Apocalyptic Supper Club

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Are you checking out from the news? Feeling depressed and overwhelmed about the American political situation? Want to put your head in the sand? Welcome to the Apocalyptic Supperclub: Nourishment for Dire Times where I plate up stories and ideas to feed the heart and soul and nourish our capacity to meet this very challenging moment of being alive in a drastically changing world.

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Episodes 10

Compassion, Connection, and Bridge Building: Recipes for Societal Transformation with Tenzin Chogki
16d ago
Tenzin Chogki is a compassion educator, community leader, and a fiercely caring advocate for social justice. She dropped into the Apocalyptic Supperclub to share some of her tasty recipes for delicious change following our three activisms for societal transformation: Inner, Communal, & Strategic. Learn more about Tenzin’s work here: Unlocking True Happiness. Tenzin Chogkyi (she/her/hers) is a teacher of workshops and programs that bridge the worlds of Buddhist thought, contemplative practice, compassion training, mental and emotional cultivation, and the latest research in the field of positiv
The Triangle of change: A Three-Course Menu for Societal Transformation
1mo ago
History, math, and myth all tell us the same thing: breakthroughs happen in threes. From the Holy Trinity to the perfect stability of a tripod, a trio is a compelling foundation for change. This episode of the Apocalyptic Supperclub serves up the three core themes that spur on societal transformation: inner work, the rebuilding of kinship ties, and skillful strategic action. You’ll meet guests that I have interviewed over the years whose work and ideas reflect the triplet of ideas that inspire this show. Featuring Mindfulness teacher Lee Klinger Lesser, Poet Kai Siedenburg, Queen Reverend Muti
What the Yellow Vests of France Can Teach U.S. about Reclaiming Power
2mo ago
Are you tired of being a spectator to history? Ordinary people are often trapped on a political pendulum—swinging back and forth between partisan headlines while the fundamental power of big money stays exactly the same. On the Apocalyptic Supperclub, we look at what breaks the pendulum with legendary urban anthropologist Ida Susser who has spent 50 years embedded in global resistance movements—from 1970s Brooklyn to South African AIDS activism, and now the roundabouts of France where thousands of ordinary people joined together to shift the balance of power. Ida Susser’s latest book, The Yell
Finding Stability in an Unstable World: Returning to our Senses with Lee Klinger Lesser
3mo ago
When the headlines feel like a storm, our natural instinct is to tighten up, tune out, or burn out, but teacher and author Lee Klinger Lesser suggests a different way to stay fed and focused. For more than fifty years Lee Lesser has been helping people find their center of gravity and embodied purpose through tuning into sensory awareness practices. Now she distills her years of teaching and life experience into her book Return to our senses: A path to stability in an unstable world. This show dives into the essential connection between our inner state and our outward action, because if we’re
EveryLibrary transforms outrage into action on behalf of libraries
4mo ago
Checking out from the news? Feeling overwhelmed about the American political situation? Want to put your head in the sand? Join Christine Barrington for the Apocalyptic Supperclub where she serves up stories to whet the appetite for the politically possible in these dire times. The April episode features the organization EveryLibrary, A 501(c)4 non-profit fighting to protect libraries and librarians by empowering American citizens to stand up for the freedom to read across the nation. In the face of rapidly evolving assaults to our library and information systems, citizens need resources and s
Practicing Courageous Citizenship to Bridge Political Divides with Braver Angels
5mo ago · 57:00
Have your relationships with friends or family been negatively aﬀected by politics? In a recent worldwide survey, the United States was the only country to say that most of our fellow citizens are “bad people.” In America, the politics of contempt have reached Olympian levels, but this episode of the Apocalyptic Supperclub highlights one organization bold enough to take on the challenge of healing that divide. Braver Angels leans into the spirit of President Lincoln’s first inaugural address when he urged us to remember the angels of our better nature. It is the nation’s largest cross-partisan
Ground Truth: Swing Left’s Game-Changing New Canvassing Program
6mo ago
Feeling overwhelmed and discouraged about our present political reality? Don’t believe you can make an impact? This episode will be medicine for your citizen heart, because Swing Left empowers you to be an effective agent of political change. What if winning back power comes down to simply changing the way we talk to voters? What if campaigns knocked on every door, asked open-ended questions about voters perceptions and needs, and then listened with curiosity and non-judgement? Sound revolutionary? Well it is, and it’s what Swing Left is up to right now. This episode of The Apocalyptic Supperc
ARRT’s Puppets of Protest: Communal Art as Activism
7mo ago
Join the art activists of ARRT (Artists Respond and Resist Together) in Santa Cruz, California on their journey to create a troupe of giant puppets to amplify protest voices on the streets as people gather in ever larger numbers to resist this current administration. Their adventure involved five teams, six months of work, mishaps, a bit of mayhem and, most of all, joyous creation. KSQD joined them all along the way to reveal how working in community inspires our capacity to respond and resist resiliently. With a society that profits from you, being stuck on devices, giving your attention to a
Apocalyptic Supperclub: Red Wine and Blue’s Rich Resources To Feed Your Activist Soul!
7mo ago
If you feel overwhelmed and discouraged about what is happening in this country and don’t believe you can make an impact, this show about Red Wine+Blue will offer you good medicine, and, direct ways to see how you can take a stand, make a difference, and even experience joy while creating potent political change. Once a loose consortium of mid-western suburban women, Red Wine + Blue is now a national political organizing platform founded by political veteran and media expert, Katie Paris. Today it boasts nearly 700,000 members, and it’s growing every day. Why? Because Red Wine + Blue is intell
Apocalyptic Supperclub: Ripples of Hope
10mo ago
Welcome back to the club! Right now your heart may be aching or your cynicism rising. You may be tempted to check out or lash out, but I want to assure you that together, with enough of us involved, we can blow open the doors of possibility, and my guests help show us how. This episode features a couple who have been educators and activists their entire lives. Larry Jones and Marilyn Green are the kind of people who move unseen through history and have made things better for the rest of us through effort, advocacy and a relentless dedication to humanitarian ideals. This show is all about love–