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"We Are the Union" with Eric Blanc

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
"We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" is Eric Blanc's latest book.  In this interview, he talks about how recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable power by gi... Read more

Make Portland Green Again

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Twenty years ago Portland was internationally known as the model of a green city. But for past several years, Portland's green veneer has been chipping away, in large part because of who populated the city commission. But that is all about to change as a new form of city go... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 16, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Climate and Justice: Just three weeks after the disappointing outcome at the United Nations COP 29 (Conference of Parties) meetings in Azerbaijan, the largest case in the histor... Read more

1/6 - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 12/12/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  In the runup to the second presidential term of Donald Trump, we revisit our June 2023 conversation with the creative team behind 1/6: The Graphic Novel, a speculative spin on the real events of January 6, 2021. Writers Gan Golan (The Adventures of Unemployed Man) and Al... Read more

Nukes for Needless Energy

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
As we transition to a truly renewable world two of the things we need less of are more and larger server farms and nuclear power reactors to feed them electricity. Yet that is the plan being hatched by Microsoft, Amazon and other tech giants. Amazon is eyeing Eastern Oregon... Read more

Making Solidarity and Making Community

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
With the looming prospect of a new Trump administration, left activists face a perilous political moment. Today we look back at the Central America solidarity movement of the 1980’s to discover what lessons can be learned from a movement that succeeded in blunting US milita... Read more

KBOO's Kate Chase on the State of the Station

Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
KBOO's Engagement Coordinator Kate Chase shares current work and ideas about promoting KBOO and growing the station into the future -- with listener calls. Read more

PGE Wants to Clearcut in Forest Park

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
Portland General Electric (PGE) has submitted a proposal to the city of Portland to update and expand their power grid infrastructure. The proposal, known as the Harborton Reliability Project, would upgrade one existing power line, and clearcut nearly five acres of forest i... Read more

Remembering Bob Sallinger

Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
On this episode of Locus Focus we honor Oregon Environment Icon Bob Sallinger, who died on October 30. For over 30 years Bob has been a regional fixture advocating and fighting to protect our rivers, wildlife, forests and communities from environmental and social degradatio... Read more