Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Pass The Microphone Around, Ho Ho! Timelines are for high school text books. History itself is all indirection and angles, actions and events caroming off one another, one unintended consequence glancing into the next. David Rothkopf

Documentary Lego The name smartMeme is inspired by a vision of grassroots change agents collaboratively creating and unleashing memes designed to challenge assumptions and change destructive stories. The smart implies both effective and networked: memes that are born from and spread through people-powered collaboration. Our movements desperately need smarter memes that encapsulate and popularize stories with the creative power to point us toward a more democratic, just, peaceful, and ecologically sane future Vision -- How You Can Use 'SmartMemes' to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World PM Press By Patrick Reinsborough and Doyle Canning Today let me offer a celebration of Changesurfer Radio , produced and hosted by the technoprogressive bioethicist and sociologist Dr. James Hughes of Hartford College, Connecticut, founder of the Institute For Ethics and Emerging Technologies ( IEET ). Have a listen to cutting-edge ideas from speculative thinkers as...

Verbatim Theatre This fine morning let me recommend to you wonderful dreamers, lovers of myth, searchers and finders Caroline Casey's Visionary Activist radio show/podcast . Caroline tosses out as many metaphors and inspirational utterances as clowns toss goldfoil-wrapped toffees, chocolates and licorice nibs to kids alongside a parade.

Many Pods Cast More CBC Radio1 plugs: xxx This Saturday morning I raise my glass to the vibrant Mary Hynes , who hosts Tapestry on Sunday afternoons with a buoyancy that remedies afternoon blahs, and the awesome Eleanor Wachtel of Writers & Company , with her vast knowledge of literature, who has long been a model for me of how to listen.

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Playful Emancipatory Multilogue This morning I salute two outstanding CBC radio hosts, the gracious and humorous veteran Michael Enright , lately host of The Sunday Edition , and Anna Maria Tremonti of The Current , whose first-class professionalism is now and again enhanced with the powerful voice of the heart itself.

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