KPFA - A Rude Awakening

On Today’s A Rude Awakening:

Portions of the Virunga Forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, auctioned.  I’ll speak to Rainforest Rescue Campaigner Mathias Rittgerott with latest. 

Also, I’ll be featuring excerpts of a talk from various representatives of organizations that are fighting against the failed Green Revolution in Africa.

PRESS RELEASE: Our Africa, Our Agriculture

Panel Participants:

Anne Maina (moderator), Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya  bibakenya.org

Leonida Odongo, Haki Nawiri Afrika  hakinawiriafrika.org

Anuradha Mittal, The Oakland Institute  www.oaklandinstitute.org

Ferdinand Wafula, Bio Gardening Innovations  biogardeninginnovations.weebly.com

Gabriel Manyangadze, Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI)  safcei.org

Joshua To (administrator), A Growing Culture   agrowingculture.org

Related articles:

Can AGRA correct course? New plan offers big budget, few changes to address African food crisis

By  Timothy A. Wise

Gates-funded ‘green revolution’ in Africa has failed, critics say 

By Nina Shapiro 

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Logging at Jackson Demonstration State Forest, again???

That is the question on the lips of most folks who know what has been happening in the last 2 years. 

Stay tuned and you’ll hear the latest on the struggle from Matt Simmons, Staff Attorney for EPIC (Environmental Protection Information Center) and Tribal Chairman of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians Michael Hunter

AUGUST 25, 2022 PRESS RELEASE

CAL FIRE Reneges on Logging Promise: Activists Warn Response of Protests, Civil Disobedience

CAL FIRE Reneges on Logging Promise: Activists Warn Response of Protests, Civil Disobedience

Forest Defenders

Jackson Demonstration State Forest, Fort Bragg, California, in Mendocino County. This short call to action film features some of the tree defenders, people taking direct action to prevent more logging in the state forest. Relevant forestry research link, re the harm of cutting down trees, as it increases fire risks and causes our carbon footprint to go up, warming the planet.

Jackson Demonstration State Forest, North Coast, California, is being heavily logged under the state agency CalFire approved Timber Harvest Plans. This logging increases wildfire risk and silt runoff into a remnant salmon run in Noyo River. The state forest has great value for recreational tourism. The slash and small trees not worth logging are left behind, increasing fire risks, opening the canopy, drying out the soil further, and reducing the water drops from the canopy condensation which drips on to the forest floor.

Jackson is on the unceded ancestral lands of the indigenous people in the area, the Pomo. The Pomo and their brothers and sisters are calling for a moratorium of the logging in Jackson forest.

Forest Defenders 

Places to support and follow 

SAVE JACKSON STATE FOREST 

Matt Simmons

EPIC 

www.wildcalifornia.org

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Tribal Chairman Michael Hunter

Pomo Land Back

www.pomolandback.com

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Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians

www.coyotevalleytribe.org

Hope 4 Natives

www.hope4natives.com 

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On today’s show, I’ll speak to Ben Lilliston, Director of Rural Strategies and Climate Change at Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy on his organization’s recent report 

True or False? Evaluating solutions for agriculture and climate change

www.iatp.org/true-or-false-climate-solutions

Then we’ll switch gears and hear one of the six climate solutions presented by

PROJECT DRAWDOWN

drawdown.org

Learn more about all of them here 

www.drawdown.org/climate-solutions-101

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On today’s show, I’ll speak to Kenyan agroecology activists Leonida Odongo of Haki Nawiri Afrika  and Anne Maina of Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya on the state of affairs in light of the recent presidential elections

Learn more about

Haki Nawiri Afrika

hakinawiriafrica.wordpress.com

BIBA – Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya

bibakenya.org 

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On today’s show I’ll be in conversation with documentary filmmakers Ann Kaneko and Jin Yoo Kim on their latest PBS film Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

Watch 

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust here

pbs.org/video/manzanar-diverted-when-water-becomes-dust

More about the film

An inspired and poetic portrait of a place and its people, MANZANAR, DIVERTED: WHEN WATER BECOMES DUST follows intergenerational women from three communities who defend their land, their history and their culture from the insatiable thirst of Los Angeles. In this fresh retelling of the LA water story, Native Americans, Japanese-American WWII incarcerees and environmentalists form an unexpected alliance to preserve Payahuunadü (Owens Valley), “the land of flowing water.”

Featuring breathtaking photography and immersive soundscapes, the film recounts more than 150 years of history, showing how this distant valley is inextricably tied to the city of Los Angeles. It reveals the forced removals of two peoples–the Nüümü (Paiute) and the Newe (Shoshone) who were marched out of the Valley in the 1860s by the US Army and the Japanese Americans who were brought here from their West Coast homes and incarcerated in a World War II concentration camp. Water lured outsiders in and continues to fuel the greed which has sucked this once lush place dry.

Filmed over five years, MANZANAR, DIVERTED captures stunning and intimate imagery of this valley, combined with archival gems and careful research to narrate this epic story of the American West. It begins before colonizers came to the valley and then shows how the US Army and setters forced out the Nüümü and the Newe; how the Los Angeles Aqueduct sucked the Valley dry; how incarcerated Japanese Americans made the land green again; how Patsiata / Owens Lake became a huge health hazard and how this Valley now bears the pain of these stories and the consequences of losing water to diversion.

Manzanar is the name of the former concentration camp that was constructed where an apple orchard community had thrived before the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) took it over. Now, it has become a national historic site where its annual pilgrimage unifies descendants of those incarcerated and activists who strive for social justice. In a David and Goliath fight, Japanese Americans living in Los Angeles and Native Americans and ranchers from the Valley form a coalition that stops construction of a massive LADWP solar facility across the Valley from the historic site. The film offers a hopeful message of how communities can come together to overcome histories of oppression and halt further development and monetization of a land.

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Join us next week on Friday, August 5th a conversation with documentary filmmakers Ann Kaneko and Jin Yoo Kim on their latest PBS film Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

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On today’s show, it’s that time of the year again, fund drive.  I’ll be featuring a talk I did with renowned climate author and Stanford fellow Britt Wray for our KPFA featured authors event series.  And my favorite special guest will be dropping by as well. 

When you donate any amount during KPFA’s Summer Fund Drive you will automatically receive an email with the Summer Drive 2022, Storytelling for Social audio gift. Featuring a timely new speech by climate activist Bill McKibben. McKibben delivers a call-to-action for all of us to actively engage in securing the future of our planet. Your audio gift also includes a vintage talk from Gore Vidal titled, The Patriarchal State of the Union. Vidal discusses the Supreme Court and its tendency toward restricting individual freedoms. This talk given by Vidal in Berkeley from 1990 is still incredibly pertinent for today.

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On today’s show, Mycelium Youth Network Executive Director and Founder Lil Milagro Henriquez and colleague Game Designer Marcy Brown will talk about their upcoming Live Action Role Playing (LARP) event at the Exploratorium.

More information here 

And we’ll switch gears and speak to documentary filmmakers Ann Kaneko and Jin Yoo Kim on their latest PBS film Manzanar Diverted:  When Water Becomes Dust which premiers on July 18 at 10pm PDT (check local listing).

Watch the trailer for 

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

https://vimeo.com/428845064

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On today’s show, social activist and agro-organizer Leonida Odongo sits down with me to discuss the fight to maintain seed sovereignty and agroecological autonomy as a whole in her home country of Kenya.

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