The Resistance Roundtable panel speaks with Paul Street (www.paulstreet.org), independent progressive policy researcher, award-winning journalist, historian and author of many books including This Happened Here and They Rule: the 1% v. Democracy.

Paul deconstructs the threat posed by Trump, the Republican Party and a craven corporate media as the nation staggers forward toward the 2024 election.

Panel: Ruthanne Baumgartner, Scott Harris and Richard Hill, May 13, 2023.

My guest today on DITD is Professor Naomi Oreskes who along with her colleague Erik Conway are bestselling authors of the book Merchants of Doubt…about the machinations of the fossil fuel industry,,, and now they have a new tome called the “The Big Myth” which is a startling history of one of America's most tenacious--and destructive--false ideas: the myth of the "free market."

Leah Penniman, author of Farming While Black and co-founder of Soul Fire Farm. She is a Black Kreyol farmer, author, mother, and food justice activist who has been tending the soil and organizing for an anti-racist food system for 25 years.

Leah returns to DITD to talk to me about her new book that is called

Black Earth Wisdom - soulful conversations with black environmentalists. It’s been said that Leah weaves together the lessons from today’s most respected Black environmentalists, those who have cultivated the skill of listening to the lessons that Earth has whispered to them.

My next guest Joe Magazzi small business man here in CT would be helpful to everyone looking to do the right thing by our gardens organically. Joe is a good friend of mine and WPKN. Joe owns and operates Green earth Ag and turf up in Branford Ct. and he’s on line at Grow it naturally. Com. Where his company sells Proven & Easy Organic Products for Plants, Turf & Trees. I personally rely on Green earth to get quality products for my own garden.

A conversation with three members of the Steering Committee of the Six Lakes Coalition, working to create public open space on 102 acres of Olin Company property in southern Hamden

A conversation with three members of the Six Lakes Steering Committee, working to preserve the Olin property in southern Hamden as open space

Two guests discuss the current situation in Cuba:

-- Sandra Levine, executive director of the Center for Cuban Studies based in Brooklyn, NY (www.centerforcubanstudies.org); and

-- Jose Oro, a retired geologist, Cuban immigrant and community organizer based in Wallingford, CT

Interview by Richard Hill, May 10, 2023

-Wildfires rage in Alberta and floods threaten British Columbia

-Beach erosion closes rail line near San Diego

-East Coast of the US may get a foot of sea-level rise by 2050

-Temperatures in the world’s oceans have broken fresh records

-The world is experiencing massive species die-offs

-11 chemical plants in China and one in the US emit a potent climate -pollutant

-South Carolina to get “mega-flex” lithium factory

-Mexican congress tries to limit harmful practices of mining industry

-New York, first state to ban fossil fuel combustion in new buildings?

* MoveOn Targets Fox News' Corporate Advertisers for Funding Dangerous Lies and Disinformation; Rahna Epting, executive director of MoveOn.org; Producer: Scott Harris.

* Census Bureau Prison Gerrymandering Policy Distorts Political Representation; Mike Wessler, communications director, Prison Policy Initiative; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

* Rightwing Billionaire-Funded 'No Labels' Group Financing 2024 Third Party Spoiler Presidential Bid; Andrew Perez, senior editor and reporter at The Lever; Producer: Scott Harris.

Emotion Roadmap & challenges e.g., gender, pronouns, resilience, politics, relationships, death with dignity