Activism

News update for 6/1/20

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2020 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Daily News Headlines

This past weekend saw mass protests in cities around the world calling for an end to police violence and racism against black people. The protests followed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis Minnesota by an officer who kneeled on his neck for eight minutes... Read more

Oregon Jails During COVID-19

Airs at: Mon, 06/08/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Karen James interviews Sarah Radcliffe, attorney with Disability Rights Oregon, who released her new report “Oregon Jails During COVID-19: a look inside 26 county jails” on April 30th. In response to COVID-19, Oregon county jails released nearly half their jail populati... Read more

Housing Precarity

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken speaks with local housing activist Marih Alyn-Claire, a long term organizer with SE Portland Tenants in Action and the Portland Metro Poor People's Campaign. They discuss the worsening situation for local renters and the homeless as the public health and econo... Read more

Pandemic Recovery, or Not

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick speaks with Yeva Nersisyan, a progressive economist, in part 2 of a two part interview on the COVID crisis. In the first part they discussed the way the Trump regime has dealt with the economics of the crisis, by giving major corporations and finance great g... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 1, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour, which includes these segments: Pandemic Recovery, or Not: Bill Resnick speaks with Yeva Nersisyan, a progressive economist, in part 2 of a two part interview on the COVID crisis. In the first part... Read more

Gareth Porter - Ep 65

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2020 at 2:00pm - Thu, 06/11/2020 at 12:00am

Produced for: Fortress On A Hill

Gareth Porter stops by the podcast to discuss his long standing work on the Vietnam war, his thoughts on COVID-19 via the USS Theodore Roosevelt along with his previous work on the 1919 flu epidemic, the terrifying connections between Mike Pompeo and Bibi Netanyahu, and ... Read more

Presswatch on 05/28/20

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

Why not call for a UN intervention versus White supremacy in the USA? From Common Dreams: In Minnesota, parts of Minneapolis erupted in flames Wednesday night as residents took to the streets for a second night to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man kil... Read more

The Need to Stretch our Thinking in Time of Pandemic

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

The COVID-19 Pandemic is stretching the ways we need to think in so many ways, economically, socially, medically and spiritually. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow with the Post Carbon Institute, about how the coronavirus pandemi... Read more

Buscando America on 05/26/20

Airs at: Tue, 05/26/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

En este programa festejamos el cumpleaños de Rosario Castellanos, con El despojo y a Elena Poniatowska, con El recado. Escucha el comentario de Javier Sierra sobre la pandemia y la construcción del muro del odio. En la sesión numero 12 de Voces Ke luxan, Karen Tor... Read more

The Folsom 50 Project

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Adam Carpinelli will interview Danny Wilson and Tracy Schlapp founders of the Folsom50 project looking at Johnny Cash’s work around prison reform 50 years later. The project brings music and artwork to incarcerated persons. For more information: www.bridgeworksoregon.or... Read more