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NW Singer-Songwriter Jim Page

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Legendary Northwest singer-songwriter Jim Page was in Portland for Winterfolk (the annual fundraiser for Sisters of the Road Cafe), and he took time out to do an interview for KBOO's Old Mole Variety Hour with Desiree Hellegers. In the course of their conversation, he pl... Read more

Cutting Corporate Taxes: Richard Wolff

Airs at: Tue, 02/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Corporations are riding high in the saddle. With their friends in Washington they are raking it in. That certainly is the case with the tax law passed by Congress in late 2017. If you look at the details it is warmed over trickle-down economics. While most workers will g... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 5, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole and we hear: About the wars the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are conducting in the Middle-East; About a project to support abortion providers in their stressful work; An interview with Northwest singer-song writer... Read more

The State of Civil Rights in the US

Airs at: Sun, 02/04/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies we continue our look at the state of marijuana legalization in the US, we hear from Vanita Gupta with the Leadership Council on Civil and Human Rights on the state of civil rights in America, and we pay tribute to the legendary activist Dennis P... Read more

Poor People's Campaign Brings Call for Morality and Justice to Salem

Airs at: Fri, 02/02/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This coming Monday, February 5th, a number of Oregonians will deliver a letter to the state capitol in Salem, as part of the nationwide Poor People’s Campaign. The campaign describes itself as "A National Call for Moral Revival," and is inspired by, though far from an exact... Read more

Protest Planned for Pro-Gun Event with Rep. Greg Walden

Airs at: Fri, 02/02/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Today, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden asked the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the US Treasury Department for documents that relate to alleged Russian efforts to funnel money to the Trump campaign. This is one week after the McClatchy news service reported that the FBI is i... Read more

ICE Raids in Northern California

Airs at: Fri, 02/02/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In the last three days of January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched a massive immigration sweep in Northern California. It is the largest localized action of its kind since Trump took office. Businesses in San Francisco, Sacramento, and San Jose were serv... Read more

February Social Justice Events

updated Monday, February 12. Full disclosure: I'm having to cut way back until I'm fully recovered from an injury. I'm updating but very slowly - not in the obsessive manner that I used to be able to do.   In the meantime, you may want to check: pdxactivist.org (where y... Read more

Podcast: A Radio Geekly Dives Deep Into Concepts Of Gentrification

Produced for:  A Radio Geekly
In this special podcast, A Radio Geekly expounds on the idea of gentrification as applied to geek culture. In this special hour-long piece, we take a look at code switching between gentrification and consumerism. How does the term gentrification actually apply? What is gent... Read more

The Nation's Largest Oil-By-Rail Terminal Meets its Maker

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For four and a half years community and climate activists, health care workers, teachers, longshoremen and first responders in the Portland-Vancouver region have been working hard to stop the largest oil-by-rail terminal in North America, from being built at the Port of Va... Read more