Environment/Climate

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The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 21, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this show, and we hear --  1.  Jack Metsgar, talking with Bill Resnick, explains that it's not white working class men who are voting for Trump so much as men with college degrees.  2.  Joe Clement reads from a book by Andrew Sayers's explaining the ... Read more

"Free Trade," Fair Trade, and the TPP

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks to Michael Shannon of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign on U.S international trade policy that has been designed by corporate lawyers to benefit international capital at the expense of workers around the planet, unions, human rights, and the environment.  Read more

Apache fight against Resolution Copper land grab at sacred site

Airs at: Wed, 03/16/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
In a midnight rider in December, 2014, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) forced a provision in the must-pass Defense authorization bill, which transferred the sacred Oak Flat area southeast of Phoenix to a foreign-owned mining corporation for the largest copper-mining project i... Read more

After Murders, Investment Banks Suspend Funds for Agua Zarca Dam

Airs at: Thu, 03/17/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A second indigenous-rights activist who opposed a major dam project has been murdered in Honduras. Nelson Garcia was shot point blank by unidentified gunmen at his home on Tuesday, two weeks after the similar murder of Berta Caceres. They were both involved in advocating... Read more

CLIMATE VICTORY: FERC deals blow to Coos Bay gas export facility and pipeline

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
In a decision that stunned both backers and opponents of the project, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Friday dealt a major blow to the proposed Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas export facility in Coos Bay. FERC denied applications from the Calgary-based... Read more

Landmark youth climate case defended against Motion to Dismiss in Eugene court hearing

Airs at: Wed, 03/09/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Twenty-one youth, represented by attorney Julia Olson, defended their landmark constitutional rights climate case before Judge Thomas Coffin in District Court in Eugene this morning. Their lawsuit, which argues that the federal government violates their rights to life, l... Read more

Guest Beverly Bell on last week's murder of Honduran Indigenous activist Berta Caceres

Airs at: Wed, 03/09/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Last Thursday, March 3, Honduras Indigenous leader and environmentalist Berta Caceres was gunned down in her home in La Esperanza. She was 44. Caceres had been in the middle of a decade-long struggle to stop a dam project in the territory of her indigenous Lenca people. ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 7, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode, with segments on ecosocialist responses to capitalist-caused climate change, the mystery of US power in Palestine, the trauma of expecting no-cause eviction and the power of collective defense, and the religious melodrama of fantasy jour... Read more

John Foran: Climate Changing, System Must

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews John Foran about the dangers of climate change and tipping points. Climate change is threatening to make the planet uninhabitable--perhaps quite soon--but the response by U.S. elites has been feeble. Why, and What can be done? They refer listeners... Read more

Are we on the verge of abrupt climate change? If so, why are we acting as if we're not?

Airs at: Wed, 03/02/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
There is a real possibility that we are already entering into runaway climate change, with the unprecedented loss of Arctic sea ice at this time of year. But most institutions, media outlets, politicians, corporations, etc. continue as if there is no real urgency. As Cli... Read more