What's Happening at Standing Rock: An Interview with Jenni Monet
Photo from jennimonet.com. (Her name is misspelled in the photo.)
i thought i'd throw out this idea and see if it has legs
drawing by Creighton King
I started to work on a new story, then decided to change tactics.
Music: Soundtrack from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid by Bob Dylan
Listening to the Winners
Donald Trump is a manifestation of our collective fear and anger. We created him. This show is a collection of interviews with people who supported Trump leading up to the election. They are not easy to listen to, but I think we should try in order to better understand what happened, and what is happening now.
Music: What's Opera Doc? from "Bugs Bunny on Broadway".
The Test
This story originally aired on This American Life in 1996, but there's a new rant at the end.
Music: White Rabbit by Grace Slick, performed by Mayssa Karaa for the American Hustle soundtrack.
Photo by Carlo Nasisse
Standing Rock, Part Three
Thousands of veterans join the Water Protectors, and the Army Corps of Engineers denies the permit for the pipeline to go under the Missouri River.
Music: One Monkey by Gillian Welch
Arikara headress.
A peaceful demonstration on Highway 1806, next to the Oceti Sakowin camp.
Ladonna Brave Bull Allard
Celebrating after the Army Corps announcement.
Monday, December 5th, the blizzard begins.
The front entrance to the Oceti Sakowin camp.
On Highway 1806, with the bridge in the distance.
Standing Rock, Part Two
The Missouri River at Lake Oahe, one mile downstream from the proposed crossing of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
What it's like at some of the more peaceful anti-pipeline protests or "actions" in North Dakota.
Music by Max Richter from the HBO series The Leftovers.
Blocking State Highway 6, west of Mandan, North Dakota. November 15, 2016.
Demonstration at the State Capitol in Bismarck, North Dakota, November 14, 2016.
November 14, 2016, at the State Capitol building in Bismarck, North Dakota.
A peaceful demonstration, five miles west of Mandan, North Dakota, blocking a county road leading to a camp for people working on the pipeline. November 12, 2016.
Loud speaker at the November 15 action blocking the county road to the man camp west of Mandan, North Dakota.
November 15, 2016.
At the railroad tracks running parallel to State Highway 6, November 15, 2016.
Leaving the scene, State Highway 6, November 15, 2016.
Standing Rock, Part One
A water protecter, near Mandan, North Dakota.
The battle at the bridge, November 20, 2016.
Music by Mum.
These are the dump trucks blocking state highway 1806 at the bridge over Cantapeda Creek, less than a mile north of the Sacred Stone Camp, less than a mile south of where the pipeline crosses the highway. The battle on November 20 started as water protecters/protesters were trying to clear the road by pulling the dump trucks out of the way.
Some of Kevin Gilbertt's live-streamed video. You can see more on his Facebook page, Kevin Gilbertt.
The Greater Yellowstone Grizzly, Part Three
The Greater Yellowstone Grizzly, Part Two
Courtesy of Bradley Orsted
In this episode, the scientific arguments surrounding the Greater Yellowstone grizzly bear.
Books about Grizzly Bears by Todd Wilkinson and Doug Peacock.
Music: Slow Bicycle, Mum; Faure's Requiem, first movement.
Doug Peacock, Yellowstone National Park, 2016
Dog-bear near Jackson Lake, Wyoming
Dog-bear south of Missoula
The Greater Yellowstone Grizzly
Upper Paradise Valley, Montana.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to take the Yellowstone grizzly bear off the list of endangered species, perhaps before the end of this year. This is the beginning of a series about the issues surrounding the management of the bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
The South Fork of the Shoshone River near Cody, Wyoming.
The Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley, Montana.
Bill Zanoni and son, looking for bears in Tom Miner Basin, just north of Yellowstone Park.
The Road
I-80, Wyoming
I-10, Texas
I-10, Texas
Hullet, Wyoming
The End of Hope: Outside the DNC
What if you threw a protest against the oligarchy and not many people showed up?
Music by Laurie Anderson: "From the Air," Big Science.
Cleveland RNC Part 2
Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio
The RNC in Cleveland followed two weeks of brutal (YouTubed) shootings in America. Anyone who showed up at the protests was either paid to be there, like the police and the media, or they were for some reason unafraid of the potential for more violence. As it was, things stayed relatively peaceful, except for loud shouting at times.
Some of the West Ohio Minutemen with assault rifles in Public Square.
West Ohio Minuteman
Cops had to protect the religious fanatics, as they were extremely loud and annoying and persistent.
MSNBC set up outside on West 4th Street, a block from the Quicken Loans Arena where the convention was in session.
Those three girls from YouTube performed across from the MSNBC booth on West 4th Street.
Special police at Public Square.
Bicycle cops on The Mall, during the BLM/religious fanatic shout down.
Connie, now residing in Mexico.
Opening Day Outside the RNC in Cleveland
Sean Whitty and Christopher Traviano.
I went to the Republican and Democratic conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia to see who showed up outside on the streets. This is the first in a short series of reports.
Sean Whitty's back tattoo.
A quote by Sam Adams on Sean's arm.
The Public Square in downtown Cleveland, where some of the protests took place.
Two anti-Trump protesters in Public Square.
David Patterson speaking just before Kathy Wray Coleman is arrested.
The Cleveland Police handcuff Kathy Wray Coleman.
Taking her away.
Kathy Wray Coleman was arrested on outstanding warrants for assaulting Cleveland Police officers.
The Rev. Pamela M. Pickney Butts scolding the crowd after Coleman's arrest.
After Thinking About What To Do
Trent Harris wonders 'what the fuck?' at a gun shop in Salt Lake City.
In a few days I'm getting in my car and driving to the conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
Reagan's Neighbors
William Thomas, Lafayette Park, Washington D.C., 1984
Interviews with people occupying Lafayette Park in Washington D.C. in the early 1980s.
Sarah Vowell's new book, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States.
I will be speaking this week, June 29th, at Tape Fest in Brooklyn.
Conception Piccioto, Lafayette Park, Washington D.C., 1984
Tony, Lafayette Park, Washington D.C.,1984