Climate Change Activists Given Long Prison Sentences While Big Oil Makes Super-Profits
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how activists trying to defend the environment are being sent to prison for many years and Indigenous communities and frontline water protectors are being targeted with vicious repression. They also discuss voting rights, the indictment of the Trump Organization, the death of war criminal Donald Rumsfeld, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | While big oil and big gas are making profits hand over fist and continuing to destroy the environment, |
| 0:07.2 | they also enjoy unfettered access to politicians and policymakers in the capitalist establishment. |
| 0:13.3 | Meanwhile, activists trying to defend the environment are being sent to prison for many years, |
| 0:17.8 | and indigenous communities and frontline water protectors are being targeted with vicious repression. |
| 0:23.1 | We discussed this, voting rights, the indictment of the Trump organization, the death of war criminal Donald Rumsfeld, and more. |
| 0:30.9 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:39.3 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on The Socialist Program with Brian |
| 1:11.0 | Becker. It's July 6th, 2021. This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news |
| 1:16.4 | right now, today, and this week. We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the |
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| 1:33.0 | with Brian next Wednesday, July 14th at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific. I'm Nicole |
| 1:39.8 | Russell here with Esther Evern, Walter Smalererick, and our host, Brian Becker. S3Evaram is also the host of the |
| 1:46.6 | radio show and podcast On the Ground at On The Ground Show.org. Make sure to check out on the ground, |
| 1:52.0 | which comes out weekly on Fridays. Brian, there's, as always, a number of stories we want to get to |
| 1:57.9 | today. So where do you want to start? Well, I think the most important |
| 2:01.5 | thing is to start with the environment. And as you mentioned, Nicole, in the introduction, |
| 2:07.7 | activists from all over the country are in the streets. They're also at pipelines. They're putting |
| 2:14.0 | their bodies and lives on the line. They're trying to stop what appears to be |
| 2:19.4 | inevitable unless the capitalists are stopped, which is to have climate change or climate catastrophe |
| 2:25.6 | reach a point where it becomes irreversible and planet Earth is no longer able to sustain |
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