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25/01/2019

Ep. 1 Brother, Can You Spare Some Peace of Mind?

In the first episode of Peace of Mind, we’re talking about the fear and madness that characterizes so much of this crazy time in America. Our guests are author Dave Eggers, Glynn Washington (host of Snap Judgement on NPR) and renowned social psychologist, Lee Ross. The song for this episode is “Brother Can You Spare Some Peace of Mind?”Listen to Peace of Mind the album:https://lnk.to/peaceofmindalbumTour dates, vinyl & more:https://peaceofmindpod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25/01/2019

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31 min
31/10/2018

Nevada's Legal Brothels, and a New Effort to Shut Them Down

An initiative on the ballot in Lyon County, NV this November will ask residents to vote on whether or not they want to revoke the county's brothel licenses. All of the county's brothels were owned by Dennis Hof, who died on October 16th. In this episode we talk to one of Hof's working ladies and visit The Mustang Ranch to get a better sense of Nevada's legal brothels and their history.Episode sponsor: Casper Mattresses -- For $50 off select mattresses visit casper.com/range and use Range at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

31/10/2018

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34 min
03/12/2019

Marvel Cooke, a Journalist for Working People

Whose voices and stories have been lost because they were pushed out of journalism altogether? Marvel Cooke was a groundbreaking Black woman journalist who reported on labor in the 1940s and organized a union with the Newspaper Guild in the 1930s, is one of countless storytellers nearly forgotten by history because they were too radical. Lewis Raven Wallace talks to playwright Jacqueline Lawton and editor Carla Murphy about their experiences as Black women rediscovering Cooke’s story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

03/12/2019

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28 min
09/05/2023

S3 Bonus: A Verdict

The day after our season finale last week, we got some incredible news from Guyana: the High Court ruled against the oil company and the government in the big insurance case Melinda Janki filed. KWe caught up with Janki shortly after the verdict was released for this conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

09/05/2023

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30 min
27/03/2020

Standing in the Rising Water

Host Lewis Raven Wallace talks about the need to seize a sense of possibility and imagination during the coronavirus pandemic, reads from The View from Somewhere book about reporting on the end of the world (standing in the rising water), and previews special programming coming soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27/03/2020

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17 min
27/01/2024

The Real Free Speech Threat: Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline

In December 2023, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the comment period on its draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,172-mile pipeline that’s been pumping 500,000 barrels of oil per day since May 2017. The pipeline runs from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to southern Illinois, crossing the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Over the past six years, every court in the country has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers did not study the pipeline’s environmental impact closely enough before approving the pipeline’s route. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has maintained all along that the project poses a serious threat to its drinking water. From April 2016 to February 2017 thousands of water protectors from all over the country (and beyond) joined them in protests and direct actions. The resistance at Standing Rock is often cited by the fossil fuel industry, police and politicians as the reason states need new anti-protest laws, while the backlash to that resistance is often cited by water protectors as the reason for PTSD, asthma, and in some cases lost eyes and limbs. Now, the Army Corps of Engineers says that removing the pipeline would be too damaging to the Missouri River and its surrounding ecosystems. The removal actions it describes in its EIS are the same actions taken to install the pipeline in the first place. The Army Corps suggests that removing the pipeline would be more environmentally harmful than allowing the oil to continue pumping under one of Standing Rock's primary drinking water sources. Nonetheless, this report—seven years late—represents one of the few pathways left to stop the pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe is advocating to seal the pipeline off, while some water protectors are advocating for the pipeline to be removed entirely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27/01/2024

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38 min
03/07/2025

Music as testimony, music for healing with Mary Kouyoumdjian

Today’s guest is composer Mary Kouyoumdjian who collaborated with the Kronos Quartet to release her first recording. An Armenian-American composer & Pulitzer prize finalist who deftly weaves field recordings to masterful compositions, Witness explores her own family history of surviving the Armenian genocide by moving to Lebanon, also impacted by the ravages of war. The exquisite sounds here are woven in with deeply personal stories from family testimony. Listen in to gain insight from Kouyoumdjian and hear moments from the album. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

03/07/2025

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25 min
02/11/2018

Amber Tamblyn on Allies and Playing the Long Game

Author, director, actress, and activist Amber Tamblyn joins Ashley to talk about not letting other people tell you who you are, the importance of a diverse coalition in pushing forward progressive ideals, teaching men to be allies, and how women's anger keeps us in the fight for the long haul. Episode Sponsor: Visit https://gunillaskinalchemy.com/discount/sip and use the code Sip for 15% off your purchase.

02/11/2018

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54 min
01/08/2023

Herb, Ep 3: The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case

In more than 30 climate cases making their way through U.S. courts today, oil companies are using an argument they've been laying the legal groundwork for since the 1970s: that since everything they've ever said about climate change was in the interest of shaping policy or blocking regulation, it's protected speech, even if it was misleading. In this episode we take a look at how those cases are playing out and the likelihood that this new take on "corporate free speech" could make it all the way to the Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

01/08/2023

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27 min
18/04/2023

S3 Ep6 | Old-School Greenwashing

When we first started reporting this story, people unfamiliar with it would suggest talking to local environmental groups. Surely they would have something to say about a massive new polluting industry springing up in the country! But every group we could find operating in Guyana had taken money from Exxon or one of its partners. Several have made promotional videos praising the project. They argue that oil money is no dirtier than any other source of funding, and if it’s there, they may as well take it to do good conservation projects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

18/04/2023

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39 min

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