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* Georgia GOP Voter Suppression the Media Missed, Likely to Spread Across the U.S. Greg Palast, investigative reporter and author Producer: Scott Harris.

* Starbucks Continues Use of Anti-Union Tactics to Stop Worker’s Success in Gaining Union Recognition Aleah Bacetti, Starbucks Workers United union organizer Producer: Melinda Tuhus

* Nursing Homes Unprepared for Ongoing Deadly COVID Pandemic Jennifer Nuzzo, Prof. of Epidemiology & Dir. of Pandemic Center, Brown University's School of Public Health Producer: Scott Harris

Excerpts from the 2022 Day of Mourning, held every year since 1970 (except 2020) by the United American Indians of New England on Cole's Hill, in Plymouth, MA. It is a day when only indigenous people speak, from all over Turtle Island (North America) and beyond.

Michael Zweig, author, organizer and professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, discusses the rail workers' double cross by Congress and the president in their effort to secure a fair contract.

Interview by Richard Hill

A House in Lahore -- Growing Up Jewish in Pakistan, is a just-released memoire by Hazel Kahan, WPKN's host of Tidings and North Fork Works.

She discusses the many facets of her remarkable story with host Richard Hill.

-Sea levels are likely rising faster than previously thought

-Nine of 10 U.S. counties experienced climate disasters

-UN: climate change is affecting the world’s water resources.

- largest landfill solar project in North America goes online

-Puerto Rico may $3 billion dollars for rooftop solar energy and storage

-$50 million in funding made available to clean up orphaned oil and gas wells

-Indonesia to pay fisherman $10 per week, to collect plastic from ocean

-Denmark building two energy islands to accelerate Europe's green transition.

* Israel's Dangerous New Ultranationalist Government Likely to Trigger Crisis; Mel Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, former CIA Analyst; Producer: Scott Harris.

* Climate Activists Mobilize Support for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty; Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder, Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

* The Wider Impact of Elon Musk's Devolution of Twitter; Nora Benavidez, Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice and Civil Rights at FreePress.net; Producer: Scott Harris.

MY next guest here on DITD is Ellie Coffey who, like me has been interested in gardening since she was a child. She has been a master gardener since 2010 and currently she is on the board of directors at the Westerly Armory in Westerly, Rhode Island. The organization was looking for new ideas and Ellie suggested a get-together for farmers and people who are interested in gardening and farming and healthy eating. Hence… there is now the upcoming event in January called the Regenerative Agriculture Weekend. There is a great line-up of speakers, many who have been guests here on DITD. She is here today to talk about the event she is organize called The regen Ag Weekend

My guest today is Tianna Kennedy. She has been farming in the Northern Catskills for over a decade. She is the executive director of Catskills Agrarian Alliance, a multi-stakeholder food sovereignty project working on many food related issues in the NY Catskills foodshed. Tianna, Amanda Wong and Walter Riesen also own and operate Star Route Farm, LLC, a diversified vegetable and small grain farm growing exclusively for mutual aid. The CAA evolved from The 607 CSA, an 800+ person multi-farm Community Supported Agriculture Project supporting 45 farms and food businesses in Otsego, Schoharie, and Delaware counties. Tianna is a member of the Watershed Ag Economic Viability Committee and is Treasurer for Draft Animal Power Network. In 2022, she was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition by Rep. Antonio Delgado. She started the Catskills Chapter of the National Young Farmers’ Coalition. She is also a founding member of Delhi’s Bushel Collective and the Schooner Apollonia, a Hudson Valley Sail Freight venture.

Puerto Rican cities sue fossil fuel giants under the RICO Act.

2 million Houston residents need to boil water to cook and clean

Mississippi River backs up 3,000 barges due to low water levels

The Irish Constitution may change to protect biodiversity.

Fuel prices having ‘catastrophic consequences’ on EU fisheries,

The Global Plastics Treaty coming?

Protections for shark species, turtles, lizards and frogs enacted

Hemp major absorber of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

* The Republican Party’s Devolution into a Violent, White Supremacist Threat to Democracy; John Nichols, The Nation magazine's national affairs correspondent; Producer: Scott Harris.

* Republicans Blame Single Women for their Midterm Election Losses; Amanda Marcotte, author and Senior Politics Writer with Salon.com; Producer: Scott Harris.

* Letter from US political prisoner Leonard Peltier; Herbie Waters, Herbie Waters, student at Boston University; Herbie Waters reads at “Thanksgiving,” Day of Mourning Event Peltier’s letter.