Our Times with Craig Barnes

Broadcast on KSFR 101.1 FM, Santa Fe - Saturday 9am

Rajaa Natour -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 24, 2010

Rajaa Natour grew up in Israel in the small town of Qulansuwa where she was educated in the ways of Palestinian women but secretly was reading her father's library and absorbing ideas about the roles of women in the West. Going on to teach in bi-lingual schools where Jewish and Palestinian children were mixed she found that stories of the past were crowding out the possible stories of the future. Rajaa is therefore now in the United States pursuing a new peacebuilding path and shares her journey in this program.

Merle Lefkoff and Jim Bradbury -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 17, 2010

"A former weapons scientist from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Jim Bradbury brings us up to date on progress under the Obama administration toward de-escalation of the nuclear world. Merle Lefkoff explores the application of complexity theory at the recent gahering of scientific, liberal and conservative minds in Santa Fe to discuss nuclear non proliferation. What are the scenarios toward deconstruction of the nuclear establishment?"

Cynthia Jurs -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 10, 2010

More than twenty years ago, Cynthia Jurs of Chupadero, New Mexico, traveled up the mountains of Tibet to consult with a 106-year-old monk about what she could do to help heal an ailing world.  She was instructed to plant earth healing vases in hot spots around the world. Months later, the vases had been made in Tibet and delivered to her home in New Mexico where they sat on a shelf for some years while Cynthia tried to think what to do with them. But then she began to plant them in places all around the world from the Antarctic to Thaliand, and finally in Africa, in Liberia. With her on this program are a former Liberian general, Christian Bethelson, and a member of the Liberian group Everyday Gandhis, William Jacobs who lead us through the inspirational burial of the Earth Treasure Vase in a small Liberian village as a healing from the long civil war in that country.

Courtney Martin -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on July 3, 2010

Courtney Martin, author, feminist, blogger and inspiration to other young women, shares her views on what it means to be a professional career woman and a person of spirit and heart at the same time, how she deals with societal expectations of success and her own learnings from failure, or what she calls "the good failure." She has written of the inspirational lives of activists and is widely celebrated for her own secret creative philanthropy, her "secret agents" of giving.

Richard Wilkinson -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on June 26, 2010

Richard Wilkinson has pulled together facts from around the world to create a compelling case that a whole array of society's ills can be traced to one factor: the extent of the gap between the very richest and the remainder of the community. Teen age pregnancy, obesity, a sense of well being and happiness, drug use, prison enrollment and many more factors all point to the conclusion that the wealth gap is not only associated with these problems but is actually causal. It is no surprise that the United States is second only to Singapore as the worst among developed nations in the way of this wealth gap and has the prison enrollment, obesity and unhappiness levels to prove it.

Grove Burnett -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on June 19, 2010

Grove Burnett is a distinguished trial lawyer who turned his life to teaching meditation and mindfulness and the training of the mind to the experience of personal freedom, relieved of resistance and opened to creativity. He explores the tradition of Buddhism and its intersection with western religious and technological traditions, including psychotherapy, all of which provide a new platform for wholeness.

Ben Barber -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on June 12, 2010

Ben Barber is one of our country's leading teachers, advocates, and theorists of civil society and what it must do to survive in a globalized world dominated by multi-national corporations. He has been honored by governments a knighthood from France, the Berlin Prize, writes for Harpers and the Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of Jihad vs. McWorld and Strong Democracy, and a total of 17 books. He discusses how Americans can move forward today.

Jonathan Schell -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on June 5, 2010

Jonathan Schell, author of The Unconquerable World, traces the remarkable success of non violence toward the end of history's most violent century. How did the Czechs and the Poles unseat the world's most oppressive empire? What does it mean to 'live in truth?' Vacslav Havel and Adam Michnik come alive in this conversation with one of America's most eloquent and compelling voices.

Craig Barnes and David Buck -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on May 29, 2010

"The Corporations are Coming" is the title of a talk by Craig Barnes broadcast today spelling out the requirement for a new concept in American governance because corporations today have the power to control sovereign states and are as increasingly beyond the reach of democratic processes. In the second half of the program Craig discusses China developments with long time China scholar professor David Buck and the conversation ranges into the US National Security Strategy that now must concentrate more upon developing our internal strengths because our international leverage in places like North Korea and Pakistan, China and Iran, is increasingly limited.

Michael Wilcox -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on May 22, 2010

We are usually taught that disease and acculturation either took out, or caused the blending in, of Native Americans, and that the “true” Indians have been “lost.”  Not so, says professor Michael Wilcox of Stanford University’s Anthropology Department in his new book, The Pueblo Revolt. That revolt of 1680, famous to New Mexicans as the most successful revolt by indigenous populations of any in US history, had far more to do with brutality, slavery, and forced extermination of Native religions than with those more neutral causes. Here is the history of the colonization of the West revisited by a scholar who is himself a descendant of Yuma Indians.

John Bonifaz -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on May 15, 2010

The corporate rights doctrine that has come to dominate American politics and led to this year’s Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court has led at last to the need to amend the US Constitution, according to John Bonifaz of FreeSpeechforPeople.org. The whys, wherefores, precedents and possibilities of that amendment are discussed by a lawyer from the front lines.

Robert Watson -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on May 8, 2010

Robert Watson has made the study of the American presidency his career and appeared on radio and TV hundreds of times analyzing them all from Lincoln to Truman to Obama. In this conversation he states unequivocally, citing chapter and verse, that Barack Obama is “most hardworking, most transparent president in American history."

Geoffrey West -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on May 2, 2010

Geoffrey West, a world renowned physicist at Los Alamos National Labs and formerly the head of the Santa Fe Institute, has turned his attention in recent years to the application of complexity theory to cities, discovering that the larger the cities, the greater the creativity, innovation and efficiencies of scale while at the same time, in exactly the same proportion, the greater the incidence of crime, disease and dysfunction. In this conversation he seeks a larger theory to explain it all.

The Santa Fe Girls School -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 24, 2010

Drop out rates in high schools in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are consistently above 50%. Urban schools around the country are similarly troubled and at the same time budget deficits are leading school administrations to try to increase efficiencies by consolidating schools, making class rooms larger.  Fred Nathan of Think New Mexico and Lee Lewin and Will Barnes of the Santa Fe Girls School discuss the great advantages of small schools and the need to resist the trend to larger and larger factories of education.

Jensine Larsen -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 17, 2010

Imagine a woman in villages of Guatemala able to ask a woman in Nepal, “How did you handle the threats of attack from those men?” and getting an immediate personal response: “This is what we have done about violence in our village; let us know how it works for you.”  If a world-wide movement of women ever happens this is how it will happen and Jensine Larsen’s Worldpulse network will have been at the root of it. Listen to Jensine describe how she has put thousands of women in conversation the world over.

David Buck -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 10, 2010

China has exploded from the backwater in history to the most energetic, expanding economy on the planet, building super highways, universities, and manufacturing industries to rival any in the West. In this program David Buck, a former professor of Chinese history expresses his awe and our common surprise at the sudden rise of this new superpower.

Sam & Jean Guyton -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on April 3, 2010

Can a great law firm pioneer philanthropy? Learn how Sam and Jean Guyton bring a new sense of community to one of the West's prominent law firms and then move out as new teams of volunteers to feed people, build houses, offer scholarships and even outfit a Mississippi school, an example of how the inspiration of one couple can transform communities all around them.

Stephen Batchelor -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 27, 2010

Digging deep into ancient Pali writings, Stephen Batchelor has uncovered a view of the teachings of the Buddha that do not fully accord with doctrinaire Buddhism and here he gives a Western audience a window into his discoveries. Batchelor is the author of the newly published Confession of a Buddhist Atheist in which he shares his life's journey from hippie to Tibetan, to Zen, to lay Buddhist practitioner, living and teaching today with his wife Martine in France.

Len & Libby Traubman -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 20, 2010

Len and Libby Traubman decided to change the world by having dinners in their homes. During the Cold War they invited a Russian poet; although they could neither speak Russian nor could the poet speak English. That went so surprisingly well that they initiated a program of dinner dialogues between Jews and Palestinians. That was 18 years ago; the dinners are still going on and the program that they founded is now going viral across the country.

Mel Duncan -> Listen

Aired on KSFR 101.1 FM on March 6, 2010

Mel Duncan, the founder of the Nonviolent Peaceforce, has led unarmed civilians into desperate situations from Mindinao to Sri Lanka to the Sudan and discusses the training for, and the power of, non-violent relationship building in areas of armed conflict.

Jerome Bernstein

Aired on October 17, 2009

Jerome Bernstein, Jungian psychologist, digs into the sources of fury and rage in American politics, the personality "splitting" that causes fear and anger to burst to the surface and tear asunder the social contract.