Events

Please join us in celebrating the Catskills!

TRAILER TALK's Frack Talk Shale Project   Debra Winger   Ramsay Adams of Catskill Mountainkeeper  and  The Volunteers of Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy   cordially invite you to a   Springtime Afternoon Celebration!   in support of   Trailer Talk's Frack Talk Shale Project          on Sunday, May 22, 2011  Noon to Four PM at    Rolling River Cafe                         Please RSVP as space is limited to  Sabrina Artel at 845.295.0360 or trailertalk@gmail.com    Cost: $30.00 food, beer and music included.  Rolling River Cafe, on the Little Beaverkill River Kim and Rob Rayevsky, proprietors  25 Cooley Road Parksville, NY 12768 get directions  845.747.4123   If you can't make it please consider supporting Trailer Talk's Frack Talk Project anyway, every contribution makes a difference!

TRAILER TALK is a public conversation that always includes many more people during both the live event and the recorded audio program than can be included on these pages. Only a portion of the conversations and the photographs of those participating inside TRAILER TALK at my mobile kitchen table and those outside listening to the event are documented on this site. I am grateful to all of the participants during TRAILER TALK both inside and outside of the trailer. Everyone who participates in TRAILER TALK is important to both the live and the recorded audio event. Thanks so much to everyone for joining in on the conversations!

Actor Danny Glover was among those interviewed by Sabrina Artel at The National Conference for Media Reform, January 12-14, 2007 in Memphis, Tennessee. The weekend presented strategies for winning the fight for better media with over three thousand in attendance. Glover spoke about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King JR. and his own role as an advocate for human rights. Sabrina’s other guests included the founder of the National Civil Rights Museum, Judge D’Army Bailey, Phil Donahue, Katrina survivor Jimmie Morris and Elvis Presley clothing designer Bernard Lansky.

		Sabrina speaks with actor Danny Glover at the Media Reform Conference in Memphis.
		Judge D'Army Bailey speaks with Sabrina about founding the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis where Martin Luther King jr. was assassinated.
		The Lorraine Motel balcony where Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
		The Lorraine Motel sign.
		Bernard Lansky, "clothier to the King", Elvis Presley, speaks to Sabrina at his shop inside the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis.

Trailer Talk: Freedom of Speech CSNY
August 13, 2006
Bethel, New York

TRAILER TALK was located at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts during its inaugural season for the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "Freedom of Speech" tour. The Bethel Woods is located on the site of the original Woodstock Festival 1969 and this concert happened during the week of the 37th anniversary of Woodstock. Guests joined me for homemade brownies as we talked about the connection between the past and present: how the history of the site—which many see as the generation's defining moment—connects with our current political and cultural situation.

		29th District NY State Senator Tom Duane joins me to speak out against President Bush and his administration after the concert.
		An enlisted soldier joins me during intermission to speak about his confusion over current foreign policy and told me that when he was deployed in Iraq for fifteen months the only reason he had a bullet proof shield was because his mother, an elementary school teacher, bought one for him for $550.
		I speak to concert goers after the CSNY concert.

Trailer Talk: Juneteenth
June 17th, 2006
Monticello, New York

Dating back to 1865, Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. L. Monique, a spoken word artist and the organizer of the Juneteenth Celebration, joins me along with many other guests at the Community Center in Monticello, NY in Sullivan County.

Sabrina speaks with Juneteenth producer, spoken word artist and "poetess" L. Monique.

Trailer Talk: No Power Lines
May 18, 2006
Delaware Valley Youth Center, Callicoon, New York

Over 400 people gathered to overwhelmingly protest NYRI’s proposal to run Power Lines along 73.4 miles of the Delaware River. It seems to be on its way to becoming a national test case over eminent domain as the State and Federal governments debate this attempt by a private company to use a designated and annexed Wild and Scenic Rivers Act location for their private business. I spoke with over 25 residents of the area including politicians Senator John Bonacic, Assemblymember Aileen Gunther and Congessmember Maurice Hinchey’s office about their opposition to and mobilization to fight this attempt by NYRI to profit in other people’s backyards while destroying the environment and the quality of life in the region. In addition I spoke with many residents of the area including artist Ramona Jan.

To find out more please go to: http://udpc.net

		Ramona Jan
		New York State Senator John Bonacic
		New York State Assemblymember Aileen Gunther

Trailer Talk: Opening Day of Trout Season
April 1st, 2006
Roscoe, New York

TRAILER TALK visits the opening of the Trout Season in New York State. Streamside at Junction Pool guests join Sabrina for homemade muffins as they gather for the traditional first cast in the very early morning of April 1, 2006 at the junction of the Beaverkill and Willowemoc rivers. Sabrina speaks to guests about Fly Fishing and the environment. Some of the people who participate in Trailer Talk are the "First Lady" of Fly Fishing Joan Wulff, actor Rip Torn and his friend Paul Shultz, seven year old Fly Fisher afficiando Allie Phelan and environmental advocate and founding executive director of the NRDC, John Adams.

		Joan Wulff
		Rip Torn and Paul Shultz

TRAILER TALK at the campaign fundraiser for Sean Patrick Maloney, candidate for New York State Attorney General. Sean, part of Clinton's team was the highest ranking openly gay man to serve on the White House staff.

What's the state of the Democratic party, local politics and the nation? The night's guests include: Sean Patrick Maloney, performer Joan Osborne, Councilman Maurice Gerry, community organizer Gerard Ilaria and more...

Resort Restaurant, Livingston Manor New York, Sullivan
County Catskills, Saturday October 15th, 7-11pm.

		Singer Joan Osborne speaks with Sabrina for a conversation about her music and politics too.
		Sabrina and Joan Osborne after the interview.
		Sean Patrick Maloney visits TRAILER TALK to speak about his candidacy for NY State Attorney General.
		Sabrina speaks with Liberty Democratic Committee member Gerard Ilaria and Town of Liberty Councilman Maurice Gerry.

		Sabrina with Ann & Eric (Long Island). "It's our moral obligation to speak out & act from our conscience."
		Sabrina speaks with Jesse Jackson.
		Sabrina with Mary Jane (Portland, Maine).
		Lining up for the March.
		Start of the March.
		The trail of photographs of the American soldiers who have died in the Iraq War, a 1/2 mile long.
		Linda & Phil Waste from Military Families Speak Out, arriving in D.C. with the Bring Them Home Now Bus Tour.
		March line up, coffins draped by the American flag being carried by the friends and family of the soldiers who have died in the Iraq War.