Today’s Guests:
– YES! Magazine editor SARAH van GELDER on food, weapons, & transformational stories
– Doctors Without Borders physician and poet DR. FADY JOUDAH
(Three ways to listen — see below)
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<> 6:00 pm CDT — YES! Magazine editor SARAH van GELDER on food, weapons, & transformational stories
YES! Magazine co-founder and executive editor SARAH van GELDER joins Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson at the top of the hour today.
As people are rioting in a number of countries around the globe, a 50-country summit is set to gather in Rome this week to discuss ways of helping millions of people avoid starvation. The summit will be hosted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. We’ll ask Sarah about food issues, something she’s been focusing on for some time.
We’ll also ask her about her recent interview with former Secretary of State George Schultz about the possibility of a worldwide ban on nuclear weapons (discussed in the article “No Nuclear Weapons, YES! Magazine, Summer 2008). And, we’ll ask her about the power of transformational stories, which her magazine helps find and share.
Since its founding in 1996, YES! has taken on such issues as restorative justice as an alternative to prisons, sustainable food and agriculture, nonviolence and active peacemaking, courage, water, work and vocation, education, and life-sustaining economics. Sarah is a founder and co-chair of Suquamish Olalla Neighbors, an organization of people from the Tribal and non-Tribal communities living in the area, which is west of Seattle. Sarah is the mother of two teenage children, and has lived in India, China, and Central America. She was a founding member of one of North America’s first co-housing communities, and previously helped establish a cooperative of food co-ops to link organic farmers to urban markets.
WEBSITES:
YES! Magazine: Journal of Positive Futures http://www.yesmagazine.org
YES! Magazine: Journal of Positive Futures http://www.yesmagazine.org
SARAH’s blog: http://www.yesmagazine.org/svgblog
BOOKS by Sarah:
(co-edited) Making Peace, a compilation of articles from YES! issues
Saying YES! !
(co-edited) Making Peace, a compilation of articles from YES! issues
Saying YES! !
QUOTE: Lester Brown, of the Earth Policy Institute: “The amount of corn needed to fill up an SUV with ethanol would feed someone for a year.”
<> 6:20 pm CDT — Headlines, along with KPFT Manager Duane Bradley’s thank you’s for pledge drive
<> 6:40 pm CDT — Doctors Without Borders physician and poet DR. FADY JOUDAH
Our second guest tonight will be interviewed by Monitor guest host Seema Jilani. Dr. Jilani, a local pediatrics resident, has been a reporter for Pacifica radio and KPFT in Houston for seven years, with a prestigious Peabody nomination to her credit.
Our guest DR. FADY JOUDAH, the son of Palestinian refugees, is currently an Emergency Room physician at Houston’s VA Hospital. He has completed two six month tours with Doctors Without Borders helping refugees in both Zambia and in Darfur.
Dr. Joudah is the first physician and first Arab-American to win 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, the oldest literary prize in the U.S., for The Earth in the Attic, released in April 2008. His poetry has appeared in Poetry magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Drunken Boat, Prairie Schooner and Crab Orchard. Joudah’s translations of the preeminent Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s recent work in the fall of 2006 went onto become critically acclaimed worldwide (The Butterfly’s Burden, Copper Canyon Press).
BOOKS:
The Earth in the Attic
The Butterfly’s Burden
