On Friday evening July 8, 2022, Richard Kane’s film, Truth Tellers, about the Americans Who Tell the Truth (AWTT) portrait project, was shown in the auditorium at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
We checked in this week with some women’s rights advocates from AWTT’s portrait gallery, to glean their response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision reversing Roe v. Wade. National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) President Ai-jen Poo articulates the interests of financially challenged working class women: “Today’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, effectively blocking necessary access […]
Checking in with the Juliana youth plaintiffs today. People vs. Fossil Fuels and many other leading climate organizations are circulating a petition demanding that the Attorney General drop its opposition to trial for the Juliana plaintiffs. After seven years of litigation, the plaintiffs are still fighting to have their petition heard in federal court. They […]
June 05, 2022 P.J. McCormick, Rolling Stone “In a room full of beards and beanies, DSA types, leftist podcasters, and Dimes Square affiliates, Steven Donziger — tall, striking, and 60 — stood out from the younger crowd. On a Wednesday night at Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s trendy Baby’s All Right, known for hosting indie upstarts like Porches and […]
May 25, 2022 Alexandria Trimble, Earthjustice Today, a coalition of Gulf and environmental groups represented by Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over its proposal to dredge the Matagorda Bay shipping channel through an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site to vastly expand exports from an oil export terminal on the Texas […]
May 23, 2022 Bill Nichols, Valley News New Hampshire columnist Bill Nichols wrote an interesting review of “Truth Tellers” when it screened at Woodstock (NH) Town Hall earlier this month. “We’ve seen a lot of careful fact-checking in recent years, but no one seems to know how to protect citizens from the fire hose gush […]
May 05, 2022 Beginning April 29, 2022, the award-winning film YOUTH v GOV can be streamed on Netflix. “YOUTH v GOV is the story of the Juliana v. The United States of America constitutional lawsuit and the 21 American youth, ages 14 to 25, who are taking on the world’s most powerful government. Since 2015, […]
April 22, 2022 The New York Times Style Magazine While observing Earth Day 2022, we’re reading about the role art plays in addressing the climate crisis. “[In 2005,] the environmentalist Bill McKibben railed against the culture’s perceived indifference. ‘Where are the books? The poems? The plays? The goddamn operas?’ he wrote in an op-ed for Grist. ‘Compare […]
April 20, 2022 Ian Lynch, Integrity Initiatives International Jody Williams tops the list of thirty Nobel Laureates who have recently signed onto the Declaration calling for the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC). “The Declaration advocates for a new international court to punish and deter grand corruption – the abuse of public power for private […]
April 12, 2022 Rev. Lennox Yearwood, The Coolest Show Rev. Lennox Yearwood’s podcast, The Coolest Show, is entering its fourth season. The show is described as “your weekly dose of conversations that reimagine how Black, Indigenous, and Brown people thrive in our environment. … connecting you to brilliant leaders from the culture, grassroots, and politics. Our […]