Blabbermouth: Episode six of our Stranger week-in-review podcast.
Blabbermouth: Episode six of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. BrAt82/Shutterstock

Former mayor Mike McGinn is back on Blabbermouth this week. McGinn talks about dusting off his kayak in order to join this weekend's Festival of Resistance against the arrival of Shell's Arctic drilling fleet in Seattle.

The former mayor also tangles with this Danny Westneat column, which questioned whether kayaktivism will accomplish anything at all. And McGinn also criticizes Mayor Ed Murray for not taking a public stand against Shell back in November. (As Murray told Blabbermouth last week, November is when he first got private word that Arctic drilling rigs were headed our way.)

"The best way to have stopped Shell would have been sunshine," McGinn says. "If Shell's actions had been known well in advance, in time for the activists to bring the pressure on the port and be heard, this would have been stopped. And it turns out that the port commissioners were keeping it a secret. It turns out Ed Murray was keeping it a secret, too."

Sydney Brownstone is on the show as well, talking about the "two-faced" vote taken by the Port of Seattle's elected commissioners on the Shell issue this week. Ansel Herz ticks through his fact-check of statements made by the police and the mayor about May Day last week. And Lindsay Hood talks about escaping New York and landing in Seattle as The Stranger's new music editor.

PLUS the music of Detective Agency, who are playing on Sunday, May 17, at El CorazĂłn.



Blabbermouth May 15, 2015

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