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Should Donald Trump be on the Colorado primary ballot?

Airs at: Wed, 12/27/2023 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
In September, representative of a nationwide effort, activists and lawyers filed a lawsuit to remove Donald Trump from Colorado's election ballots via Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.   The initial District Court ruling (pdf) declared that while T... Read more

The power of singing together, with guest Annie Levin of the NYC "Sing in Solidarity Choir"

Airs at: Wed, 12/27/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Today's guest, Annie Levin, co-founded the "Sing in Solidarity" radical choir in New York City as a way to demonstrate unity and convey a message, emotionally sustain the singers and strengthen rallies, actions and movements. From her article, Radicals Go Caroling: ... Read more

How Portland Metro Chamber and Business Lobbyists Undermine Ballot Initiatives

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Oregon’s citizen-initiated ballot measure process is a tool of grassroots democracy, allowing collective action by an organized majority of the population. However, time and time again, those with vast resources have impeded attempts to make the city more equitable an... Read more

Movie Moles: How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The film How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022, by Daniel Goldhaber, Ariela Barer, Jordan Sjol, Daniel Garber) is loosely inspired by Andreas Malm's 2021 book of the same title. The book is not an instruction manual, and does not actually call for blowing up pipelines, but ... Read more

Interview with Marianne Stupfel-Wallace, PT ESOL Instructor & Writing Center Tutor at Portland Community College

Airs at: Wed, 12/20/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
    ------ Guest: Marianne Stupfel-Wallace, facilitator at all levels of ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) at Portland Community College from beginning "survival English" to academic level reading, writing, and communication classes.   Host: Grace Grow... Read more

Interview with Northwest VEG

Airs at: Fri, 12/22/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  That Vegan Show
  End the year right by listening to "That Vegan Show" as we learn about the influence NW Veg has had on the Portland Community for the last 20 years! Board President, Keith Iding, and former President, Peter Spendelow, join me to tell us all about NW Veg's work followi... Read more

Salem-Keizer Education Workers Ready to Strike

Airs at: Mon, 12/25/2023 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Rank-and-file leaders of Salem-Keizer education union discuss their struggles for fair union contracts and how they're getting strike ready. Kimberly Reed Zauber and Geovanny Tolentino of the Salem-Keizer Education Association (SKEA, the certified teachers) plus Jeff Jabi... Read more

Free speech, deplatforming and the movement to end the war against Gaza and the Palestinian people, with guest David Rovics

Airs at: Wed, 12/20/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Go here for songs and articles by David Rovics on the Palestine issue. For a look at Rovics' views on deplatforming, see: Winning Arguments in the Matrix. Or Extracting Ourselves from it.     Read more

America's Animal Shelter Crisis

Airs at: Fri, 12/22/2023 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
After years of progress in reducing euthanasia rates in this country, healthy, adoptable pets are once again being killed in our nation’s shelters at record levels, simply because they’re homeless--it's especially bad for dogs. So why is this happening? Are more pets bei... Read more

Salmonlands

Airs at: Mon, 01/01/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on September 4, 2023 Without the Salmon there would be no Pacific Northwest as we know it. Yet since 1991, most of the salmon runs in the Northwest have been listed as threatened or endangered. In 2005, I produced a documentary called Sa... Read more