The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert, is about the five catastrophic
breaks in the history of life on earth and the sixth such catastrophe, which
Kolbert maintains is now happening, and which we are already a few hundred
years into. This the first of the great exti...
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The "Just Transition" is to that new economy necessary to avoid environmental
cataclysm, a transition that creates good work and income for all and cleans
up the environmental ruination of low income particularly people of color
communities. That is, Just Transition mean...
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The fourth of July in the United States is not just a holiday when white
people celebrate killing each other over land that wasn't theirs. It's about
a document; it's about the contradictions and possibilities in the language
of freedom and equality. The fourth of July i...
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Joe Clement hosts this 4th of July episode and plays The Rent is Too Damn
High, in addition to more great music and these segments: Bill Resnick talks
with Patricia Smith, former union organizer and lobbyist, about the plight of
school-workers who make less than $15 and ...
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Bill Resnick reads from Rebecca Solnit's book A Paradise Built in Hell about
the generosity of ordinary working people compared to the calculating
tight-fistedness of elites.
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