http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aOXHmVlMRs Dana interviews Rich Hoeppner, who tells the story of how the people of Kauai (Hawaii, USA) organized and stopped the super ferry with 1,500 people blocking the dock and 200 people on surfboards and in small boats and canoes blockading the super ferry. This is...
Dana with old friend, environmental leader, and now, State Representative Gerry Pollet.
My old friend and outstanding environmental leader Gerry Pollet was recently appointed to the Washington State Legislature. On his third day in the capitol, he overheard the chair of the Ways and Means Committee singing “Cows With Guns” as he was walking down the hall.
Gerry asked him how he knew the song and the chairman explained that “Cows With Guns” had become one of the theme songs for the Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives. At the end of every session when things were getting intense, they would sing “Cows With Guns.”
So Gerry invited me to go to Olympia and sing the tune for the house Democrats.
[youtube_sc url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/63eYu3M9VWo" ratio="4:3" autohide="1" fs="1" cc_load_policy="1"] Dana interviews oceanographer Captain Charles Moore, one of the leading voices concerning the huge Texas-size patch of plastic garbage gathering in the Pacific Ocean. Captain Moore discusses the sources of the plastic and what we as individuals and as a...
[youtube_sc url="http://youtu.be/eYTNMTGyoiY"] Paul Cienfuegos, democracy activist, is interviewed by Dana Lyons at the capitol building in Olympia, Washington, during a Labor and Occupy Olympia rally. Paul discusses how corporations were given constitutional rights by corporate leaning supreme courts of the last 150 years, rights that are...
[youtube_sc url="http://youtu.be/Zb7RL7Ys_HE"] Dana Lyons interviews musician Jim Page (Seattle musician) at a Veterans for Peace sponsored performance at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center in Bellingham, WA. Jim discusses the Occupy Movement, how it might evolve through the upcoming winter and sings a new song "My Declaration",...