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Socially Conscious Businesses or Business As Usual?

Airs at: Sun, 12/25/2016 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
The legal marijuana industry has grown dramatically over the past few years. If legalization is allowed to continue rolling out under the next president, then that growth will continue. It could be massive. Marijuana prohibition, all drug prohibition really, is rooted in ra... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 26, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with David Riemer of the Milwaukee-based Community Advocates Public Policy Institute about policies that could greatly reduce U. S. poverty at modest cost. They also discuss guaranteed annual income, a demogrant, and the crucial role of poor people's s... Read more

Ralph Nader: Animal Envy

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Voices for the Animals
  On this episode of Voices for the Animals Courtney Scott interviews  Ralph Nader about "Animal Envy",  his new book praised by leading animal rights acvocates.  Ralph Nader puts his incisive writing skills to work to create a fresh and innovative take on animals--and wha... Read more

TRUMP'S ROGUES GALLERY

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2016 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
We have been watching Donald Trump announce the most astonishing rogues gallery of cabinet nominees ever assembled. Not only are his picks bent on demolishing the very agencies they would lead, they are for the most part totally incompetent. The only possible upside of this... Read more

Before I Do

Airs at: Wed, 12/28/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Recovery Zone
  Recovery Zone is off today, instead we present this special Radiozine program: In her first book, Before I Do, leading gay rights attorney Elizabeth F. Schwartz spells out the range of practical considerations couples should address before tying the knot. She explores t... Read more

Inauguration Day: Will Trump Keep Protesters off Federal Grounds?

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
  Lawsuits Filed Over Donald Trump's Privatization of Pennsylvania Avenue, “America’s Main Street” Guest host Linda Olson-Osterlund is joined by Carl Messineo a founder of The Partnership For Civil Justice Fund. He will talk about the efforts of the Trump Regime to keep p... Read more

How does the melting Arctic affect the rest of the world?

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Disability Awareness
  Disability Awareness is off this week, instead we present this special program: The Arctic is now warming twice as fast as the global average. That's the finding in the 11th Arctic Report Card released on December 13, 2016, at the annual American Geophysical Union meeti... Read more

John Waters' Christmas

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for The Film Show
  For the holiday season, we chat with notorious filmmaker John Waters, who's bringing his annual Christmas show to Portland once again.  Waters has spent the past half-century directing such transgressive films as Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, and Serial Mom, and is also the... Read more

Cities in Opposition to Trump

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Independent journalist and climate and global sustainability activist Patrick Mazza. They discuss how many big cities in this country can defy Trumpism, and show how to radically cut greenhouse gas emissions in less than 10 years. The resistance to D... Read more

Project Censored Show on Political Perspectives

Airs at: Wed, 12/21/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
  For the first half of the program, Peter and Mickey discuss the conflict in Syria; their guest is independent journalist Eva Bartlett, who recently returned from Aleppo and is now on a U.S. speaking tour. She explains why most corporate media coverage of Syria doesn't de... Read more