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Hosted by Ami Chen Mills · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 73 episodes
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Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills addresses the acute crises and opportunities of our day–from an emotional, spiritual and activist perspective. From attacks on democracy to racism and Christo-nationalism … to the climate and extinction crises, Moment of Truth sheds light on humanity’s need for spiritual and emotional growth and a recognition of our interdependence with Earth and on one another. Ami and her team speak with leading political and ecological thinkers and inspired spiritual teachers of our time with an emphasis on the BIPOC and the LGBTQ+ communities and women.
Ami Chen Mills hosts Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills, a society show with 73 episodes published.

In this episode of Moment of Truth, host Meilin Obinata interviews James Weller about his journey into activism and community service. In the Santa Cruz area, people have heard his name in connection with a variety of ca

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Ami Chen Mills continues an ongoing conversation about resiliency, wisdom and right action with the Reverend Elisha Christopher of the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Cruz, with a focus on “the Power of Presence.” W

Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of the Fierce Vulnerability Network, a founding core member of the Ahimsa Collective, a Jam facilitator and author of Healing

Ami Chen Mills hosts an in-depth conversation with two, beloved, local spiritual leaders, the Reverend Deborah Johnson, of Inner Light Ministries, and the Reverend Elisha Christopher, of the Center for Spiritual Living–b

What do Silicon Valley Tech oligarchs want from the rest of us? San Francisco and the East Bay have become a learning laboratory for studying the designs of billionaire tech executives on the nation and even the rest of

The Tech Bro Takeover of San Franciso, and the whole world, continues! … On our our last show, we circled back to the podcasters and journalists covering the Tech Broligarchy taking over San Francisco politics, and attem

Intrepid citizen journalists and campaign finance researchers have been tracking the rise of the tech-billionaire version of everyone’s favorite city by the Bay. With the election of new Mayor Daniel Lurie (heir to the L

This podcast was originally broadcast on Monday, Oct. 20, at 6pm for a Moment of Truth show featuring guests who share a critical, “neo-Luddite” perspective on our changing culture and technology. Moment of Truth and Har

This podcast was originally broadcast on Monday, Oct. 6, at 6pm for a Moment of Truth show featuring guests who share a critical, “neo-Luddite” perspective on our changing culture and technology. Moment of Truth and Hard

Donald Trump’s call to supporters to march on the Capitol on Jan. 6th in 2021 ended in a way that most of us who live in the United States, and perhaps around the world, will never forget. Our guest, Jason Riddle, was in

Aziz Abu Sarah is a Palestinian peace-builder, co-founder of InterAct International, author and mission-driven entrepreneur whose personal story of transformation began after the tragic loss of his older brother, who was

This show broadcasted live on Labor Day of 2025, the first day of Omar Dieguez‘s 30-day hunger strike to end the spraying of pesticides near Watsonville area schools. MOT host Ami Chen Mills and Dieguez are joined by Pro

On Monday, August 11, roughly 18 San Francisco Bay Area rabbis and cantors sat down in the street after speaking in front of the barricaded Israeli Consulate building, in opposition to Netanyahu’s plan to re-occupy the G

How have Christians–going back to Columbus–used religion, and especially the Book of Revelation, to frame migration and immigration both by colonists (to justify colonization and genocide) and by subsequent U.S. politica

On this episode of Moment of Truth, host Meilin Obinata introduces you to the Chair of the Housing Committee and District 10 California State Senator Aisha Wahab. In this housing-centric conversation, you’ll hear about h

Jamie Edwards, the first president of the independent union of workers at Trader Joe’s, Trader Joe’s United, returns to Moment of Truth for this conversation with host Meilin Obinata to discuss life after Trader Joe’s, a

The root of the word crisis comes from crise, the “decisive point in the progress of a disease, which indicates recovery or death,” also a “vitally important or decisive state of things, a point at which change must come

In this special audio release of Part I of Dr. George Pransky’s audio recording, “A Busy Mind,” Ami Chen Mills adds context and frames many of the world’s ills as related to the quality and speed of our collective thinki

This episode opens with Bruce Springsteen in Manchester, England, speaking about the Trump Administration, and then we dive into an interview with Indy Rishi Singh, championing a “doughnut economics” model in San Jose, C
Kazu Haga
author of Fierce Vulnerability
1 appearance on this show
Aziz Abu Sarah
Palestinian peace activist and author · InterAct International
1 appearance on this show
Maoz Inon
award winning Israeli peace activist and social entrepreneur
1 appearance on this show
Jamie Edwards
first president of the independent union of workers at Trader Joe’s · iamlostandfound.com
1 appearance on this show
Mark Howard
Discipleship happens in relationship · Fox cricket
1 appearance on this show
Kate Raworth
creator of Doughnut Economics
1 appearance on this show
Eric Blanc
author of “We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big”
1 appearance on this show
Malcolm Harris
Bestselling author of What’s Left
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Heather Rogers
Santa Cruz County Public Defender
1 appearance on this show
Ann Lopez
interior designer, speaker, business coach · Center for Farmworker Families
1 appearance on this show
Daniel Pinchbeck
philosopher, futurist, cultural critic, New York Times bestselling author, director of The Elevator, founder of Liminal News
1 appearance on this show
Angela Davis
activist, icon, revolutionary · Marine Toys for Tots Foundation
1 appearance on this show
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