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Is Climate Change Reaching a Tipping Point?
Climate Change is coming on fast while Americans are working on it slowly. To risk irreversible change and tipping points by proceeding at a slow pace or to rely on untried technologies may be a…
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Four years after Maria: The biggest issue Puerto Rico is facing
Free Speech TV speaks with Juan C. Dávila about the biggest issues Puerto Rico is facing four years after #hurricaneMaria. 4 years ago Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico and severely damaged critical infrastructure, including the…
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Fairy Creek: Indigenous-Led Blockade of Old-Growth Logging Now Canada’s Largest Civil Disobedience
Tension is rising between Canadian police and activists who have been staging a months-long anti-logging resistance in Vancouver Island’s ancient forests. The protest has been underway for two years, led by environmental and First Nations…
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Fossil Fuel Leaks, Flaring & Chemical Releases After Hurricane Ida May Be Among Worst Ever Recorded
Oil and gas investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz says the extent of damage done after Hurricane Ida from the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry from leaks, spills, flaring, ruptures and chemical releases in the Gulf Coast…
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“Badly Damaged”: Environmental Activist in “Cancer Alley” Documents Oil Spills After Hurricane Ida
As part of our ongoing coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, one of the strongest storms to ever hit the United States, DN goes to St. James Parish, Louisiana, to speak with Sharon Lavigne,…
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Extreme Weather is Only Getting Worse
Extreme weather is on the rise and we are seeing it on the east & west coast with fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes etc. There is a new WMO report out indicating Climate and weather related…
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“On the Kill Floors”: Essential Workers in Meatpacking Plants Still Lack Safety & COVID Protections
Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, we look at the experiences of meatpacking workers during the pandemic and beyond. Dulce Castañeda, a founding member of Children of Smithfield, a Nebraska-based grassroots advocacy group led by…
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A Plea for Help from New Orleans: Curfew & Cops Are Not Aid for the Poor After Ida, Says Malik Rahim
As the death toll from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in the northeastern United States climbs to 46, President Biden is visiting New Orleans, which is under curfew enforced by police and the National Guard…
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Sixteen Years After Katrina, Hurricane Ida Strikes Gulf Coast
GUEST: Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson. Also formerly the Co-Director of the US Human Rights Network and the Executive Director of the Peoples’ Hurricane Relief Fund (PHRF) based in New Orleans, Louisiana…
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Indigenous Leaders Not Giving Up on Stopping Line 3
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Tara Houska, Attorney and Activist, Founder of the Giniw Collective, co-Founder of Not Your Mascots, For years indigenous leaders and their allies have been protesting the completion of the Line…
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"Stop This Madness”: Rev. Lennox Yearwood Calls to Divest from Fossil Fuels Amid Climate Disasters
Hurricane Ida and the increasing threats from extreme weather are a wake-up call to divest from fossil fuels that make climate disasters worse and more frequent, says Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., the president and CEO…
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After Hurricane Ida, a “Just & Fair Recovery” Must Address Ongoing Disasters of Poverty, Inequality
As Hurricane Ida is downgraded to a tropical depression, Louisiana’s main utility company Entergy says it could be weeks before it restores electricity to nearly a million people in the storm’s path, including all of…
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Hurricane Ida Slams Native Communities in Louisiana as New Orleans Loses Electricity & COVID Rages
Hurricane Ida has completely knocked out power to the city of New Orleans and reversed the flow of the Mississippi River after it hit southern Louisiana and Mississippi, flooding the area with storm surges. The…
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Exxon's Oil Drilling Gamble Off Guyana Coast Could Turn Country from Carbon Sink to "Carbon Bomb"
Despite desperate climate warnings against new fossil fuel development, ExxonMobil is pursuing a massive new oil project in Guyana that is projected to be the corporation's largest oil production in the world. A new investigation…
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Popular California Beach Nuked?
There are a combination of failures: why 3.6m pounds of nuclear waste is buried on a popular California beach? Plus - Are the Fukushima operators building an undersea tunnel to release treated water? Is this…
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Homelessness In The Wake Of Wildfires
In 2018 the Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history, leveled the entire town of Paradise, where nearly 19,000 buildings, mostly homes, were destroyed. The Poor People's Campaign and the California Homeless Union together…
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From the Ashes - California Wildfires
In 2018 the Camp Fire, the largest and deadliest wildfire in California history, leveled the entire town of Paradise, where nearly 19,000 buildings, mostly homes, were destroyed. The Poor People's Campaign and the California Homeless…
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Damaged Hospitals in Haiti Struggle to Help Earthquake Survivors as Death Toll Tops 1,400
DN gets an update from Les Cayes, Haiti, not far from the epicenter of Saturday’s earthquake, as Tropical Storm Grace drenched parts of the country and the death toll has now climbed to more than…
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