With Love and Rage

In this episode we are sharing our first event from Conversations on the Anthropocene, an online discussion series meant to open a space to have the difficult discussions about climate change.  In this talk we had the pleasure of welcoming two exciting and provocative writers and fellow members of XR, novelist Jenny Offill who is the author of Last Things, Department of Speculation, and most recently Weather, and author Jessi Jezewska Stevens who recently released her debut novel The Exhibition of Persephone Q.  Here Jenny and Jessi discuss climate grief, activism and the intersection of climate change and the corona virus pandemic with Extinction Rebellion.  Please support our guests by buying their books from Bookshop! Bookshop is an online alternative bookseller with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores:    https://bookshop.org/books/weather-9780385351102/9780385351102    https://bookshop.org/books/the-exhibition-of-persephone-q/9780374150921    https://jennyoffill.com/    http://jjezewskastevens.com/    To learn more about XR NYC & to get involved:  https://www.xrebellion.nyc/  https://www.facebook.com/xrnyc/  https://twitter.com/xr_nyc  https://www.instagram.com/xr_nyc/    Upcoming XR NYC events:     https://www.xrebellion.nyc/events    Our email address:    XRNYC.podcast@protonmail.com    Music excerpt from the piece East Village off the record Morning Sun Harvest Moon by the Harrison Bankhead Sextet, courtesy of Engine Studios.  

Today's episode is the first in a series of conversations with members of Extinction Rebellion NYC who come from contemplative and faith traditions, speaking with insight on living with intention in the midst of uncertainty. This series was created and produced by filmmaker and XR organizer Jonathan Minard.    This first segment was recorded with Jess Serrante.    Jessica Serrante is a Co-Founder of the Radical Support Collective where she is a climate resilience coach. Jess has been a climate activist since 2007. She is a trainer, facilitator and teacher with a decade of experience leading and supporting groups of activists. Jess holds a Masters Degree in Theories of Urban Practice from Parsons School of Design, where she studied urban climate resilience.  She is a student and facilitator of Joanna Macy’s The Work That Reconnects. Jess is passionate about poetry, systems thinking, community building and aims to live her life as an answer to the question: What does it mean to live meaningfully amidst the climate crisis? Jess lives in South Brooklyn, and as a supporter of many rebels in Extinction Rebellion Jess embodies the principles of regenerative culture.    The Radical Support Collective website:  https://www.radicalsupport.org/jess  The passage read at the close of the episode is by Joanna Macy.    To learn more about XR NYC & to get involved:  https://www.xrebellion.nyc/  https://www.facebook.com/xrnyc/  https://twitter.com/xr_nyc  https://www.instagram.com/xr_nyc/    Upcoming XR NYC events:     https://www.xrebellion.nyc/events    Our email address:    XRNYC.podcast@protonmail.com   The first track of music you hear is "Fluxuations" by Dew of Light, and the second is "Lunar Glow" by Ookean.  

This episode is a collage of impressions from Extinction Rebellion NYC members reflecting on life, activism, fear, grief and hope in this changed environment, in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The excerpts on this recording come from two movement-wide strategy meetings we held on Zoom in late March.  Thanks to the people from our community who gave us permission to use their voices for this podcast.    Thank to Garret White for reading the Intro.  To learn more about XR NYC & to get involved:  https://www.xrebellion.nyc/  https://www.facebook.com/xrnyc/  https://twitter.com/xr_nyc  https://www.instagram.com/xr_nyc/    Upcoming XR NYC events:     https://www.xrebellion.nyc/events    Our email address:    XRNYC.podcast@protonmail.com    Music used with permission from composer Mike Gamble.  This piece is entitled Love Fist, from the record Loomer on the Engine Studios label.  

We're releasing this interview with Dr. Elizabeth Sawin now as she shares a hopeful and constructive message for how to approach tackling the climate and ecological emergency.  We're grateful to Dr. Sawin for coming on, and also to Carolyn Weaver, XR NYC's Twitter Master, for interviewing Dr. Sawin. **Please note this episode was recorded before the COVID-19 crisis, so the interview doesn't address the events current in April, 2020 when this episode is being released.**      Elizabeth Sawin is Co-Director of Climate Interactive, a think tank that applies systems analysis to climate change and related issues. Beth is a biologist with a Ph.D. from MIT, her work focuses on helping people find solutions that prevent future climate change and build resilience to unavoidable climate impacts. She is a member of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future, a continuing dialogue on issues of climate change and sustainability. She has trained and mentored global sustainability leaders and Dalai Lama fellows.    www.climateinteractive.org/     Beth’s TED talk:    The Power of Multisolving for People and Climate | Elizabeth Sawin | TEDxSunValley       https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=prF8trTallQ&feature=emb_logo    To learn more about XR NYC & get involved:  https://www.xrebellion.nyc/  https://www.facebook.com/xrnyc/  https://twitter.com/xr_nyc  https://www.instagram.com/xr_nyc/    Upcoming XR NYC events:     https://www.xrebellion.nyc/events    Our email address:    XRNYC.podcast@protonmail.comThank you to Andre Bratten for giving us permission to use musical excerpts from his album Pax Americana out on the label Smalltown Supersound.

Today we talk with Rebecca Orrison, Climate Science PhD student and Extinction Rebellion (XR) activist.  In this interview Rebecca speaks from the heart: “I'm a scientist and I have a lot of knowledge about this area, but I'm also a citizen. I'm also somebody who might want to be a mother someday. I'm also a voter. I'm also someone who pays taxes. I breathe air, I drink water. And so these really human qualities that I have also called me to be an activist around this topic.”  Rebecca Orrison is a PhD student in the department of Atmospheric Science at the University at Albany, in Albany, NY. She is member of Science for the People and the Capital Region chapter of Extinction Rebellion.  Nathan Phillips has ended his hunger strike: https://www.wbur.org/earthwhile/2020/02/11/weymouth-compressor-hunger-strike-nathan-phillips  Science for the People: https://scienceforthepeople.org/  To learn more about Extinction Rebellion NYC & how to get involved:  https://www.xrebellion.nyc/  https://www.facebook.com/xrnyc/   https://twitter.com/xr_nyc  https://www.instagram.com/xr_nyc/  Visit our events page https://www.xrebellion.nyc/events for upcoming events!  Contact us at XRNYC.podcast@protonmail.com  We're grateful to the Rude Mechanical Orchestra for permission to use their music that was recorded live at an XR march in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

We are deeply grateful to our guest Dr. Genevieve Guenther, founder and director of End Climate Silence, for coming on to talk about our first demand, Tell the Truth. Thanks go out to XR rebel Dr. Susan Rubin for interviewing Genevieve.  Genevieve Guenther is an author and a Shakespeare scholar.  She is an affiliate faculty at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School and the founder and director of End Climate Silence.  Genevieve on Twitter: @DoctorVive  Susan Rubin's website:  www.drsusanrubin.com  To learn more about Extinction Rebellion NYC & how to get involved:  https://www.xrebellion.nyc/  https://www.facebook.com/xrnyc/  https://twitter.com/xr_nyc  https://www.instagram.com/xr_nyc/  Upcoming XR NYC events:  https://www.xrebellion.nyc/events  With Love and Rage email address: XRNYC.podcast@protonmail.com  About End Climate Silence: endclimatesilence.org is a volunteer organization dedicated to helping the media link stories about climate-change impacts to climate change itself. Mobilizing through digital activism, we focus on all media platforms—from television networks to print outlets to online content providers to radio programs. We are motivated by the awareness that climate change poses a grave danger to humanity and we must transition from fossil fuels to safe energy immediately in order to preserve a planet that supports civilization. Our mission relies on the premise that the news media has a professional responsibility to cover climate change accurately and that remaining silent about climate change in stories about its causes and effects is a form of malpractice.  Music from King Scratch and the Bay Street Boys off of the record Let's Go Calypso.

Welcome to our inaugural episode of With Love & Rage from New York City's Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement! Rebels Eve and Anthony introduce XR and talk about our plans for the podcast.  To learn more about Extinction Rebellion NYC & how to get involved:  https://www.xrebellion.nyc/  https://www.facebook.com/xrnyc/  https://twitter.com/xr_nyc  https://www.instagram.com/xr_nyc/  Upcoming XR NYC events:  https://www.xrebellion.nyc/events  With Love and Rage email address: XRNYC.podcast@protonmail.com  We're grateful to the Rude Mechanical Orchestra for permission to use their music that was recorded live at an XR march in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Other music you hear is from:  Tony parenti's Aces: Two Beats Bash  Los Cantos Vellenatos de....Escalona