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.

Our guest for show is Esther Figueroa. Esther is a Jamaican filmmaker, writer and advocate who in 2006 returned home to live in Jamaica after being based in Hawa’ii for 25 years. She has a long history of filmmaking, art, and community engagement to...
Shahidah Janjua April 24, 2020
On this episode of the Green Flame we interviewed Shahidah Janjua and conversed about women, writing, activism and the creation of a Women's Centre in Kerry. She also shared a recitation of one of her soon to be published poems on our broadcast. This...
This conversation between Max Wilbert and Vince Emanuele covers mutual aid, organizing strategies, revolution vs. reform, coronavirus, survival, the Iraq war, the crumbling of the United States, and more. Vince Emanuele was born and raised in...
The Philippine archipelago was a Spanish colony for nearly 500 years, and a US colony for 50. Today, it is an economic colony. This episode of The Green Flame focuses on the history of the Archipelago (decolonized name for the Philippines). Our...
In this short excerpt from the last episode of The Green Flame podcast, Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith read from a piece by C.S. Lewis, originally written in 1948, in which the author speaks of the threat of nuclear war and how to live in an age of...
How is coronavirus affecting the movement to save the planet? This in-depth episode includes perspectives from eight Deep Green Resistance organizers from around the world. We talk about morality, pollution, preparedness, community self-defense,...
In this episode of The Green Flame, we speak with Derrick Jensen. Derrick is a co-author of , and the author of , , , and many other books. Derrick's website: This show features the song, The Man Sitting Right Next Door by SKAGS. Music video...
In this episode of The Green Flame, we speak with Will Falk. Will is a writer, lawyer, and environmental activist. The natural world speaks and Will’s work is how he listens. He believes the ongoing destruction of the natural world is the most...
In this episode, of The Green Flame, we speak with Sakej Ward. Sakej (James Ward) belongs to the wolf clan. He is Mi’kmaw (Mi’kmaq Nation) from the community of Es-gen-oo-petitj (Burnt Church First Nation, New Brunswick). Having taught, organized,...
Indigenous Hawaiian organizer and journalist Anne Keala Kelly speaks on the desecration of Hawaii for the sake of tourism and science. This excerpt comes from Episode 12 of The Green Flame podcast, on Colonization. Listen to the full podcast here:...
World-renowned Saami musician Mari Boine speaks about music as a healer of the trauma of colonization, and about ancestral responsibilities. This excerpt comes from Episode 12 of The Green Flame podcast, on Colonization. Listen to the full podcast...
An interview with Kim Hill and Joanna Pinkiewicz
Colonialism Dec. 27, 2019
This episode of The Green Flame focuses on colonization and has three interviews: the first with Anne Keala Kelly, a native Hawaiian organizer, journalist, and award-winning filmmaker; the second with Mari Boine, a world- reknowned Sami indigenous...
The Origins of Modern Feminism in Indigenous Cultures
Radical Feminism Dec. 4, 2019
In this episode of The Green Flame, we focus on radical feminism. We speak with Saba Malik and Lierre Keith, with Aimee and Kara in the UK, and with Renee Gerlich in Aotearoa (New Zealand). This episode features music from Beth Quist and poetry by...
Tearing It Down Oct. 16, 2019
This episode of The Green Flame features audio from an event in Denver hosted by Prairie Protection Colorado, including presentations by Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen, and poetry from Dominique Christina. This episode also features a discussion of...
In this excerpt from episode 7, "Strategy for a Burning World," the author and philosopher Derrick Jensen urges listeners to join in the struggle for the planet and for justice. "It is a terrible time to be alive in terms of having to watch the...
This episode of The Green Flame looks at , the only revolutionary environmental strategy designed to dismantle the global industrial economy by any means necessary. Our show features a conversation with movement lawyer and poet , and Deep Green...
In this excerpt from our last full episode of The Green Flame podcast, Claude Marks of The Freedom Archives discusses COINTELPRO as one internal strategy of counterinsurgency in a broader project of imperialism. He links the repression of indigenous...
On this episode of the Green Flame, we speak with Claude Marx, former political prisoner and activist, director of the , about COINTELPRO and state repression of revolutionary movements. We hear from , activist, radical movement lawyer and writer,...