0:08 – Monday’s with Mitch: Sri Lanka tragedy, sideshows in Oakland, and the Mueller report.
0:20 – John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation, co-author with Robert McChesney of People Get Ready: the Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.
0:34 – California wildfire – how do we prepare? Shaye Wolf is Climate Science Director with the Center for Biological Diversity (@CenterForBioDiv) and she joins us to discuss California’s wildfire preparedness, prevention, and the case against logging to prevent fires – the environmental devastation is much worse.
0:50 – Extinction Rebellion London is determined to mobilize until officials take serious action on climate change. We’re joined by Alex Stephanovich is a spokersperson with Extinction Rebellion Bay Area.
1:08 – Dead whales are washing up all over Northern CA – what’s going on? Moe Flannery (@moeflannery) is Senior Collections Manager for Birds and Mammals with the California Academy of Sciences, and responds to washed up whale incidents around the Bay Area.
1:20 – We’re on a road to our plastics existing indefinitely across lands, oceans, and growing landfills – can we curb plastic use? CA legislators want to. A new bill was introduced this year to ban single use plastics. Advocates say it’s needed now more than ever since China is now refusing US recycleables. We get an update from Mark Murrey, Executive Director of Californian’s Against Waste (@cawrecycles) dedicated to “conserving resources, preventing pollution and protecting California’s environment through the development, promotion, and implementation of waste reduction and recycling policies and programs.”
1:34 – Organizing for climate action: Quinton Sankofa and Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan are co-directors with Movement Generation’s Justice and Ecology Project (@MoveGen).