harvard university professor maya jasanoff, we will link to "mourn the queen, not her empire." university professor professor of cambridge author of , "insurgent empire: anticolonial resistance & british dissent." next up, no sacrifice zones. frontline communities rally in washington to protest centre manchin's mountain valley pipeline. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: to see lee bragg's performances, go to democracynow.org. as california faces a record breaking heatwave, climate activists joined indigenous and appalachian groups at a rally in washington, d.c., thursday to protest against the mountain valley pipeline. the protest came after president biden signed the $739 billion inflation reduction act which included major concessions to west virginia senator joe manchin, the biggest recipient of fossil fuel money in congress. one provision expedites fossil fuel permitting, including for controversial m.v.p., that's mountain valley pipeline. if built, the mvp will carry two billion cubic feet of fracked gas across more than 1000 streams and wetlands in appalachia, including