A People's Climate

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Bringing frontline stories into focus. For this special season finale, recorded live during NYC Climate Week, host Shilpi Chhotray convenes a powerful storytelling event with three frontline media makers: Chantel Comardelle , Alexandra Norris , and B. Preston Lyles . This is more than a conversation about films or campaigns — it’s an intimate window into the lived realities of climate and environm...

The path to climate justice is local. In this episode of A People’s Climate, host Shilpi Chhotray sits down with Elizabeth Yeampierre, veteran organizer and executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization, to explore how frontline communities are taking climate action into their own hands. In a capitalist world that prioritizes bigger, faster, and more, Elizabet...

“If you want to support Palestine, get free.” In this episode of A People’s Climate, host Shilpi Chhotray sits down with Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library , for a powerful conversation about resistance in the face of Israeli militarism, occupation, and ecological devastation. For two years, the world watched Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing campaign acros...

“No matter how many billions you have, you don't have enough to buy our lives.” Host Shilpi Chhotray is joined by Tennessee State Representative Justin J. Pearson , a fierce advocate taking on corporate power — from Big Oil to Big Tech. You may know him as one of the two Black representatives who was expelled for demanding gun reform on the House floor after The Covenant school shooting in Na...

What the soil can teach us in the fight for climate justice. Solving the climate crisis isn’t about reinventing the wheel or the latest tech scheme — it can be as simple as growing food and building community.  Host Shilpi Chhotray chats with Leah Penniman, farmer, educator, and co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, about the intersection of land, food justice, and racial equity. Leah shares how Afro-Indi...

The largest dam removal in U.S. history. For the first time in over a century, the Klamath River flows free again—thanks to the vision, courage, and determination of the Yurok Tribe.  In this episode of A People’s Climate, Shilpi Chhotray interviews Amy Bowers Cordalis, a member of the Yurok Tribe and leader in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history.  From devastating fish kills and lost...

A call for big, bad, bold courage. What does true climate action look like when it’s rooted in sovereignty, resistance, and liberation?  In this powerful episode of A People’s Climate , Shilpi Chhotray sits down with Nick Tilsen —Oglala Lakota land defender and CEO of NDN Collective—to unpack the meaning of LandBack, the historic fight for the Black Hills, the release of political prisoner Leonard...

In this episode of A People’s Climate , host Shilpi Chhotray sits down with Patrisse Cullors , author, educator, artist, and abolitionist who you may also know as the co-founder of Black Lives Matter. They explore the deep connections between racial justice, environmental justice, and the fight for a more just and caring world.  From her childhood experiences in Los Angeles to organizing around po...

One woman’s fight against one of the most powerful chemical companies in the world. In this episode of A People’s Climate , Shilpi Chhotray sits down with Diane Wilson , a fourth-generation shrimper and relentless environmental activist, to explore her decades-long fight against Formosa Plastics—a $250 billion petrochemical giant polluting the Texas Gulf Coast.  From hunger strikes to scaling the...

This isn’t climate talk as usual. This is environmental justice. A new climate podcast by Counterstream Media and The Nation . Hosted by Shilpi Chhotray and powered by Wildseeds Fund.  The climate crisis is here—and the solutions being pushed? They’re failing. Tech gimmicks, shallow policy fixes, and corporate greenwashing won’t save us. What will? People power.  The communities on the frontlines...