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On today’s show, a bailout for California oil refineries? I’ll speak to Consumer Watchdog’s founder and executive director Jaime Court about the pushback from 50 plus environmental and public interest groups. We’ll switch gears and commemorate 10 years of U.S. Right To Know with co-founder and managing editor Stacy Malkan. In lieu of news headlines, we’ll be back after this reflection on the question, freedom for whom.

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On today’s show, I’ll spend the hour exploring the sponsorship and public relations side of the fossil fuel industry’s attempts to stay relevant and powerful.  I’ll speak to investigative reporter Rebecca John on her latest piece in DeSmog entitled, “Reveal: Now There’s Proof That The Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Cultural Sponsorships to Block Climate Action”.  We’ll switch gears and speak to Staci Roberts-Steele, executive director of Yellow Dot Studios about how they are pushing back against the false fossil fuel narrative.

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On today’s show, Mycelium Youth Network’s outside educator and storyteller, Marcy Brown is back to spread the word about their latest community event “Community Day of Action” on Saturday, June 28th.  We’ll switch gears and speak to Evlondo Cooper of Media Matters for America on his latest study entitled, “How Broadcast TV News Covered Environmental Justice in  2024”, released on June 16th.

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On today’s show, we will hear the remaninder of my conversation with U.S. Right to Know investigative journalist Pamela Ferdinand about all the plastic in our bodies.  We’ll switch gears and have a conversation with policy advocacy director for CA Environmental Voters Melissa Romero on the closure of the Valero’s Benicia refinery and how the oil industry is trying to use that closure as a means to gut environmental protections and more.

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On today’s show, investigative journalist for U.S. Right To Know, Pamela Ferdinand on her recent article entitled, “Plastics may disrupt the body’s clock, raise risk of chronic disease”.  We’ll switch gears and speak to founder and executive director of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network on their upcoming virtual online summit from June 23-28.

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On today’s show, an update from Paul Paz y Mino, deputy executive director with Amazon Watch on anti-Chevron day and an environmental justice delegation visiting from Equador, and the looming possibility of Santa Barbara offshore drilling with the Center for Biological Diversity’s Brady Bradshaw, senior oceans campaigner.

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Today’s episode of A Rude Awakening is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive.

Brian Edwards-Tiekert speaks with photographer and author Josh Jackson, an advocate for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Through his Forgotten Lands Project, he employs storytelling and visual narratives to inspire engagement with California’s unknown landscapes. His latest book is The Enduring Wild: A Journey Into California’s Public Lands.

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Today’s episode of A Rude Awakening is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive.

Brian Edwards-Tiekert interviews Jeff Miller, the founder and Executive Director of the Alameda Creek Alliance. Miller also works with the Center for Biological Diversity on media, outreach, writing endangered species listing petitions, and biodiversity issues. His latest book is Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide.

To support our mission and receive Jeff Miller’s book Bay Area Wildlife as a thank-you gift, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732 (800-HEY-KPFA).

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An in-depth look at community affairs on a local, national and international level, with interviews and commentary. Hosted by Sabrina Jacobs.

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On today’s show, I’ll spend the hour with filmmaker and three time Emmy winner Peter Klein discussing his latest documentary entitled, “Bribe, Inc.” which opens on May 3 at the Elmwood Rialto Cinemas in Berkeley.

More About Bribe, Inc.:

In the shadows of the global oil industry, a company with a jet-set lifestyle and greasy palms operates with total impunity – until a whistleblower named “Figaro” reached out to Australian journalist Nick MacKenzie with enough insider intel to take them down.

Bribe, Inc. takes us on a documentary journey in which a team of award-winning reporters investigate the Ahsani family, who run a company called Unaoil from the tiny principality of Monaco.

Unaoil reached across the globe to pay multi-million dollar bribes in oil rich states. The beneficiaries of these ill-gotten gains include some of the biggest companies in Europe, North America and Australia. The files that Nick obtained from “Figaro” turn out to be the biggest exposé of bribery and corruption in modern history. The information they uncovered was enough to launch investigations across a dozen countries, and put the Ahsanis in the crosshairs of some of the most powerful law enforcement agencies in the world, including the American FBI and the British Serious Fraud Office.

Nick and “Figaro” follow the money and chase down the criminals – a manhunt spanning the globe from Iraq to Monaco, Rome, London, Australia, and the US. As the criminals at the centre of this case begin facing the courtroom, the question remains – will there ever be justice for the world’s biggest bribery scheme?

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