On the Frontlines
On the Frontlines is a weekly community program features stories of social justice, climate justice, and economic justice. On the Frontlines is hosted by Jill Mangaliman and Edgar Franks and supported by Front and Centered.
Jill Mangaliman is a community organizer and writer born and raised in Seattle. They serve on the national secretariat of BAYAN USA, an alliance of anti-imperialist Filipino grassroots organizations, and serve as chairperson of GABRIELA Seattle. Jill is also a founding board member of Front and Centered and Bush Garden karaoke host.
Edgar Franks is the Policy Director of Familias Unidas por la Justicia, an independent farmworker union with over 500 members across Washington State. The son of farmworkers, Edgar grew up in the fields of Mount Vernon and spends most of his time in Skagit Valley, organizing and reading comic books.
Front and Centered is a statewide coalition of over seventy community organizations that represent and are staffed by frontline communities in Washington State. Front and Centered resists climate justice with a grassroots approach and under the framework of a Just Transition.
On the Frontlines
Crash #COP27: COP27 Has Changed Sharm El Sheikh Forever
You probably know that climate change is displacing communities, but did you expect that a climate conference would uproot people too?
In our second episode of Crash #COP27, Jill checks in with Edgar to chat after he arrives in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, a couple of evenings before COP27 begins. They discuss how folks were moved out of Sharm El Sheikh to make room for the COP27 proceedings and touch on the large scale alterations made to the landscape of Sharm El Sheikh just for this one convention.
Jill and Edgar go on to connect these changes back to Washington State by reflecting on the large scale alterations made here at home to the environment, from the transformation and pollution of the Duwamish River, to large-scale apple farming, and how the Lummi Nation worked overtime to save their wild salmon after a fish farm had a disastrous net pen mishap.
Recorded on November 5, 2022. Crash #COP27 is a special season of On the Frontlines.
Check out:
- How Has Sharm El Sheikh Changed, a Week Before COP27? (81-second video)
- Sharm El Sheikh and COP27—Getting Ready (eight-minute video)
- Fish-farming Company Offered Money for Lummi Nation’s Silence About Net Pens, Letters Show (Seattle Times article, published Oct. 12, 2017)
- The Power of Big Oil (PBS Frontline docuseries)
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