Groundbreaking new "Democracy Matters" weekly Podcast - Check it out!

A few months ago, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF.org) launched a groundbreaking new weekly 45-minute radio show on KYRS Community Radio in Spokane, WA, which can also be heard via podcast. In CELDF's words...

"Each week we bring you stories from the frontlines as communities bring rights-based organizing to their communities - asserting their local self-governing authority to make the critical decisions that affect their lives and their community."

These are the topics covered on their most recent shows.

Aired July 8th:

"This week on Democracy Matters we include a segment on how workers lose their constitutional rights in the workplace (including 1st and 4th Amendment rights at the same time that their employers are able to enjoy those same rights while their employees cannot) - and how people are seeking to change this. We include an interview with Kai Huschke focused on a new project called Open Government Spokane to bring greater transparency to local government and make it easier to engage in our local government."

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Aired July 1st:

"This week on Democracy Matters we debate the apparent split among environmentalists on the climate change bill making its way through Congress, discuss the recent Supreme Court decisions on discrimination on campus and the Chicago handgun ban, as well as a focus on 'preemption' and how the state and federal governments are able to override community decision making."

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Aired June 24th:

"On this week's program we interview organizer Shireen Parsons about mountaintop removal mining, have a roundtable discussion on what good it does or doesn't do to change our lightbulbs and recycle (we cite Derrick Jensen's article 'Forget Shorter Showers'), and we discuss the Civil Rights Cases in which the U.S. Supreme Court found that 'private actors' such as inns and theatres did not have to uphold the constitutional rights of the freed slaves and thus how corporations today can violate your constitutional rights at will."

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You can subscribe to the weekly 45-minute "Democracy Matters" podcast by pasting the following address into your preferred podcasting tool: http://www.kyrs.org/podcasts/kyrs-1262116642128.xml.