This Show features David Rossini (Green Corps) & Marianne Cufone (Director of FISHCampaign) as our guests. Plus under reported Surreal News items with Larry and David.

DAVID ROSSINI will co-host the Surreal News and discuss Green Corps, and the status of the Climate Bill that is working its way through Congress. In his role as Organizing Director of Green Corps. David oversees its trainees and field programs. He has led teams of organizers to pass an open space ballot measure in Maryland; to turn out more that 5000 citizens for Arctic Refuge Action Day in Washington DC, and to convince Bowater, the largest paper company operating in the Cumberland Plateau to stop destroying native forests. He has provided field assistance to the Sierra Club, Environment America, Alaska Coalition, ForestEthics, Dogwood Alliance, Minnesota Environmental Partnership and the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters. David joined Green Corps after graduating from Vassar College in 2003. The mission of Green Corps is to train organizers, provide field support for critical environmental campaigns, and develop activists with the skills, temperament, and commitment to win environmental protections and public health initiatives.

Marianne Cufone is Food & Water Watch's FishCampaign Director. She has been involved in natural resources management, and specifically fisheries management for the past 15 years. Before coming to Food & Water Watch, she was the Managing Partner of Environment Matters, a private environmental consulting firm in Tampa, Florida. Previously, Ms. Cufone was a Program Manager for a national conservation organization. She has worked with law firms, educational facilities, government entities and organizations throughout the United States on a wide range of issues including: fisheries, pollution, impacts mitigation, stewardship and outreach. She also teaches courses and guest lectures at assorted academic institutions. She currently maintains positions on assorted natural resource advisory boards for Hillsborough County, the State of Florida and the federal government and sits on several non-profit Boards of Directors. Ms. Cufone received her J.D., Cum Laude from the University of Miami School of Law through a joint Masters program in Marine Science and Policy at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami. She received her BA, from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.