0:08 – Dahr Jamail (@DahrJamail) is an environmental journalist whose work Howard Zinn has called “superb… In the most honorable tradition of the craft.” An ice and mountain climber, Jamail lived in Alaska before moving to Iraq to work as a war correspondent. But even in Baghdad, Jamail was constantly thinking about the warming weather in Alaska, and how much the glaciers might be melting when he was gone. He is a reporter for Al Jazeera English and TruthOut, a frequent guest on Democracy Now!, and a recipient of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. His fourth and newest book, The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, can be yours for a $150 pledge to KPFA today. Jamail’s speech, heard here, is also a part of our Winter Speech Pack, a $150 pledge, and it can also be purchased along with The End of Ice for a $250 pledge.
1:08 – Robert Reich (@RBReich) is a political commentator, author, and professor of Politics and Economics at UC Berkeley. He has served in the administrations of Presidents Ford, Carter, and Clinton, and was a member of President-elect Barack Obama’s economic transition advisory board. His new book is The Common Good, yours for a pledge of $100 to KPFA.