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Old Mole Variety Hour for October 10, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Flag of Chinookan People, via Wikimedia Commons. Roben White hosts this episode of the Old Mole, in recognition of Indigenous People’s Day. Free the Snake: Nimiipuu Mole Julian Ankney speaks with Julian Matthews, founder of Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment, coordinat... Read more

Tribal Recognition

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Lakota-Cheyenne Mole Roben White speaks with Chinook tribal council member Rachel Cushman about the devastating impact of the 2002 decision under George W. Bush to rescind the Chinook tribe's federal recognition and about the tribe's long struggle for justice. Flag of Chin... Read more

Free the Snake

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Nimiipuu Mole Julian Ankney speaks with Julian Matthews, founder of Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment, coordinator of the Nimiipuu Canoe Project, and an advocate for freeing the Snake River about how the damming of the Snake continues to impact Nimiipuu tribal sovereignty... Read more

Grief as an Ontological Form of Time

Airs at: Wed, 10/05/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  For The Wild
  This week, guest Yoalli Rodriguez brings us to the Chacahua-Pastora Lagoons in Oaxaca, Mexico, to investigate deep connections with land, ongoing colonial violence, and the grief that comes alongside loving a place. The Chacahua-Pastora Lagoons have long been vital space... Read more

Portland Caves in to Zenith Energy

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In late 2017 Zenith Energy stole into Portland in the dead of night and took over an abandoned petroleum facility, proceeding to turn it into the largest oil-by-rail facility in the Northwest. The community rose up in fury that a fossil fuel facility of this size could oper... Read more

Kate Williams of Disability Equity Center Interview

Airs at: Fri, 10/07/2022 at 9:30am - 10:00am
In this interview, Kate Williams, Director of Advocacy Supports at the Disability Equity Center Disability Equity Center mentions one of their events:  Music Meetup Magic Luscious Spirit Sounds at Turn!Turn!Turn! the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month from 2-4. This event can... Read more

LA County Jail System Dysfunction - Historic Protests in Iran - Southern Baptist Cultish Backwardness

Airs at: Tue, 10/04/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Rising Up With Sonali
  This week, we'll examine why Men's Central Jail in the LA County Jail System continues to operate, and continues to house people in barbaric conditions. We'll speak with Mark-Anthony Clayton-Johnson, executive director of Dignity & Power NOW. Then, we'll turn to Iran whe... Read more

For The Wild

  An anthology of the Anthropocene; focused on land based protection, co-liberation and intersectional storytelling rooted in a paradigm shift from human supremacy towards Deep Ecology. We join some of the brightest thought-leaders and visionaries of our time– to uplift a... Read more

"Democracy Beyond the US Empire", by Vijay Prashad

Airs at: Thu, 09/29/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Sojourner Truth Radio
Guest host Nana Gyamfi will share excerpts from Vijay Prashad's recent speech: Democracy Beyond the US Empire, hosted by the Peoples Forum at the famed Riverside Church in Harlem, New York City. Prashad addresses US myth busting in the Global South and the co-opted words of... Read more

Old Growth Forests, Wildfire and Climate Chaos

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Even though there are no large fires burning close to Portland this summer, you can still smell the smoke from all the megafires burning from British Columbia to Northern California. This is the new reality we are facing, a confluence of climate chaos, exacerbated by loggin... Read more