On March 17-20, 2016, I joined several hundred people marching along the proposed Kinder-Morgan/NED pipeline route. It was about 50 miles, from Windsor, MA, to Northfield, MA, both towns where compressor stations are proposed. The walk was stunningly organized by Sugar Shack Alliance (http://www.sugarshackalliance.org).

People along the way joined and fed and housed the walk, and organized special events. In this show, you’ll hear Will Elwell talking about a cabin he built in the middle of the proposed pipeline route; Josh Fox talking about his latest film, loving the things climate can’t change; Rep Steve Kulik sharing Kinder-Morgan stories as he has witnessed in the legislature; Dragonfly, one of the members of the “Rev Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir” making up songs as we walk; Lisa McLaughlin talking about Native American sacred sites along the proposed route; Leigh Youngblood of Mt Grace Land Trust reading a list of Article 97 protected conservation lands that the pipeline would go through from Pittsfield to Dracut; Carolyn Shores Ness of the Deerfield selectboard explaining how Deerfield has been able to defend their town from a proposed compressor station; Moonlight Davis of Irving singing a pipeline original…and other voices.

A couple of months before her 97th birthday, with walking places becoming more difficult, Frances Crowe sold her car. She tells us about one day navigating transportation options around Northampton. Then she talks about her birthday visit yesterday to Gov Baker’s office to tell him to stop the pipeline and raise the solar net metering cap.

I have some anecdotes about the Unist’ot’en pipeline resistance in western Canada, about biking through fracked territory in PA, “natural gas” vs my natural gas, and a song “Wake up and Smell the Gas” by Mark Kelso.

Angie from Simple Diaper and Linen (http://simple.coop) talks briefly about the cloth and compostable diaper business.

In the last 15 minutes there is a clip from a Black Lives Matter forum in February, actually organized by WHMP, where 4 local Black panelists talk about their experience in Northampton.

In honor of International Women’s Day, March 8th, Western Mass Code Pink organized an event to honor women working to stop pipelines, mainly the proposed Kinder-Morgan/NED pipeline. Nearly 20 women speak, representing a dozen organizations across Western Mass (North). Music is by the Raging Grannies, Molly Scott, and Sarah Pirtle. The show is full of announcements and action items, so keep your pen and paper handy.