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• The Winnemem Wintu: Bringing the Salmon Home
  Posted on February 13, 2020 | No Comments

  EcoJustice Radio speaks with Chief Caleen Sisk, the Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, whose ancestral territory includes what is now known as the McCloud River watershed below “Buliyum Puyuk” aka. Mt. Shasta in Northern California.

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• Why Fish Farming is Not Sustainable Nor Healthy
  Posted on February 1, 2020 | No Comments

  Watch the documentary, 'Fillet Oh Fish!' - With wild salmon threatened throughout the world, aquaculture unfortunately creates significant pollution and toxic fillets.

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• Wet’suwet’en Chiefs Battle Coastal GasLink ‘Invasion’ in B.C.
  Posted on January 28, 2020 | No Comments

  Check out this short film on the ongoing struggle of the Unist’ot’en Camp of the Wet’suwet’en Nation to reoccupy their lands and stop pipeline construction. The battle against a natural-gas project appears set to enter a new phase after a British Columbia Supreme Court injunction and the Premier’s pledge that the project will go ahead.

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• Passive-Solar Greenhouse-Wrapped Nature House in Sweden
  Posted on January 26, 2020 | No Comments

  In 1974, architect Bengt Warne designed the prototype for a greenhouse home to deal with the cold winters in Sweden. Rather than converting an existing structure and moving inside it, he built a normal house -- and then encasing it in glass -- a Nature House (or "Naturhus" ). Inspired by these designs, a family has created a home near Stockholm integrated with the elements of earth, water, air, and fire. The electricity bills have been cut in half, heated by an eco-friendly wood-burning oven and a hot water masonry heater. The greenhouse also shelters Mediterranean-style gardens that couldn't survive the Swedish seasons -- figs, kiwi, peaches, wine grapes, etc.

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• Palm Oil and Orangutans – The Oily Truth & What We Can Do
  Posted on January 23, 2020 | No Comments

  On this EcoJustice Radio episode, we discuss what is happening in Indonesia and elsewhere around Palm Oil extraction, expansion, and exploitation. Our guest has been involved with orangutans for 46 years and has been working tirelessly to secure and protect the orangutan populations through creating more regenerative and equitable solutions around Palm Oil production.

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• Martin Luther King: Peace and Civil Rights Must Mix
  Posted on January 22, 2020 | 1 Comment

  For Dr. Martin Luther King, civil rights and economic justice were his most important issues. He also became a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War. We play his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, which he delivered at New York City’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, as well as his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” that he gave on April 3, 1968, the night before he was assassinated. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. 

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• Indigenous Legacy: Intergenerational Wisdom for our Times
  Posted on December 30, 2019 | No Comments

  Hear Tina and Jessa Calderon, mother and daughter duo representing the Gabrielino Tongva and Ventureño Chumash Nations, share their personal experiences, stories and insights regarding growing up as indigenous women on their Native lands.

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• The Power of Youth-Led Activism: Inspiring Change and Building Community
  Posted on December 19, 2019 | No Comments

  On this episode of EcoJustice Radio, we discuss the power of youth-led activism and how our guest is helping to inspire change and build community. We welcome 19-year-old Youth Environmental Activist and one of the lead organizers for Youth Climate Strike LA, Kevin Patel.

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• Wixárika/Huichol People: Protecting Sacred Lands of Mexico
  Posted on December 10, 2019 | 1 Comment

  In this EcoJustice Radio episode, we discuss the struggle to protect the sacred lands and culture of the Wixárika people, also known popularly as the Huichol, an indigenous group inhabiting the remote reaches of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico. Our guests are Andrea Perez, Indigenous Environmental Justice Advocate, and Susana Valadez Director of the Huichol Center for Cultural Survival and Traditional Arts. Jessica Aldridge did the interview.

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• Samuel Beckett, Confessions and the Human Condition
  Posted on December 5, 2019 | 1 Comment

  Samuel Beckett’s legacy endures, and reaches far beyond the written word. Of all the English-language modernists, Beckett's work represents the most sustained attack on the realist tradition, dispensing with conventional plot and the unities of time and place in order to focus on essential components of the human condition.

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