Looking Back at 2022 with Portland Copwatch
This year our main focus has been on the Police Accountability Commission
(which we’ll mostly refer to in this show as the PAC, or P-A-C), an
all-civilian volunteer group that is tasked with creating a proposal for a
new commu...
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Many think the Christmas Truce of 1914 was an exaggeration. Acclaimed
historian Adam Hochschild reveals the truth.
This was not the only such event: there were desertions, mutinies, and
fraternizations. Today it seems anyone with a uniform is dubbed a hero, but
what abou...
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The Multnomah County Local Public Safety Coordinating Council held an event
December Sixth entitled Violent Crime: Myths, Realities, and Interventions
that Work. On this edition of Prison Pipeline, we hear from some of the
experts including Ames Grawert , Senior Counsel and...
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The latest edition of Project Censored's annual media-review yearbook is now
printing. In the first half of today's program, Mickey speaks with Project
Censored's Andy Lee Roth about some of the "Top 25" censored / under-reported
news stories, as well as the common chara...
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This program was originally broadcast on October 24, 2022
For thousands of years the north reach of the Willamette River, near its
confluence with the Columbia, was a braided river of shallow channels and
islands rich in biodiversity. That was until European settlers cam...
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Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following
segments:
Anti-oppressive Holidays: Bill Resnick interviews Alexandra Holmstrom-Smith
who wrote an excellent much needed article “Leftists Need Holidays Too.
Let’s Imagine Anti-Oppressive Ones...
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This program was originally broadcast on November 28, 2022
The Northern Spotted Owl is the quintessential canary in the coal-mine for
older forest ecosystems. It was listed as “threatened” under the
Endangered Species Act in 1992 because of widespread logging of it...
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Mickey, Eleanor and their guests spend the hour examining the background to
the Russia-Ukraine conflict, going back to the eastward expansion of NATO,
the 2014 Ukraine coup, and other factors. Their guests, both long-time peace
activists, make the case for a cessation of...
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Today, Theresa speaks with Robert Gottlieb to discuss why a care economy and
care-centered politics can influence and reorient such issues as health, the
environment, climate, race, inequality, gender, and immigration.
10-16-2022
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Bill Resnick interviews David Riemer about his latest book, Putting
Government in its Place, the Case for a new Deal 3.0. But don’t be fooled.
He sees state policy as crucial for controlling capitalism, and he attributes
our current crises of inequality, homelessness, and g...
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