All Together Now

All Together Now - Bioneers' "Moonrise" of Women's Leadership - 10/11/12

A talk with Nina Simons, cofounder and coExecutive Director of the Bioneers network (bioneers.org) about her sense of the role of Relational Intelligence in transforming leadership; the Moonrise leadership program for women; the upcoming, 23rd annual Bioneers conference and simultaneous regional conferences about ecosocial solutions that work and "resilient communities"; poem by Lesel Mueller

All Together Now - America the Possible - 10/04/12

A talk with James Gustave (Gus) Speth about his new book, America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy; FDR's Four Freedoms; 7 steps in how change happens; the need for a Progressive fusion and for fusion voting in all states; the Green Party; poem by Walt Whitman

All Together Now - Women's Voices Creating a New Politics - 09/27/12

A talk with Marianne Williamson about her upcoming national gathering, Sister Giant (sistergiant.com) on the need to reframe the major political issues and also to get more women to run for office (marianne.com); the Women's Congress for Future Generations (wcffg.org); the Tea Party's voter suppression actions; ATN's Voter Registration Drive (deadline in most states is Oct. 6); poem by Mary Mackey

All Together Now - Recent Discoveries of Interrelatedness - 09/20/12

Charlene Spretnak presents examples of recent discoveries, made in 2012, about the fact that physical reality is far more dynamically interrelated than we had assumed, all of which are contributing to the Relational Shift; poem by Jennifer Michael Hecht.

All Together Now - EcoMind: The Ecology of Democracy - 09/13/12

A talk with Frances Moore Lappé about her newest book, EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want, which identifies 7 "thought traps" that keep us from taking effective action to solve collective problems, as well as 7 "thought leaps" that free us from constraining assumptions; campaign finance reform; also an update on fracking; also posting about ATN on FB; poem by Seamus Heaney

All Together Now - Environmental Toxins / Fracking - 09/06/12

A talk with Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream and Raising Elijah; the environmental damage wrought by fracking, and the compliant government officials who receive large campaign donations from the fracking corporations; also her essay "The Fracking of Rachel Carson" in Orion magazine; example of local activism against fracking; poem by Mary Oliver

All Together Now - Women, Voice, and Language - 08/30/12

A talk with Terry Tempest Williams about her new book, When Women Were Birds; also the work of the French feminist Claudine Hermann; also several of Terry Tempest Williams's experiences in activist campaigns; poem by Marya Grathwohl

All Together Now - Active Hope - 08/23/12

A talk with Joanna Macy about her new book, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're In Without Going Crazy, coauthored with Chris Johnstone; her  technique called "The Work that Reconnects": a wider sense of self, a different kind of power, a more interrelated sense of community; poem by Rilke, translated by Joanna Macy (with Anita Barrows)

All Together Now - Political Metaphors - 08/16/12

16 August:       The Power of Political Metaphors -- a talk with the linguist and cognitive scientist George Lakoff about his new book, The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic, coauthored with Elizabeth Wehling; linguistic suggestions for Democratic and Green campaigns this fall; poem by Adrienne Rich

All Together Now - Among the Goddesses - 08/09/12

Poets Theater -- a live performance in the PRN studios of an excerpt from the play Among the Goddesses, written by the poet Annie Finch; live music, as well as some music recorded in the Temple of Isis, is included; the play is introduced by the poet and the director and is also discussed afterward.