Radio Curious visits with journalist Will Parrish, who sat in a tree for a week to protest development of a highway bypass in Willits, Ca.
Barry Vogel, Attorney and Counselor is the Host and Producer of Radio Curious. Christina Aanestad is the Assistant Producer.
Journalism and civil disobedience is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is Mendocino County journalist, Will Parrish, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz with a major in Sociology and Social Change and a minor in Journalism. Currently, he describes himself as a social change activist/journalist.
In this interview recorded in the studios of Radio Curious May 27th, 2013, Will Parrish describes some of his past experiences as a journalist and continues with his story of why he sat in a tree for a week near Willits, Ca as an act of civil disobedience to protest the building of a highway.
The book Will Parrish recommends is âThe Merry Adventurers of Robin Hoodâ by Howard Pyle.
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