In honor of National Poetry Month, Patricia Kullberg discusses the 1968 poem,
“They Feed They Lion,” by former US Poet Laureate, Philip Levine and what
the poem might mean for us today as we grapple with the devastation of
climate change and pandemic disease.
Aerial view o...
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Sharon Grant reads from Nikole Hannah-Jones' stunning, daring, wonderful
essay:
“Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black
Americans fought to make it true." The essay traces 400 years of Black
history in the territory now the United States....
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Desiree Hellegers interviews Dr. Melanie Plaut, MD, Co-lead of the Fossil
Fuel Resistance Team at 350 PDX about recent developments in the fight to
stop the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and about the trial of the "Zenith
Five," beginning Monday.
Photo: Oil train der...
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Laurie talks to Tracy Francis, director of the Cascade Festival of African
Films, which winds up this week with films devoted to women filmmakers.
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Laurie Mercier hosts this Episode of the Old Mole which includes:
Fossil Fuel Resistance: Desiree Hellegers interviews Dr. Melanie Plaut, MD,
Co-lead of the Fossil Fuel Resistance Team at 350 PDX about recent
developments in the fight to stop the Jordan Cove LNG export t...
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Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes:
D.A.s for the People: Bill Resnick speaks with Madeline Carroll and Maria
Cahill, of Oregon District Attorneys for the People, who are part of a
national movement to elect progressive DAs who instead of targe...
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Bill Resnick speaks with Madeline Carroll and Maria Cahill, of Oregon
District Attorneys for the People, who are part of a national movement to
elect progressive DAs who instead of targeting black, brown, houseless and
immigrant communities, will instead hold police and pro...
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Laurie talks with Hector Dominguez, Open Data Coordinator for Smart City PDX,
about how to build community input in crafting facial recognition,
surveillance, and other technologies policies. Data-collecting technologies
are quickly creeping into every aspect of our public ...
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Jan Haaken talks with Alice Cherry in this month's Left and the Law segment.
Cherry is staff attorney at the Climate Defense Project in Berkeley, and she
and Jan discuss legal tactics, civil disobedience, and the climate movement,
including several upcoming trials of activi...
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Laurie Mercier hosts the Episode of the Old Mole which includes:
Ecological Revolution: John Foster teaches at the University of Oregon,
writes a lot including The Robbery of Nature and the Return of Nature. He
edits the journal Monthly Review, making it into a go to sou...
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