Earth Deserves More Than a Day: Specials This Week

Rainier Avenue Radio's 3-day celebration of Earth Day features multiple conversations, stories, and films spanning from April 20th to 22nd, 2021.

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Day 1: April 20

• A conversation with the DRCC's Paulina Lopez, Front and Centered's Melina Rivera, and DRCC and Duwamish Tribal Member James Rasmussen about what it means to live, work, and breathe on the frontlines and fenceline communities.

• Jolene Haas and James Rassmussen of the Duwamish Tribe and Tony Johnson of the Chinook Tribe join in conversation about their efforts to fight for recognition.

• Environmental Justice Advocates from Washington’s largest coalition of diverse BIPOC community groups, Front and Centered, come together to do a legislative wrap on lessons learned from the hard-fought advocacy for equity and justice for frontline communities, people and planet.

• A primer on the Story of Cap & Trade - Animation Education; Front and Centered Cap and Trade Community Briefing; Community Organization Video Got Green.

• Showing local films Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition and Promised Land.

• Climate justice advocates Hannah Lidstrom, Jill Mangaliman, and Yolanda Matthews discuss the details and the basics about the biggest existential threat to people and planet, and why it matters most for BIPOC communities locally and globally.

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Day 2: April 21

• Mossville Film Director Alexander Glustrom is interviewed by SJFI Advisor and Filmmaker Remoy Philipps about the transformation of stories through filmmaking to amplify the act of bearing witness injustice.

• Nyema Clark of Nurturing Roots, Susan Balbas of Na’ah Ilahee Fund, and Rosalinda Guillen of Communidad a Communidad talk with moderator Aurora Martin about cultivating food and harvesting justice, and how their work is a cathartic, decolonizing process -- from land reform, farm work, to community liberation.

• Featuring the films Nurturing Roots, Community to Community, After Earth, and Na Ah Ilahee Fund.

• Community voices from Disability Rights WA and Front and Centered from all over the state share stories to identify the gaps – and offer solutions - between policies and practice which WA lawmakers need to figure out this 2021 Legislative Session - STAT!

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Day 3: April 22

• Environmental justice advocates discuss why the climate crisis needs a Just Transition, which imagines solutions to the intersectional issues of equity, opportunity, renewable energy, and environmental health for people and planet.

• Black community organizers and leaders from Vancouver, Tacoma, and Spokane (Sedonia, Young, and Partners talk about how environmental justice and racial justice manifest in their region and their part of leading local the solutions.

• Featuring videos produced by SWCUC/Noble Foundation, Young Warrior Society, and Front and Centered: Campesino, SWCUC, and Young Warrior Society.

• Front and Centered’s organization and funding strategists, Ruby Love and Sharon Chen, discuss how to resource the environmental justice movement with special guest Jacari Harris, Executive Director of the new George Floyd Memorial Foundation.