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Dec 31, 2019

Alyn Ware heads the Basel Peace Office, where he oversees the opposition to nuclear weapons by the Parliamentary Network on Nonproliferation and Disarmament and his new campaign, Move the Nuclear Weapons money. He and Metta Spencer discuss the way that financial profitability of producing these weapons shapes...


Dec 22, 2019

Mukti Suvedi and Sharad Neupana are Nepalese peace and development workers. Metta called them in Kathmandu and learned about Mukti's project: rebuilding a town that had been leveled by an earthquake. Sharad does peace work with youth. One technique is simply getting kids from different castes to play football together....


Dec 20, 2019

Canadian climatologist Paul Beckwith attended the COP 25 meeting in Madrid that ended in a stalemate. He and Metta agree that there is too little progress by elected government officials, and they consider ways of speeding up responses to the emergency. Beckwith favors sprinkling iron in oceans to encourage plankton and...


Dec 16, 2019

Homa Hoodfar, a professor of anthropology at Concordia University, spent many months in prison in her home country, Iran, for promoting democracy and gender equality. She and Metta talk with Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, another Iranian-Canadian professor (History, U of Toronto) about the brutal crackdown on the...


Dec 4, 2019

Dr. Laura Kahn and Dr. Cheryl Stroud are leaders in the "One Health" movement, an approach that brings together medical knowledge and veterinary and environmental medicine to solve the problems that transcend the boundaries of these supposedly distinct disciplines and practices. They tell Metta about ongoing studies...