Halt the Harm Podcast

In this episode, Sharon Lavigne shares her experience fighting to stop petrochemical factories and other toxic industries in America’s Cancer Alley in St. James Parish, LA. Sharon Lavigne is a recipient of the Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship, and won the 2021 Goldman prize for environmental defenders. She led a grassroots movement to delay the $9.4 billion Formosa plastic factory in her hometown. This podcast is a project of Halt the Harm Network, which can connect you with people who are working to protect families, communities, and the environment from the harms of fracking and the oil & gas industry. As mentioned in this episode: * Rise St. James [https://www.risestjames.org/] * Cancer Alley [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeMxN_f4c8w] * Stop Formosa Plastics [https://www.stopformosa.org/] Bio: Sharon Lavigne, a former special education teacher turned environmental activist, is the founder of Rise St. James, a faith-based environmental and social justice organization dedicated to protecting St. James parish from toxic, cancer causing industries. St. James parish is between Baton Rouge and New Orleans in an area that’s become known as America’s Cancer Alley. Numerous industrial complexes in this region have been attributed to causing the cancer clusters afflicting residents. Core Message: “[The Formosa Plastics Plant] is about putting wealth before health. If you have the money but you don’t have the health, then you don’t have anything. So why let more chemical plants come into St. James and pollute us anymore? People are already sick. People are dying. ” Credits: This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net [https://www.halttheharm.net/], a website that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from the oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net [https://www.halttheharm.net/] The soundtrack to the Halt the Harm podcast is"One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell [https://www.eilenjewell.com/] from her album Sea of Tears. Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover [https://halttheharm.net/booking] and Jimmy Jordan [https://jimmy-jordan.com/] in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca [https://www.wrfi.org]

In this episode, Allie Rosenbluth tells us about her work organizing rural communities across southern Oregon to stop the proposed Jordan Cove Liquified Natural Gas export terminal and Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline. The Jordan Cove LNG project would produce 15 times the climate pollution of Oregon’s last remaining coal plant and create enormous environmental impacts across 4 Oregon counties, including threatening drinking water for 160,000 people, increasing the danger of wildfires, and crossing through tribal lands. Bio: Allie Rosenbluth is a recipient of the Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship. She is the Campaigns Director for Rogue Climate, a grassroots organization fighting for climate justice and clean energy in rural southern Oregon. About the Podcast: This podcast is a project of Halt the Harm Network, which can connect you with people who are working to protect families, communities, and the environment from the harms of fracking and the oil & gas industry. As mentioned in this episode: * Stop Jordan Cove LNG Campaign - Rogue Climate [https://rogueclimate.org/our-work/fossil-fuels/jordan-cove-lng/] * Oregon Climate Action Plan [https://www.reneworegon.org/oregon_climate_action_plan] Core Message: “People have been fighting the Jordan Cove Liquified Natural Gas export terminal project for over 15 years. Every year we’re fighting is a year that the project is failing. …There are so many reasons why people in southern Oregon are standing up against the Jordan Cove LNG project. It's really created a beautiful community of people who are building relationships with each other, which is so important in rural communities where things can feel so divided.“ Credits: This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net [https://www.halttheharm.net/], a website that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from the oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net [https://www.halttheharm.net/] The soundtrack to the Halt the Harm podcast is "One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell [https://www.eilenjewell.com/] from her album Sea of Tears. Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover [https://halttheharm.net/booking] and Jimmy Jordan [https://jimmy-jordan.com/] in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca [https://www.wrfi.org]

In this episode, Ron Gulla shares his experience being impacted by fracking and challenging the industry in PA. Ron Gulla is a recipient of the Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship, and one of the first voices to speak out against fracking in PA after his farm was contaminated by Range Resources. This podcast is a project of Halt the Harm Network, which can connect you with people who are working to protect families, communities, and the environment from the harms of fracking and the oil & gas industry. As mentioned in this episode: * FracTracker Alliance [https://www.fractracker.org/] * 2019 Sentinel Awards [https://www.fractracker.org/2019/09/2019-sentinel-award-winners/] * Cancer cluster debate in Washington County [https://www.post-gazette.com/local/washington/2019/10/07/Canon-mcmillan-ewing-sarcoma-cluster-cancer-meeting-UPMC/stories/201910070110] Bio: Ron Gulla, a former employee of the oil and gas industry, has been raising awareness around fracking’s destructive impacts on soil and water resources since he experienced them firsthand on his property in Pennsylvania; Core Message: “Fracking, and the oil & gas industry destroy people’s lives, environment, everything we love. Ask yourself, would I want my family to live on top of a contaminated site? We’re all involved in it whether you’re a doctor, lawyer, or undertaker. We all gotta drink water, we all gotta drink air, we all gotta eat food!” Credits: This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net [https://www.halttheharm.net/], a website that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from the oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net [https://www.halttheharm.net/] The soundtrack to the Halt the Harm podcast is "One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell [https://www.eilenjewell.com/] from her album Sea of Tears. Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover [https://halttheharm.net/booking] and Jimmy Jordan [https://jimmy-jordan.com/] in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca [https://www.wrfi.org]

Hi Friends! It's been a while since we released an episode – but we're back with a new season! This introductory episode introduces you to Krishna Roy, who will be hosting some of the upcoming episodes of the podcast. We talk about the value of getting to know people in the movement beyond what we hear at meetings, rallies, or press conferences. This season you'll hear some new interviews by Krishna mixed in with some event recorded adapted for the podcast. Please join the conversation around this episode and the podcast in Halt the Harm Network at halttheharm.net [https://halttheharm.net]

In this episode Travis London shares his story of taking leadership on environmental issues in his community in Donaldsonville Louisiana. We talk about networking, movement building, and learn about his experience fighting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline which would connect oil from the Bakken fields with refineries on the Gulf Coast. Travis wants all of us to know and remember the power of people when we connect with each other and defend our communities. He says “we’re the ones who give power to the president, to government agencies, to industry – so when people join together and organize we can win victories. “ As mentioned in this episode * Travis London on LinkedIN [https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-london-0a314492/] * CONFLUENCE - No Bayou Bridge Pipeline [https://www.facebook.com/confluencedocumentary/videos/1863116157071987/?hc_ref=ARSiz9koDglnAyrR_NFPWbUwe-ymdaSYCPp1irBO3XPf0WE4FNz5vWmPZjlXuGsTUqE] * No Bayou Bridge Pipeline: bbp.org [http://nobbp.org/] * Facebook Group: No Bayou Bridge Pipeline! [https://www.facebook.com/groups/595013960684476/] * L'eau Est La Vie Camp - No Bayou Bridge [https://www.facebook.com/LeauEstLaVie] About Travis London Travis London is a networker and business owner from Donaldsonville, Louisiana involved in a variety of environmental justice issues. His business is in computing, but the harms of oil and gas industry motivate Travis to take leadership in environmental action. “In 2009, I was working as a library assistant. I met an activist by the name of Alberta Hasten, who was the founder of the Louisiana Environmental Justice Community Organization Coalition, client council board member of Capitol Area Legal Service, a board member of the school board, and a 35 year community activist that influenced me to get involved in everything as she showed people how everything related back to the environment. She had admire my networking skills as I helped her grew out her organization. She also took me along as her secretary/accountant in every type of fight that she was involved in. We did things from helping develop the Cancer Alley research in 2010 alongside Dr. Merril Singer of the University of Connecticut to doing usual environmental outreaches in different communities.” Credits This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net [https://www.halttheharm.net/], a website and resource that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net [https://www.halttheharm.net/] The soundtrack Halt the Harm podcast is"One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell [https://www.eilenjewell.com/] from her album Sea of Tears. Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover [https://ryanclover.com] in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca [https://www.wrfi.org]