Helen Caldicott, M.D., pediatrician and internationally recognized author and lecturer, hosts a weekly, one-hour radio program titled If You Love This Planet. Produced by Jasmin WIlliams and Scott Powell. Edited by Jasmin Williams.
http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org
This week, Dr. Caldicott explores politics and media activism with Jules Boykoff, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Pacific University, in Forest Grove, Oregon. In 2006, Prof. Boykoff was an invited speaker at the United Nations climate change conference in Nairobi, based on his research and writing on media coverage of climate disruption. His writing on activism has appeared recently in New Left Review, the Guardian, Oregon Historical Quarterly, the Nation, and CounterPunch.