The Green Flame

by Max Wilbert · · ·

The Green Flame is a Deep Green Resistance podcast that brings you revolutionary analysis, practical skills, and artistic expression from the grassroots movement to dismantle global industrial civilization.

In this episode, Max gives a brief update on the Protect Thacker Pass action, and Elisabeth Robson interviews Jamie Kneen, Communications & Outreach Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada, an organization that works to protect the public and the...
In this episode Max Wilbert interviews Danish historian of Religion Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen who runs the youtube channel Nordic Animism. Danish Viking folk band Gjaldulei provides the perfect accompaniment with their original composition Lyset Vågner....
In this episode, Max Wilbert and Will Falk sit around the campfire at Thacker Pass to share the latest updates from the #ProtectThackerPass campaign, which aims to stop Lithium Americas Corporation from strip mining this place and more broadly to...
In this time sensitive urgent appeal Max Wilbert interviews forest defenders Joshua Wright and Carole Tootill concerning the Fairy Creek old growth forest in British Columbia. Please listen then act to defend Fairy Creek.
In this episode of The Green Flame we host a group discussion on the 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House. We discuss, amongst other things, the relevance of Baldwin's work...
Attorney and feminist Kara Dansky joins us to share how to contribute to the movement for women's sex based rights. She introduces us to the "Women Picket DC" event on March 8, the Equality for All Act, the 65th UN Commission on the Status of Women,...
In this episode of the Green Flame we host a group discussion on Black Revolutionary Assata Shakur’s 1987 Autobiography. We discuss amongst other things the relevance of her story and political awakening and the lessons to be learned for...
This episode of the Green Flame podcast is a group discussion about the 2003 documentary The Corporation. The documentary revolves around the fact that under U.S law corporations are seen as individuals and asks the question ‘what type of person...
Activists aiming to stop Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass open-pit lithium mine – what would be the United States’ largest lithium mine, supplying up to 25% of the world's lithium – launched a permanent protest encampment hours after the Bureau...
In this urgent episode of the Green Flame Lierre Keith comments on a new development in the war on women. That development is Biden's executive order on "gender identity" signed the day of his inauguration, and it will eviscerate Women's Rights....
Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of both Local Futures and the International Alliance for Localization. A pioneer of the local economy movement, she has been honored with the Right Livelihood Award, the Goi Peace Prize, and the Arthur...
This episode of the Green Flame podcast is a discussion around nuclear waste, the nuclear waste industry, nuclear waste dumping, and the production of nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and nuclear medicine that results in this highly dangerous and...
This episode, recorded January 7th, is a round table discussion of January 6th protest and riot in Washington D.C. at the U.S. Capitol. Max Wilbert and Jennifer Murnan are joined by Saba Malik and Will Falk.
Ahjamu Umi is a revolutionary organizer/activist, adviser, and liberation literature author. He is vastly concerned about the current state and future of this planet. Ahjamu has worked with the All African People's Revolutionary Party for decades. His...
Poetry Dec. 31, 2020
Welcome to the final Green Flame episode of 2020. In this episode, a discussion with Trinity La Fey is woven into a chorus of other poets. We revisit the words of Dominique Christina which were a part of our December 2019 Radical Feminism...
On this 50th Episode of the Green Flame, Max and Jennifer share a retrospective of the 20-month Green Flame adventure leading into a lightly edited recording of DGR's recent live streaming event, "Drawing the Line: Stopping the Murder of the Planet."...
Shale Must Fall Dec. 11, 2020
A discussion about the global campaign against fracking
Extreme Weather Dec. 1, 2020
For this episode of The Green Flame, Jennifer Murnan and Max Wilbert discuss extreme weather around the world. As the Arctic is experiencing catastrophic low ice formation, wildfires have swept western Turtle Island this summer and fall, and storms...
On this episode of the Green Flame, we converse with Fred Gibson, co-founder of Communities that Protect and Resist. CPR is a support group, clearinghouse, resource bank, and facilitator for activists who want to build strong communities and leverage...
For this episode, we speak with Laura Cunningham of Basin and Range Watch () about dozens of large solar energy projects threatening the Mojave and Great Basin deserts in Nevada and eastern California. We explore why utility-scale solar built on...