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Rocky Top Sunrise
by The TN Holler Podcast Network
Rocky Top Sunrise is a podcast where we talk about what it means to fight for climate justice and a Green New Deal in the South with Sunrise Movement. We explore how every issue intersects with climate and how a Green New Deal will help bring them all together. Our goal is to win the South - because if you win the South, you win the nation.Rocky Top Sunrise is part of The TN Holler Podcast Network. Visit www.tnholler.com to keep up with The Tennessee Holler's relentless coverage that seeks to lift up progressive voices and shine a light on injustices throughout Tennessee.
Episodes
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The Battle Against the Byhalia Pipeline
Hale and Cassie are joined by Justin Pearson, one of the co-founders of grassroots movement Memphis Community Against The Pipeline (MCAP). They dig into the movement's fight against the Byhalia Connection Pipeline and the ongoing environmental injustices happening right now in Memphis, Tennessee....
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Regrounding Ourselves in the Movement
Hale, Isabella, Owen, and Cassie join forces for a regrounding episode where we talk about what we are doing as a Movement here in Tennessee and what the larger fight looks like within the context of the Biden Administration. We also preview our next episode which will be on the fight against the...
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Karl Marx and the Tennessee State Legislature
The Tennessee State Legislature has been up to no good, so we decided to give y'all a bit of an update...with a twist. Cassie updates us on a few highlights (or lowlights) of what they've been up to while Hale puts everything into the context of a broader, approachable, Marxist perspective.…
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Grading Biden
Rick Herron, climate guru and Hub Coordinator for Sunrise Nashville, joins Owen and Cassie to help us grade how the Biden Administration has done so far, and what we would still like to see. We are cautiously optimistic but still have a long...LONG way to go. Sunrise Tennessee Interest Form Find...
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The Intersectionality Between Climate and Reproductive Justice
Hosts Isabella and Hale speak with Osub Ahmed, a senior analyst at the Center for American Progress, on the intersection between the climate crisis and reproductive rights. This is often an overlooked subject both in media and day-to-day conversations. That's why we decided to dig deep and…
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Tennessean Insurrectionists and the Importance of Antifascism
Journalists Abby Lee Hood and Matt Bastin join to talk about Tennesseans' involvement in the undemocratic coup attempt by MAGA insurrectionists that took place at our Capitol last week. We explore the moment we are in and where to go from here, including how it is more important now than ever to...
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How the Left Can Change Tennessee
Matthew Park, Co-Executive Director of Change TN, joins Cassie and Owen to talk about how the Left should be engaging with the upcoming race for the Chair of the Democratic Party and all the local races across the state in 2021. As Matthew says, local municipalities are the true labs of democracy…
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As Georgia Goes, So Goes the South
Erica Darragh, Communications Lead for Sunrise Atlanta, joins Hale and Cassie to talk about the upcoming Senate runoff elections in Georgia and how crucial they are to us winning a Green New Deal. There’s so much we can learn from the incredible organizing that led to Georgia’s turnaround, and it...
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Why The Way You Talk About Climate Change Matters
Hosts Owen and Cassie talk about how to talk about climate change and why it matters. The media often frames human-caused climate change as a “belief” instead of asserting it as truth and attempts to provide balance to an issue in which only one side is based in fact. We cut through the bullshit...
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Let's Talk About the Tennessee Valley Authority
Hosts Hale Masaki and Isabella Killius talk TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), the largest energy provider in the country, and a government agency born out of the New Deal that was once an admirable public program, but is now tied too closely to corporate interests and has little input from the...
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Elect Marquita Bradshaw to Win a Green New Deal
We have a special edition episode of Rocky Top Sunrise for y’all - Marquita Bradshaw, Democratic Candidate for Senate in Tennessee, joined Cassie on a broadcast for Sunrise Movement to hype a massive day of action we will be having for her on Thursday, October 8th. Marquita is a groundbreaking...
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We Are Wide Awake
Joining us on the pod today is Victoria Manning, the brains behind Sunrise Tennessee’s latest action against Senator Lamar Alexander where we got up at 4 in the morning to make noise outside of his house because of the injustice of him agreeing to participate in the Supreme Court nomination vote....
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Who Has the Power
We've been feeling a lot of anxiety lately, so we decided to get real with y'all in this episode. Hosts Owen and Cassie talk about the fear we’ve been experiencing during this tumultuous time and how that anxiety relates to our overall political theory. We cover some tricky topics, but we hope...
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COVID19 and Why We Need Medicare for All to Solve Climate Change
Hosts Hale Masaki and Isabella Killius dive into the intersections between COVID19, climate change, and Medicare for All with Stephanie Kang, a good friend of Sunrise Tennessee, Nashville Native, and health policy adviser to Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. Congresswoman Jayapal is the lead sponsor...
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We Are On Stolen Land
Hosts Hale Masaki and Owen Reed are joined by Crystal Cavalier of the Indigenous People's Movement to talk about the deep intersections between environmental justice and Indigenous rights and what IPM is doing to fight for a better world. We can’t fully realize a Green New Deal until we root out...
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A Better World with Matthew Park - Candidate for District 15 State House
Hosts Isabella Killius and Cassie Jackson interview Matthew Park in a special episode! Matthew is a candidate for State House running in District 15 in Knoxville. He is one of the most thoughtful and inspirational candidates running in Tennessee right now, and he's the only candidate to be…
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Why Abolition is an Environmental Justice Issue
Hosts Isabella Killius and Hale Masaki explore the intersections of racial justice and environmentalism within the context of slavery and how slavery was never eradicated, it simply evolved. In the second half of the episode, lifelong organizer Taz Gaines joins as our special guest to dive deep...
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We're Here To Stay
We are all anxious about climate change. But what can we do about it? That's what we want to explore on this podcast - we want to go deep, and talk about the work we need to do and that's already being done to realize an equitable, livable future for all of us (and create millions of good jobs in...
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A Teaser!
We will be coming at you with our first episode this Friday, July 10th, so make sure to subscribe so that you can listen when it drops!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Rocky Top Sunrise is a podcast where we talk about what it means to fight for climate justice and a Green New Deal in the South with Sunrise Movement. We explore how every issue intersects with climate and how a Green New Deal will help bring them all together. Our goal is to win the South - because if you win the South, you win the nation.Rocky Top Sunrise is part of The TN Holler Podcast Network. Visit www.tnholler.com to keep up with The Tennessee Holler's relentless coverage that seeks to lift up progressive voices and shine a light on injustices throughout Tennessee.
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Rocky Top Sunrise is a podcast where we talk about what it means to fight for climate justice and a Green New Deal in the South with Sunrise Movement. We explore how every issue intersects with climate and how a Green New Deal will help bring them all together. Our goal is to win the South -...
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