amy: i wanted to read from the piece you wrote with bill mckibben. i think clearly, overall, very much ties into what we are seeing today. you say, "above all, it is obvious the world banks have a morally work to build russia's oil and gas industry. the industry that funds the russian army. an industry that vladimir putin has used as a cudgel for decades to keep europe cowering, and that is why we cheered so loudly tuesday when president biden as part of his been on russian oil told american banks to make no new investments in putin's oil as ukrainian president blumer zelensky tweeted, strikes at the heart of putin's war machine." can you talk about this, how your professional life, or activist life, as a lawyer, comes together now with what you have identified as the reasons for this war and what can be used to stop funding the russian military and the russian regime? >> thank you for that. i will talk through and explain a few initiatives that have been taken over the days as a lawyer come as an activisinvolved in a lot of global organizations and

bill mckibben started paying attention to the fight against the keystone xl pipeline, as he so often can sense an idea and a narrative that will rally people around it. we had a good idea. galvanize the public around a tangible symbol of climate change, shift the zeitgeist, force obama s hand, and make him be the first president of a major economy to stop a fossil fuel project because of climate change. [applause] so... we invited people to risk arrest in dc. we assembled a team of some of the most skilled civil disobedience organizers we knew, and some we didn t. and 1,253 people were arrested, probably some of you. [laughter] it was the first major protest targeting obama after his election. it s been exactly 10 years since transcanada requested the permit for keystone, and there is no pipeline built. [applause] our movement our movement did that. it did all these beautiful things. and of course there were also problems. not all of us knew how to listen to requests, to work differently with tribes along the route. the story that captured public attention did not adequately explain

so this is the next part of this we felt we pulled together thirty four authors bill mckibben who's here and a lot of very very bright people seville rahman goodies to term and so forth just from matthews and we have some of. our democracy on chip nancy. in changing over the title are. bored by the way. and the book comes out enough mid february of twenty twenty make your order if you have a smartphone ordered right now on amazon and then were falling out with you that's that are on the right side of the screen the opening event with authors and others. national cathedral. our forty fifth. of twenty twenty. the name we do events in boston and- cleveland denver los angeles. and san francisco. what we want to do is start a conversation. a conversation about how we rebuild first american democracy is you're- bringing this democracy into a- burst. it stopped the bleeding and stabilizer vital signs first then you get the- changes. on research we have to have is how do we it in which all of us in fact do matter. so that's part of this and a government trying to restructure government started w

so this is the next part of this we felt we pulled together thirty four authors bill mckibben who's here and a lot of very very bright people seville rahman goodies to term and so forth just from matthews and we have some of. our democracy on chip nancy. in changing over the title are. bored by the way. and the book comes out enough mid february of twenty twenty make your order if you have a smartphone ordered right now on amazon and then were falling out with you that's that are on the right side of the screen the opening event with authors and others. national cathedral. our forty fifth. of twenty twenty. the name we do events in boston and- cleveland denver los angeles. and san francisco. what we want to do is start a conversation. a conversation about how we rebuild first american democracy is you're- bringing this democracy into a- burst. it stopped the bleeding and stabilizer vital signs first then you get the- changes. on research we have to have is how do we it in which all of us in fact do matter. so that's part of this and a government trying to restructure government started w

joining me now is the award—winning author and environmentalist bill mckibben — who founded the climate, vermont. thank you very much forjoining us. ijust wonder at thank you very much forjoining us. i just wonder at the point at which talk of cutting off russia or its oil and gas supplies, your eyes lit up, in terms russia or its oil and gas supplies, your eyes lit up, in terms of russia or its oil and gas supplies, your eyes lit up, in terms of seeing russia or its oil and gas supplies, your eyes lit up, in terms of seeing this russia or its oil and gas supplies, your eyes lit up, in terms of seeing this as russia or its oil and gas supplies, your eyes lit up, in terms of seeing this as an opportunity, orare terms of seeing this as an opportunity, or are you a bit more realistic than that? well, i think nobody's _ more realistic than that? well, i think nobody's eyes _ more realistic than that? well, i think nobody's eyes are - more realistic than that? well, i think nobody's eyes are lit - i think nobody's eyes are lit up i think nobody's eyes are lit up at the moment. this is a drea

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