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Rocky Top Sunrise is a podcast where we talk about what it means to fight for climate justice and a Green New Deal in the South with Sunrise Movement. We explore how every issue intersects with climate and how a Green New Deal will help bring them all together. Our goal is to win the South - because if you win the South, you win the nation.

Rocky Top Sunrise is part of The TN Holler Podcast Network. Visit www.tnholler.com to keep up with The Tennessee Holler's relentless coverage that seeks to lift up progressive voices and shine a light on injustices throughout Tennessee.

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Rocky Top Sunrise is a podcast where we talk about what it means to fight for climate justice and a Green New Deal in the South with Sunrise Movement. We explore how every issue intersects with climate and how a Green New Deal will help bring them all together. Our goal is to win the South - because if you win the South, you win the nation.

Rocky Top Sunrise is part of The TN Holler Podcast Network. Visit www.tnholler.com to keep up with The Tennessee Holler's relentless coverage that seeks to lift up progressive voices and shine a light on injustices throughout Tennessee.

    The Battle Against the Byhalia Pipeline

    The Battle Against the Byhalia Pipeline

    Hale and Cassie are joined by Justin Pearson, one of the co-founders of grassroots movement Memphis Community Against The Pipeline (MCAP). They dig into the movement's fight against the Byhalia Connection Pipeline and the ongoing environmental injustices happening right now in Memphis, Tennessee.

    Check out Memphis Community Against the Pipeline

    Go to a rally against the pipeline on Saturday, May 1 at 2 pm CT in Memphis

    Sign the petition to tell city council members to vote to protect Memphis' drinking water on Tuesday

    Volunteer with MCAP

    Sunrise Tennessee Interest Form

    Find out what Native Land you are living on

    Follow Sunrise Tennessee on Twitter and Facebook.

    Rocky Top Sunrise is a proud member of The Tennessee Holler Podcast Network. Visit tnholler.com to keep up with The Tennessee Holler's relentless coverage that seeks to lift up progressive voices and shine a light on injustices throughout Tennessee.

    • 41 min
    Regrounding Ourselves in the Movement

    Regrounding Ourselves in the Movement

    Hale, Isabella, Owen, and Cassie join forces for a regrounding episode where we talk about what we are doing as a Movement here in Tennessee and what the larger fight looks like within the context of the Biden Administration. We also preview our next episode which will be on the fight against the Byhalia Pipeline in Memphis. (+ some ridiculous outtakes on the big dumb boat and the Kentucky Creation Museum)

    Check out Memphis Community Against the Pipeline to get a preview of what is going down before the next episode

    Sunrise Tennessee Interest Form

    Find out what Native Land you are living on

    Follow Sunrise Tennessee on Twitter and Facebook.

    Rocky Top Sunrise is a proud member of The Tennessee Holler Podcast Network. Visit tnholler.com to keep up with The Tennessee Holler's relentless coverage that seeks to lift up progressive voices and shine a light on injustices throughout Tennessee.

    • 42 min
    Karl Marx and the Tennessee State Legislature

    Karl Marx and the Tennessee State Legislature

    The Tennessee State Legislature has been up to no good, so we decided to give y'all a bit of an update...with a twist. Cassie updates us on a few highlights (or lowlights) of what they've been up to while Hale puts everything into the context of a broader, approachable, Marxist perspective. Sunrise Movement isn't just pushing for progress on climate change, we are trying to realign the nation to a place where people are culturally receptive to the socialist(ish) underpinnings of the Green New Deal, which is why understanding what's underneath the actions of the status quo Republicans are doing is so crucial.

    Sunrise Tennessee Interest Form

    Find out what Native Land you are living on

    Follow Sunrise Tennessee on Twitter and Facebook.

    Rocky Top Sunrise is a proud member of The Tennessee Holler Podcast Network. Visit tnholler.com to keep up with The Tennessee Holler's relentless coverage that seeks to lift up progressive voices and shine a light on injustices throughout Tennessee.

    • 58 min
    Grading Biden

    Grading Biden

    Rick Herron, climate guru and Hub Coordinator for Sunrise Nashville, joins Owen and Cassie to help us grade how the Biden Administration has done so far, and what we would still like to see. We are cautiously optimistic but still have a long...LONG way to go.

    Sunrise Tennessee Interest Form

    Find out what Native Land you are living on

    Follow Sunrise Tennessee on Twitter and Facebook.

    Rocky Top Sunrise is a proud member of The Tennessee Holler Podcast Network. Visit tnholler.com to keep up with The Tennessee Holler's relentless coverage that seeks to lift up progressive voices and shine a light on injustices throughout Tennessee.

    • 34 min
    The Intersectionality Between Climate and Reproductive Justice

    The Intersectionality Between Climate and Reproductive Justice

    Hosts Isabella and Hale speak with Osub Ahmed, a senior analyst at the Center for American Progress, on the intersection between the climate crisis and reproductive rights. This is often an overlooked subject both in media and day-to-day conversations. That's why we decided to dig deep and dissect the important relationship between the two.

    Read the Environmental Reproductive Justice research

    Check out In Your Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda

    Sunrise Tennessee Interest Form

    Find out what Native Land you are living on

    Follow Sunrise Tennessee on Twitter and Facebook.

    Rocky Top Sunrise is a proud member of The Tennessee Holler Podcast Network. Visit tnholler.com to keep up with The Tennessee Holler's relentless coverage that seeks to lift up progressive voices and shine a light on injustices throughout Tennessee.

    • 47 min
    Tennessean Insurrectionists and the Importance of Antifascism

    Tennessean Insurrectionists and the Importance of Antifascism

    Journalists Abby Lee Hood and Matt Bastin join to talk about Tennesseans' involvement in the undemocratic coup attempt by MAGA insurrectionists that took place at our Capitol last week. We explore the moment we are in and where to go from here, including how it is more important now than ever to include antifascism into everything we do. Not only is supporting antifascism the right thing to do, but we will never pass a Green New Deal or any other progressive legislation if we don't both practice antifascism and push for democratic reforms.

    Read Matt and Abby Lee's piece in Tennessee Lookout that inspired this episode

    Support Abby Lee

    Support Matt

    Read Angela Davis' Abolition Democracy Beyond Empire Prisons & Torture

    Sunrise Tennessee Interest Form

    Join DSA

    Volunteer for The Equity Alliance

    Find out what Native Land you are living on

    Follow Sunrise Tennessee on Twitter and Facebook.

    Rocky Top Sunrise is a proud member of The Tennessee Holler Podcast Network. Visit tnholler.com to keep up with The Tennessee Holler's relentless coverage that seeks to lift up progressive voices and shine a light on injustices throughout Tennessee.

    • 1 hr 38 min

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Can’t recommend this podcast enough! If you’re confused by climate change, the green new deal, the cross between environmental and social justice etc. but want to learn then this is the podcast for you!

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