It’s Official! Planet Earth Needs Some Damn Good Lawyers

Tamara Zakim, an environmental lawyer at Earthjustice, shares some insights that come with being a real-life defender of mankind and the home we all share.

Guest Profiles

Tamara Zakim is an environmental champion of the best kind. Wicked smart, uber competitive and deeply passionate about justice. She works as an Attorney for the prominent environmental law organization Earthjustice, renowned to use the power of law to fight for earth and its inhabitants.

Known as “Take ‘em Zakim” on the basketball court during her professional career in Northern Europe she claims bball as her first love. Zakim is a Pomona College and Georgetown University Law Center graduate and now calls Oakland, CA home.

When not protecting justice and modeling for earth friendly ad campaigns, Tamara contributes time and energy to the Pride Law Fund which promotes the legal rights of the LGBTQ and people living with HIV and AIDS, by funding legal services and sponsoring education and outreach.
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Show Notes

Sponsor message donated to Communities for a Better Environment by The Ambassadors Circle

What’s the 411:

• California is still on fire!
• Niners push for another Super Bowl in the Bay Area
• Laundered money stuffed in Bay Area homes?
• Big brother is listening
• An Oakland Police Commission with teeth

Top 3 Events:

• California Brazil Camp pt. 1 at the DeYoung Museum August 19th
• Bay Area Bhanghra Competition at the California Theatre in San Jose on August 20th
• Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party in the Mission District of San Francisco on August 20th
  
  

Extras:

• Tamara Zakim mentioned a couple of Bay Area orgs she works with including Communities for a Better Environment, and Asian Pacific Environmental Network
• Canadian Cargo Train Derails, then in June Oregon Oil Train Derailment
• SoCal’s debate over what would be the largest warehouse development in the world
• Here’s more from Earthjustice about fracking. Also, links to the CA regulatory Department of Conservation, Director David Bunn, and the Division of Oil Gas & Natural Resources who published their Renewal Plan with a purpose to “...usher in a new era of oil and gas regulation”
• Call to Action! Subscribe to one of our all of these email newsletters (and social media) to stay informed - Earthjustice, Huffington Post Green, Washington Post Energy & Environment or NPR’s Environment podcast
• Leonardo DiCaprio addressing the UN on Earth Day 2016 gets The Last Word
  
  

Production: Sound Design by Courtney Grace with Production Assistance  by Jen Huynh with Hosts LT, Becca, Noel Ayana and j-

Music: 360BayArea intro music by Courtney Grace with vocals by Elle T
Featured music by Haf-Time “So Many Things”, Danny Swain “Oh My”, SK Austen “Love is Gone” and Low Hanging Fruit “Jizz Jazz”, “Bangers and Mash”, and “Gooda”, clark kent “harambe”

Featured Quick clips:
Mary J Blige “What’s the 411”
Drake ft Future “Grammys”
Redman “Time 4 sum Aktion”