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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

Sinfonia "El Espiritu de la Tierra" por Federico Alvarez del Toro, Musica Mexicana para Percusiones

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: A Different Nature

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Obama Break with Netanyahu's Settler Expansion Too Little, Too Late; Trump and his Cabinet Nominees Pose a Grave Threat to Civil Liberties; Rising ocean temperatures due to climate change are bleaching & killing many of Earths vital coral reefs. Featuring Richard Silver... Read more

THE GRID

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the present. It's not just that the grid has grown old and is now in dire need of basic repair. Today, as we invest great hope in new energy sources--solar, wind,... Read more

Seeking Peace on Earth: A PEACE TALKS RADIO Special

Airs at: Fri, 01/06/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Water World

Water World is off....instead we present Peace Talks Radio's annual compendium of highlights from the past year's programs including reducing political polarization, the neuroscience of peacemaking, how meditative practices help school kids, the humanitarian work of Doct... Read more

Alternative Radio: Medea Benjamin

Airs at: Tue, 01/03/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Medea Benjamin is a renowned peace activist and social justice advocate. She travels around the world and documents human rights violations. She's co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK. She is the recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellows... Read more

The Largest Methanol Refinery in the World

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

As this year draws to a painful close, amidst all the political debris, we can look back at some major environmental successes. Communities across the Pacific Northwest have stopped proposals to build coal terminals in Washington and Oregon, a giant methanol refinery in Tac... Read more

Black Power at 50 in D.C.

Airs at: Thu, 12/29/2016 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Flashpoints

Part 4 of our series, Black Power: 50 Years in DC, Nineteen Sixty-Six to Two Thousand Sixteen, marking the half century anniversary of the call for Black Power in this country in 1966. Today, a wide-ranging conversation with educator and activist Tom Porter about his vie... Read more