Love (and revolution) Radio: Resisting Rubber Stamp Permits At FERC w/ Beyond Extreme Energy

Summary: This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with two cofounders of Beyond Extreme Energy, Melinda Tuhus and Ted Glick, about the nonviolent direct action campaigns aimed at getting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to stop rubber-stamping fossil fuel infrastructure permits. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guests: Melinda Tuhus is a founding member of Beyond Extreme Energy, an independent journalist, activist, and blogger. You can read her writings at Leaves and Fishes, a monthly column. Ted Glick is also a founding member of Beyond Extreme Energy, and has been a climate activist since 2004, and a progressive activist since 1968. He writes a bi-weekly column entitled Future Hope. Related Links: Beyond Extreme Energy https://beyondextremeenergy.org/ BXE Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BeyondExtremeEnergy/ BXE Twitter @BXEAction Future Hope Columns by Ted Glick https://tedglick.com/future-hope-columns/ Leaves and Fishes by Melinda Tuhus http://www.melindatuhus.net/blog Deep Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology Quebec Strategy Against Frackers http://www.riverasun.com/il-resistance-as-deterrent-to-fracking-part-one-they-shale-not-0 Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured musician is Chad Wilkins. The song is "Be A Friend" on his album, "Show Us the Way of the Heart". You can find his music at www.chadwilkinsmusic.com About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.