BREDL’s new podcast: In Our Backyard

We will be blogging individual articles from The League Line, our quarterly newsletter

Spring 2020 issue: http://bredl.org/theleagueline/Spring2020.pdf
Index to this and other issues: http://bredl.org/theleagueline/index.htm

Spring 2020 
By Jenn Galler

This February, BREDL released its new “In Our Backyard Podcast”. This is a new media platform that we believe will benefit our chapters’ work and inform a broader audience on environmental issues that are unfolding right in our backyards.

This is different from any other media or news outlet because it is
conversational. You can hear through people’s voices and tones the passion, anger, grief, intensity, and a whole range of emotions that are hard to portray any other way. It shows how powerful our voices are. It’s also a form of personal storytelling which evokes an emotional response from the audience,
hopefully prompting them to get involved and take action.

What is a podcast? Good question, it’s an audio show, spread across a series of episodes, which can be downloaded from the Internet and listened to either on a computer or smartphone. The term “podcast”, coined in 2004, is portmanteau of “IPod” and “broadcast”.

I talk with activists, experts, and people on the ground covering and fighting these issues. The In Our Backyard Podcast highlights a wide array of people and injustices that are happening on local, national, and even international levels. Through interviewing and talking with these people, I’ve learned about
the complexity of the issues these communities are facing and am inspired by all that is going on.

Currently, there are 10+ episodes out, with topics including PFAS, coal ash, nuclear weapons, proposed mining sites and much more.


 New episodes come out every Friday
at 10 AM so be on the lookout. You
can listen at
https://anchor.fm/bredl or
anywhere you listen to podcasts.