One More Summer Event! Featuring the authors of Against Tech Oligarchy
In anticipation of their imminent book tour in major cities across the country, Clarissa Redwine (Kopkind alum) and JS Tan, co-authors of the soon-to-be-published Against Tech Oligarchy, are planning a series of mock trials of the tech oligarchs whom their book indicts through accounts from workers at Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, etc. First in the dock: Jeff Bezos.
On Saturday, August 22, at 7 pm, in a free public event sponsored by Kopkind, witnesses will present evidence of the Amazon executive’s most notable injuries to the working class. Presenting the case-against along with Tan and Redwine will be local educator Lucy Johnston. Join us at the Organ Barn for a boisterous, cathartic celebration of working-class solidarity and power. 158 Kopkind Road, Guilford, Vt. 05301.
Against Tech Oligarchy is the inside story of the tech workers movement—and the billionaires’ anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry. After Donald Trump’s 2016 election, the tech industry sprang into action to oppose his agenda, with workers staging walkouts against ICE contracts, and CEOs joining mass mobilizations against the so-called Muslim ban. But it wasn’t long before the tech oligarchs started to fall in line with the new administration. Using the autonomy afforded them by the industry’s progressive and mission-driven culture, tens of thousands of tech workers began speaking out against their own bosses. This burgeoning resistance included organizing against military contracts, walkouts to protest sexism, agitation about tech’s role in the climate crisis, and a wave of union drives. By the early 2020s, tech workers had sparked an exciting movement that seemed to hold the potential to check the industry’s rapid growth and reactionary drift. As their struggle grew, so did the employers’ hostility. Hellbent on stamping out dissent, the billionaire owners have embraced Trumpism, fired organizers and lashed out against the ‘woke’ ideology they blamed for turning their once loyal employees against them.
Clarissa Redwine was part of Kopkind’s seminar/retreat for journalists and organizers in 2024, where she regaled us with rousing stories of helping to organize a union at Kickstarter. She is co-founder of the tech organizing conference Circuit Breakers, and her organizing work has been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, The Guardian, The Verge, TechCrunch and elsewhere. JS Tan, a former tech worker, is pursuing a PhD at MIT. His work has appeared in Jacobin, the Times, MIT Technology Review, Dissent, Foreign Policy and The Baffler, among other outlets. Their book has been called ‘an indispensable analysis of the tech worker movement from two of its luminaries’, by Ben Tarnoff, co-author of Muskism. ‘This is an essential book for understanding class struggle under digital capitalism.’
Or, as Clarissa, a friend and supporter of Kopkind since her time here, puts it: ‘The oligarchs seem untouchable, until the working class bands together. This mock trial offers a glimpse of what it feels like to organize against the ruling class and fight for a more just world.’
Be there! Anyone needing directions, contact JoAnn Wypijewski at jwyp2000@gmail.com.
October 2, 2023—The Pinhook, Durham, NC—Laura Flanders interviewing Grace Nichols in the course of a performance and workshop of a drag opera by Nichols and Stormie Daie. (photo: courtesy Laura Flanders & Friends)
Before the Cameras Even Come
What happens on the ground, with little or no notice, before a flashpoint moment brings national camera crews and other journalists flocking to a place and giving 24/7 attention to a civil disturbance, an act of state cruelty, a political or social victory for the people?
Laura Flanders has been covering the news behind ‘the news’ — before it’s deemed news — for decades. On Saturday, August 8, beginning at 6 pm, she will be the featured guest at Kopkind’s Speaker’s Night, a free public event that will kick off with a potluck. We will provide the basics. Bring a covered dish! Her theme: ‘Before the Cameras Come: Time as a Terrain for Organizing’.
A sparkling person and pioneering independent broadcast journalist, Laura currently produces and hosts Laura Flanders & Friends, which has as its tag line “Where the people who say it can’t be done take a backseat to the people who are doing it.” Broadcast nationally on public television and radio and available as a free podcast, it is a viewer-supported show about possibility, and proof, telling the stories of people around the country who collectively, over time, have been generating bold ideas for change and putting them into practice. From grassroots resistance to rising white nationalist violence in rural North Carolina, to exciting cooperative projects in Cleveland and Barcelona, to the organizing that elected Zohran Mamdani mayor of New York City, Laura and Co. spotlight those working to build solutions now for a humane future: ‘This is journalism that connects the dots. We cover forgotten histories and future-shaping innovations’—from worker-owned enterprises to distributed business models; from civil rights movements to the public’s fight for control over essential resources like water, broadband and government itself; from the critical role of culture in progressive organizing to arguments for recognizing human desire as critical to building left movements and alternatives. ‘Laura takes you from boardrooms to backroads, urban centers to farming towns, investigating how record profits and rising poverty can exist side by side. She explores how wealth is created—and extracted—and how people across the country are reclaiming power over their lives, their land, and their labor.’
Laura, who has been a mentor and featured guest at Kopkind in the past, got her start in US media running the Women’s Desk at Fairness and Accuracy in Media (FAIR). She created the radio show ‘CounterSpin’ in the 1980s, which, among other efforts, became a vital resource for examining the realities behind the Reagan administration’s terror wars in Central America, its indifference to the AIDS crisis, its attacks on women’s health, poor and working class communities, the arts and much more. At the same time, then and throughout her career, she has been interested in people’s resistance and creative collective power, amplifying the voices of people who are ignored — until something explodes.
Her talk, and the potluck for community interaction, will cap Kopkind’s seminar/retreat session for left organizers and journalists. Our theme this year, which the young people from around the country (and world) have been exploring from numerous angles and geographic perspectives, is Shapes of Creative Resistance: Lessons from Minnesota — a place whose rich, often invisible backstory of organization helps explain the extraordinary popular resistance there to ICE occupation this past winter.
It is our thrill that Laura will be joining us — and can be your thrill, too, Saturday, August 8, 6pm, at Tree Frog Farm, 158 Kopkind Road in Guilford. Be there! (Anyone needing directions, email jwyp2000@gmail.com.)
We are sad to announce that because Covid has been detected in the cohort here at Tree Frog Farm for Kopkind/CID Film Camp, we are canceling this evening’s public screening of Because of You, a wonderful film that was workshopped here a couple of years ago by Desireena Almoradie and Barbara Malaran. We are all very disappointed.
Please join us on Saturday, July 25, at 7:30 for a screening of Desireena Almoradie and Barbara Malaran’s new documentary, Because of You, a film they workshopped together a few years ago at Kopkind’s Film Camp collaboration with the Center for Independent Documentary. A thrill for us to present; a fascinating history of a pioneering collective of Filipnxs who came together in New York City in the mid-nineties called Kilawin Kolektibo; an extraordinary archival project. Desireena will join us to present the film and take questions after.
Culling from a treasure trove of over a quarter century’s worth of historic documentation, the film tells the story of members of the collective as they found one another, fell in love, and became each other’s lifeblood amidst a society that rejected them. Having experienced marginalization in Filipino culture because of their queerness and in mainstream gay culture because of their race, language and gender, the members of the group sought political empowerment and increased visibility.
Above all, they sought to create a space of friendship and safety for those who felt suspended between cultures and identities. Kilawin Kolektibo allowed them to transform their experience of oppression into one of joy and growth. It fostered lasting connections with similar groups in the global Filipinx diaspora, most significantly, with Babaylan, a queer Filipinx group in Toronto.
When Des and Barbie came to Kopkind/CID Film Camp, they had been working on the project only long distance. Their coming together here at Tree Frog Farm was in some ways symbolic of the story of convergences they were fashioning. Barbie gave us a vivid account of boxes of material that she had stored away under a bed, in a closet, saving for decades, for … what? Well, here they were now, drawing on that archive — footage, photographs, interviews and ephemera. Des had her own, as did other members of the kolektibo. From marching, partying and protesting, to sexual politics, this archive-driven film serves as an exhilarating memorial to the rebellion and nostalgia of the nineties and LGBTQIA+ history.
It is also a testament to hidden histories, and to the importance of grassroots archives. Such archives are never assured, always partial; like the lives and experiences they document, they are not neat. As Andy Kopkind once said, ‘Life is not an unbroken narrative’. Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo honors such rich, passionate, exuberant life.
Please join us on Saturday, July 25, at Tree Frog Farm for this free public event. The screening will be preceded by a little wine; and afterward, a little dessert. Be there! 158 Kopkind Road, Guilford, VT 05301. At 7:30 pm. For directions or more information: jwyp2000@gmail.com.
William Walcutt, Pulling Down the Statue of George III at Bowling Green, oil on canvas, 1857, Lafayette College Library, Easton, PA
Semiquincentennial: Not all Ridiculous
In New York City, the Declaration of Independence was publicly pronounced for the first time on July 9, 1776. Thereupon, the people did not stroke their chins and adjust their bonnets; rather, that evening they proceeded to attach ropes to a fifteen-foot, 4,000-pound gilt statue of King George III erected at Bowling Green, and haul it down. The gold was but veneer, with something far more useful, lead, beneath. Melted down, this monument to monarchy was transformed into many thousands of musket balls to fire at the King’s troops. It’s said that an 11-year-old girl involved in the production process, Mary Ann Wolcott, was alone responsible for making 10,000 musket balls.
This holiday weekend, an immersive documentary which was workshopped at Kopkind/CID ‘film camp’ last summer is playing every hour on a loop from 11 am to 5 pm at Dupont Underground, 19 Dupont Circle NW, Washington, DC. By George: It All Comes Down, by director Paul Moon, tells the story of the statue’s toppling while also exploring the many instances of social mobilizations to tear down monuments, from ancient Rome to the Arab Spring to the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, which saw the removal of statues from Richmond’s Monument Avenue among other places. The film will have a public outdoor screening at 8 pm at The Battery in New York, on the 250th anniversary of the toppling, July 9. (Earlier in the day the New York Historical museum will host a re-enactment of the revolutionary July events.)
We are so used, in the United States, to being taught of the Revolution as a meeting of propertied white men in Philadelphia arguing over language, signing their names and going down in history as Founding Fathers that it’s always something of a surprise to be reminded that, no, the Revolution was a raucous, bloody, grinding and occasionally joyous event in people’s history. The revel of July 9 in New York was swiftly followed by the royal armies’ victory in the battles of New York and military occupation of the city, beginning of August 1776 and lasting seven years. New York was the only city under British occupation for the war’s entirety. Those who fled became refugees; those who stayed lived under martial law, many as real or de facto internees, their homes confiscated, their shelter tents, their diets meager; more than 11,500 of those who fought and didn’t die instantly or escape died of abuse, starvation and disease on at least sixteen prison ships, rotting hulks that the British used to hold POWs, then known as traitors, in Wallabout Bay in Brooklyn. Along with local revolutionaries and those from other states, hundreds of internationalists — Spanish, French, Dutch and Polish troops or volunteers — languished or died on the ‘hell ships’. The bodies of the dead were thrown overboard or buried in shallow graves by the shore. Ultimately bones were gathered up in barrels and interred, augmented with new finds, dug up, interred again — a tangled story that lay behind the Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument, which one is unlikely to learn about in school but might stumble upon in Fort Greene Park.
No revolution is without its contradictions, and America’s was full of them. But its stories of oppression, resistance, war, flight and far-from-finished freedom dreams also link people in this country with others everywhere who have ever dreamed and suffered and strived to make the world anew — if only we recognize it.
Saturday, June 27: CineSLAM, Vermont’s LGBT Short Film Festival, an international, multi-genre lineup of intriguing films, with an out-of-this-world finale! 4 PM, Latchis Theatre, 50 Main St. in downtown Brattleboro. Tickets: filmfreeway/cineslam.com(You can also buy tickets at the door.)
Sunday, June 28: Late Brunch with Roger Lancaster, speaking on Sex, Class and the Urgency of Desire. 2 PM, Tree Frog Farm, 158 Kopkind Rd., Guilford. No charge (donations gratefully accepted), but please make reservations with JoAnn Wypijewski at jwyp2000@gmail.com.
Roger Lancaster, a brilliant writer, speaker and scholar, is author, most recently, of The Struggle to Be Gay, in Mexico, for Example. His writing, there and in works including Life Is Hard and Sex Panic and the Punitive State, is thrilling for its combination of stories, ethnography, historical and political analysis, and polemic. In his latest book, based on years of observation and life experience in Mexico’s ambiente, he puts sexual identity and class in conversation — the Rainbow, one might say, and the rainbow, historic symbol of rebels united against kings and capitalist oppressors. Desire is particular and universalist; intimate and material; a fascination, a struggle — and much, much more. Any political movement for a humane future would be foolish to ignore its breadth and urgency.
And a Reminder: Kopkind’s Pride Weekend Events, 6/27-28
Allen Ginsberg was born 100 years ago, on June 3, 1926. We remember that brave, gentle, howling soul, guide to the power and beauty of the word. Like another of America’s great gay poets, Walt Whitman, Ginsberg contained multitudes. ‘A Supermarket in California’ invokes Whitman — an homage, now, to both these giants of literary imagination and liberation.
Those who attended last year’s lgbt short film fest CineSLAM would have seen the remarkable Allen Ginsberg’s Lost Work. That film, mysteriously, is now nowhere to be found — at least we can’t locate it — which goes to show that you never know what extraordinary treat is to be found at CineSLAM.
Tickets for this year’s CineSLAM, on Saturday, June 27, beginning at 4 pm at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro, may be purchased at filmfreeway/cineslam.com.
On Sunday, June 28, we’re hosting a Raise the Rainbow Late Brunch at Tree Frog Farm, 158 Kopkind Road in Guilford. There will be food, drink and a talk by Roger Lancaster, a fascinating thinker and speaker — author, most recently, of The Struggle to Be Gay, in Mexico, for Example. Roger will speak on themes central to his exploration of working-class gay life and the ambiente: ‘the urgency of desire’, the salience of class and material want in the creation of identity, the universal necessity of ‘vistas of freedom’, connection, a better life. (Scroll down to previous post for more.)
There is no charge for Sunday’s event (donations will be gratefully accepted). People must make a reservation, though, so that we have a count for food. Please reserve by writing to JoAnn Wypijewski at jwyp2000@gmail.com.
Happy Pride Month!
Happy 100th Anniversary of the life of Allen Ginsberg!
Come, Raise the Rainbow with us on June 27 and 28!
And now for a snippet from the cutting room floor of Before Stonewall. A peek behind the scenes during Andy Kopkind’s interview with Ginsberg for John Scagliotti et al.’s Emmy-winning documentary on gay life before the uprising. Click on image.
Kopkind is raising the Rainbow flag, literally and figuratively, this Pride Weekend with two sumptuous public events. Be there!
We start off on Saturday, June 27, with our annual CineSLAM, Vermont’s LGBTQ Short Film Festival, at 4 pm at the Latchis Theatre, 50 Main Street in Brattleboro. This year’s selection of national and international films spans genres, subjects and emotions, a kaleidoscopic expression of lgbtq life and experience. There will be comfortable seating and, at intermission, Pride Cake. For tickets, see filmfreeway/cineslam.com.
The next afternoon, Sunday, June 28, we are revisiting a beloved tradition for a new season with an early summer Raising the Rainbow Late Brunch with the extraordinary writer and thinker Roger Lancaster, at Tree Frog Farm, 158 Kopkind Road in Guilford. There will be a yummy spread beginning at 2 pm, followed by a talk on some themes central to Roger’s most recent book about working-class gay life, The Struggle to Be Gay, in Mexico, for Example: ‘the urgency of desire’, the salience of class and material want in the creation of identity, the universal necessity of ‘vistas of freedom’, connection, a better life. The talk to be followed by discussion and birthday cake!
There is no charge for Sunday’s event (donations will be gratefully accepted). People must make a reservation, though, so that we have a count for food. Please reserve by writing to JoAnn Wypijewski at jwyp2000@gmail.com.
Roger Lancaster, a professor of anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University, is the author of Life Is Hard and Sex Panic and the Punitive State, among other works. His writing is thrilling for its combination of stories, ethnography, historical and political analysis and polemic. In the conclusion of his latest book, he presents the image of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Two-Part Inventions as a metaphor for the way he puts sexual identity and class in conversation — the Rainbow, one might say, and the rainbow, historic symbol of rebels united against kings and capitalist oppressors:
‘On the one hand, I acknowledge the depth and specificity — the authenticity — of gay life, of what people aspire to or refuse when they approach the question of identity, of how gay men desire and love and connect or are frustrated. How could I not? This, the struggle to be gay, is a big part of my life, too, after all. On the other hand, I try to show how the very real dilemmas and partial resolutions — the storylines — of gay life could unfold only at this specific moment, under the social and political-economic conditions, in conversation with the long arcs of other happenings and narratives. Among those immediate material conditions are the speeding-up of capitalism and the intensification of brute exploitation. This, the contemporary class condition of society, furnishes our collective imaginations and sets the horizons of the imaginable.
‘Bach, a master of contrapuntal music, was no stranger to the so-called deceptive cadence, a musical progression in which the dominant chord does not resolve to the tonic chord to give a sense of closure but instead seems to leave things up in the air, suggesting that this is not quite the end of the piece (and sometimes opening the way to lengthy digressions). Many of this book’s chapters come to this sort of open-ended ending … [Here, I] will not close off a set of arguments about the unfinishedness of struggles with a pat ending, a tidy pronouncement on where the human condition is headed, or even a clear delineation of a line of march. The dialectic is not yet played out; we can only mark some of its valences and take stock of our understanding of it. Class struggles surge and retreat; social movements rise, stall, and fall. We can only hazard a few guesses about what forms any of this might take on the near horizon. We are headed for another world, one way or another, but whether the future world will be better or worse than the present one is unclear.
‘It is said that Bach contemplated the human condition, up close and empathically, with “benevolent understanding.” I hope that something similar might be said of the work of this sentimental gay socialist.’
So welcome June! Welcome Pride Month! And welcome all for an insightful, provocative and joyous weekend, Raising the Rainbow!
At least two ‘incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful’ events will take place to celebrate May Day this year. On April 30, the eve of International Workers Day, Peter Linebaugh, the great historian of May Day, of the punishments of capital and capital punishment, of many-headed hydras, of struggles for theCommons and hopes and dreams of commoners all — and a great friend of Kopkind — will give an address at 6:30 pm at The Great Hall of Cooper Unionin New York City. The event is free but one must register: see https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/may-day-and-commons. Then on May 1, throughout the country people will take the streets for a national day of action, May Day Strong, for a bountiful future for the masses, as against the masters of the universe, echoing this winter’s call in the Twin Cities for No Work, No School, No Shopping — and No ICE, No War, No Billionaires. For actionsin your area see https://maydaystrong.org/
As the broadside for Peter’s address explains:
Our May Day began in America. From the May pole dance with indigenous folk at Merry Mount, Massachusetts, in 1627, to Chicago’s police riots in 1886 at Haymarket Square against advocates of the 8-hour day, May Day has given us both green and red themes to celebrate.
Suppose we paused to think of each of these stories as history’s seeds that have yet to reach their maturity? Conquest and settlement were accomplished with means of mechanization. On May Day, whether as a story of Puritanical expropriation from earthly subsistence or as a story of gilded age exploitation of immigrant wage-slaves, we may easily find contemporary themes related to the extractions and extinctions of our own time. May Day celebrates the green and red struggle of workers across the planet who cry for health and wealth, common wealth.
Peter was born in Washington, DC, in 1942, the year the Nazis launched the V-2 rocket. He became an anti-fascist, growing up in London, Cattaraugus, Muskogee, Karachi and New York. He became a historian under the eloquent peacenik and labor historian, E.P. Thompson. His books include The London Hanged, Magna Carta Manifesto, Stop, Thief!, The Many-Headed Hydra, Red Round Globe Hot Burning and The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day. He has been a mentor and a special guest at Kopkind. There is no speaker remotely like him. If you’re in New York, be there.
After Black History Month and Women’s History Month, April has been dubbed the time to honor the Earth, which makes life and history possible. Amidst a cluster of man-made horrors — foremost among them Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians, bombardment of Lebanon and senior partnership with the US in the war against Iran — it is easy to forget how killing converges with catastrophe for the natural world. The other day Laura Flanders, a former Kopkind mentor, special guest and continuing adviser and friend, wrote in CounterPunch about that convergence in the waters around Iran. We republish it here with thanks to our friends at counterpunch.org, where you can find a feast of fine writing and analysis every day.
photo: A Dugong near Marsa Alam in Egypt. Photo by Camille Ménard, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
A Civilization May Yet Die
Laura Flanders
‘A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.’
As our power-mad president tapped out that genocidal threat, a whale shark in the Persian Gulf was navigating waters it has known for millennia. It is the largest fish alive — the size of a school bus, spotted like a galaxy, moving with a gentleness that is hard to reconcile with its scale. If divers come too close, it curves its huge body to avoid them. Its wide-grin mouth is fangless. It feeds on plankton, with no capacity for threat, and yet its lineage survived the dinosaurs.
It may not survive us.
The ceasefire announced between the United States and Iran is scheduled to last two weeks — the duration of a single pay period, or the bloom of a rose. The timeline of the creatures that swim the Gulf waters is measured in millennia. Sixty million years in the case of the endangered whale shark. Fifty million in the case of the dugong.
I’d never heard of a whale shark or a dugong until I looked up the Gulf’s most precious species. Like large, bristled manatees, the dugongs have more in common with elephants than any whale. The Persian Gulf holds the world’s second-largest population of them. In the fragile waters now crammed with oil tankers brimming with billions of liters of oil and war waste from forty days of destruction, the dugongs graze on seagrass in the shallows. Indeed, biologists report that they eat in such deliberate, complex patterns that they prevent monocultures from forming and maintain nursery habitat for dozens of other species.
The mother dugong nurses her young not for two weeks — but for two years. She is almost certainly the origin of the mermaid myth. Sailors glimpsed a large, warm-bodied creature nursing its young at the surface, and carried that image home through every maritime culture on Earth.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, who appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends earlier this year, might call what the dugong does reciprocity — the kind of tending that extractive capitalists have spent centuries refusing to see or value. In her book BraidingSweetgrass, and in our conversation, she teaches us that the natural world is in constant reciprocal exchange. Care is not a human invention. The dugong and the seagrass meadow have been in that exchange for longer than our species has had language to describe it.
Civilizations come in many forms. A city, like a reputation, can be rebuilt; a warmonger, defeated or unseated (please!) But a species — a multimillion-year evolutionary experi-ment, a creature that has been tending its ocean since before our genus existed — cannot be negotiated back into existence. Thinking about all that we do not know about the whale shark and the dugong, I remember my conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs about her book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. In that conversation (which podcast subscribers receive in full) Gumbs asks us to look at marine mammals not as curiosities but as teachers: beings whose ways of breathing, moving, and tending their young carry a wisdom we have barely begun to hear. She writes:
I don’t know what that will look like, but I do know that our marine mammal kindred are amazing at not drowning. So I call on them as teachers, mentors, guides, and I call on you as breathing kindred souls, may we evolve.
Dugongs communicate in chirps, whistles, and trills that scientists don’t fully understand. Biologists are bewildered by whale shark reproduction. No whale shark has ever been observed giving birth in the wild. They are, in a real sense, still mysterious to us. Extinction would end that mystery permanently.
Now, at least four oil spills have been confirmed in the Gulf since hostilities began. Our necrophile president bragged about torpedoing the Iranian frigate Dena early in the war. The Dena sank close to the coast of Sri Lanka, sending a twenty kilometer oil slick toward that ecologically important coastline. That same hotheaded killer and his Beirut-bombing pal launched multiple missile strikes at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant, where a direct hit could have released radioactivity across the entire region.
A related dance with death is playing out in “our” Gulf, too. The Persian Gulf is a body of water that is semi-enclosed, shallow, with almost no natural flushing mechanism — meaning that what goes in, stays. The loony logic that concentrated the world’s fossil fuel infrastructure in those ecologically fragile waters is being replicated along coastal Louisiana, where liquefied natural gas, or LNG, export terminals are being built into wetlands already vulnerable to storm surge.
We reported on those risks last summer when we looked at LNG expansion on the same coast that, twenty years ago, was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. By disrupting Gulf-based LNG supplies, the US/Israeli escapade is accelerating madcap LNG production on US shores.
There’s no truce – however shaky – in our war on nature or the rising tides.
A whale shark can live for 100 to 150 years. Their species has been around for 60,000 millennia. The dugong tends her meadow (and her young) and communicates in a language we haven’t learned yet. The ceasefire is two weeks long. The least we can do — the very least — is notice what is at stake in those waters beyond the oil price.
Laura Flanders interviews forward-thinking people about the key questions of our time on Laura Flanders & Friends, a nationally syndicated radio and television program also available as a podcast. A contributing writer to The Nation, Flanders is the author of several books, as well as a column on Substack. For all of Earth Month her podcast and radio broadcasts is airing their best Earth-related episodes.
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