This fall, with international treaties like the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) and Paris climate treaty looming, mass actions are taking place to demand an end to the fossil fuel and the rapid transition to clean sustainable energy, trade that doesn’t drive a race to the bottom in worker rights and environmental protection and a health care system that includes everyone. As a wave of protests is unfolding in the capital of Vermont, we speak with Jane Palmer, a landowner who is trying to stop a fracked gas pipeline from being built on her land. These actions are part of Rising Tide North America’s campaign, Flood the System. We talk about the mass mobilization being planned in Washington, DC November 14 to 18 to protest treaties like the TPP and the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. And we talk with Anand Saha, a medical student and organizer with Students for a National Health Program which held a national days of actions on October first called #TenOne.
Listen here:
Flood The System: Fall Actions to Fight Corporate Power with Jane Palmer and Anand Saha by Clearingthefog on Mixcloud
Relevant articles and websites:
The Rise of Vermont’s Fracked Gas Battle by Keith Brunner
National Call to Action to Stop Global Corporate Domination
Spread the Word: TPP is Toxic Political Poison that Politicians Should Avoid by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Students for a National Health Program
Physicians for a National Health Program
Get Your Insurance Company Out of My Health Care by Anand Saha
Guests:
Jane Palmer is a farmer in Monkton, Vermont who has been engaged in the fight to stop a fracked gas pipeline from being built on her land and just 150 feet from her home since early 2013. She has participated in direct action numerous times focused on Vermont Gas, a subsidiary of the Canadian company Gaz Metro out of Quebec which is owned by Enbridge.
Anand Saha is a second year medical student at East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine. Saha founded the school’s chapter of Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) and he is on the board of Physicians for a National Health Program.
