Ep. 181: toxic landscapes & extreme protest

Jack of All Graves

This week Corrigan tells Marko all about the toxic waste dotting the landscape of the U.S. and how climate change is making it worse, and we dive into some extreme forms of protest people have undertaken and why they did it.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about toxic superfund sites
[27:55] Mark saw Bruce Springsteen who is surprisingly popular in Wales
[35:00] Corrigan's surreal Richard Dreyfuss experience and weekend from Hell
[54:46] Thursday we'll have a new Ko-Fi exclusive episode of JoAG Fancave on The Strangers, and we've got a watch along coming Saturday, May 25th!
[60:27] What we watched! (The Strangers, Basket Case, Godzilla Minus One, Inglourious Basterds, Dead of Night (aka Deathdream), Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, Love Lies Bleeding)
[90:40] We discuss extreme protests

Stuff we referenced:

• Cesspools in Eden by the Dead Kennedys
• Self-immolation and other ‘spectacular’ protests: How impactful are they?
• Asylum seekers sew lips together | World news | The Guardian
• Asylum seekers in Australia sew lips together in protest at indefinite detainment
• Reports of lips sewn together as asylum seekers stage hunger strike | Australia news | The Guardian
• A protest, standing in water, for 14 days
• Graphic pictures: Woman hangs herself on fish hooks in Paris shark protest
• Artist nails his scrotum to the ground in Red Square | Russia | The Guardian
• The Five Most Toxic Sites in the U.S.
• What is Superfund? | US EPA
• A.L. TAYLOR (VALLEY OF DRUMS) | Superfund Site Profile | Superfund Site Information | US EPA
• LOVE CANAL | Superfund Site Profile | Superfund Site Information | US EPA
• Love Canal - Wikipedia
• 'We've been forgotten': In Newark, N.J., a toxic Superfund site faces growing climate threats
• As hundreds of toxic sites await cleanup, questions over Superfund program’s future | PBS News Weekend
• The presence of Superfund sites as a determinant of life expectancy in the United States | Nature Communications
• Love Canal Revealed a National Problem; Superfund Provided a Solution | U.S. EPA News Releases | US EPA
• 50 years later: St. Louis still processing the PBB Disaster | WOODTV.com
• Radioactive dirt is trucked from Coldwater Creek. North County residents want broader testing.
• Atomic Fallout: How the Feds Downplayed Radioactive Waste in St. Louis for 75 years
• The Love Canal Tragedy | About EPA | US EPA
• Love Canal: A Toxic Tragedy | Saving Earth | Encyclopedia Britannica
• How a Group of Housewives Changed History | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
• Waiting and waiting for cleanup of the Passaic River - NJ Spotlight News
• $1.8B cleanup of polluted N.J. river stalls while feds figure out who will pay
• Case Summary: $165 Million Settlement to Start Cleanup Work on the Passaic River in New Jersey | US EPA
• Learn about Dioxin | US EPA
• Mesothelioma - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic