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DemocracyNow Debate (audio/mpeg 18.9MB) Amy Goodman hosted a debate on the TPP on Nov. 14th between Bill Watson, a trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute, and Lori Wallach, director of Public Citi...
Posted: Thu, Nov 14, 2013 9:51am PST
Toxic Snow for Sale (audio/mpeg 1.3MB) Reporting on the use of the dispersant Corexit in the Deepwater Horizon disaster found in the weekly Shortwave Report can serve as a touchstone to determine the quality of the foreign state broadcasters mirrored. Most of what makes the Shortwave Report valuable is that due to their being in line with commercial and regime interests the quality of reporting in American media is so low. But this is to a certain extent the same in the foreign countries where those contributions are being produce...
Posted: Wed, Nov 13, 2013 1:48pm PST
Colombia Agricultural strike interview on KPFA settingthestandard (audio/x-wav 89.1MB) Colombia Agricultural strike interview on KPFA settingthestandard...
Posted: Mon, Aug 26, 2013 6:12am PDT
Caltrans Has Handed Us a Pack of Lies (audio/mpeg 6.6MB) mp3 and summary of content opposing the Caltrans projects related to the Willits bypass, 101, and 199 in Crescent City. the audio is 2 minutes and 54 seconds long....
Posted: Thu, Jul 11, 2013 7:02pm PDT
Neighbors in San Francisco's D11 join the battle for green space and community (audio/mpeg 2.9MB) KPFA EVENING NEWS, 06.15.2013: Occupiers attempted to save San Francisco's Hayes Valley Farm, renamed Gezi Gardens to invoke the battle for green space in Istanbul, Turkey, but police raided it this week to make way for condo development, in the early morning hours of June 13th. KPFA spoke to San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos about the push and pull over public land use, and organizing to create an urban farm in District 11....
Posted: Sun, Jun 16, 2013 4:13pm PDT
FEMA, eucalyptus cuts, and herbicides: Fix or pox for fire prone East Bay hills? (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) FEMA, is in the final stages of reviewing a fire management plan covering a thousand acres from Richmond to San Leandro. The plan would involve cutting down hundreds of thousands of trees and spraying pesticide. The plan is highly controversial, and cause for heated argument between environmentalists. The most fierce debate has centered around Claremont Canyon, in the Berkeley and Oakland hills, and Strawberry Canyon in the Berkeley Hills. Both are near where the devastating East Bay Hills Fi...
Posted: Mon, May 27, 2013 10:34pm PDT
Will Parrish at SubRosa on Tree Sits, Saving Little Lake Valley, and Defending the Land (audio/mpeg 75.4MB) On May 24 at SubRosa Community Space in Santa Cruz, Mendocino County resident Will Parrish spoke about the ongoing efforts to protect the large areas of land that are being disturbed as part of a highway project by Caltrans to build a bypass around the town of Willits. Community members there have been resisting the project through tree sits, demonstrations, and by appealing directly to politicians in California in an effort to save the area, which is also known as Little Lake Valley....
Posted: Sat, May 25, 2013 2:31pm PDT
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) threatened in San Francisco (audio/mpeg 1.4MB) California's most important environmental law, the California Environmental Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), is under attack, and activists are trying to make sure the act will still hold sway in San Francisco. CEQA requires corporations and landholders to provide public information about potential environmental impacts of their projects in advance. A statewide coalition recently blocked attempts to weaken CEQA at the state level, but now San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener has proposed ...
Posted: Mon, May 20, 2013 5:27pm PDT
Shifting Baselines ~ An Audio Interview (audio/mpeg 26.4MB) In this audio interview we speak shifting environmental baselines, the bad boy of environmentalism, and doing business on a smaller scale...
Posted: Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:47pm PDT
Sylvia McAdam Audio (audio/mpeg 4.4MB) Sylvia McAdam addresses the group at the Sacramento rally over the telephone from London....
Posted: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:17pm PST
Sacred Mountain Defenders' prayer vigil on Arizona's San Francisco Peaks (audio/mpeg 1.5MB) On New Year's Day, the Sacred Mountain Defenders concluded a prayer vigil begun on December 23rd on San Francisco Peaks in northern Arizona. The mountain is sacred to the Navajo and other Southwest tribes. The Sacred Mountain Defenders also filed a complaint about the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort's use of recycled, treated sewage effluent to make artificial snow on the mountain....
Posted: Tue, Jan 1, 2013 10:36pm PST
#idlenomore comes to Montréal (audio/mpeg 72.7MB) 31:00 minute piece including interviews with organizers and participants at the Idle No More rally in Montréal on December 21st....
Posted: Thu, Dec 27, 2012 3:22pm PST
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