UNLOCKED: RSH 80 -- The Policy Failures are Bigger in Texas (2.23.2021)

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Recorded February 21, 2021. Bonus episode, Real Sankara After Hours portion. Adam and Peter talk to Raz, a writer and activist in Texas, about the polar vortex, the blackouts, ERCOT, climate change creating more disasters with both California and Texas as examples of what's to come (and already here), why nationalizing the electrical grid is the most sensible approach, how the repressive right-wing state government works against the interests of regular Texans and how to fight it. 

Links: map of USA electrical grid: http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/national_energy_grid/united-states-of-america/americannationalelectricitygrid.shtml; climate change poses for U.S.'s electrical grid: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/climate/texas-power-grid-failures.html ; Texas ERCOT set state up for disaster: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/us/texas-electricity-ercot-blackouts.html ; Texas Freedom Colonies Project: https://andrearobertsphd.com/the-texas-freedom-colonies-project/ ; Bonton Farms: https://bontonfarms.org/about-2/ ; Jen Sarduy for District 2: https://sarduyfordistrict2.com/ ; Re+Birth Equity Alliance: https://www.rebirthequity.org/about ;