Climate Justice Radio

"Wake up, Ohio, resurrection time is coming!" This year's LAST episode of Climate Justice Radio. Along with some great rhythms & tunes, the show will be featuring voices from an anti-pipeline rally in Medina including that of Oberlin student Alex Chuang, Sofia Smith-Hale on a film project on fracking in Youngstown, Reverend Monica Beasley-Martin preaching on waking up, and an interview with Oberlin environmental history professor Willis Okech Oyugi on the concepts of environmentalism of the poor and slow violence. Intro 1:15 - Alex Chuang 2:28 - "Pull Up the People," M.I.A. 4:24 - Interviews from Sustainable Medina County action 14:40 - Sofia Smith-Hale on her film on fracking in Youngstown, Reverend Monica Beasley-Martin, "Made of Air" by Grouper 25:05 - "New World Water," Mos Def 28:15 - Interview with Professor Willis Okech Oyugi http://sustainablemedinacounty.org/ http://ohcommunityrights.org/ http://nopipelies.org/ http://frackfreemahoning.blogspot.com/

Interview with the incredible Children of the Wild, an ensemble of five artist-activists with the mission of making "original works of theatre and film that further the rewilding of industrial spaces and the human spirit as part of a common struggle for social and environmental justice." Introduction 4:15 - Excerpt from "The Wastelands" trailer 5:45 - Interview Part I 28:00 - "Grid," Perfume Genius 30:40 - Interview Part II 48:10 - "As Thousands of Vets Descend on Standing Rock, U.S. Army Backs Down and Halts Pipeline Construction," Democracy Now! 52:50 - "Look At Us (Peltier and AIM Song)," John Trudell

Starting with some news updates on NoDAPL, Leonard Peltier, and ecological resistance in Latin America, we then move on to an interview with Sharon Pearson on the Oberlin Project and the relationship between the college and the community. Introduction 1:00 - News 3:30 - "Himno Zapatista," los Nakos 5:00 - "Political Prisoner," Immortal Technique 7:30 - "Black snakes," Tribe Called Red remix by Prolific the Rapper 13:15 - Interview with Sharon Pearson 49:00 - Environmental Justice Initiative Poetry Slam 2002 winning poem by Eseohe Arhebamen