Santa Barbara Writers Conference Archive

Featured Stories

• Courting Delirium: Max Talley and his Dark Zeitgeist
  Posted on January 9, 2021 | 1 Comment

  Jack Eidt from WilderUtopia.com had a chat with novelist Max Talley about the recent book he curated and contributed two stories to, called Delirium Corridor, A Dark Anthology, from Borda Books/Santa Barbara Literary Journal.

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• Seventh Generation: The Voice and Leadership of Indigenous Youth
  Posted on January 7, 2021 | No Comments

  EcoJustice Radio spoke with emboldened and empowered youth activists, Alexis (Lex) Saenz and Yulu Wek of the International Indigenous Youth Council. Listen to their stories of reclaiming and living into […]

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• Amazon Defenders Part Three: Fires, Corruption, and Resistance in Brazil
  Posted on December 17, 2020 | 2 Comments

  EcoJustice Radio celebrates the land and water protectors of the Amazon Rainforest in a Four-Part series called Amazon Defenders. In Part Three we discuss the Indigenous rights movement for community and ecosystem health in Brazil and the six US-based financial institutions complicit in deforestation, fires, and rainforest destruction.

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• A Farm Grows in LA: Urban Farming with Avenue 33
  Posted on December 11, 2020 | 1 Comment

  Avenue 33 Farm is reestablishing Indigenous farming methods to an urban Los Angeles hillside using permaculture and regenerative principles. Listen to the interview on EcoJustice Radio.

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• Amazon Defenders Part Two: Criminalizing Activism – The Steven Donziger Case
  Posted on December 3, 2020 | 2 Comments

  EcoJustice Radio investigates the story of New York based attorney Steven Donziger who represented Ecuadorian communities demanding justice in a $9.5 billion decision against Chevron-Texaco for one of the largest-ever oil disasters. Through brazen judicial activism against him, Chevron has turned Mr. Donziger into a Corporate Political Prisoner

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• Cultural Fire: Native Land Management and Regeneration
  Posted on November 27, 2020 | No Comments

  In this EcoJustice Radio episode we talk about cultural fire with Elizabeth Azzuz from the Cultural Fire Management Council, traditional Native methods of prescribed burning to protect forests and heal degraded ecosystems.

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• Amazon Defenders Part One: Protecting Biodiversity from Big Oil
  Posted on November 19, 2020 | 2 Comments

  EcoJustice Radio celebrates the land and water protectors of the Amazon Rainforest in a Four-Part series called Amazon Defenders. We begin Part One in the Western Amazon to understand how activists are confronting the dirty legacy of oil extraction, stopping the expansion of new oil leases, and protecting the rainforest biodiversity.

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• The Fight for Self Determination between Armenia and Azerbaijan
  Posted on November 6, 2020 | No Comments

  In this episode of EcoJustice Radio, we seek to gain a broader understanding of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. We discuss the fight for self determination over the region known as Artsakh or Nagorno-Karabakh, with guests Vache Thomassian, Glendale Board Member of Armenian National Committee of America and Dr. Djene Bajalan, Assistant Professor at Missouri State University.

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• LA Public Utility Methane Leak Poisons Sun Valley Community
  Posted on October 29, 2020 | No Comments

  Recently, the City of Los Angeles public utility admitted that its Valley Generating Station had been leaking methane gas into the community for three years. The utility knew about the leaks as part of efforts to fix two compressors, but failed to notify the community. Veronica Padilla-Campos, Executive Director of Pacoima Beautiful joins EcoJustice Radio for, “Broken Trust: LA Public Utility Methane Leak Poisons Sun Valley Community.”

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• Radical Mycology: The Future is Fungi with Peter McCoy
  Posted on October 16, 2020 | 1 Comment

  EcoJustice Radio speaks with Peter McCoy, Founder of Mycologos, the world's first mycology school, and Founder and Creative Director of Radical Mycology, a mushroom and fungi advocacy foundation. He and host Carry Kim discuss the grassroots movement and social philosophy behind using regenerative natural mushroom farming to promote ecological restoration and create food and medicines.

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