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Positively Revolting on 01/27/17

Airs at: Fri, 01/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Positively Revolting
The new regime has had quite a busy week.  Ani and Lyn review some of what they've been doing, and some of what the people have been doing in response.  And even as the world is certainly on fire, we must remember to take care of ourselves and each other.  How do we work w... Read more

RISE UP!

Airs at: Fri, 01/27/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00am
  RISE UP! Songs and Sounds and to help strengthen our resolve to rise up and resist . . .   Take action now! There are 21 months to mid-term elections. Let’s get cracking! What to Do This Week of Jan 22, 2017 Action Checklist for Americans of Conscience https://docs.goo... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 23, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show and we hear: A first-hand report on the Women's March in Washington The politics of Obama's commutations, including that of Chelsea Manning The value and necessity of the utopian imagination The opportunities for the enviornmental movement to... Read more

Spotlight on land conservation - Public and private

Airs at: Wed, 01/25/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Recovery Zone
  Why do we conserve and protect land and nature? -- to enjoy recreational benefits? for clean water and air? for the Rights of Nature?  to stop extinctions? (Biologist EO Wilson says if 50% of the Earth were under protection, mass extinctions would stabilize at 80%.)  In ... Read more

The Last Unicorn

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science - a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years. Rare then and rarer n... Read more

INSANE CLOWN PRESIDENT: Matt Taibbi on Presswatch

Airs at: Thu, 01/26/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Presswatch
  “Trained for decades to be little more than good consumers, we had become a nation of reality shoppers, mixing and matching news items to fit our own self-created identities. We rejoiced in the idea that reality was not an absolute but a choice.” —Matt Taibbi, from INSAN... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 16, 2017

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this edition of the Old Mole. Here's your Table of Contents: 1. Bill Resnick talks with two Portland activists about the Bunk Bus and traveling to Standing Rock. 2. Norm Diamond reads from and comments on the late John Berger's essay “The Nature of Mass De... Read more

Action at Standing Rock

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Two Portland activists, Ted Dreier and Harlen Schober who have traveled to Standing Rock to deliver medical supplies and other needed goods to the encampment there protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline talk with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. The "Bunk Bus" was part of their ... Read more

IF CORPORATE CEOs WOULD RESIST TRUMP. . .

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
In December Donald Trump met with the CEOs of several high tech companies, including Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle. After Catz was quoted before joining the Trump transition team as saying: “I plan to tell the President-elect that we are with him and are here to help in any way... Read more