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Open Reservoirs and Governments (27 minute Morning Show)
Open Reservoirs and Governments
This edition of Democracy Here explores the difference between engineered- and informed consent of the governed using the context of Portland’s current plans to take open reservoirs off-line and replacing them with new underground storage tanks.
The plan to bury the reservoirs is controversial: the city says they are forced to spend a half a billion dollars in order to comply with a federal regulation, while citizen groups say that the water bureau is fast tracking projects to the same cozy consultants who wrote the regulation and that the water bureau could work more earnestly on obtaining relief.
This edition of DemocracyHere! features:
Interviews with public health and infectious disease specialists;
Sounds from the earth-day rally at city hall in support of our natural water system;
Information on how lower income citizens will be affected by the increase in water rates;
Interviews with Floy Jones for the citizen-activist perspective and Kent Craford for an alliance of local businesses;
and
Voices of government officials ranging from Portland Water Bureau Administrator David Shaff to the EPA administrator Lisa Jackson.
Engineering techniques to look for in the interviews include:
Emotional appeal trumps reasoned argument;
Government is your daddy;
and
Hurry up, its an emergency
leading to
Its a done deal!
- Title: Open Reservoirs and Governments (27 minute Morning Show)
- Length: 27:42 minutes (12.68 MB)
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Medical Delegation Reports on Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Physicians for Social Responsibility Members Speak about their Recent Trip
Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Gerri Haynes and Laura Hart about the health threats they witnessed on their January 2011 medical delegation visit to Gaza. Portland nurse practitioner Maxine Fookson, a member of Jewish Voice for Peace, is also a guest.
Gerri Haynes is a palliative care nurse consultant who has taught mental health classes in Gaza and organized trips to the Middle East since 1992. Gerri is a past president of Washington PSR and a former National PSR board member.
Laura Hart is a board member and past president of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility. She is a part time urologist and a full time social activist who is collaborating with Gazan health care providers to develop comprehensive pelvic health care for women in Gaza.
- Title: Medical Delegation Reports on Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
- Producer: Marianne Barisonek
- Length: 23:56 minutes (10.95 MB)
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Open Reservoirs and LT2 in 12 Minutes
This special 12 minute express edition of DemocracyHere! explores Portland's plan to spend $500 million dollars to take our open reservoirs off line are replace them with new underground tanks and features:
Interviews with public health and infectious disease specialists;
Sounds from the earth-day rally at city hall in support of our natural water system;
Information on how lower income citizens will be affected by the increase in water rates;
Interviews with Floy Jones for the citizen-activist perspective and Kent Craford for an alliance of local businesses;
and
Voices of government officials ranging from Portland Water Bureau Administrator David Shaff to the EPA administrator Lisa Jackson.
- Length: 11:50 minutes (10.83 MB)
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Democracy Here: Portand and the Joint Terrorism Task Force
- Length: 30:46 minutes (28.17 MB)
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Tunisians to US: "Hands off our revolution!"
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Local attorney Steven Goldberg talks about being part of a recent delegation of lawyers and academics to Tunisia. The members of the group from the US, UK and Turkey have been investigating US and European complicity in human rights abuses committed by the Ben Ali regime and will be making strong recommendations to their respective governments to allow the Tunisian revolution to develop into a genuine democracy. The group wanted to show support for the revolution in Tunisia, explore the involvement of Western governments with the prior Ben-Ali regime and try to understand the changes which are happening in the Middle East.
- Title: Tunisians to US: "Hands off our revolution!"
- Producer: Kathleen Stephenson
- Length: 23:42 minutes (10.85 MB)
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Radiation issues with Fukushima, HAARP
Host Sue Supriano speaks with Leuren Moret, a geoscientist who has worked around the world on radiation issues, educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and Congress and other officials. She formerly worked at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab where she became a "whistleblower" some years ago. They will discuss radiation issues in light of the recent damaged Fukushima reactors in Japan including matters such as HAARP (The High-Frequency Active Aural Research Program).
- Title: Radiation issues with Fukushima, HAARP
- Producer: Sue Supriano
- Length: 29:38 minutes (27.13 MB)
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Die German Stunde
How difficult is it to be a Jew in Germany and be critical of Israel? Host Miriam Widman speaks with Rabbi Ben Chorin, a board member in Germany of the progressive political group JCall. JCall is Europe's answer to JStreet, the U.S. political group supported by many progressive Jews in the States. Other guests include Amy Spitalnick, spokesperson for JCall, David Cemla, general secretary of JCall in France and Toby Axelrod, correspondent for the Jewish news agency, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Berlin.
- Title: Die German Stunde Show 3-30-11 MP3
- Length: 49:20 minutes (28.23 MB)
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Damaged nuclear reactors in Japan--a hazard here in the NW?
The damaged nuclear reactors in Japan are leaking radioactive material. Does this pose a health hazard here in the Pacific Northwest? If we had a similar earthquake, would we be subjected to high levels of radioactive fallout? Dr. Rudi Nussbaum and Lloyd Marbet will join host Marianne Barisonek for a discussion of radioactive contamination past, present and future. Dr. Nussbuam has studied the health effects of radiation on Hirsoshima-Nagasaki survivors and military personnel exposed to radiation at Hanford. Lloyd Marbet is known for his successful efforts to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant.
- Title: Damaged nuclear reactors in Japan--a hazard here in the NW?
- Producer: Marianne Barisonek
- Length: 53:17 minutes (24.39 MB)
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Phyllis Benning discusses 8th anniversary of Iraq war & continuing occupation, PDX march & rally March 19
Host Will Seaman speaks with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies about the upcoming 8th anniversary of the war in Iraq, the continuing occupation of Iraq, President Barack Obama's foreign policy and the uprisings in Middle Eastern countries.
Fellow Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at IPS. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She has been a writer, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues for many years. In 2001 she helped found and remains on the steering committee of the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. She works closely with the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition, co-chairs the UN-based International Coordinating Network on Palestine, and since 2002 has played an active role in the growing global peace movement. She continues to serve as an adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues.
(Stay up to date on events in the Middle East with Phyllis Bennis' free newsletter (delivered 1-2x a month).)
MARCH AND RALLY TO MARK ANNIVERSARY OF 2003 IRAQ INVASION
DATE: Saturday, March 19, 2011
TIME: 12:30pm Music / 1:00pm Rally / 1:30pm Peace march
LOCATION: Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW Yamhill & Broadway
- Title: Phyllis Benning discusses 8th anniversary of Iraq war & continuing occupation, PDX march & rally March 19
- Producer: William Seaman
- Length: 26:35 minutes (12.18 MB)
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State Bank of Oregon Community Forum
State Bank of Oregon Community Forum
A public forum on the Oregon State Bank and a proposal to create a publicly owned bank modeled after the highly successful Bank of North Dakota was held on February 1st.
Forum speakers were Barbara Dudley, Co-Chair of the Oregon Working Families Party; Jim Houser, Co-owner of the Hawthorne Auto Clinic and Co-Chair of the Main Street Aliiance of Oregon; Teresa Retzlaff, Farmer at 46 North Farm in Astoria and member of Friends of Family Farmers; and State Representative Jefferson Smith.
Only North Dakota has a state bank. At the moment, a State Bank of Oregon is only an idea.
North Dakota's state bank was formed in 1919. When Alaska and Hawaii joined the union, they did not have a state bank - and still do not (as with the rest of the 47 states).
Recording: Oregon State Bank: Putting our money to work for us
Public Forum, February 1, 2011 at New Song Community Church, NE Portland
Forum Hosts: The Main Street Alliance of Oregon, Oregon Working Families Party, Oregon Action
website: http://
photos on this page by Steve Hughes
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Recorded and produced by Mel Reslor.
- Length: 78:33 minutes (53.93 MB)
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Hood River Development - Mr. Naito
Please ask Mr. Naito if his love of democracy extends to his business. Would he be willing to turn his development firm into a employee run cooperative corporation, giving ownership and organizational rights to employees. Mr. Naito's concern for democracy probably ends at doors to his corporation. Mr. Naito looks at this battle to develop the Hood River riverfront property as a public realtions battle. He will promise the community jobs and the city council financial support, and the council will eye the property tax revenue as a benefit to the community. If he is successful, once again we will be selling our responsibility to the land and the river for a short term gain. Mr. Naito cares little for the community, but operates on greed. If the environmental laws and regulations were not in place he would not be concerned at all with the impact of his development on the river, the wild life, and the ability of people to enjoy what nature have given us for free.
Bravo for having this debate, though. And controlling the civility of the debate.