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: Who's at COP27, and Who's Sidelined?
COP27 is here! Jill and Edgar check in after the first day of COP27 to discuss
how scientists are increasingly aligning with the urgency and concerns of communities of color and others on the frontlines, how scarcity is manufactured by the wealthy and powerful to keep the rest of us fighting over scraps, and how there are a massive number of organizations at the COP pushing for market-based mechanisms to deal with climate change instead of advocating what we really need.
Edgar also reports on how protest actions are constricted and monitored and how folks at the COP who are connected to social movements are shunted off to spaces where they can't be easily seen, in contrast to the visibility and centering of large nonprofits, like the Gates Foundation, that are collaborating with governments and corporations peddling false solutions.
Recorded on November 7, 2022. Crash #COP27 is a special season of On the Frontlines.
Check out:
- Where does the Gates Foundation’s agriculture spending really go? (November 4, 2022, Community Alliance for Global Justice)
- Biden Administration Statement on the Opening of COP27 (referenced in the podcast)
Music:
Maximalism by Punch Deck | https://soundcloud.com/punch-deck
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