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Community Coalition Demands Minority Input on Superfund Cleanup

Airs at: Fri, 04/08/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The Portland Harbor community coalition led by Groudworks, a local agency working for environmental social justice delivered a letter to the city government today.  The Coalition wants more effort on the city’s part to include marginalized communities when they write their ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 28, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick and Harvey Wasserman talk about America's Astounding Human Rights Hypocrisy in light of Obama's recent visit to Cuba. Jan Haaken talks with Abdul Fofanah and Issa Kamara about the politics of Kendrick Lamar's work as a hi... 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 in N... Read more

Longest Walk 5, War on Drugs on Human Beings With 5 Fingers

Airs at: Fri, 03/18/2016 at 12:00am
Listen to this episode of Human Beings with 5 Fingers to hear Christopher Franscico discuss the Longest Walk 5 with Orlando Vigil, National Coordinator, Cliff Jack, State Coordinator for New Mexico and Dennis Banks. They talk about the walk and how they are trying to inspir... 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 fo... 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. A j... Read more

How Frequent Are Oil Spills in the Amazon?

Airs at: Thu, 02/25/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
As many as eight separate indigenous communities along the banks of the Amazon in Northwestern Peru continue to clean crude oil from a series of pipeline ruptures which began in late January. KBOO reporter Robin Ryan spoke with an expert at Amazon Watch about the regularity... Read more

Art Exhibit: The Sand Creek Massacre

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
George Levi (Cheyenne artist), Brent Learned (Arapaho artist),and Katie Anderson (director of Clark County Historical Museum in Vancouver) join the Old Mole’s Laurie Mercier to discuss the exhibition, “One November Morning — the Sand Creek Massacre,” now at the Clark Co His... Read more

Deep History & American Empire: Reflections on the Bundys, Manifest Destiny & left-right politics

Airs at: Wed, 02/03/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
The occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Oregon has brought widespread attention to long-simmering (and occasionally boiling-over) conflicts over federally-owned and managed public lands in the West. Competing ideologies (states' rights vs. federal control; ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 25, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this show and this is what it covers: 1.  Desiree Hellegers talks with Cowlitz Tribal members about the threat to their ancentral lands from a mining company. 2. Laurie Mercier and Joe Clement discuss the purpose, strategy and actions of the Portland Te... Read more