(2016/09/16) Protecting from the black snake (Dakota Access Pipeline)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 16 September 2016
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1042
Today we look in on the convergence of Native American and First Nations tribes in North Dakota to protect the water from the Dakota Access Pipeline
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Will The Lakota Tribe's Black Snake Prophecy Come True? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 08-19-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: People of the First Light - Russell Patrick
Ch. 4: Act 2: Standing Rock #nodapl - Levitate Media Group - Air Date 9-3-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: N/A
Ch. 7: Song 3: Cherry Creek Singers - No DAPL song
Ch. 8: Act 4: Native Woman Bitten By Dogs DEBUNKS Media Falsehoods - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 09-08-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Song for Mother Earth - Lakota
Ch. 10: Act 5: The regulatory loophole that allows easy permitting for new pipelines - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 9-12-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Shove Your Pipeline - Frank Nawrot
Ch. 12: Act 6: Eminent Domain? Iowans Sue to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline, Say It Provides No Public Service - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 09-07-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: As Long As the Grass Grows - Randy Wood
Ch. 14: Act 7: Why fossil fuels companies are rushing to build old infrastructure - @GreenNewsReport - Air Date 9-13-16
Ch. 15: Song 7: Ode to Nature - Brulé
Ch. 16: Act 8: Tell President Obama to Revoke USACE Permits & STOP the Dakota Access Pipeline #NoDAPL via @350 - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 17: Song 8: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Ch. 18: Act 9: Water Protectors at Standing Rock React to Obama's Intervention in Dakota Access Pipeline Battle - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 09-12-16
Voicemails
Ch. 19: Violence against protesters - Frank
Ch. 20: Determining the end of a dogs life - Sunny from St. Paul, MN
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 21: Final comments on how my Climate Ride went and how well I’m recovering
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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EDUCATE YOURSELF
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Moments After Judge Denies DAPL Injunction, Federal Agencies Intervene
What You Need to Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest
Alabama, Georgia declare state of emergency after pipeline spill
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| 0:00.0 | This is not responsible decision-making. |
| 0:03.2 | The black snake that's being proposed here, |
| 0:05.8 | it's head, it's brain is in Texas, |
| 0:08.6 | where this corporation is, |
| 0:10.2 | but it's lies in Washington, D.C. |
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| 0:24.6 | Now, welcome to the award winning best of a left podcast |
| 0:27.0 | with clips today from the Tom Hartman program, |
| 0:29.6 | the documentary by the Levitate Media Group, |
| 0:32.5 | Democracy Now, The Young Turks, The Bradcast, |
| 0:35.6 | and The Green Newtripport. |
| 0:45.7 | You know, we talk about minorities in the United States, |
| 0:48.6 | and typically that's code for African-Americans and Latinos |
| 0:54.8 | more marginally. |
| 0:59.2 | And I don't mean that in a negative sense. |
| 1:00.7 | I mean, just, you know, numerically, |
| 1:05.8 | that also includes Asian-Americans. |
| 1:08.2 | And in some cases, women are referred to as minorities. |
| 1:11.9 | I think that that has by and large changed. |
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