DISOBEDIENT

This was one of the more sobering interviews I've produced. Silicon Valley tech veteran and freedom lover, Aman Jabbi, delivers his in-depth Power Point presentation on the unfolding and seemingly irresistible tide of digital surveillance and growth of the AI mind amid the massive, and rapidly expanding data gathering landscape. Solutions and methods of avoidance are out there but our opportunities to cut the head off this tec...

Reese Perry is the perfect example of what happens when an overbearing and corrupt government in collusion with it's anonymous corporate accomplices decide they're going to come between a Mom and her children and bring harm to them.  

Reese is an indefatigable and powerful patriot warrior in her community in western NY state.  She and her fellow community patriots have joined forces to make effective change in he...

Julianne Romanello is a mother of four and an independent scholar whose academic research interests include the life and writings of Eric Voegelin, Plato, and Kierkegaard. A PhD, she has taught at several colleges and universities near her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, most recently at the University of Tulsa.  Julianne's research has focused on the corporate takeover of higher education and the development of the &...

Tricia Lindsay is an attorney from the NYC area and gained a dose of well-deserved fame for here fiery speech before a demonstration of protesters on a frigid February afternoon in Albany, NY.  She and the thousands gathered that day were seeking redress from a state government which, like the Federal government "above" it, had been trampling Constitutional rights with the pronouncement of ordinances and mandates that hav...

Cindy Niles is an activist working to educate people about the juggernaut of digitization that is taking place under our noses.  She lives in the state of Victoria, Australia where it appears much of the beta testing of these technocratic control systems has been occurring with an authoritarian brutality.  A surveillance & control apparatus that is being rolled out under the guise of Smart Cities and remote learning.  Facial re...

Nancie Orticelli is a fierce and persistent fighter for individual liberties and holding government accountable to the Constitution and all of our God-given rights.  She is a principle founder and leader of The Constitutional Coalition of NYS; a group dedicated to "informing, updating and alerty as many citizens" and "encouraging everyone to help spread the word, open eyes and engage!"

We had a wide ran...

*Due to technical difficulties beyond my paltry  abilities to rectify, today's sequel installment of this series was cut short and I'll likely be issuing a Part 2a soon.  Sorry about that!! :)

I pick up, more or less, where we left off on the back-story of Peak Oil and begin the process of attempting to tie this massive global phenomenon into what is transpiring across the globe by way of the "pandemic"...

After a bit of time off, we're back in the saddle doing what we do best: being disobedient.

This week, and likely for the next few episodes, I'll be flying solo talking about my own particular view on what's happening "out there" and, more importantly, the context within which these ever stranger and momentous events are occurring. 

Specifically, this week, I broach the subject of Peak Oil...

Roxanne Gupta is a retired professor of Anthropology & Religious Studies whose life experiences are not only widely varied and unique but consistently outside the norms of convention.  At a young age, Roxanne ventured to far-away India and quickly embraced its culture and people; becoming proficient in Indian classical dance and yoga. 

Our conversation ventured into some of the deeper philosophical and social dynamics ...

Sean Dembrosky is the creator of Edible Acres, a Permaculture nursery and forest farming research space just north of Ithaca, NY.  He and his wife, Sasha are engaged in the enterprise of "regenerative agriculture" and represent the kind of pioneering spirit that shows the way to a different, more sustainable way of living on and in the landscape.  

Sean frames his brand of disobedience in way that isn't so m...

This week I sat down and had a conversation with long-time activist, videographer and photographer, Bob Nilsson.  Bob was on the ground engaged in doing whatever he could to resist the arrival of Fracking (hyrdo-fracking gas drilling) into NY state and, more specifically, his neck of the woods of The Finger Lakes region.  

We chat about what got him started down that path and what he brought to the struggle.  Bob recognize...

This week we had a really inspiring conversation with Kathy Breen.  Kathy has, for decades, been relying on her intuition and gut instincts to forge a path that others just didn't understand or comprehend.  And, to this day, she continues to do so.  She's even the first to admit she doesn't fully understand why she does what she does or where the path she's on may lead.  And though it may be disobedient to the n...

I don't recall the last time I found myself involuntarily saying WOW! as often as I did in this truly inspirational conversation with Canadian freedom fighter, Jody Ledgerwood.  Like so many others, before the "pandemic" came along, Jody was living her life raising her kids, working at her business and doing the stuff of life.  Once the craziness of a Canadian government gone-wild sunk in, Jody knew she had to take m...

This episode of DISOBEDIENT we welcome guest Vera Scroggins.  Vera is located in northern Pennsylvania and played a very big role in her local community in giving voice to a resistance to the invasion-like eruption of hyrdo-fracking gas well drilling that descended on her rural area in the past decade. 

Our conversation broadened into a chat about the unfolding phenomenon that is "Covid" and the many parallels be...

Welcome to Disobedient!
Hey there, friends and neighbors, I'm your host, Peter Arena, and in this episode I introduce the inspiration for this podcast and where I hope to see it go in the future.  We'll be interviewing lots of amazingly interesting guests who, each in their own way, embody this idea of being Disobedient.  They're the people who are the trailblazers and unrepentant forgers of new paths in all area...