Today we refocus on the proposed Keystone XL project as the public comment period comes to an end. It's basically up to Obama now and he gets to decide the fate of the planet (sort of).
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Keystone XL Time to end the addiction - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date: 01-31-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Addiction - Welcome to Medina
Ch. 4: Act 2: Keystone to America: Bend Over and Take it! - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 02-07-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Making Progress - Wicked Lies
Ch. 6: Act 3: NBC Says Pipeline Decision More Important To Presidential Image Than To Climate Change - @FAIRmediawatch - Air Date 2-7-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: We Are the Many - Ripe
Ch. 8: Act 4: Facts Buried, Oil Sands Dug Up & The Environment Pays The Price - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 02-09-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Perpetuum Mobile - Preludes, Airs and Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer)
Ch. 10: Act 5: Van Jones debunks myths behind the Keystone Pipeline on Crossfire - @VanJones68 - Air Date: 02-10-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Bad Idea - Bad Idea
Ch. 12: Act 6: Huge Tar Sands Pipeline Protest in Washington - @greennewsreport - Air Date 3-4-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get - Vauxhall and I
Ch. 14: Act 7: CPAC Panel on How to Deny Climate Change - @majorityfm - Air Date: 03-05-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Living a Lie (feat. James Mercer) - Charmer
Ch. 16: Act 8: Paul Ryan Stuns CNN Host: Keystone XL Will Solve Russian Ukraine Invasion - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 03-07-14
Ch. 17: Song 8: That's All - Arrow
Ch. 18: Act 9: 350.org (@350) Campaigns - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 19: Song 9: Activism - The Poet
Ch. 20: Act 10: Bill McKibben to Obama: Say No to Big Oil Part 1 - @billmoyersHQ - Air Date 2-7-14
Ch. 21: Song 10: Moment of Truth - Diversity
Ch. 22: Act 11: Jack Gerard's American Petroleum Institute - @MarkFiore Animation - Air Date: 02-27-14
Ch. 23: Song 11: The 350 Movement October 24, 2009 - The Day the World Came Together.
Ch. 24: Act 12: Bill McKibben to Obama: Say No to Big Oil Part 2 - @billmoyersHQ - Air Date 2-7-14
Voicemails
Ch. 25: Defending Matt's self-identification as 'queer' - Tanya in California
Ch. 26: Trying to get there on trans issues - Jane from Boston
Ch. 27: Don't need to know the details about trans people to defend them - Dan from Milwaukee, WI
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 28: Final comments about my bad, angry day
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
ACTIVISM:
Start And Win Campaigns To Protect Our Common Future from 350.org
Additional Activism
”Say No To Corporate Power Grabs: Reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership” from 350.org Campaigns
Sources/further reading:
"Keystone sides rush to meet deadline,” The Hill
"Opportunistic right wingers push nonsense on Keystone XL” from Green News Report (3/06/14)
KeyStone Protest Photography from independent photojournalist Jenna Pope
"Climate Change is The Context of Our Times — interview with Tim DeChristopher" from Acronym TV with Dennis Trainor, Jr
"State Dept's Keystone XL Contractor, ERM Group, Also OK'd Controversial Pebble Mine in Alaska” by Steve Horn at DeSmog Blog
"EPA Moves To Block Massive Alaskan Gold And Copper Mine” by Katie Sheppard
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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