Jul 31, 2020
Tom Newmark is chairman of The Carbon Underground, an organization devoted to sequestering carbon in soil by changing the world's prevailing farming methods to an approach called "regenerative agriculture." He explains to Metta the potential importance of such changes, which can do more than any other huge revolution to...
Jul 27, 2020
Project Save the World invites activists all around the world to join a Zoom conference, a "Global Town Hall" on the last Sunday of every month. This time they talk with Metta Spencer about (among other things) the creation of an Australian commission on the human future, the risks of surveillance technology, how to...
Jul 15, 2020
Tim Wright, an Australian organizer with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) joins his Canadian friend Erin Hunt to recount their triumph in bringing to near-reality (it will probably enter into force soon) an international treaty banning nuclear weapons. Metta shares their optimism, as well as...
Jul 11, 2020
Ignat Kalinin works for Yabloko, a liberal democratic party in Russia founded by Grigory Yavlinsky. He and his old friend Metta Spencer get caught up here, comparing Russia's situation to the rest of the world during this pandemic, only days after the Russian constitution had been changed to let Putin rule 36 years....
Jul 1, 2020
Arthur Kanegis is a filmmaker with a brilliant idea: you promote peace best by showing the stories of people DOING peace work. So he and Melanie Bennett produced an inspiring film about Garry Davis, veteran of World War II who felt guilty about bombing Brandenburg, Germany, and tried to prevent future wars by prompting...