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Multnomah County vs. Big Oil, with John Wasiutynski

Airs at: Mon, 08/28/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on July 17, 2023 Last June Multnomah County filed suit against several of the largest fossil fuel and coal-producing corporations to hold them accountable for damages from the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome, one of the deadliest and most ... Read more

Listen to Youth

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on June 16, 2023 In recent years it’s becoming more and more obvious that youth are the real leaders of the climate movement. And for good reason, because they are the ones that are going to live with the climate mess that previous generatio... Read more

UPS Teamster Tentative Agreement - Will Members Vote Yes?

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2023 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Kier Anderson, UPS part-time package handler, and Brandon Findley, UPS driver, discuss the new tentative labor agrement between the Teamsters union and United Parcel Service.  With three weeks to vote, UPS workers are debating whether to accept the agreement or vote no and ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 31, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Covid, Polio, and Medical Populism: Norm Diamond speaks with Patricia Kullberg about the ambiguous role of so-called medical populism as it has played out during the Covid epide... Read more

Covid, Polio, and Medical Populism

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond speaks with Patricia Kullberg about the ambiguous role of so-called medical populism as it has played out during the Covid epidemic and earlier during the mid-twentieth century polio epidemic in this country. Medical populism often rises up out of legitimate gr... Read more

Portland International Raceway's Lethal Pollution

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Because of its toxicity, the sale of leaded gasoline in passenger cars was banned by the EPA in 1996. But its use was still allowed for “off-road” vehicles, such as farm machinery, marine engines and race cars. There are more than a dozen major race tracks around the United... Read more

Voices For The Animals: Goldie's Act & The Tragedy of Puppy Mills

Airs at: Fri, 07/28/2023 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
On this episode of Voices For the Animals, host Michele Coppola speaks with Robert Hensley, Legal Advocacy Senior Counsel for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) about Goldie's Act, a bipartisan bill that, if passed, will require USDA inspe... Read more

Medea Benjamin on the Ukraine war, U.S. politics and how to build a more effective peace movement

Airs at: Wed, 07/26/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Paul welcomes Code Pink co-founder and peace activist Medea Benjamin to his show seven months after her appearance last December. She'll bring us her perspective on where the Ukraine conflict stands, and then discuss the politics in the White House and Congress, the p... Read more

Blair Bobier on Ranked Choice Voting

Airs at: Thu, 07/20/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guest this week is attorney Blair Bobier of Oregon Ranked Choice Voting. They got the state legislature to put RCV on the ballot! How did ORC do it and how does it affect you? Read more

Fresh Out Community Based Re-Entry Program

Airs at: Thu, 07/20/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Host Karen James speaks with Larry Turner, co-founder of Fresh Out Community Based Re-Entry Program, and Wilford Johnson, Fresh Out alumni and peer mentor. Individuals who release from prison often return to underserved communities and face many barriers that make succes... Read more