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Connect the Dots promotes health activism, linking personal health to the health of our culture, society, and environment.
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Saturday May 28, 2011
Saturday May 28, 2011
Liberator’s Trauma On this show, Alison Rose Levy will welcome Leila Levinson, author of Gated Grief which details the legacy of trauma experienced by descendants of US Army veterans who liberated the concentration camps during World War II. For more information, please go to Leila’s website, www.veteranschildren.com and Alison’s website, www.collectiverealm.com
Saturday May 21, 2011
Saturday May 21, 2011
The Bond On this show, Alison Rose Levy will welcome Lynne McTaggart to discuss her new book, The Bond (Free Press). McTaggart, a bestselling author of The Intention Experiment and The Field, looks into scientific research to discover that we’ve set our civilization to function by competing with each other as we glorify ourselves as individuals. This stands in direct contradiction to the way we are designed by nature, which entails bonding, cooperation, and fairness. Go to www.lynnemctaggart.com for more information.
Saturday May 14, 2011
Saturday May 14, 2011
Our guest is Andy Igrejas, Director of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, talking about the Safe Chemicals Act and why, one year after the President’s Cancer Panel Report, we need to do more to prevent illness through assuring the safety of chemicals to which both children and adults are exposed.
Saturday May 07, 2011
Saturday May 07, 2011
The Decline of Journalism On this show, Alison Rose Levy will welcome Robert McChesney to discuss the decline in American journalism and what that means for democracy. McChesney is a media scholar, journalist, and the co-editor of Will the Last Reporter Turn Out the Lights? (Free Press) which you can purchase at : http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1808 He’s one of the co-founders of the Free Press (www.freepress.net) which fights to preserve internet freedom and the free press, and he’s also the co-author with John Nichols of The Death and Life of American Journalism (Nation Books).
Saturday Apr 30, 2011
Saturday Apr 30, 2011
Alison connects the dots on adding climate and the environment to our economic equation with Hunter Lovins, author of Climate Capitalism.
Saturday Apr 16, 2011
Saturday Apr 16, 2011
Alison’s guest on Connect the Dots is Harvey Wasserman, the author of many books including the recent, SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth. A long time journalist and activist, Harvey covers energy, environment, peace, justice, U.S. history and election protection in his blogs and radio prorams. He edits the website NukeFree.org and will speak about our current challenges, political, environmental, and energy related. This week’s actions will focus on maintaining freedom of the press and the internet, and links to those actions can be found at www.healthjournalistblog.com
Saturday Apr 09, 2011
Saturday Apr 09, 2011
On today's show, Alison speaks with Renee Lertzman, Ph.D., researcher and writer, Visiting Fellow in Humanities and Sustainability at Portland Center for Public Humanities, Portland State University will speak about the role of psychology in protecting the environment.
Saturday Apr 02, 2011
Saturday Apr 02, 2011
Alison’s guest on Connect the Dots is Dr Helen Caldicott to discuss the health risks and misunderstandings about radiation and nuclear power. Dr. Caldicott has devoted the last 35 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. Dr. Caldicott’s website is: http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org
Saturday Mar 26, 2011
Saturday Mar 26, 2011
On today’s show, Alison speaks with Susan Griffin, the co-editor of a wonderful new anthology called Transforming Terror. It’s a collective of essays by wise people about our contemporary journey through terror and terrorism, a true and timely issue for this time. Contributors include Pema Chodran, Vaclav Havel, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Riane Eisler, Deepak Chopra, Alice Walker, Shirin Ibadi, Jodie Evans, William Stafford, and many more. This program’s featured action is protecting public media. You can find the action on: http://healthjournalistblog.com/radiation-risk-do-nothing-til-you-hear-from-me/ where you can also sign up for upcoming radio show announcements and activism.
Saturday Mar 19, 2011
Saturday Mar 19, 2011
On today’s full moon show, Alison speaks with Deena Metzger, poet, healer, medicine woman, and the author of the beautiful new book, Feral, on Connect the Dots at Noon ET. We’ll discuss how the disruption of natural ecology, and man-made oversights have produced the current worldwide tragedy focused in Japan, what this means for our world going forward, and how each of us can retain balance while serving the transition.