Jason Stanley: If Re-Elected, Trump Vows Fascist Regime from Day One

Morgan Fox: Although Federal Agencies Recommend Changes to Marijuana Classification, Major Reforms Unlikely

Carrie Baker: U.S. Courts Uphold States’ Extremist Abortion Laws Endangering Lives

Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary

• Somalia attempts to nullify Ethiopia’s Red Sea port plan

• Most states don't warn about "forever chemicals" in fish

• Los Angeles landlords forcing rent-stabilized dwellers out

Former UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Now Killed 25,000 Palestinians

Climate Defiance organizer Maxwell Downing: Direct Action Climate Group Targets Retiring Sen, Joe Manchin as “Climate Super Villain”

Stand Up America's Tishan Weerasooriya: Supreme Court Poised to Decimate Federal Regulations on Pollution, Climate, Public Health

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• 4 ways to ease Cuba's humanitarian crisis

• NYPD faces backlash as it plans to encrypt radio communications

• Labor law violations federal investigations fall to record low

Former UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Now Killed 25,000 Palestinians

Climate Defiance organizer Maxwell Downing: Direct Action Climate Group Targets Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin as “Climate Super Villain”

Stand Up America's Tishan Weerasooriya: Supreme Court Poised to Decimate Federal Regulations on Pollution, Climate, Public Health

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• 4 ways to ease Cuba's humanitarian crisis

• NYPD faces backlash as it plans to encrypt radio communications

• Labor law violations federal investigations fall to record low

My guest now is Raju Rajan. Raju describes himself as a technologist with a strong communitarian ethic. Raju is one of the founders of ReWild Long Island and currently serves as Board President. Raju is an avid gardener and amateur tree-enthusiast, he also owns and manages a small agroforest in India dedicated to rewilding and permaculture.

ReWild Long Island is accepting applications from community groups to join their ReWild LI Gardens program.

I'd like to welcome in here to digging in the dirt, my friend Joe Magazzi, president of Green Earth Ag And Turf a company that is a leader in wholesale distribution of organic products for plants, trees and turf with thirteen years of experience and expertise in the green industries. Their motto is All we do are organics. He's here to talk about his First annual Green Earth Ag & Turf Webinar dedicated to teaching more natural and organic application programs and promoting sustainability.

-EPA will have 1 Billion to clean-up the Great Lakes

-U.S. plans to conserve and steward old-growth forests on

national forests

-Miami septic tanks leaking Nutrients and fecal bacteria

-California to enforce laws on over-pumping of groundwater

-The Bering snow crab season will be closed for 2023-2024

-Egyptian government approves incentives for green hydrogen

projects

-It's official 2023 was Earth’s warmest year in a century and a half

-Blinken says Healthy soil is increasingly an issue of national

security

-Federal rule will force crack down on methane gas emissions

-One of the largest coal plants to be be replaced by the nation’s

biggest solar farm

-Kashmir India’s mountains having snowless winter

-India to achieve 65 percent of its power capacity from non-

fossil-fuel sources

-US Department of Defense will install rooftop solar on the

Pentagon

The January 21, 2024 episode of Mic Check was a re-broadcast of host Mike Merli's January 1 interview with Mahmoud Abbas, a Palestinian activist based right here in Connecticut.

Mahmoud shares his story, and speaks as an organizer with Bridgeport for Ceasefire, a diverse and inclusive grassroots campaign, led by local Palestinians and Muslims, that organized for a Ceasefire Resolution at the municipal level here in Bridgeport.

The resolution was conceived by, and put forth by, City Council Member Jazmarie Melendez, whose community organizing and activism began six years ago, when she and her family suffered a very personal tragedy and injustice.

On May 9, 2017, her 15 year-old brother Jayson Negron was shot and killed by Bridgeport Police.

Having that first-hand experience of being directly impacted by state violence, Jazmarie powerfully decided she wanted her first official act as a Bridgeport City Council Member to be putting forth a Ceasefire Resolution in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and calling upon the City Council to take a stand against the ongoing genocide being committed by Israel.

In this conversation, Mahmoud speaks about the important historical context, and the everyday conditions that Palestinians face, in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank.

The night after this conversation took place, Bridgeport made history by becoming the first city in Connecticut to pass a Ceasefire Resolution.

For more information on the successful Bridgeport for Ceasefire campaign:

www.instagram.com/bpt4ceasefire

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/10/headlines/san_francisco_bridgeport_ct_albany_are_latest_us_municipalities_to_pass_ceasefire_resolutions

https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2024-01-03/bridgeport-becomes-first-city-in-ct-to-adopt-gaza-ceasefire-resolution

https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/bridgeport-council-gaza-peace-jewish-muslim-18586339.php

https://pequonnock.blogspot.com/2024/01/bridgeport-passes-gaza-ceasefire.html

https://www.fox61.com/video/news/politics/bridgeport-city-council-calls-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-the-real-story/520-b9a4cbab-243c-4d60-85d5-f264a52fd1c0

Michael Zweig, economist, labor historian and author of the just released book "Race, Class and Gender -- Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism," discusses the momentous labor action in 2023 and offers his forecast for labor in 2024.

Interview by Richard Hill

The Resistance panel interviews India Walton, the Black woman who rocked the political establishment in Buffalo, NY, when she beat the centrist mayor in that city's primary. She is currently an activist and writer with Roots Action (www.rootsaction.org), a progressive advocacy and action group.

Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill