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The Plot to Attack Iran: A Conversation with Dan Kovalik

Airs at: Fri, 04/12/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Beloved Community
  On the next Beloved Community (Friday, April 12th - 9 am Pacific), John Shuck speaks with University of Pittsburgh Law Professor, Daniel Kovalik about the war drums beating against Iran. We discuss his myth-dispelling book about Iran, The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA... Read more

The Anthropocene

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
All of written human history and the rise of civilization has taken place within the Holocene Age, which commenced at the end of the last ice age. It was an age of relatively stable climate and comparatively little geological upheaval. Geological scientists are now suggesti... Read more

Insectuality 2: Ultrasonic Bugaloo

Airs at: Sat, 03/30/2019 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Threshold Shift
Tonight from 12:00-3:00 AM Bill McQuay of Ecolocation Sound and NPR will be guest hosting and presenting the final installment of his and researchers Drs. Laurel Symes and Hannah ter Hofstede's recent field recordings from Barro Colorado, Panama.  Thrill to the ultrasonic ... Read more

Portland's Sacrifice Zones

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
A “Sacrifice Zone” is a place where dangerous pollution, waste and “undesirable impacts” of urban living is deposited, creating a myth that the land is not valuable and that no one of importance lives there. In the years, since Lewis and Clark, made their way up the Willame... Read more

The Human Access Project

Airs at: Wed, 03/27/2019 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for The RadioActivist
  Hosts Lisa Loving and Suzanne Lagrande will interview Will Levenson, executive Director of the The Human Access Project. The Willamette River is our home. We live on or near its banks and cross it every day. Yet, for generations we humans have mistreated, neglected, and ... Read more

Why Natural Gas is Neither Natural nor Green

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on February 11, 2019 As North America veers away from oil and coal, so-called natural gas is being promoted as a green bridge fuel to a renewable future. Such is the reasoning behind massive gas projects being proposed for the Pacific Northw... Read more

Rayquan Borum Trial Begins + Scaling Up Climate Resistance

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2019 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Produced for The Final Straw Radio
Rayquan Borum Trial Begins + Scaling Up Climate Resistance This week we’re sharing two interviews. You can download it here. First up, Bursts spoke with glo merriweather and jamie marsicano, two supporters of Rayquan Borum, a young black man accused by Charlotte PD of kill... Read more

Oregon's Clean Energy Jobs Bill

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
More than a decade ago, Oregon began putting laws on the books to limit global warming pollution, but every time a bill is proposed to cap carbon emissions while growing a clean economy and job market, it has been blocked by major polluters' clout. This year, the state legi... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 25, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise morris Hosts this episode of The Old Mole which includes What's a Socialist to do: Electoral Strategy for the Left: Laurie Mercier talks with Glen Ford Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, about an electoral strategy for the left. A Climate Beast Awakens: T... Read more

Tribal Voices against Jordan Cove

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
For more than 14 years, southern Oregon communities have been fighting a proposal to build the 229-mile Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline that would cross more than 400 rivers and streams on its way across Southern Oregon to the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal at the P... Read more