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What if 2016 had been the last presidential election election in American history? What if Republicans are successful in destroying democracy in America once and for all? Each week Chris Savage and MoReno Taylor II of Eclectablog.com bring you the top minds, news, and tactics in electoral politics to help turn words into votes and save our democracy.

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What if 2016 had been the last presidential election election in American history? What if Republicans are successful in destroying democracy in America once and for all? Each week Chris Savage and MoReno Taylor II of Eclectablog.com bring you the top minds, news, and tactics in electoral politics to help turn words into votes and save our democracy.

    Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty

    Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty

    Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff

    Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising

    Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com

    Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @SeanMcBreartyMI

    Clean Water Action Michigan on Twitter: @CleanWaterMI

    Water and Oil Don't Mix on Twitter: @OilWaterDntMix

    Clean Water Action's website: CleanWater.org/states/michigan

    Water and Oil Don't Mix's website: OilAndWaterDontMix.org





    Enbridge, the company responsible for the worst oil spill in Michigan history, runs a pair of pipelines along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac just west of the Mackinac Bridge. Each day they pump 540,000 barrels -- nearly 1 million gallons of petroleum per hour -- of petroleum products through the pipelines as they take a shortcut from one part of Canada to another by routing it through our state.







    Here’s a map that shows how Line 5 is simply a shortcut through Michigan for Enbridge:





    Image courtesy of For Love of Water (FLOW)



    Chris Savage at Eclectablog: Big Oil AstroTurf group comes to the rescue of Enbridge Energy and its ticking time bomb, the 66-year old Line 5 pipeline



    Ron Fonger at MLive: Flint mismanaged service line replacements, failed to keep promises, judge says



    Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog.

    MoReno Taylor II can be found on Twitter at @MI_MADE_Man.



    Support the pod by becoming a Patreon donor HERE!



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    The GOTMFV Show Facebook page is HERE!



    Music clips

    Intro and transition music: Tell Me What I Want to Hear by Mike Wagner/Total Strangers

    Outro music: Complain (from the movie Bob Roberts) by David Robbins & Tim Robbins

    • 1 hr 3 min
    EVERY issue is a disability issue – wsg Kimberly Knackstedt with the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative

    EVERY issue is a disability issue – wsg Kimberly Knackstedt with the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative

    Kim Knackstedt on Twitter: @kiknack



    The Century Foundation on Twitter: @TCFdotorg



    The Disability Economic Justice Collaborative on Twitter: @DEJCollab



    The Century Foundation's website is at TCF.org



    The Disability Economic Justice Collaborative's website is at DEJC.org



    Kim Knackstedt's bio can be found HERE.



    Kim Knackstedt and Rebeccas Vallas discuss the DEJC's disability economic justice policy framework at The Century Foundation: How to Embed a Disability Economic Justice Policy Framework in Domestic Policy Making







    Susan Demas at Michigan Advance: What we owe our children after the horror at MSU



    Jon King at Michigan Advance: Karamo beats DePerno in Michigan GOP chair race, moving the party further right



    TV6 News: Michigan Democrats introduces gun violence prevention bills



    Steve Carmody at Michigan Radio: Gun rights group says it will try to recall Michigan lawmakers who vote for new gun legislation



    Laina Stebbins at Michigan Advance: Two Senate Republicans stripped of leadership, committee assignments for delaying tax vote



    Isaac Arnsdorf at The Washington Post: Far-right election denier beats Trump’s pick for Michigan GOP



    Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog.

    MoReno Taylor II can be found on Twitter at @MI_MADE_Man.



    Support the pod by becoming a Patreon donor HERE!



    Give us a five-star review at iTunes!



    The GOTMFV Show Facebook page is HERE!



    Music clips

    Intro and transition music: Tell Me What I Want to Hear by Mike Wagner/Total Strangers

    Outro music: a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?

    • 44 min
    Finding & training the next generation of New American leaders – wsg Ghida Dagher

    Finding & training the next generation of New American leaders – wsg Ghida Dagher

    Ghida Dagher on Twitter: @GhidaDagher

    New American Leadership on Twitter: @NewAmericanLd

    New American Leadership Action Fund on Twitter: @NALActionFund

    New American Leadership's website: NewAmericanLeaders.org

    New American Leadership Fund's website: NALAF.org

    Learn more about New American Leadership's training program HERE.





    Paul Egan at the Detroit Free Press: State budget director defends spending plan that drains $9.2B surplus

    Beth LeBlanc and Craig Mauger at The Detroit News: Michigan House OKs Democratic tax plan as tensions hit Capitol

    Craig Mauger at The Detroit News: Ex-governor hopeful Perry Johnson exploring presidential bid, preps Super Bowl ad



    Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog.

    MoReno Taylor II can be found on Twitter at @MI_MADE_Man.



    Support the pod by becoming a Patreon donor HERE!



    Give us a five-star review at iTunes!



    The GOTMFV Show Facebook page is HERE!



    Music clips

    Intro and transition music: Tell Me What I Want to Hear by Mike Wagner/Total Strangers

    Outro music: Complain (from the movie Bob Roberts) by David Robbins & Tim Robbins

    • 40 min
    Governing in the majority – wsg Rep. Natalie Price and Sen. Erika Geiss

    Governing in the majority – wsg Rep. Natalie Price and Sen. Erika Geiss

    Natalie Price on Twitter: @VoteNPrice



    Natalie Price at the Michigan House Democrats' website: HouseDems.com/Natalie-Price



    Erika Geiss on Twitter: @SenErikaGeiss



    Erika Geiss at the Michigan Senate Democrats' website: SenateDems.com/Geiss



    Follow the Michigan Democrats and their legislative agenda at Legislature.MI.gov





    Anna Gustafson at Michigan Advance: After years of misogyny, racism and threats in Lansing, progressive women are in charge



    Ken Coleman at Michigan Advance: Advocates make the case for an EITC hike before the State of the State address



    Laina Stebbins at Michigan Advance: House, Senate pass bills to boost Earned Income Tax Credit, repeal pension tax



    Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog.

    MoReno Taylor II can be found on Twitter at @MI_MADE_Man.



    Support the pod by becoming a Patreon donor HERE!



    Give us a five-star review at iTunes!



    The GOTMFV Show Facebook page is HERE!



    Music clips

    Intro and transition music: Tell Me What I Want to Hear by Mike Wagner/Total Strangers

    Outro music: Complain (from the movie Bob Roberts) by David Robbins & Tim Robbins

    • 41 min
    Feeding ourselves without destroying the climate – wsg journalist and author Michael Grunwald

    Feeding ourselves without destroying the climate – wsg journalist and author Michael Grunwald

    Mike Grunwald on Twitter: @MikeGrunwald



    Listen to the Climavores podcast HERE.



    Buy Michael Grunwald's book The New New Deal in paperback HERE and for Kindle HERE.



    Buy Michael Grunwald's book The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise HERE.



    Mike Grunwald at Politico: My Life In the Elusive Green Economy



    Mike Grunwald at Canary Media: This Super-Tree Could Help Feed the World and Fight Climate Change



    Mike Grunwald at Canary Media: Afraid of high-tech food? Get over it



    Mike Grunwald at The New York Times: No One Wants to Say ‘Put Down That Burger,’ but We Really Should



    Excerpt:

    “The basic problem is that we’ve converted half of Earth’s habitable land into agricultural land. We’re destroying and degrading the habitats of other species to grow food for our own.”



    “The crux is that if current eating and farming trends continue, the world will clear land equal to at least one and a quarter Indias by 2050. That would be a disaster for the climate and wildlife, dooming carbon-rich and biodiverse ecosystems like the Amazon and Congo rainforests.”



    “About a third of the food grown on Earth is lost or tossed before it reaches our mouths, which means a third of the land (as well as the water, fertilizer and other resources) used to grow that food is also wasted.”



    Beth LeBlanc and Craig Mauger at The Detroit News: Michigan Democrats' first bills include right-to-work repeal, prevailing wage



    Mitch Smith at The New York Times: Statehouse Democrats Embrace an Unfamiliar Reality: Full Power





    Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog.

    MoReno Taylor II can be found on Twitter at @MI_MADE_Man.



    Support the pod by becoming a Patreon donor HERE!

    • 50 min
    The Triumph and Tragedy of Detroit – wsg historian and journalist Ken Coleman

    The Triumph and Tragedy of Detroit – wsg historian and journalist Ken Coleman

    Ken Coleman on Twitter: @HistoryLivesDet



    Ken Coleman is on Facebook HERE.



    Ken Coleman's work at Michigan Advance can be found HERE.



    BOOKS MENTIONED DURING THE POD:



    The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas Sugrue



    The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson



    Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog.

    MoReno Taylor II can be found on Twitter at @MI_MADE_Man.



    Support the pod by becoming a Patreon donor HERE!



    Give us a five-star review at iTunes!



    The GOTMFV Show Facebook page is HERE!



    Music clips

    Intro and transition music: Tell Me What I Want to Hear by Mike Wagner/Total Strangers

    Outro music: Complain (from the movie Bob Roberts) by David Robbins & Tim Robbins

    • 1 hr 1 min