activist Mary Jorgensen, 94, plans to be on hand. Check out this aricle in the The Union newspaper for more info Freedom Riders article

Buddhist Scholar, Systems Theorist, Ecologist, Teacher, and Activist. Joanna addresses the reasons for the grief, fear, sadness, uncertainty, and numbness that prevail in modern life and keeps bringing attention back to what is sacred and true: the wondrously interconnected and intelligent web of life. Joanna is just returning from a 3-month meditation. For more go to www.joannamacy.net