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Towards a Better World

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker shares a piece from Walden Bello, a Foreign Policy in Focus columnist, who insists that it’s “Not Only Necessary to Develop an Alternative to Globalization — It’s Entirely Possible.” For the Left, this is a moment of both great challenges and opportunities. Walde... Read more

Right-wing Populism

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Lowndes discusses the development of right-wing populism over the last six decades, and how we might build broad new social movements of the working class. He spoke in April at the Portland Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America event on Trump and the working c... Read more

Fascism Then and Now

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and European historian Bill Smaldone discuss: (1) The role of violence, on the right and on the left, in Germany in the Nazi rise to power. (2) The practice of violence today, both by the right and the left; the Black Block with terrible consequences for the le... Read more

The Albina Mural Project: Henry Frison

Airs at: Tue, 07/25/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  Eric Bartels speaks to Portland artist Henry Frison. On February 10th 1978 the first of several murals depicting the history of the African American community was dedicated to the city of Portland by a group of artists from the Albina neighborhood.  Henry Frison was one ... Read more

An Indigenous Economic Model: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 07/25/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The existing economic system in most countries is a kind of state capitalism. It produces enormous inequalities. Its extraction practices are environmentally destructive. Perhaps indigenous models provide a viable alternative. Chief Seattle was a Susquamish chief in what... Read more

Extra-Judicial Murders in the Philippines

Airs at: Sun, 07/23/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
Last week the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the US House of Representatives examined the thousands of murders as well as other human rights abuses being committed by the Government of the Philippines and its current president, Rodrigo Duterte. The witnesses testifie... Read more

Democrats Got Paid, Tenants Got Betrayed

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Sammy Black and Ethan Harrison, leaders of the Portland Tenants United, discuss the recent betrayal by the "Democratic Landlord Senators of Salem" (the title of a new song by David Rovick), who got paid big landlord lobbyist bucks, gutted House Bill 2004, then still refused... Read more

Jesus Was A Communist

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Were the early Christians communists? Roman Montero makes the case that they were and backs it up with his book All Things In Common: The Economic Practices of the Early Christians.   Roman A. Montero spends a lot of time studying early Chrstianity, Koine Greek, early Chri... Read more

Transitioning from Prison

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Emma Lugo speaks with Anna Debenham, a counselor and advocate for recently and currently incarcerated persons, and with former insiders and gang members, Karl Armstrong and Brandon Brown, members of Phoenix Rising Transitions who recently paroled after being in prison ... Read more

July 21 Portland Resistance Calendar

Airs at: Fri, 07/21/2017 at 5:00pm - Fri, 07/28/2017 at 5:00pm
  Updated Thursday, July 27.  4 rallies. 7(!) film screenings. 2 book clubs meetings. There are festivals, parties, benefits and fundraisers, picnics, self-defence trainings, and art, about tenants rights, homelessness and poverty, workers and immigrants rights, Black Liv... Read more