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Updated 29/10/2018
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Updated 26/02/2020
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Updated 06/01/2019
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Updated 28/11/2018
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Updated 27/05/2019
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26/10/2018

Marcia Tillman and Lynn Adrianna on Auditioning, Acting, and Being Brave in Hollywood

Marcia (Wright) Tillman and Lynn Adrianna gives us the ins and outs of being a working actress in Hollywood—how to get the training, how to get the auditions, and how to handle rejection. You can see Marcia in The Hate U Give in theaters now, directed by her husband George Tillman, Jr. Lynn and Marcia both teach acting at the I Am Marcia Tillman Actors Studio. More info here: http://www.iammarciatillmanactorstudio.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26/10/2018

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49 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
27/01/2024

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
21/08/2025

Haley Fohr and Circuit des Yeux

Sound Off explores creativity at the intersection of art, music, and literature, to dig into what that work and the people making it tell us about art and life in the 21st century. Today’s guest is Haley Fohr, who makes stunning music as Circuit des Yeux. Her new album “Halo on the Inside" came out on the Matador label this spring. It's a defiant beat heavy exploration of our own humanity. In this conversation between Fohr and Henriksen you'll learn all about Fohr's fascination with the mythological creature Pan, why she worked at night to create the album and all about how she found her own voice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21/08/2025

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21 min
07/06/2022

S2, Ep 6 | False Friends of the Court

I have been wondering for months what possible sense it makes for every right-wing think tank to have an amicus program. I mean...is any judge really surprised to learn that the Cato Institute is against regulation? But these are not folks who spend money on things for no reason, and the presence and size of amicus programs at conservative "public interest" law firms and think tanks have been growing exponentially over the years, so I reached out to the only person I've ever seen mention this in public: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. He had all the answers I was looking for and then some. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

07/06/2022

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24 min
12/05/2022

S2 | Ep4: What Can the UN Actually Do About Climate?

Compensation for climate change has been a hot topic at the UN since the early 90s. For countries already experiencing what the UN calls loss and damage the main goal has always been to prevent more damage. But fossil fuel lobbyists had different ideas. Now a new IPCC report gives evidence that could influence what happens at the UN and in court cases around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/05/2022

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25 min

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