S1E18 Protest Art, Climate Catastrophe, and Planting Seeds Of Change with Plaedo 9.5.17

Spoke with performance artist Plaedo about living in a climate change era, art as solace/art as weapon, CDs, societal collapse, denial, joyous rebellion, anarchist disaster relief, how art helps us remember the good things, symbolism, street theater, zipper songs, dance, leftist elitism, planting seed of change, small liberations, and listening to our inner voice. Notes: - The fires were really bad around Eugene at that time, and it was incredibly smoky for days. We were right in the worst of it when this was recorded. Multnomah falls did end up being saved though, although many other areas of the Columbia Gorge were totally devastated -I want to be clear that Ready To Die by Notorious BIG is one of the best albums of all time, like, not-get-my-CD-changer-fixed good -I believe Naomi Klein's prediction about a 50% chance of societal collapse if we didn't stop taking fossil fuels out of the ground by 2017 is from her book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" from 2014, but I can't verify -The saying "If you can talk you can sing, if you can walk you can dance" can be seen as ableist, we can all dance and sing! Referenced: Plaedo's website: https://plaedo.com/ An article about antifa disaster relief: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hurricane-harvey-antifa-texas-flooding-antifacist-storm-relief-efforts-a7921846.html Emma Goldman quote: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." 1000 Gestalten: Hamburg G20 Protest "zombie walk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV99jp897Cw Poem "Our Deepest Fear" by Marianne Williamson: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”