This week on Voices from the Frontlines...
Clayton Thomas-Muller, just back from the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal

Organizers from Los Angeles and San Francisco reporting live from the WTO protests in Hong Kong


Elena Popp, on the recent Lincoln Place evictions in Venice, CA

Monday, December 12th @ 4:00pm

Voices from the Frontlines Segment

of the 4:00 Public Affairs Hour

Pacifica Stations KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara

Streaming on the Web at www.kpfk.org

Clayton Thomas-Muller, is a native-energy organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN). IEN works to build the capacity of Indigenous communities and tribal governments to develop mechanisms to protect their land, water, air, natural resources, and health. Members of IEN spent the last two weeks in Montreal at the UN Conference on Climate Change, where representatives from 180 countries  met to discuss implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and to begin discussion on what will happen once the agreement expires in 2012.

Elena Popp, is an attorney and founder of the Eviction Defense Network that represents tenants facing eviction.  She is the lawyer for the evictees of the Lincoln Place Apartments. This apartment complex was built in 1951 to address the post-WWII housing crisis and has since provided rent-controlled quality housing.. However, since the 1980's, it has been under threat of demolition by property developers and just last week, on Tuesday, December 6th, the residents of Lincoln Place were locked out of their homes in one of the largest mass evictions in the history of the Los Angeles Housing Department.

Hosts:

Tammy Bang Luu & Manuel Criollo are both organizers with the Los Angeles based Labor/Community Strategy Center and the Strategy Center's main mass campaign, the Bus Riders Union "Fight Transit Racism, Billions for Buses" campaign.

If you missed last week's exclusive interview with Scott Ritter, former UN chief weapons inspector, make sure to catch it at:  www.thestrategycenter.org (click on "Voices From the Frontlines")

For comments on the show or for more information, contact:

213.387.2800 or voices@thestrategycenter.org