Good afternoon thanks for joining us here on earth. Protesters chanting black lives matter slogans have seized control and barricaded themselves into 6 blocks of central seattle in the United States theyre calling that area the capitol hill autonomous and the move came after police had retreated from the neighborhood now hundreds of demonstrators led by the local council have also occupied city hall. The protesters are demanding the resignation because it is bad for the police to be big fund it their main goal is to build a Community Inside the zone without police some of those holed up inside city hall claiming community not politicians should be controlling decision making. The capitol hill autonomous zone or chance is a self declared commune aside from black lives matter activists its claimed that the ante for movement also helped set up or theres been no official acknowledgement of its involvement no police or cars are allowed in the area reports suggest that some of those inside t
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Now a discussion on Global Warming with an author who has spent the past 20 years observing the lives of residents in greenland. This is just over an hour. If you have been following Gretel Ehrlichs writing over the years you know her perhaps from her stunning collection of essays, the solace of open spaces, about the american west, or her astonishing memoir of being struck by lightning, match to the heart. Among various awards and honors, ehrlich won the inaugural 2010 penn thorough, literary excellence in nature writing. Her journeys many places around the world are physical and philosophical. Her recent book, facing the wave, chronicles of japan a country which she has the deep relationship in the aftermath of 2011 earthquake and tsunami and meltdowns at the Fukushima Nuclear power plant. She is here to talk about green land, about Climate Change and about rotten ice. Noted today on npr, if you think today is hot, youre right. If you think this year is hot, youre right. Latest tempe
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