{"id":48679,"date":"2015-11-20T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48679"},"modified":"2015-11-19T21:47:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T04:47:59","slug":"plain-radical-living-loving-and-learning-to-leave-the-planet-gracefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/11\/20\/plain-radical-living-loving-and-learning-to-leave-the-planet-gracefully\/","title":{"rendered":"Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/09\/16\/kpfk-gm-leslie-radford-has-cut-uprisings-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">BANNED BROADCAST<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601503.us.archive.org\/19\/items\/uprising_2015_11_20\/Robert_Jensen_2015_11_20.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601503.us.archive.org\/19\/items\/uprising_2015_11_20\/uprising_2015_11_20.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Robert Jensen<\/strong> is a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He is the author of a number of books. His latest book is called &#8216;Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our society tends to glorify leaders, those who make a name for themself, who are front and center in movements for transformation. But there are countless nameless people who form the backbone of organizing work, who lead from behind-the-scenes, and transform those around them in ways that are hard to express. <\/p>\n<p>One such person was a man named Jim Koplin, an organizer in Minnesota who was involved in every major progressive movement in the last half of the 20th century. Koplin died in 2012, leaving behind a legacy that would have gone unnoticed on a national level if it weren&#8217;t for Robert Jensen, a regular guest on Uprising. Jensen has written a book about his decades long friendship with Jim Koplin called Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully. In it, he says Koplin was, &#8220;Not radical in the sense of dangerously extreme or a fanatical idealogue, but instead radical in its most basic meaning &#8211; going deep to the root of the problem.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANNED BROADCAST GUEST: Robert Jensen is a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He is the author of a number of books. His latest book is called &#8216;Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully.&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48680,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48679\/revisions\/48680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}