EcoJustice Radio

Carletta Davis from We Matter Eight Mile in Alabama, and Richard Mathews from Save Porter Ranch, talk with Leah Garland from SoCal 350 on parallel natural gas leak disasters in both Alabama and Southern California.

Jane Fowler from Save Porter Ranch gives the Update from the Frontlines on the Aliso Canyon SoCalGas Leak

Interview by Leah Garland from EcoJustice Radio.

Host and Engineer: JP Morris

Executive Producer: Mark Morris

This originally aired August 3, 2017 on KPFK 90.7 FM, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles.

Ashley Hernandez from Communities for a Better Environment (Wilmington), Jan Victor Andasan from East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (West Long Beach/Carson), join JP Morris of EcoJustice Radio to discuss youth organizing in under-resource communities, reflecting on the Los Angeles People's Climate March that happened in April 2017. Their communities face two major ports, five oil refineries and massive drilling sacrifice zones, major freeways, railyards, and all the contamination, noise, and environmental injustice.

Whitney Amaya did the Update from the Frontlines on the LA River Bicycle Toxic Tour with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice.

Photo of the Los Angeles People's Climate March in Wilmington, on April 29, 2017, courtesy of Luke Massman Johnson.

Interview by JP Morris from EcoJustice Radio.

Host and Engineer: JP Morris

Executive Producer: Mark Morris

Episode 3

This originally aired August 2, 2017 on KPFK 90.7 FM, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles.

Ku Kia'i Mauna with SoCal 350 Climate Action stand for the love of a sacred mountain, Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawai'i. Mahalo to Mikilani Young of Defenders of Mauna Kea and LA's Mauna Kea movement to stop the desecration of the mountain most sacred to native Hawaiians and their culture. The movement aims to protect sacred, conservation lands, wildlife and plant habitat, and the water table beneath Mauna Kea, all of which will be gravely impacted if the TMT (Thirty-Meter Telescope) project moves forward. At 30 meters high (18 stories) and 20 feet deep, it would be one of the largest telescopes in the world, requiring the destruction of 5 acres of sacred land. TMT's funding sources include: University of California, CalTech, the governments of China, India, Japan, Canada and the U.S. Align with the Hawaiian community and learn how to help protect and keep Mauna Kea sacred.

Interview by Carry Kim from EcoJustice Radio.

Host and Engineer: JP Morris

Executive Producer: Mark Morris

Episode 2

This originally aired August 1, 2017 on KPFK 90.7 FM, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles.

Leah Garland​ with SoCal 350 Climate Action​ and #EcoJusticeRadio interviewed Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director and co-founder of Restore the Delta [ http://www.restorethedelta.org/ ], a grassroots campaign to save the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary for future generations. She talked about the ecosystem of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta, why it should be saved, and the Delta tunnels boondoggle through a climate change framework.

The show begins with a commentary by SoCal 350 Co-Founder Jack Eidt on the California legislature's recent extension of Cap and Trade (AB 398 and associated bills). Instead of limiting CO2 emissions, it allows grave concessions to the oil industry. It ties the hands of local agencies ability to regulate greenhouse gases, which means more pollution for vulnerable communities, more use of extreme fossil fuels that ravage ecosystems with pipeline spills and oil train explosions and will put in jeopardy California’s ambitious climate goals. All this from "climate crusader" Governor Jerry Brown.

Host and Engineer: JP Morris

Executive Producer: Mark Morris

This originally aired July 26, 2017 on KPFK 90.7 FM, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles.

SoCal 350's EcoJustice Radio debuted on KPFK 90.7 FM in LA on Earth Day, April 22nd, with guests Bill McKibben, Marta Segura, Andy Shrader, Dr. Alex Hall, and hosted by Leah Garland.

Bill McKibben, co-founder and Senior Advisor of 350.org

Marta Segura - Climate Law Institute Southern California Engagement Director of the Center for Biological Diversity

Andy Shrader - Director of Environmental Affairs, Water Policy & Sustainability for LA CD5 Councilmember Paul Koretz

Dr. Alex Hall - Professor at UCLA's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Hosted by Leah Garland, Steering Committee member of SoCal 350

Additional commentary from Ashley Hernandez from Communities for a Better Environment

And finally, includes a poetic interlude in the spirit of Garrison Keillor with "Lake WildBeGone," by SoCal 350 Co-Founder Jack Eidt

This originally aired nationwide April 29, 2017 on the Pacifica Radio Network.