All Together Now

All Together Now - Cooperation Circles - 11/29/12

A talk with Rev. Charles P. Gibbs, Executive Director of United Religions Initiative (uri.org) about URI's planetary network of 560 locally initiated Cooperation Circles in 82 countries; each Cooperation Circle (consisting of at least 7 people from at least 3 faith traditions) decides on a local project that will further interfaith cooperation, help end religiously motivated violence, help to create cultures of peace, justice, and healing for the Earth and all living beings; their relational approach to cultivating peace draws from The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Peacebuilding by John Paul Lederach; poem by Galway Kinnell

All Together Now - What We Are Not Hearing in the Presidential Campaign - 10/25/12

A talk with Sarah van Gelder, executive editor of Yes! Magazine, about issues that need to be addressed in the current electoral campaigns; her "Climate Emergency Action Plan"; also new discoveries about the nature of bacteria in the human body (they do a lot of good!), which is causing a new, relational perception of the microbiome of humans; poem by Robert Bly

All Together Now - Obsolete Assumptions of Corporate Capitalism - 10/18/12

A talk with Jerry Mander about his book, The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System; why it's time to move on beyond  the foundational premises about pressure for endless material growth on a planet of finite resources; other fatal flaws of the system; our megashifts toward a new economics; poem by Robert Bly

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