News and Public Affairs 12-11-2023

This week’s guests:

1. Amanda Marcotte is a senior politics writer at Salon.com who writes the biweekly politics newsletter “Standing Room Only” and the author of “Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters.” She’ll discuss her recent columns on Trump’s candidacy.
2. Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, a climate activist, and author of “Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution,” will assess the COP 28 UN Climate Summit in Dubai – what was, and was not accomplished — and share his views on how citizens can effectively take action to pressure governments and corporate leaders to seriously address the climate crisis.
3. Amira Mattar, counsel with the group Free Speech For People, discusses her group’s lawsuit filed on behalf of Oregon voters to bar Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s presidential primary and general election ballot in 2024 under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
4. Will Creeley, legal director with the group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, talks about how his group’s concern for the protection of free speech led to their opposition to a U.S. House of Representatives amendment addressing anti-Semitism on college and university campuses.

Monday, December 11 at 8:00 PM and in the WPKN archive.

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse spends the full hour with Stephany Seay, who has been working in service to the last wild buffalo for over 20 years. Based in Montana, she served as media coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign, with whom she parted ways after 18 years over philosophical differences. She is a member of Deep Green Resistance and co-founder of Roam Free Nation. Stephany trusts that the buffalo have called us not just to help defend them, but to also help save us from ourselves.

Tuesday, December 12 at 12:00 noon.

Two members of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Staff Chaplain Chris Antal and Staff Psychologist Dr. Peter Yeomans, speak to us from Philadelphia, Pa. about their work on the pain of moral injury experienced by veterans returning from military deployment. From a foundation of academic research, they explain the distinction between moral injury and PTSD and how the community, including family, is integrated into their three-month program of group sessions leading to a moral injury community healing ceremony and community feedback.

Wednesday, December 13 at 6:30 AM (repeated at 8:00 PM) and archived.