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Native Hawaiian and Making Contact intern Samson Reiny reports on what happens when the military takes over historically sacred land and on how people are fighting back to reclaim this once pristine area.

Featuring: 

Momi Kamahele, Makua Makahiki cultural advisor

David Henkin, Earth Justice attorney

Kyle Kajihiro, Makua Makahiki member

Fred Dodge, Malama Makua spokesman

Summer Nemeth, English teacher and demilitarization activist

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Invaders From Another Ecosystem

We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging
a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.

Featuring:

Erik Grijalva, Field Operations Manager at the San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project 

Peggy Olofson, Director of the San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project 

Sejal Choksi, Baykeeper & Program Director at San Francisco Baykeeper

Andrew Cohen, Director of the Bioinvasions Program, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Joy Albertson, Biologist at the US Fish & Wildlife San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge; Jay Kasheta, Contractor for Clean Lakes, Inc.

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Radical thinkers, military resisters and longtime movement activists reflect on the past 40 years of resistance movements in the US, where we are today, and what to do next.

Featuring: Noam Chomsky, RESIST founder, leading radical thinker, Professor of Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mandy Carter, founder of Southerners on New Ground (SONG) and founding member of the National Black Justice Coalition; Camilo Mejia, war-resister and anti-war
activist; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist, co-chair of United for Peace and Justice, visiting Professor at Brooklyn College-CUNY.

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Beyond Bars: Community Resistance to Prison Expansion (Encore)

In the U.S., more than 2 million people live behind prison bars. Dr. Ruth Gilmore, a professor and long-time prison activist, extracts lessons from over two decades of community organizing against what’s been termed the "biggest prison building project in the history of the world."

Featuring: Dr. Ruth Gilmore, Critical Resistance co-founder and USC geography professor; Khalid An-Nur, person formerly imprisoned; Vanessa Huang, Justice Now!; Miss Major, Trans in Prison Committee; Zachary Norris, Books Not Bars.

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Looking Back, Moving Forward 2007

As the year 2007 ends, we reflect on three key issues we covered this past year and hear the voices of: the immigrant labor force in post-hurricane New Orleans, domestic workers in the United States, and Iraqi refugees on the streets of Damascus.

Featuring:

First segment from New Orleans: Arthur Robinson, independent business owner; Israel Lopez, immigrant labor worker; Marco Amador, New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice field worker & National Day Laborer Organizing Network member.

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Investing in Insecurity Along U.S. Borders. 

In 2006, the Bush Administration’s Secure Border Initiative outsourced the surveillance of all U.S. land borders to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. We will visit the Boeing security site in Arizona and we’ll talk to "No One is Illegal" organizer, Harjap Grewal.

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For several years, Native Americans and Non-Native Americans have gathered to discuss meaningful ways of living together and rectifying relationships between First Nation and North American peoples.

Blair Brown, actress and board member of People for the American Way and the New York Cultural Advisory Council; Shirley Hager, the Center for Vision and
Policy; Gkisedtanamoogk, spiritual leader in Canada; Miigam’agan, resident of the Mi’kmaq tribe and a participant in the gathering; Wayne Newell and
Wesley Rothermel, participants in the gathering; Leo Bartibogue, lobster fisherman from Burnt Church, Canada.

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