We’ll hear excerpts from the Oscar-nominated movie Gasland, including stories from residents who say their drinking water catches on fire—one of the toxic affects of hydraulic-fracking a natural gas drilling method that uses hundreds of chemicals.  While the BP oil spill has increased calls to use natural gas as a so-called ‘clean energy’ alternative, activists are sounding the alarm bell about this controversial technique.Special Thanks to Josh Fox, the producer of “Gasland”, and to Alton Byrd and Rachel Zurer for helping to produce this show.

Featuring:

Walter Hang, Toxics Targeting President; Josh Fox, “Gasland” movie producer; Weston Wilson, EPA employee not speaking on behalf of the EPA; Oil and Gas industry Executives; Pat Farnelli, Norma Fiorintino, Ron & Jean Carter, Dimock, PA residents; Dr. Theo Colborn, Endocrine Disruption Exchange President; Paul Light, Grand Valley Citizen’s Alliance President; Rachel Waldholz, High Country News Correspondent; Maurice Hinchey, New York State Representative, 22nd District; Wes Gillingham, Catskill Mountainkeeper Program Director; Mark Ruffalo, actor and upper Delaware river resident, Lee Fuller, Energy in Depth President

Music

“Come Clean” by Jeru the Damaja

For More Information:

Gasland: the Movie

http://gaslandthemovie.com/

Toxics Targeting

http://www.toxicstargeting.com/

Catskill Mountainkeeper

http://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/

Battlement Concerned Citizens-a Committee of Grand Valley Citizens Alliance

http://www.wccongress.org/gvca.htm

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Many retirees enjoy the rest and relaxation that eluded them during their working years. But for some, retirement means opportunities to affect positive change in their communities. On this edition, we profile three elders who became activists in the second half of their lives in southern West Virginia, Boston, Massachusetts and Oakland, California.

Featuring:

Bo Webb,  Mountain Justice Co-Founder; Hubie Jones, Boston Children’s Chorus Founder; Margaret Gordon, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Co-Founder and Co-Director.

For More Information:

Mountain Justice:

http://mountainjustice.org/index.php

Whitesville, WV

Coal River Mountain Watch

http://www.crmw.net/crmw/index.php

Naoma, WV

Boston Children’s Chorus

http://www.bostonchildrenschorus.org/

Boston, MA

West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

http://www.woeip.org/

Oakland, CA

Pacific Institute:

http://www.pacinst.org/

Oakland, CA

Encore Careers:

http://www.encore.org/

Purpose Prize:

http://www.encore.org/prize

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If you’ve ever stepped into a nail salon, you know the smell of a chemical cocktail that hits you like an invisible wall. While consumers may tolerate it during a short visit, the nail salon workers find themselves stewing in a toxic bubble for years. On this edition, we take a look at the health impacts of chemical exposure, the shoddy regulation of cosmetics, and the movement towards greener nail salons.

Featuring:

Alisha Nga Tran, Patient Leadership Council facilitator, Asian Health Services; Dr. Thu Quach, Epidemiologist, Cancer Prevention Institute of California; My Tong, translator, health advocate at Asian Health Services; Lam Le, former nail salon worker and cancer survivor; Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO, Green For All; Jamie Silberberger, Director of Programs and Policy at Women’s Voices for the Earth; Uyen Nguyen, Owner, Isabella Nail Salon; Sarah Vuong, employee at Isabella Nail Salon; Jill Adams, client, Isabella Nail Salon; David Chiu, President of San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Thanks to all of our supporters, to As You Sow’s Environmental Enforcement Fund and to Spot.us for helping to crowd fund this story.

 Contributing Producer: Momo Chang

Producer/Online Editor/Host: Pauline Bartolone

Producer/Host: Andrew Stelzer

Producer: Kyung Jin Lee

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Associate Director: Khanh Pham

Production Interns:  Shaunnah Ray and Courtney Supple
Organizational Volunteers: Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alton Byrd & Alfonso Hooker

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The 1973 Roe versus Wade decision was hailed as a victory by many advocates of a woman’s right to choose.  But decades later, many young people still lack the resources to make informed choices about sex – choices that could affect the rest of their lives.   On this edition, we bring you a discussion about sex education in schools, federal funding for sex-ed and how advocacy groups and parents are making their voices heard on the issue.

Featuring: Phyllida Burlingame, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California Sex Education Policy Director; La Rhonda Crosby-Johnson, Bay Area Communities for Health Education Community Engagement Specialist; Gabriela Valle, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice Director of Community Education & Mobilization.

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While the Korean War ended in 1953 with a temporary armistice, a formal peace treaty was never signed. The United States is still technically at war with North Korea, and tensions between the two countries remain high. Many view North Korea as a strange and rogue country that threatens U.S. security. But others argue that North Korea’s actions have legitimate basis and that historical context is critical to understanding the issues.

On this edition, we look at Korea’s past conflicts and current tensions to understand how to avoid another war in the peninsula.

Featuring: Charles Armstrong, Columbia University’s Associate Professor of Korean Studies; Jade Wu, actress; Paul Liem, President of the Korea Policy Institute; John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies; Jung, Geum Song, Korean War survivor.

For More Information:

Korea Policy Institute
http://www.kpolicy.org/
Los Angeles, CA

Foreign Policy in Focus
http://www.fpif.org/
Washington, DC

Nodutdol for Korean Community Development
http://www.nodutdol.org/
New York, NY

The Korea Society
http://www.koreasociety.org/
New York, NY

National Campaign to End the Korean War
http://www.endthekoreanwar.org/

Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook: North Korea
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kn.html

Nautilus Institute
http://www.nautilus.org/

National Committee on North Korea
http://www.ncnk.org/
Washington DC

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An earthquake in Haiti.  The BP oil spill.  A crumbling US economy and educational system.  And domestic workers in New York receive a historic bill of rights.  We look back at some stories we brought you in 2010, and look ahead to 2011.

 Featuring:

Pierre Labossierre, Haiti Action Committee; Ansel Herz, independent journalist living in Haiti; Albert Naquin, Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimachas Tribal Chief; Aaron Viles, Gulf Restoration Network Campaign Director; Robert Gorman, Catholic Charities Houma-Thibodaux Executive Director; R.J. Molinair & Clairece Fralou, Gulf Coast residents; Marguerite Higa, parent, organizer of Save Our Schools Hawaii; Ai-Jen Poo,Pat Francois, Domestic Workers United member. National Domestic Workers Alliance Director.

For More Information:

Haiti Action Committee

http://www.haitisolidarity.net/

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti

http://www.ijdh.org/

Ansel Herz

www.mediahacker.org

Democracy Now’s coverage of earthquake in Haiti

http://www.democracynow.org/tags/haiti_earthquake

Gulf Restoration Network –New Orleans, LA

http://healthygulf.org/

Global Exchange Chevron Program –San Francisco, CA

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/chevronprogram/

Mobilization for Climate Justice

http://www.actforclimatejustice.org

Antonia Juhasz

http://www.tyrannyofoil.org/

Act Against Oil-Abolish Offshore Drilling

http://www.actagainstoil.com/

Biloxi-Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogees

http://www.biloxi-chitimacha.com/

Catholic Charities Houma-Thibodaux – Houma, LA

http://www.htdiocese.org/CatholicCharitiesHome/tabid/105/Default.aspx

Louisiana Bucket Brigade

http://www.labucketbrigade.org/

Louisiana Environmental Action Network

http://leanweb.org/

Rethinking Schools

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/index.shtml

Save Our Schools Hawaii

 http://www.sos808.org

National Domestic Workers Alliance

http://www.nationaldomesticworkeralliance.org/

Domestic Workers United

http://www.domesticworkersunited.org/

 United States Social Forum

http://www.ussf2010.org/

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As the recession deepens, charitable organizations are faced with the troubling combination of increased need and dwindling resources. But in hard times, people find ways to take care of themselves, and each other. On this edition, we continue our series “How We Survive”, a look into how communities around the U.S. are responding to the economic crisis. This week… people meet each others’ needs, without charity, or even exchanging a dollar.

Featuring: Danette Truso, Yvonne Pugh and Al Miller, Sobrante Park Time Bank participants; Paul Butler, Sobrante Park Time Bank co-administrator; Craig White, Center for Participatory Change staff member; Coumba Toure, Ashoma Fellow and education with Institute of Public Education; Shilpa Jain, former Shikshantar worker and gift economy participant; Larry Harvey, Burning Man Founder; Skip, Elder Camp member at Burning Man.

For More Information:

Timebanks

www.timebanks.org

Time Banking Sobrante Park–Oakland, CA

http://www.acphd.org/healthequity/ccni/docs/sp_timebank.htm

The Center for Participatory Change –Asheville, NC

http://www.cpcwnc.org/

Horizontal Philanthropy:  The Importance of Giving in Low Wealth Communities

http://www.cpcwnc.org/documents/HorizontalPhilanthropy.pdf

Giving Within Communities:  CPC’s Research on Horizontal Giving

http://www.cpcwnc.org/documents/CPCHorizontalGivingReport.pdf

Shikshantar -Rajasthan, India

http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/

Other Worlds –Albuquerque, MN

http://www.otherworldsarepossible.org/

Burning Man –San Francisco, CA

www.burningman.org

The Gift Economy

http://www.gift-economy.com/

Freecycle

http://www.freecycle.org/

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