Tyson is the author of "Sand Talk:  How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World" -- our conversation is wide ranging and considers topics of analysis and contemplation both in terms of resistance as well as daily life.  It's well worth your engaged listen.

Music is a track called Fragmented by poole -- big thanks for the excellent track.

Oak in Conversation with Tyson Yunkaporta (featuring John Zerzan)

Award-winning journalist, author, and activist Barrett Brown returns to the podcast to discuss his much anticipated new book, My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir. 

Brown provides updates on the subjects explored in our first interview in 2022, which fleshed out the complex web of media outlets, personalities, hackers, and intelligence community assets connected directly or indirectly with far-right Silicon Valley billionaire, Peter Thiel. I asked Brown how his bid for asylum in the UK has played out, and why he really isn’t worried about being deported or extradited to the United States, despite his current status in the country. And among other themes I wanted to focus on from his memoir, Brown discusses his experience in the United States federal prison system, and the hard truths he learned there about the declining American imperial project.

// Content warning: Throughout this discussion, especially in the later half, there is mention of child sexual abuse and trafficking. It is discussed as part of the larger point Barrett makes about conspiracism and covert intelligence entities and tactics.

// Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/barrett-brown-2

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372 / Glorious Defeats + Victories / Barrett Brown

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about pesticide spraying for mosquitoes carrying Eastern Equine Encephalitis ("Triple E”), how a midwestern health center actually helped pay for an artificial turf field at a high school, and how the City of Los Angeles is responding to increased stormwater by making the city more “sponge-like.” Then investigative reporter and author Carey Gillam, talks about her award-winning work uncovering the corporate malfeasance and corruption regarding the infamous toxic pesticide glyphosate, known commonly as RoundUp, which remains on store shelves today.

Toxic Tragedy: The story of Monsanto's Infamous Weed Killer with Cary Gillam

Over the course of the summer I wrote a bunch of things, but didn't make audio versions of most of it.  Here's everything I missed, in one fell swoop, interspersed with appropriate songs.  The following segments are the order in which I recorded them, and the order in which they were published on Substack, and in the case of "I Survived Chicago," on Counterpunch as well.

Reflections on Singing for Wikileaks
Don't Shoot, Organize!
Notes from a Month in Australia
I Survived Chicago
Seegerism -- and the War Against It
Downtown Portland and the Screaming Silence

Summer Podcasts 2024

My impression is Donald and Kamala have some significant differences in their intended policies if elected, as well as significant differences in terms of their records in office.  However, if there's any distinction between the two of them when it comes to the genocide of the Palestinians currently being carried out by the Israeli military with US armaments and US tax dollars, I have yet to discern it.

Ballad of Donald and Kamala (When it Comes to Israel)

Israeli settlers began a new campaign to steal more of the land from the people of the town of Beita, in the Occupied West Bank, in 2021.  Turkish-American ISM activist, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, was the 17th protester to be killed by Israeli troops in the town of Beita since 2021.

Aysenur

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about how big oil is interfering with climate change research at universities around the world, PFAS in firefighting gear, and the disturbing amount of single-use plastic used in modern agriculture. Then “Lead Safe Mama” Tamara Rubin tells about her experience with lead poisoning in her family, and how it drove her to start testing all kinds of products and food for the presence of toxic lead. Every parent needs to hear this! 

Lead the Pernicious Poison with Tamara Rubin

Here's Chris Cook's interview with me from September 18th, 2024, wherein I wax eloquent about the horrors for a half hour.

Impossible Broadcasting

David Rovics on Gorilla Radio

Some thoughts on anxiety, its sources and solutions.

The Anxiety

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about how microplastics impact your kidneys and how much energy and water is being used by AI. Then renewable energy expert Dr. Mark Jacobson talks about how we can solve our global energy problems and stop burning fossil fuels by simply using the technology we already have.

No Miracles Required; We Can Solve Our Energy Problems Right Now

If there were any press outlets interested in covering the trials and tribulations of a little-known traveling musician trying to sing any songs about Palestine without having people try to cancel his gigs, what might that coverage look like?

Oak in Conversation with Tyson Yunkaporta (featuring John Zerzan)

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