Author: Marianne Barisonek

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist who is not ready to give up on the future. Her book What if we got it right? Visions for the Future is filled with conversations, poetry and essays about the kind of world we could create. A world where we can all flourish. The interview will air […]

In her book Rooted Brea Baker looks at how land theft from black and indigenous people has shaped not only the economic landscape but also the natural environment. Baker makes a case for reparations based on documented cases where stolen land robbed not only the historical people involved but also robbed their descendants of generational […]

Zoe Weil has been a humane educator for decades. In her book The Solutionary Way she has developed a system for bridging divides, addressing the causes of complex and persistent problems and creating a framework for doing the most good and the least harm for people, animals and the environment. Listen in at 6:30 pm […]

Friday Aug. 2nd at 6:30 part 2 of a conversation with Jem Bendell will air on The Progressive Page Turner. In the first half we talked about what collapse looks like and how it might play out. The second half focuses more on how to respond. Dr. Bendell’s early career focused on mitigating the effects […]

PPT Episode 13 How could so many people get it so wrong? That’s the question Vincent Bevins answers in his book If We Burn Beginning in 2010 and lasting for a decade popular uprisings all over the world bround unprecedented numbers of people out in the streets. Images of repression and brutality, spread by social […]

Tune in to WSLR at 6:30 Friday June 21 or click on the link below to hear the latest episode of the Progressive Page Turner With the recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization revoking abortion protections, we are in a political moment in which adoption is, increasingly, being revealed as an institution […]

Tensions have been growing between Mainland China and Taiwan. Like a lot of current political situations it’s difficult to understand without historical context. My guest today is Eve J. Chung. Her book, Daughters of Shandong, is fiction but it’s based on her grandmother’s flight from Communist China to the Island of Taiwan. PPT: Episode 11

In this episode of The Progressive Page Turner we talk about the debut novel of Sadi Muktadir, Land of No Regrets, which follows four boys in an Islamic boarding school. The novel examines the meaning of friendship, the expectations of immigrants and the ways belief is tested. PPT: Episode 10