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Surveillance on the Pipeline

Airs at: Mon, 09/09/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
A few weeks ago the Guardian broke a chilling story: "Law enforcement groups, including the FBI, have been monitoring opponents of a natural gas infrastructure project in Oregon and circulated intelligence to an email list that included a Republican-aligned anti-environment... Read more

Harm Reduction for People Who Use Stimulants

Airs at: Wed, 09/04/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies, a discussion about harm reduction for people who use stimulants featuring Mike Discepola, San Francisco Aids Foundation; Liz Evans, New York Harm Reduction Educators; Issac Jackson, Urban Survivor’s Union; Shilo Hassan Jama, The People’s Harm R... Read more

Buscando America on 09/03/19

Airs at: Tue, 09/03/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Se conforma La Asamblea De Migrantes Africanos en Tapachula Chiapas frente a la agresión y criminalización del Instituto Nacional de Migración y la Guardia Nacional en México. Luís Narvaez periodista chileno, hace una analogía entre el cantautor Víctor Jara y el poeta españ... Read more

Left & the Law: First Amendment Rights

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Climate activists preparing for direct action in September need to know their rights under the First Amendment. But what are those rights and how do the fascists also enlist the First Amendment in defense of their hate campaigns? Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken talk about f... Read more

Strikes & the Politics of Worker Power

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement talks with Marianne Garneau about strikes and the politics of worker-power. They consider how strikes have been tamed in the last 100 year by labor law and what that has meant for their usefulness in winning gains for workers. If strikes are still useful, wha... Read more

Would you risk arrest for life on earth?

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Amy Johnson will be speaking with one of the valve turners who spent 6 months in prison for shutting down a tar-sands pipeline in North Dakota on October 11th, 2016, Michael Foster. As well as Bonnie McKinlay, who hosts workshops in Portland, Oregon on Civil Disobedien... Read more

Holding the Thin Green Line, Part Two

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
THE LONG AND TWISTED TALE OF JORDAN COVE tells the story of what could be the largest Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) export terminal on the West Coast. This mammoth facility, proposed for Coos Bay, Oregon, would be fed by a 229 mile long, 36" wide pipeline transporting fracked ga... Read more

An in-depth look at the Psychiatric Survivor Movement

Airs at: Wed, 09/04/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
(Opening/closing song: "The Doctor Said" by Chloe Adams) At Portland-based Rethinking Psychiatry's first public event of the season, three panelists will discuss the psychiatric survivor liberation movement from the late 19th century to today, both historically and from the... Read more

Vortex I: A Biodegradable Festival of Life

Airs at: Fri, 08/30/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Good Vibes Only, Radiozine
Vortex I is the only state-sponsored rock festival in United States history. The festival was held in 1970, during the Vietnam War, in order to prevent violence between 25,000 pro-war legionnaires and 50,000 anti-war demonstrators.  Both groups had targeted Portland as a pl... Read more

04 TRIPP-P 20August2019

Airs at: Fri, 08/30/2019 at 12:45am - Thu, 09/30/2021 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
In our fourth episode, we discuss our experiences covering the #PortlandProtest that occurred on Auust 17, 2019. We also discuss the chatter about the inaccurarate reporting of the #PortlandProtest by Andy Ngo, plus the PSU Homeless Research and Action Collaborative articl... Read more