May 31, 2022
Olivia Ward is a journalist who covered numerous wars, including the Soviet war against Chechnya. Michael Beer works with Nonviolence International, which has developed a list of potentially helpful suggestions for speeding up the end of the war in Ukraine. Much depends upon the communication among Russians and their...
May 27, 2022
Martin Palous was spokesman for the Charter 77 movement in Czechoslovakia, which succeeded in ousting the Communist regime. Active in Civic Forum, he became the Czech Ambassador to the United States and then the Permanent Representative to the United Nations. We talk about what might have been if the Soviet Union had...
May 26, 2022
Mubarak Awad was the leader of the first intifada in Palestine, which was entirely nonviolent and highly effective. Ivan Marovic was one of the leaders of Otpor, the nonviolent movement that ousted Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia. We talk about the relevance of their strategies to the situation of the Ukrainians who are...
May 26, 2022
Alan Haber, Ellen Thomas, and Odile Hugonot Haber are all American peace activists working with World Beyond War and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Alan was a founder of Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s. Judy Rebick is a Toronto-based activist and professor at Toronto...
May 20, 2022
Brad Bass, a status professor of environment at the University of Toronto, has two projects. He studies the impact of fertilizer run-off to Lake Erie and other freshwater lakes. This problems creates toxins that may enter our drinking water. Fortunately, Brad can remove phosphorus from water, mainly with plants....