Listen to the replay at the link above (28 minutes, 57 seconds audio .mp3). Thank you. Vegan Nation features several current campaigns by activists (locally and internationally). September 3, 2024, 4 pm EDT, WCUW 91.3 FM wcuw.org/listen. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Music by Liedermacherin NETTE, Sherry Zitter, and Will Tuttle
Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events and interviews. On-Air weekly since 2015. Immediately following each week’s broadcast, stay tuned in to hear a rebroadcast of the previous week’s show. Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and your compassionate Vegan activism. PHOTOS Vegan Nation is in The LOBE! Vegan Nation archives: vegansradio.com.
Joining us on Sept 3, 2024, is Annette Rudert (Liedermacherin NETTE), a vegan singer/songwriter in Munich, Germany, discussing her upcoming (Sept 13th) music campaign,Gemusekind (benefit for 13 animal sanctuaries in Germany). After Annette’s interview, we’re joined by vegan animal activist, Srilata Thirunagari, in central Massachusetts. Srilata shares information about her volunteer activities with the local group, Postive Change for Animals (and their recentevent, Chalking for Animal Rights 2024, at Central Park, Clinton, Massachusetts). Srilata also tells us about her volunteer work with Supreme Master Television. Following Srilata’s interview, Marlene shares news of Northern Vegan’s (located in UP, Michigan) free (offer open until Sept 20th) vegan online course (by Dr. Will Tuttle), World Peace Diet Facilitator TrainingProgram.
Listen to the replay at the link above (28 minutes, 45 seconds audio .mp3). Thank you.
Vegan Nation interview (Part 2) with Dr. Will Tuttle, discussing his new book, Food for Freedom: Reclaiming our Health and Rescuing Our World. (“Tortoise” by Madeleine Tuttle) Music: “Alive”, “FishSong”, “CalveSong”, “From the Mountain Top” by Will Tuttle(Madeleine on silver flute); and “Leader” by Vegan Queen V.
Part 1 Replay (28 minutes, 35 seconds audio .mp3):
Tune in Tuesday, August 27, 2024, 4 PM EDT. Vegan Nation WCUW 91.3 FM. Listen online at: wcuw.org/listen. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Archives: vegansradio.com PHOTOS Vegan Nation is in The LOBE!
Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events, and interviews. On-Air since 2015. Much thanks for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, free speech, and your compassionate Vegan activism. Stay tuned in…immediately following each show is a rebroadcast of the previous week’s show.
During the second half of this Aug 27th show, Marlene shared a short snippet of a recent quote by Dr. Will Tuttle (8/19/24). Here’s the full quote (audio transcript):
“In the Buddhist tradition, it’s well understood that there are…we don’t call them Commandments but it’s precepts not to kill not to harm not to steal not to abuse sexually abuse others; and in the Buddhist tradition, it’s not confined to humans. It’s very specific that it’s all sentient beings. So in the Buddhist tradition, when the Buddha brought this tradition…when he had his Enlightenment experience 500 BC in India, it was really a reform movement in India and moved the entire subcontinent of India away from meat eating and away from animal sacrifices toward vegetarianism, and when it spread to Eastern Asia like to China and to the Eastern Asia where they didn’t do dairy, it just basically introduced veganism into the world for the first time. When I was a Zen Buddhist monk in Korea, I was in a monastery that had been practicing vegan living for 850 years – no meat no dairy no eggs no wool no silk no leather no killing of insects – the whole thing is based on ahimsa. Ahimsa is the Sanskrit word that means nonviolence, and the whole idea is that if we’re really serious about Spiritual Awakening, we’re not going to be needlessly abusing other living beings in any way, and that that’s really the foundation of spiritual maturity, of moral morality, and of a society where peace and Justice and freedom are actually possible. So it’s really hardwired into the Buddhist teaching – nonviolence and what we would call today veganism. There was an old word in Japanese, Shojin, which means refraining from eating animal foods for ethical reasons, right, it’s basically…this is an ancient teaching; it goes way back before we coined the word vegan. In the Buddhist tradition, it goes way back, so it’s foundational really to the Buddhist practice. It doesn’t mean everybody does it. Buddhism has been strongly influenced by the West and has been pushed away from these teachings, but foundationally it’s…it is kind of baked into Buddhism.
One of the ideas in the Buddhist tradition is getting away from the idea of Good and Evil and more toward the idea of skillful and unskillful actions; and the basic idea is that unskillful actions lead to suffering for oneself and others, that all life is completely interconnected, and whatever we sow, we’re going to reap. This is a foundational teaching in the Buddhist tradition. So there’s also reincarnation or the idea of rebirth, that whatever we…whatever seeds we sow, we’re going to experience in future lifetimes. So if we’re going to insist on being an agent of violence and abuse toward other sensient beings, then we will experience that ourselves. So there’s this sense of it’s unskillful because it causes more suffering to myself, it reduces my spiritual capacity, and it causes suffering to others; and there’s one life living through all of us, so that basic idea goes contrary. And skillful actions essentially are in alignment with what’s called Dharmata – is the way the universe is. It’s one life living through all of us…we…there’s no fundamentally separate self. In Buddhism, we are all expressions of a life, so this…this body is not what we are…we have. That’s the delusion. So when we see others merely as a physical object, like when we see a cow just as something to be used, that’s a delusion that’s unskillful and it causes suffering. So the whole idea is in Buddhism to come back to our wisdom, our true nature, which is wise and awake. It’s fundamentally a very positive, optimistic view; and then to live that way skillfully with compassion for all…” – Dr. Will Tuttle
Listen to the replay at the link above (29 minutes, 2 seconds audio .mp3). Thank you. Vegan Nation features an interview with Rev. Carol Saunders, founder/organizer of “A World That Works For All” Whole Planet Spirituality Forum & Retreat, and WPSFR keynote speaker, John Pierre. WolfAndTheLamb.com – “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.” Image (modified): thespiritualforum.com/retreat. Art by Frits Ahlefeldt
Tune in Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 4 PM EDT, WCUW 91.3 FM. Listen online: wcuw.org/listen. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA vegansradio.com (archives). Music: “Generate Love” by Charity and the JAMband; and “How Beautiful We Are” by Sally Zito.
Thank you so much for tuning in. And thank you for your compassionate Vegan activism. Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events and interviews. On-Air since 2015. Stay tuned in ~ immediately following each week’s show, there’s a rebroadcast of the previous week’s show. Vegan Nation is in The LOBE! PHOTOS
Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events, and interviews. On-Air since 2015. Broadcasting every Tuesday – stay tuned in from 4 pm to 5 pm. Immediately following each week’s broadcast, there is a rebroadcast of the previous week’s show. Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and your compassionate Vegan activism. Vegan Nation is in The LOBE! PHOTOS Vegan Nation archives
DR. WILL TUTTLE: A visionary speaker, educator, author, and musician, he’s a former Zen monk with a Ph.D. from U.C., Berkeley, and a vegan since 1980. In addition to his most recent book, Food For Freedom, he is the author of the 2005 book, The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony. He is also editor of Circles of Compassion and Buddhism and Veganism, and author of Your Inner Islands, and other books, and recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award and the Empty Cages Prize. He has appeared in hundreds of radio, television, print, and online interviews, as well as documentary films, including Cowspiracy;Christspiracy, Prayer for Compassion;HOPE: What You Eat Matters; Vegan: Everyday Stories; and Animals and the Buddha.
Since 1985, Dr. Tuttle has delivered 4,000+ live audience presentations encouraging compassion and vegan living, in over 50 countries worldwide and in all 50 U.S. states.
Listen to the replay at the link above (28 minutes, 50 seconds audio .mp3). Thank you. Vegan Nation features an interview with vegan author, nutritionist, health coach, sound therapist, and Celtic harpist, Kate Kunkel. Kate joins us from Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador. Tune in Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 4 pm EDT (4 pm to 4:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time). WCUW 91.3 FM Listen online: wcuw.org/listen Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Vegan Nation archives: vegansradio.com
Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events, and interviews. On-Air since 2015. Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and your compassionate Vegan activism. PHOTOS Kate Kunkel – IG @ Dementia Prevention Specialist. Music in this Aug 6th broadcast includes: “Gabriel’s Lullaby” on Celtic Harp by Kate Kunkel; and also “Fishsong” by Will Tuttle.
Kate Kunkel turned her mother’s tragic illness and death from dementia into her mission in life. When she learned that this and most dementias were preventable, Kate expanded her healing work as a sound therapist and vegan nutritionist and became both an Amen Certified Brain Health professional and an Apollo ReCode (Dr. Dale Bredesen) coach.
Now, through personal coaching, group programs and in her books, Kate helps people take action to remedy the mental and physical health issues that can threaten their ability to learn, remember, make good decisions and enjoy life.
Listen to the replay at the link above (29 minutes, 1 second audio .mp3). Thank you.
VEGAN NATION In-Studio Interview with vegan entrepreneur, Ken King, Waves Dairy-Free Soft-Serve, in Massachusetts. Tune in Tuesday! July 30, 2024. 4 pm EDT. WCUW 91.3 FM Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Listen online: wcuw.org/listen. Vegan Nation archives: vegansradio.com. Conversation includes WAVES first year anniversary, various soft-serve products, upcoming events & festivals in Massachusetts, and some of Ken’s interesting experiences, in the community, with the service of his WAVES Dairy-Free Soft-Serve truck.
Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events, and interviews. On-Air since 2015. Music in this July 30th broadcast includes: “Plant Milk” by Charity and the JamBand; and “Cowsong” and “Calvesong” by Will Tuttle. Stay tuned in Tuesdays 4 PM to 5 PM (One Hour). Immediately following each broadcast, hear a rebroadcast of the previous week’s show. Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and your compassionate Vegan activism. Vegan Nation is in The LOBE! PHOTOS (Poster photo: WAVES at Whitin Reservoir, Douglas, Massachusetts)
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Vegan, environmentalist & musician, Tom Grotewohl joins us from the Porcupine Mountains (“the Porkies”) Upper Peninsula, Michigan, for a Vegan Nation interview. Includes songs by Tom with his partner, Sol Anzorena (vegan). Tune in July 23, 2024, 4 PM EDT. WCUW 91.3 FM. Listen worldwide online: wcuw.org/listen.
Tom Grotewohl is the founder of ProtectThePorkies, a campaign and petition opposing the proposed Copperwood Mine in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, a metallic sulfide mine which would store 30+ million tons of toxic waste at the juncture of Lake Superior, the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness, and the North Country Trail. A 20-year vegan, Tom sees environmental activism as a logical extension of his vegan ethics, and vice-versa. Tom’s email: protecttheporkies@gmail.com (Photo: Lake Superior by Sol)
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Listen to the replay at the link above (28 minutes, 47 seconds audio .mp3). Thank you.
Vegan Nation interview with Vegan Queen V (Jen Armstrong), human rights and animal rights singer songwriter in England UK. Includes songs (The Power, Only One Life, and Awake) from her debut album ‘Freedom Warrior’ (2022). She is currently recording her second album; and this interview includes the song, Mother Nature’s Conversations. We discuss many other interesting topics also. July 16, 2024.
WCUW 91.3 FM. Listen online at: wcuw.org/listen 4 PM Eastern Daylight Time. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Vegan Nation archives: vegansradio.com. Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and your compassionate Vegan activism.
Stay tuned in Tuesdays 4 pm to 5 pm EDT. Immediately following each broadcast, there’s a rebroadcast of the previous week’s show. Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show, On-Air since 2015, featuring vegan music, news, events, and interviews. Vegan Nation is in The LOBE! PHOTOS (Photo: Vegan Queen V at Isle of Lewis, Scotland)
Listen to the replay at the link above (29 minutes, 58 seconds audio .mp3). Thank you.
Joining us from Sydney, Australia, Vegan Psychologist Clare Mann, discusses help available for vegans, including her free 3-Day Vystopia Recovery Masterclasses. A lively, robust conversation! Vegan Nation ~ Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 4 PM EDT. WCUW 91.3 FM Listen worldwide online at: wcuw.org/listen. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Archives: vegansradio.com. July 9th Vegan Nation includes music by Alais Clay (feat. Prezence); and also original piano music by Will Tuttle.
Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events, and interviews. On-Air since 2015. Tune in 4 pm to 5 pm EDT. Immediately following each show, hear a rebroadcast of the previous week’s show. Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and your compassionate Vegan activism. Vegan Nation is in The LOBE! PHOTOS
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Miss Liberty The Movie is a first-of-its-kind family feature film (in development). Joining us for an interview from New York City is Victoria Moran (Co-screenwriter & Co-producer), and also Carlos Garcia (Development Coordinator). Tune in Tuesday, July 2, 2024! WCUW 91.3 FM. Listen worldwide online at: wcuw.org/listen 4 PM Eastern Daylight Time. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Music in this Vegan Nation July 2nd broadcast is by Nellie McKay. (Image credit: misslibertythemovie.com – Real Pie Digital)
Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events, and interviews. Stay tuned in Tuesdays from 4 pm to 5 pm EDT. Immediately following each show is a rebroadcast of the previous week’s show. Vegan Nation archives: vegansradio.com. Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and your compassionate Vegan activism. PHOTOS
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