Featured Speakers for San Francisco Spring 2010
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Paul Stamets |
Tiokasin Ghosthorse | Amy Goodman |
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Chicago 2008 (86)
Chicago 2009 (144)
Denver 2009 (173)
San Francisco 2008 (48)
San Francisco 2009 (115)
Seattle 2009 (134)
Washington DC 2008 (57)
Washington DC 2009 (89)
Joao Amorim Featured
Joao Amorim is an Emmy-Nominated Brazilian director focusing on animation and documentaries, and more specifically the mix of both genres. Joao is one of the founding partners of Postmodern Times, a media company focused on social and environmental films. Joao has directed and produced the Web series “postmoderntimes.com”, on the evolution of consciousness and ecology. He has worked worldwide as an industrial designer, animator, and animation supervisor for many years prior to directing. He was the Head of Animation, on "Chicago 10", Brett Morgen's film that opened Sundance 2007, and for which Joao has been nominated for an Emmy in 2009. He has also directed commercials for BMW, Panasonic, Oceana, among others.
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William Ayers Featured
Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University
Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of
both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society,
teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school
change, and teaching and the modern predicament.
A graduate of
the University of Michigan, the Bank Street College of Education,
Bennington College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, Ayers
has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education,
the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially
intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He is vice-president
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Damali Ayo Featured
Ayo is one of our culture's most creative thinkers on issues of race relations. She is the creator of The National Day of Panhandling for Reparations and rent-a-negro.com. Author of How to Rent a Negro, and the forthcoming Obamistan! Land Without Racism: Your Guide to the New America, Ayo has been teaching practical steps to end racism at venues across the U.S. for more than fifteen years.
"I have seen that change starts with people, relationships and courage. This fuels my passion for connecting people with resources and information to help them be all they can be," states Ayo.
An avid gardener and herbalist, Ayo strives to live a life in harmony with principles of sustainability. She practices yoga regularly and incorporat ...
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John Perry Barlow Featured
Managing Partner John Perry Barlow has enjoyed a diverse career that has spanned many industries and roles from business owner, rancher, media entrepreneur, early Internet pioneer, leadership in multiple foundations and management consulting. He has and continues to be a technology and management consultant to groups such as IBM, the United States Navy, Visa International, American Banking Institute and many more. He co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation and has served on various non-profit boards including the Wyoming Outdoor Council, External Advisory Board of the National Supercomputing Alliance and several foundations. Mr. Barlow has extensive experience in developing nations, having personally connected 10 Afr ...
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Medea Benjamin Featured
A human rights and social justice supporter and activist for more than 20 years, Benjamin is coeditor of Stop the Next War Now and cofounder of Global Exchange, Green Festival coproducer.
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Lester Brown Featured
MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of many awards, Brown is founder and president of Earth Policy Institute, founder of the Worldwatch Institute and author or coauthor of 50 books.
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Rickie Byars Beckwith Featured
Rickie Byars Beckwith, Music and Arts Director for Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California, composes and performs moving, melodic music "to inspire deep feeling in the heart and to bring joy to the earth." She has produced six CDs that are favorites to thousands. Her most recent project, Supreme Inspiration, was produced by her daughter, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and led to her first music video, Alle-Alleluia.Rickie's extensive body of work inspires spiritual communities around the world. "Spirit encourages me to be a voice of inspiration and to bring 'water to a dry land,'" she said. Described as an "intuitive channel of healing music," Rickie has performed at five sessions with His Holine ...
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Caroline Casey Featured
Caroline W. Casey is a Visionary Activist Astrologer, devoted to the principle that Imagination lays the tracks for the Reality Train to follow. Based in Washington DC, Caroline broadcasts, for over ten years, her live weekly radio show, "The Visionary Activist Show", of which she is the host-creator-weaver-of-context, wedding spiritual magic to ingenious social action to Pacifica station KPFA (94.1) in Northern California , replayed on L.A.s KPFK.
Her audio book,Visionary Activist Astrology is published by Sounds True. She is the author of Making the Gods Work For You - the astrological language of the psyche (Harmony Books/Random House or Random Harmony) The audio version, a theatrical presentation of the material in the book, is also t ...
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Deepak Chopra Featured
Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra, continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health. Through his creation of The Chopra Center for Well Being in California in 1996, Chopra established a formal vehicle for the expansion of his healing approach using the integration of the best of western medicine with natural healing traditions, in both conventional and complementary healing arts.
Chopra's work is changing the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellness.
Chopra is known as the prolific author of over 50 books, more than 100 audio, video and CD-ROM titles which have been translated into 35 languages with over 20 millio ...
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Malkia Cyril Featured
Cyril is the founder and executive director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, CA, a national media strategy and action center building a powerful grassroots movement for racial and economic justice through media change. Key projects include the Media Justice Movement-Building Initiative, the Justice Communications Initiative, as well as training and tools to help grassroots organizers and leaders become better strategic storytellers and media activists.
Cyril’s history as a media and movement strategist is informed by her organizing and communications work at We Interrupt This Message and the Applied Research Center, the Community Organizing Team, Youth Together, and the Youth Force Coalition in the SF Bay Area.
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Chuck D Featured
As leader and co-founder of legendary rap group Public Enemy, Chuck D redefined rap music and hip hop culture. His lyrics addressed weighty issues about race, rage and inequality with a jolting combination of intelligence and eloquence never seen before. At the close of 1999, The New York Times named Public Enemy’s music to their list of the “25 Most Significant Albums of the Last Century” and in May 2005 The US government’s Library of Congress included Fear of a Black Planet in a list of 50 recordings worthy of preserving in the National Recording Registry. The numbers that reflect their extraordinary career are staggering: The band has embarked on over 60 tours, performing over 1500 concerts to fans in 58 cou ...
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Davey D Featured
Davey D is a Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay, media and community activist. Originally from the Bronx, Davey D's been down with Hip Hop since since 1977 where he started out as an emcee for two crews TDK [Total Def Krew] out of Co-op City and the Avengers out of the Marble Hill Section of the Bronx. he moved from New York to Cali to attend college. He's a graduate of UC Berekely
Davey Dis the current host of Hard Knock Radio a syndicated daily afternoon show that focuses on Hip Hop culture and politics. The show originates on KPFA 94.1 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area and is heard in Seattle, Atlanta, Portland and Fresno. HKR has been on the air since 1999 and was recently cited as best on air show by the East-Bay Express with Dave ...
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Kevin Danaher Featured
Danaher is a cofounder of Global Exchange, the noted human rights organization based in San Francisco, executive coproducer of Green Festival, executive director of the Global Citizen Center and author of Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power among others. Danaher has appeared on television and radio shows around the country. He has published articles in the The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The International Herald Tribune, Harvard Educational Review, The Nation, The Progressive and many others. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Click here to see Kevin speak at the San Francisco Green Festival.
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Drew Dellinger Featured
Drew Dellinger (PhD candidate) is a poet, teacher, writer and speaker who has inspired minds and hearts around the world, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology and compassion. He is also a consultant, publisher and founder of Planetize the Movement Press.
Dellinger has appeared at over 700 events across the U.S., U.K. and Australia. He has spoken and performed at numerous conferences--including Bioneers, the Green Festival, the Dream Reborn and the Parliament of the World's Religions--as well as colleges and universities, poetry venues, protests, and places of worship. He has shared podiums and stages with luminaries such as Alice Walker, Cornel West, Thomas Berry, Matthew Fox, Eve Ensler, Paul Hawken, Ani Difranco ...
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Tom DeWolf Featured
Presenting with Belvie Rooks. DeWolf was born and raised in Pomona, California. In 1972, he moved to Eugene, Oregon to attend college. He graduated in 1978 with degrees from both Northwest Christian College and the University of Oregon.
DeWolf served on the Oregon Arts Commission for nine years and as a local elected official for eleven. His years of public service focused on the arts, literacy, children’s issues, and restorative justice.
In 2001, DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. Senator James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island, curried favor with President Thomas ...
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Bernardine Dohrn Featured
Dohrn, activist, academic and child advocate, is director of the Children and Family Justice Center and Clinical Associate Professor of the Northwestern University School Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic. Dohrn was a national leader of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and the Weather Underground, and was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List for over a decade.
She is coauthor, with Bill Ayers, of Race Course: Against White Supremacy and coeditor of Sing A Battle Song: Documents of the Weather Underground, and wrote the introduction to Letters from Young Activists. She is an author and coeditor of two books: “A Century of Juvenile Justice” (2002) and “Resisting Zero Tolerance: A Handbook for ...
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Barbara Ehrenreich Featured
Barbara Ehrenreich's articles, reviews and essays have been widely published. She received the Sydney Hillman Award for Journalism and a Brill's Content "Honorable Mention" (1999) for a chapter of her book, "Nickel and Dimed," (Owl Books, 2002) which appeared in Harper's in January 1999. A second essay entitled "Maid to Order," which grew out of her research for this book, was also published in Harper's (2000).
Ms. Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War" (Metropolitan, 1997) and a collection of essays entitled "The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed" (Random House Inc., 1990). She also wrote "Fear of Falling ...
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Riane Eisler Featured
Riane Eisler is an eminent social scientist, attorney, keynote speaker, and social activist best known as author of the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 22 languages, including most European languages and Chinese, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, and Japanese.
Her newest book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking,” by Peter Senge as “desperately needed “ and by Gloria Steinem as “revolutionary,” proposes a new approach to economics that gives visibility and value to the most essential human work: the work of caring for people and pla ...
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Mike Farrell Featured
Chair of the Board of Death Penalty Focus, Farrell is also spokesperson for Concern America, an international refugee aid and development organization, Co-Chair Emeritus of the California Committee of Human Rights Watch and, occasionally, a Good Will Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Known to millions as “B.J. Hunnicutt” of television’s historic “M*A*S*H” and from NBC-TV’s “Providence,” he is also the producer of Universal Pictures’ hit “Patch Adams,”
A refugee aid and human rights activist for 30 years, Farrell first traveled to the Thai/Cambodian border in 1980. In the following decade he took part in aid missions and human rights de ...
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Laura Flanders Featured
An author and broadcaster for more than 20 years, Flanders is the host of GRIT TV, the new news and culture discussion program online, on satellite and on cable TV. GRIT TV can also be seen on theNation.org.
Flanders is the author of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics Back from the Politicians (The Penguin Press, 2007) and The New York Times bestseller BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an exposé of women in George W. Bush's cabinet.
As part of the original line-up on Air America Radio, Flanders hosted The Laura Flanders Show and RadioNation. She also launched the award-winning YOUR CALL on public radio KALW in San Francisco, and was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, ...
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Tiokasin Ghosthorse Featured
Tiokasin Ghosthorse is from the Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nation of South Dakota. He is the host of First Voices Indigenous Radio on WBAI NY - Pacifica Radio. Tiokasin has been described as “a spiritual agitator, natural rights organizer, Indigenous thinking process educator and a community activator.” One reviewer called him “a cultural resonator in the key of life.”
Politics for the Lakota is spiritual and is not separate from the rest of life. Indigenous peoples are after an inclusive politics, an inclusive world. Tiokasin has had a long history in Indigenous rights activism and advocacy. He spoke, as a teenager, at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. He has supported or participated in many of the major occupations includ ...
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Amy Goodman Featured
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 800 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” She is also one of the the first recipients, along with Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald, of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named for ...
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Chido Govero Featured
Govero lost her mom when she was seven and never knew her dad. At once this little girl turned adult and was in charge of the little family nucleus of her little brother and blind grandmother. She had to drop out of school and beg for work, getting a bowl of peanuts a day.
At the age of 12, she learned how to farm mushrooms on leaves, cut grass, water hyacinth, pulp and dead tree branches, converting biomass into food. Govero appeared to have golden fingers and had the chance assist her adoptive mom in the tissue culture lab learning how to propagate mushrooms.
Equipped with field experience and the science, Govero simplified mushroom farming for villagers, in general, and girls at risk in particular. She is spearheading the p ...
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Thom Hartmann Featured
Hartmann, who started in radio in 1968, is also is an internationally known speaker on culture and communications, an author, and an innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, and economics. The co-founder (with his wife, Louise) of The New England Salem Children’s Village (1978) and The Hunter School (1997), he has led national innovations in the areas of residential treatment for abused children and private/public education for learning-disabled children.
Hartmann is the four-time Project Censored Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of nineteen books currently in print in over a dozen languages on five continents. He is the former executive director of a residential treatment program for emotionally disturbed ...
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Richard Heinberg Featured
Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and is the author of eight books on ecological issues, including Peak Oil. He is the author of eight books, including The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003) and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006), and Peak Everything (2008).
Heinberg advocates a planned descent down the depletion curves of oil and draws attention to the links between 9/11 and peak oil.
Heinberg lives in Santa Rosa, California. He is a member of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. He is also an accomplished violinist and an ...
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