Month: December 2022

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New Books in Native American Studies - Finis Dunaway. “Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice” (UNC Press, 2021)

In far northeastern Alaska lies one of the most remarkable, and contested, places in North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This coastal arctic region is a place of great natural beauty, ecological importance, as well as being home and birthplace of the Gwich'in people. It's also thought to contain massive fossil fuel wealth, making it a site of fifty years and more political contestation. 

In the award-winning book, Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, An Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice (UNC Press: 2021), Finis Dunaway explains how Indigenous people teamed up with the activist, photographer, and jazz drummer Lenny Kohm to build a grassroots movement to protect this sacred place from extractive industry. Using a humble photo slide show, Kohm and other activists, both Native people from the region and outsiders, marshaled the power of everyday people to convince critical and powerful actors that this was a place that deserved federal protection. While this fight is ongoing, Dunaway's book shows that sometimes power can be found in unexpected places, and that environmental history is not a simple story of decline and hopelessness.

Defending the Arctic Refuge website and teaching tools are here.

Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Winter Solstice

Twice a year, the sun reaches an extreme point in the sky. It is the day with the least amount of sunlight or the most amount of sunlight, depending on where in the world you happen to be. 

It is a day that almost every early culture around the world recognized because it was the one day a year they could document by following the path of the sun. 

Learn more about the solstice, how it works and how it has been celebrated on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Pod Save America - “What a Year!”

Pod Save America's second annual holiday spectacular brings guest hosts Priyanka Aribindi and Tre'vell Anderson together with Jon, Jon, and Dan to look back at the good, bad and absurd of 2022. Plus, Representative Katie Porter stops by the studio, and Jon, Jon, and Dan decide the worst Take of the Year in the Pundies Awards.

 

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The NewsWorthy - America’s Deep Freeze, GOP Riot Report & Record NBA Sale- Thursday, December 22, 2022

The news to know for Thursday, December 22, 2022!

We'll tell you what Ukraine's president said to U.S. lawmakers during his historic visit to the Capitol and what a new report from Republicans says about who is to blame for the January 6th Capitol riot.

Also, we're keeping an eye on the massive winter storm that's sure to impact holiday travel.

Plus, remembering an iconic NFL moment as fans say goodbye to one of the greats, who will likely be the newest NBA owner, and a new feature sheds light on the TikTok algorithm. 

Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes for sources and to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | How US Government Could Ban TikTok

Chinese-owned TikTok has made headlines over the past few weeks as bipartisan support grows to ban the popular app.

A bipartisan, bicameral trio of lawmakers introduced legislation Dec. 13 aimed at banning TikTok nationwide. The next day, the Senate unanimously passed another bill that would ban the app on government devices. 

Brendan Carr, a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission, has been one of the most outspoken critics of TikTok and particularly highlights two national security concerns related to the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

"One has to do with all of this sensitive, private, nonpublic data that has been accessed from inside Beijing. So for years, TikTok officials told regulators like me and told Congress, 'Don't worry about it, none of this data is stored inside China,'" Carr says. "Well, over this past summer, there was a bombshell BuzzFeed News story that showed those representations had been nothing other than gaslighting. BuzzFeed News got a hold of internal TikTok communications that showed, in fact, quote, 'everything is seen in China.'"

"The second is, once they have that, they can use it for foreign influence, for espionage, other types of campaigns. And in fact, we're already seeing that," Carr warns.

Carr joins this episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss a potential TikTok ban in America, how the U.S. government would be able to enact and implement a ban, and how parents can protect their children. 


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Tech Won't Save Us - FTX Goes to Zero w/ Molly White

Paris Marx is joined by Molly White to discuss the ongoing collapse of the crypto industry, what to make of the implosion of FTX and Alameda Research, and what happens next with Sam Bankman-Fried.

Molly White is the creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great and a fellow at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. You can follow her on Twitter at @molly0xFFF.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - 2022 Retrospective | Dua Lipa’s Copyright Problem

This week we look back on some of our favorite stories from a year that had us asking—sometimes with excitement and sometimes with exasperation—"What Next”? This episode originally aired March 29.

 

After more than 70 weeks on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100, Dua Lipa and her song “Levitating” have run into trouble: two separate copyright complaints claiming the pop star ripped off other artists in writing her hit. These aren’t the first lawsuits to test the boundaries of what counts as plagiarism in the musical realm; and if either suit succeeds, it will have far-reaching consequences for creativity in the industry.

 

Guest: Jeremy Orosz, associate professor of music theory at the University of Memphis.

 

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