{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"From Phosphate Mining to Forever Chemicals With the Lowcountry Action Committee","description":" In this episode, we are joined by organizers from the Lowcountry Action Committee to discuss climate justice in South Carolina\u2019s Lowcountry. We begin with a discussion about climate reparations and the state's unfortunate priorities. We go on to explore the history of phosphate mining and its exploitation of newly emancipated Africans, the ecological destruction it caused, and its legacy of environmental racism.  We then turn to hurricane season and the anxiety it provokes in vulnerable working-class and poor Black communities, followed by the toxic legacy of military pollution and \u201cforever chemicals\u201d in North Charleston. Finally, we reflect on political consciousness, the fight against capital, and whether the Gullah Geechee are punished for their self-determination\u2014echoing Haiti\u2019s revolutionary legacy. Lowcountry Action Committee is a Black led grassroots organization dedicated to Black liberation through service, political education, and collective action in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. If you like what we do want to support our ability to have more conversations like this, please consider becoming a patron for as little as one dollar a month at patreon.com\/millennialsarekillingcapitalism, you can also support via a one-time donation at BuyMeACoffee.com\/MAKCapitalism The piece the conversation is based on this issue of Surge: Lowcountry Climate Magazine Lowcountry Action Committee\u2019s Website, LinkTree, Youtube ","author_name":"Millennials Are Killing Capitalism","author_url":"http:\/\/millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com\/website","html":"