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Visionary Activist Show 4.16.26 #KPFA 2 pm PT (#KPFK 4,17.26 in wee hours & 1 pm) Defiant Joy – Honed by Adversity… Rising Aroused in Apocalyptic Times How we animate the world Allying with Liberating  Mars within and without….dedication to desirable vision – See Hungarian Election in cahoots with Mars and Neptune… Honoring Pacifica radio’s 77th birthday, humming with Marian Anderson, segue from last week’s honoring of Paul Robeson, Positive woof – in culture and nature, with which to metabolize the pandemic cruelty of uninitiated Mars. The War on Life supplanted by our dedicated alliance with Flora Fauna Fungi Potomac River – now the most endangered River in America.National parks under assault… Bee keepers targeted by Israel Followed by Responsive Bee Swarm in Israel…guiding critiques by Omid Safi, Professor Jiang, and the remedy of the Orishas Chango and Yemaya….and yes, GlenFrey….”Heat is On” The post Defiant Joy – Honed by Adversity… appeared first on KPFA.

  Paul Robeson (Wikipedia) Caroline welcomes ancestor Paul Robeson, (astounding athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and political activist) whose birthday is today… April 9, 1898 (- Jan 23,1976) Let’s invite his embodied positive Mars, expressed through his powerful baritone voice (advocate, for beauty, kinship, dedication to democracy) – into the testosterone fueled maelstrom of now: the imminent April 12th Hungarian election… over which Mars-Neptune preside… Let’s see! desirable vision of democracy triumphing over tyranny, en tout le monde Magyar   A youth-led push for change threatens Orbán’s 16-year rule in Hungary’s elections https://apnews.com/article/hungary-election-youth-voters-orban-58e71836ef9e3a38bc478bdbde9ca0b0   And the US thuggish death threat to Pope Leo, the horrific atrocities being inflicted on life by the NetanTrumpstein-yahoo monstrosity (Lebanon, Iran, Gulf states, myriad repercussions rippling through the world -collapse of Dubai)       CoyoteNetworkNews.com · Events, Councils, & More Visionary Activist on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Embodied Positive Mars appeared first on KPFA.

  Liberating Trickster Kinship arising from Grief… Maundy Thursday – Maundy Thursday is named after the Latin word mandatum (“mandate”), referring to the new commandment Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper to “love one another.” Caroline welcomes Terry Tempest Williams, award winning author of over 20 books, dedicated cultural voice on behalf of what she loves, and what she is in Nature… the most recent of which is The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary…   Terry Tempest Williams Website   “In this time of political fragility, climate chaos, and seeking hope wherever we can find its glimmer, Terry Tempest Williams introduces us to the Glorians. They are not distant deities, but the ordinary, often overlooked presences—animal, plant, memory, moment—that reveal our shared vulnerability and interconnectedness with the natural world. The Glorians can be as small as an ant ferrying a coyote willow blossom to its queen or as commonplace as the night sky. But what they can collectively teach us—about the radical act of attending to beauty and carrying forward against all odds—is immense. “In this time of political fragility, climate chaos, and seeking hope wherever we can find its glimmer, Terry Tempest Williams introduces us to the Glorians. They are not distant deities, but the ordinary, often overlooked presences—animal, plant, memory, moment—that reveal our shared vulnerability and interconnectedness with the natural world. The Glorians can be as small as an ant ferrying a coyote willow blossom to its queen or as commonplace as the night sky. But what they can collectively teach us—about the radical act of attending to beauty and carrying forward against all odds—is immense. “Journeying through encounters with the Glorians in the red rock desert of Utah during the pandemic to Harvard University where she teaches in the Divinity School, Williams weaves a story of astonishing personal and societal insight. As she grapples with the unsettled state of the world, she turns not to despair but to deep reflection. She sees how the Glorians are calling us all to attention, not as an army, but as fellow inhabitants of our sacred, threatened home. They remind us of the power of contact between species and the profound courage—and awareness—it will take to dream a more cohesive future into being. “Wise and lyrical, The Glorians is a testament to the power of witness, a field guide to finding grace in the unexpected, and a moving invitation to engage with one another and our surroundings with renewed intention. In a modern world filled with increasing noise and anxiety, Terry Tempest Williams offers honest sustenance for the mind and spirit and distinguishes herself again as a trusted voice to whom we can turn to more fully understand our times.”   CoyoteNetworkNews.com · Events, Councils, & More Visionary Activist on Patreon The post Visitations from the Holy Ordinary appeared first on KPFA.

Visionary Activist Show 3.26.26 2 pm pt #KPFA (3.27.26 wee hours & 1pm pt #KPFK) “No to monarchy, no to having a supreme leader, Yes to Democracy-Equality!” Chant from students/citizens in Iran… Caroline plays a short clip of Maryam Ishani, And long proffering from Omid Safi’s recent teaching: “What we all need to know about Iran” We be Global Coalition: Re-imagining the world beyond false polarity… Like Scheherazade, who liberates the land, women, even the tyrant, from the sociopathic murderous king, Let’s all Cultivate our Craft for Complex story-telling….   Omid Safi @brotheromid Most recent book: Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition (published by Yale). Teacher in the Sufi tradition of Radical Love & Founder of Illuminated Courses & Tours “Omid’s passion for teaching has been recognized through the ten times that he has been nominated for professor of the year awards. He is currently a professor at Duke University specializing in Islamic spirituality and contemporary thought. A leading Muslim public intellectual, Omid is committed to the intersection of spirituality and social justice.” https://www.illuminatedcourses.com/   CoyoteNetworkNews.com · Events, Councils, & More Visionary Activist on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Cultivate our Craft for Complex Storytelling appeared first on KPFA.

  “I believe Earth is dreaming us into a new way, a new way of being, if we favor our senses and receive what is coming to us through heartbreak and love.”…” (Terry Tempest Williams )   Equinox Eve: Let’s ride this New Moon tide-RevelationAccountabilityStorm… Let’s not fear the storm – let’s become the storm! Let’s not fear the Chaos – but guide the chaos…”Who’s a good chaos? Yes you are, over there to the Malefactors camp from whence you were sent – Booomeringue! – back to your source with a pie in the face . So first- We step into the Equinoctial Center of the Storm… to regain our balance, as agents of Equilibrium…. And deliberately dedicate to Equality. Equal Night and Day, Equal Humans and our Kin, equal Mars and Venus within us all.. Democratic Animism Now…..Mercury stations , we gather our pluck, and spiral forth the desirable vision ….     CoyoteNetworkNews.com · Events, Councils, & More Visionary Activist on Patreon The post Equinox Eve · Revelation°Accountability*Storm appeared first on KPFA.

  “Reality is a dance” – whirling – spiraling Liberating Beauty out of the Cauldron of Calamity, Caroline welcomes great ally Banafsheh Sayyad, whose book “Dance of Oneness,” is a most welcome elixir of profound dedication, resonating within us all, that we too aspire to embody effective prayers for our world…   Banafsheh’s life and book are an invitation for us all to delve into our cultural and personal origin story to de-bamboozle and withdraw our complicity from unaddressed shadow’s war on all life. Everyone – undulate – rejoin the choreography of creation that by our craft we may invite Power into the world to metabolize – cruel chaos into Salaam/Shalom – the Presence of Oneness…   Rumi as Mentor : “You are not only a drop in the Ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”   Banafsheh Sayyed, born in Tehran, forever in her heart, is an Iranian spiritual embodiment teacher, sacred dancer and founder of Dance of Oneness. She teaches and performs globally, guiding into the wisdom of the body. www.danceofoneness.org   CoyoteNetworkNews.com · Events, Councils, & More Visionary Activist on Patreon The post Reality is a Dance appeared first on KPFA.

“If the King Attacks the Persians, He Will Destroy a Great Empire,” (ha! “it will be yours” quips Delphic Oracle) Offering this essential book in our Fund Drive, as a reciprocal blessing for pledging www.kpfa.org Spookily pertinent to now! Replaying portions of Caroline’s March 13, 2008 interview — Where there is Mars – Let there be Venus! May Americans know history!   Caroline welcomes Stephen Kinzer, whose splendid book, “All the Shah’s Men,” just out in paperback, and including an urgent hyper-pertinent preface, “The Folly of Attacking Iran,” is a book truly that all Americans (certainly candidates) should read. Delineating not only the 1953 American coup that overthrew the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh, and installed the Shah, this book provides us with Venus, historically informed reverent intimacy with a rich culture, whom we all would do well to understand and ally with its long desire to have truly just leadership. Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has worked in more than fifty countries. He has been New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul, Berlin, and Managua. His books include “Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.”   And weaving clips from Omid Safi, allying with the rich traditions of Iranian culture, inter-woven with the guiding astro*animism of now …. Preserving humanity (our own & Iranian friends)     The post History, Culture, Empathic Kinship  appeared first on KPFA.

The Great De-Bamboozling·Revelation·Accountability Fest   In which we are all participants, with the help of the Beloved Ancestor Poets. “Bring in the poets and double the madness!” (Bly) Poetry will get us through! Just learned that great buddy colleague, Coleman Barks, has gone backstage. And Sean Padraic O’Donoghue, will join to help honor Coleman – and how Coleman may help us with Iran… Weaving all together with the Epstein Files, and the astromythoGuiding narrative We shall inter weave all things Neptunian, And the sacred cahoots of supporting listener supported radio….. The post The Great De-Bamboozling appeared first on KPFA.

Visionary Activist Show 2.19.26 #KPFA 2pm pt (2.20 #KPFK in wee hours & 1pm pt)   Raw sewage – literal and pervasive pandemic metaphor Water and Money: Re-directing the flow – from Cruelty, State Terror, Corruption – to infrastructure….health, protecting commonwealth…. Collective well-being… Empathic Sorrow be appropriate, and serves as incentive for dynamic kindness, dedicated to collective well-being   So many stories should be front page in perpetuity: ongoing obscene cruelty in Gaza, the war on children, State Terror…. Epstein – all one story…. (But former Prince Andrew was arrested today on rape charges, via Epstein… so the dominoes beginning to fall…. all the way to trump, and the entire trumpstein class.) The largest and most ghastly raw sewage on-going torrent into River in American History… The Potomac River ecocide …. So……. Honoring Rose George’s book “The Big Necessity – the Unmentionable World of Human waste and why it matters.” Here be the whole show from 2009, humming in pertinence… The Big Necessity (05.21.2009) Woven with goodness: honoring Jesse Jackson, The Monks and Aloka, and Singing Resistance…     CoyoteNetworkNews.com · Events, Councils, & More Visionary Activist on Patreon The post Water and Money: Re-directing the Flow appeared first on KPFA.

Visionary Activist Show 2pm pt 2.12.26 KPFA (2.13 KPFK in wee hours & 1 pm pt)   Dark o Moon – Friday the 13th ° Valentine’s Day ° Eclipse ° Chinese New Year ° Mardi Gras ° Ramadan –   Such dangerous skullduggery abounding, that the back-stage gods are proffering syncretized Metaphors as allies. Booo-Merangue! May anything up to no good- be revealed, rendered harmless & return to its source with  a pie in the face! Make bad things too expensive, and that which is  liberating be irresistibly magnetic … Responsive Incandescent Wrath fueling Community organizational genius…. Diagnosing Danger: Malefactor  cruelty, actual and  planned   Check Project Salt Box – to see where concentration camps planned in one’s hood Using Data for Good: A Crash Course: https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/using-data-for-good-a-crash-course   And ICE Detention Reports: 237 Detention Centers detentionreports.com   Acyn ‪@acyn.bsky.social‬ McBride: If we summon our hope then we will find the light and turn this moment into what a friend from Florida once called a slingshot moment.. where we are pulled backwards but the tension and pressure of being pulled backwards ultimately propels us to destinations that we have not yet been https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lnt725n2uk2a           CoyoteNetworkNews.com · Events, Councils, & More Visionary Activist on Patreon The post Dark o Moon · Friday the 13th appeared first on KPFA.

“Time of Useful Consciousness “ (The aviation term for the time between when the oxygen cuts out, and the pilot is still conscious…) Caroline welcomes astro mytho colleague Judith Tsafrir, as we weave powerful testimony from Aliya Rahman, and Renee Good’s brothers, Luke & Brent Ganger, rousing music – with the increasing rapidly arising dangers – with the descriptive & guiding astrological narrative of effective strategy. The Good Medicine of Bad Bunny Super Bowl, the Monks and Aloka. In Trickster We Trust …   Judy Tsafrir, MD is a physician, shamanic practitioner, and guide in the work of healing and human development. Trained in adult and child psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and a longtime Harvard Medical School faculty member, she brings an integrative approach that bridges depth psychology, holistic medicine, and spiritual wisdom. Judy draws on shamanism, astrology, the Tarot, Reiki, and intuitive practices, alongside her medical and psychoanalytic training, to support healing at emotional, physical, and spiritual levels. She is the author of Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Personal and Transpersonal to Transform Health and Consciousness., and her work is grounded in the belief that healing arises through the integration of heart, mind, body, and spirit—and that personal healing is inseparable from the healing of our communities and planet. https://www.JudyTsafrirMD.com The post Time of Useful Consciousness appeared first on KPFA.

Visionary Activist Show 1.29.26 2pm #KPFA  /1.30 #KPFK, in wee hours & 1pm pt   Let’s Dive Deep to Rise Aroused – Caroline convenes Mid-Winter Council to gather our wits, dedicate to strategy…forge alliances… Waxing Leo-Aquarius Full Moon Apocalyptic Mid-Winter-Uranus Direct – Revelation fest What would we like to be revealed ? Not what’s gonna happen – but what’s available with whom to cooperate – for collective well-being. Co-Operators are standing by! Let’s meet them…to co-animate the Astro*Politico*Guiding Narrative – the miracle of Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity Arising from this cauldron of ashes…”Hell is empty – all the demons are here” (The Tempest) – Uranus – queries – how big a change, a necessary miracle (!) would we all like? “If you humans, allied with what you love, dedicate to what….. Liberating Trickster, Keeper of Democracy, says I’ll do “how!”…” “All I want from you humans – to seal the deal is all of us our proclaiming our availability and willingness!” Once done – Bodhisattva Coyote says “Game on!” Honoring Earth Dragons: Renee Good (Renee means Renaissance – re-birth) and Alex Pretti (Alexander means “defender” – Alexander, originally from the Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), from αλέξειν aléxein meaning “to ward off, keep off, turn away, defend, protect” OED) that we too may protect – keep safe all our kin….     The post Let’s Dive Deep to Rise Aroused appeared first on KPFA.

  Ladling Liberating Necessary Miracles out of the Cauldron of Calamity   Caroline, convening the Council of Sane Reverent, ingenious, effective, available  Beings Myriad worthy woofy guiding voices, from Greenland – Tillie Martinussen, Ireland, Jamaica, Minneapolis, Davos & more – all in accord with the Guiding Astro* Mytho Animist narrative….collapse of systems, and what be we brewing, envisioning, organizing, into incarnational actuality…   ‘Big Miscalculation’: Tillie Martinussen, Greenlandic Politician Warns Trump Over Bid to Take Arctic Island | APT https://youtu.be/xs53IESxz80?si=_zvErMaDN2Vw2qfE   The post The Visionary Activist Show – Liberating Necessary Miracles appeared first on KPFA.

“Oppreshun  is only fa a seezun” – Deja Vudoo – Trickster Guide – to Necessary Miracles – through the Malefactor Mayhem… Who brought what to this Apocalypse?! Caroline inter-weaves Rousing Woof from allies (clips including: Tim Waltz, Polar Bears in Greenland, Sheriff Rochelle of Philadelphia, historian Tad Stoermer & more) with the descriptive and guiding astro*mytho narrative of danger and opportunity….. Greenland Defense Front – The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video) The post The Visionary Activist Show – Rousing Woof appeared first on KPFA.