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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

Old Mole Variety Hour September 2, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel hosts this Labor Day episode of the Old Mole,  in which Joe Clement talks with Marianne Garneau about strikes and politics of worker-power. Bill Resnick talks with Emma Lierley from Rainforest Action about forest destruction in Brazil, Indonesia, and elsewh... Read more

The Heather McCoy Show - Texas Democratic Candidate for the 10th District talks about a proposed bill to criminalize dissent

Airs at: Thu, 08/29/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  The Heather McCoy Show
Against a domestic political backdrop of increasing incidents of racially motivated violence, mass shootings and fascist marches; one Texas congressman Rep. Michael McCaul is proposing a new bill which would broaden the definition of "domestic terrorist"  that could be used... Read more

Freedom Gas

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Last week, the people of Tacoma received a glossy mailer from Puget Sound Energy touting their proposed Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) facility that has been nearly completed without the proper permits. In the mailer, residents were told: "LNG is cleaner. Tacoma LNG will reduce g... Read more

The State of New York Looks At Supervised Consumption Sites

Airs at: Wed, 08/28/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies we hear portions of hearing and roundtable discussion held by the New York State Senate Joint Senate Task Force on Opioids, Addiction and Overdose Prevention on August 9 in The Bronx. Speakers include Jasmine Budnella, Drug Policy Coordinator wi... Read more