Staying Alive: Extinction Rebellion's Chase Bank Protest

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Mar 1, 2020 | All Talk, Local, Politics, Talk of the Bay | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Staying Alive: Extinction Rebellion's Chase Bank Protest

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On February 28th, around 100 protesters occupied Chase Bank in Santa Cruz to call for the bank’s divestment in fossil fuels. This interview includes a talk with two of the organizers. At the end of the interview with Meghan Collins and Zen priest Antoinette Parekh, we hear a bit of audio from the protest itself as four participants are being arested.

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Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.