Truth To Power | Sacrifice Zones | Mary Zeiser 2019 | Resisting Fossil Fools | 8-30-24

On this week's Truth To Power, we bring you the next installment of a new program on Forward Radio called "Sacrifice Zones" hosted by Stretch. The program features an interview that Stretch conducted in a community room at a climate conference back in 2019. Activists repelled from the Houston shipping channel bridge and stopped all traffic for 18 hours. The event was timed to coincide with the Democratic National Convention and the story that Mary relates here is about what happened once they were inside the jail they were taken to. Five years later, things seem to have taken the turn that Mary warns of and her clarion call rings true as a warning of how far in the wrong direction we have gone. Below are some helpful references related to the program: The Shell Cracker plant in PA https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05052024/todays-climate-plastic-pennsylvania-ethane-cracker-plant/ Project 2025 pdf https://archive.org/details/project-2025-mandate-for-leadership-full_202309-manifesto/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL/ Brittanica article on Katrina https://www.britannica.com/event/Hurricane-Katrina Bus fire in Wilmer https://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/23/bus.fire/ Brittanica article on Ian https://www.britannica.com/event/Hurricane-Ian-2022 Houston shipping channel daily output 2023 https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/record-us-crude-exports-rising-shale-output-boosts-oil-flow-houston-2023-05-12/ The Black Cat Riots https://hornet.com/stories/black-cat-raid-history/ Houston ship channel action 2019 https://www.reuters.com/article/business/environment/greenpeace-members-face-federal-state-charges-in-houston-protest-idUSKCN1VY1EV/ The Reluctant Radical https://www.collectiveeye.org/products/the-reluctant-radical Pictures and the story of the Greenpeace activists, updated https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/grand-jury-refuses-felonies-for-greenpeace-activists-and-others-charged-in-houston-oil-industry-protest/ Update on the activists https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/grand-jury-refuses-felonies-for-greenpeace-activists-and-others-charged-in-houston-oil-industry-protest/ Meet the activists https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/meet-the-brave-activists-who-shut-down-the-largest-fossil-fuel-ship-channel-in-the-us-for-18-hours/ Catlettsburg refinery in Kentucky https://www.marathonpetroleum.com/Operations/Refining/Catlettsburg-Refinery/ There is a Financial Times article on Gaza2035 that is available when you sign up by email. On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else! Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org