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: Say No to False Solutions!
In this episode of Crash #COP27, Jill checks in with Edgar before the official start of COP27. Edgar reports back on the priorities of the It Takes Roots coalition, who are at the Conference of Parties to demand climate reparations, defend Indigenous rights, and say no to false solutions.
Jill and Edgar go into detail on some false solutions to climate change that are currently being peddled not just at the local and state levels here in Washington State—for instance, is Microsoft paying into a carbon offset forest in King County?—but also at the COP in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
Recorded on November 6, 2022. Crash #COP27 is a special season of On the Frontlines.
Check out:
- Blockchain company buys $1M in carbon credits generated by Issaquah forest, the biggest such deal in U.S. history (June 3, 2022, Seattle Times)
- Three Washington forests are part of the biggest carbon credit purchase in U.S. history. Is that a good thing? (June 8, 2022, KUOW)
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Maximalism by Punch Deck | https://soundcloud.com/punch-deck
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