The Spotted Owl or: How the Right Won the Working Class

Summary: Judi Bari's effort to ally forest workers and environmentalists could have changed the course of climate activism forever. Could her parable help us today? Cited teams up with Dissent’s Hot and Bothered podcast and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions to tell the story of tree spiking, a Texas millionaire, and the Northern Spotted Owl. In this hour we look at the jobs vs. environment problem and explore how forest management might be able to mitigate climate change on a massive scale. with documentary filmmaker Mary Liz Thomson, University of Oregon sociology professor John Bellamy Foster, and independent forester Herb Hammond. Special thanks to Mary Liz Thomson for letting us use clips from her documentary Who Bombed Judi Bari?  Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (http://apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (https://twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.