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New College of Florida Destroys Tree Preserve Amid Local Resistance

June 25, 2024Climate

A cherished coastal preserve is under attack by the campus administration that was appointed last year by Governor DeSantis in the right-wing takeover underway at New College of Florida. The…

Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from Tucson’s Poisoned Aquifer w/ Prof. Sunaura Taylor

June 6, 2024Climate, Peoples' History

In Tucson, Arizona, Cold War era war profiteer Hughes Aircraft polluted an aquifer with chemical waste from a manufacturing facility that poisoned the largely Mexican-American community and desert ecosystem living…

Memory Against Forgetting: The Story of Judi Bari w/ Earth First!er Karen Pickett

May 22, 2024Climate, Direct Action, Peoples' History

On May 24, 1990, a car bomb ripped through environmental and IWW labor organizer Judi Bari's car nearly killing her and her comrade Darryl Cherney. Bari and Cherney were part…

Will Climate Shocks Lead to Climate Action? w/ Prof. Dana R. Fisher

May 9, 2024Climate, Direct Action

The climate crisis is an existential threat that has led to an unraveling of our environmental and social fabric. Our political institutions continue to fail us in dealing with this…

From Alcatraz to Standing Rock… How Indigenous Action Builds People Power w/ Marty Aranaydo

April 22, 2024Climate, Direct Action, Peoples' History

In our latest, we deep dive into Indigenous organizing with long time organizer and trainer Marty Aranaydo (@williemaze). We discuss his direct action roots (going back before he was born!),…

“Forest Defense is Climate Defense”… Tree-Sit Staged in Southern Oregon to Resist Timber Sale

April 17, 2024Climate, Direct Action

Forest defenders have launched a tree sit to stop old growth logging on federal Bureau of Land Management land in Southern Oregon. Community members are opposing the Poor Windy timber…

How Labor and Climate Movements Are Building An Enduring Alliance w/ Jeff Ordower and Norman Rogers

March 27, 2024Climate, Labor

The bosses have long pitted workers against those fighting pollution, extraction and the climate crisis. As the climate crisis worsens, labor unions and environmentalists have begun to build important new…

How the FBI Began Its Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement w/ Journalist Adam Federman

March 13, 2024Climate

Newly obtained documents reveal that the U.S. government was monitoring environmental activists opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline far earlier than previously known. Young, Native activists were among the government’s…

I Voted for Joe Biden and All I Got was These Lousy Wars and More COVID

February 26, 2024Climate, Foreign Policy

In our latest, we talk about the two year anniversary of the beginning of the war in Ukraine. How COVID is worse than ever (it’s just no one is talking…

How Israel is Making Gaza Unlivable ft. Counterpunch’s Joshua Frank

February 21, 2024Climate, Foreign Policy

Israel’s genocide on Gaza has led to at least 30,000 dead (including 12,000 children). This past week, we saw the Israelis begin bombing on Rafah and a ground invasion of…