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I'm told that we've now gotten through to Eli Day.

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That, my friends, was a small excerpt from the rousing song, You Can't Giddy Up by Saying Whoa, written and sung by our guest on today's show, veteran labor and climate activist and musician Joe Uline and his band, the Uliners.

Good morning and welcome to Terra Verde, a weekly environment news and views program co-hosted by Earth Island Journal and KPFA, and aired on KPFA and KPFB in Berkeley, KFCF in Fresno, and online worldwide at kpfa.org. I'm Maureen Nandini Mitra, the host and producer of today's show, and I am absolutely delighted to have Joe with me on the show today.

Joe is a veteran labor organizer who realized pretty early on how climate change was going to be what he calls a jobs killer.

He also realized that winning real climate and economic justice meant moving beyond the limits of the traditional labor and environmental movements.

But there's been a bit of both, but the environmentalists have done a better job.

This is Maureen.

You're tuned in to Terra Verde, a weekly environment radio show co-hosted by Earth Island Journal on KPFA and KPFB in Berkeley and KFCF in Fresno and online worldwide at kpfa.org.

If you're just joining us, I'm speaking with labor and climate activist and musician joe uline about moving beyond the limits of traditional labor and climate activism and about the critical role of music in movements you say that keystone the keystone excel protest in 2011 were a huge turning point for you personally and for your organization could you talk a little bit about that

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That's author and commentator Glenn Greenwald.

And you are listening to the evening news on 94.1 KPFA and 89.3 KPFB in Berkeley, 88.1 KFCF in Fresno, and online at kpfa.org. I'm David Rosenberg.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Samarkand, the fabled Silk Road city in what is now central Uzbekistan, for talks with regional ministers today.

The C5+1, Central Asia plus the US summit, to be held from today to Tuesday, is an indication of Washington's new approach to the ex-Soviet region.

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