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• Adelia Sandoval, Earth-Honoring Traditions of Acjachemen Spiritual Leader
  Posted on August 14, 2019 | No Comments

  Carry Kim talks with Rev. Adelia Sandoval, the Spiritual Leader for the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians/Acjachemen Nation. The Acjachemen people are the indigenous people of Orange County in Southern […]

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• Pasture Based Carbon Farming with SonRise Ranch – EcoJustice Radio
  Posted on July 30, 2019 | No Comments

  Carry Kim speaks with Doug Lindamood, from SonRise Ranch in San Diego County, California. He and his family own and operate this pasture based livestock operation dedicated to changing industrial, factory farming into a local, sustainable, integrity, food movement through education and outreach one family at a time.

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• Green New Deal Tour Comes to Los Angeles – EcoJustice Radio
  Posted on July 22, 2019 | No Comments

  In the spring of 2019, the Sunrise Movement, building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across the US, put on the Road To A Green New Deal Tour, visiting eight cities across the US to share what a Green New Deal would look like in different communities as well as spotlighting local politicians and organizers throughout the country.

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• Public Banking and a Sustainable Economy – EcoJustice Radio
  Posted on July 10, 2019 | No Comments

  Ellen Brown writes that public banking is the only way to finance the transition to a green economy. EcoJustice Radio's Mark Morris speaks with Madeline Merritt, Core Organizer for Public Bank LA and Member of California Public Banking Alliance.

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• Women in Politics and the Environment – EcoJustice Radio
  Posted on June 27, 2019 | No Comments

  On this show, Jessica Aldridge talks with Aura Vasquez, Environmental and Social Justice organizer and Candidate for Los Angeles City Council District 10, on how we change the “old boys club” and what this could mean for bringing social equity to the table.

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• Scientists Warn About 5G Wireless Technology
  Posted on June 25, 2019 | No Comments

  More than 180 scientists and doctors from 35 countries recommend a moratorium on the roll-out of the fifth generation, 5G, for telecommunication until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from industry. 5G will substantially increase exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) on top of the 2G,3G, 4G, WiFi, for telecommunications already in place. RF-EMF has been proven to be harmful for humans and the environment.

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• LA’s Sweatshops & the Fight for Garment Workers – EcoJustice Radio
  Posted on June 19, 2019 | 1 Comment

  Los Angeles is the nation’s garment production capital and the city’s second largest manufacturing sector, yet workers face injustice, usually associated with the developing world, right here in one of the largest cities in the United States. Jessica Aldridge interviews Mar Martinez from the Garment Worker Center a worker rights organization leading an anti-sweatshop movement to secure social and economic justice for tens of thousands of Los Angeles garment workers.

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• Miskitu Stories: ‘Crazy Sickness’ and the Duendes of the Wild
  Posted on June 12, 2019 | 1 Comment

  As outbreaks of "crazy sickness" continue to afflict Nicaraguan Miskitu towns and villages, we revisit the story of the Duhindu of Kambla, or how the community overcame their first case of this "culture-bound syndrome," blamed on the dark supernatural forces out of the wild bush.

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• The Steep Environmental and Social Costs of the Fashion Industry
  Posted on June 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

  When we get dressed in the morning, most of us don’t consider the environmental costs and human rights issues that may be attached to the clothing on our bodies. Jessica Aldridge interviews two women who have made it their business to not only consider how to clean up the global fashion industry, advocating for environmentally-supportive and equitable solutions to water pollution, pesticides, microfibers, and waste associated with making, washing, and disposing of our clothing.

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• ‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in Santa Barbara Literary Journal
  Posted on June 3, 2019 | 2 Comments

  Santa Barbara Literary Journal releases Bellatrix: Volume 3 this June, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt's psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Join us for readings and other entertainments in SB on June 14.

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