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Multnomah County vs. Big Oil, with John Wasiutynski

Airs at: Mon, 07/17/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Last month Multnomah County filed suit against several of the largest fossil fuel and coal-producing corporations to hold them accountable for damages from the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome, one of the deadliest and most destructive human-made weather disasters in Americ... Read more

1/6: The Graphic Novel

Airs at: Thu, 07/13/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  What if the pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol had succeeded?  That's the question asked in 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 Alan Jenkins, a Harvard Law School p... Read more

Imani Muhammad of Youth Organized United To Help

Airs at: Thu, 07/06/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Imani Muhammad is a local nonprofit founder and director who works with kids and families. She is a past winner of The Skanner News Group Drum Major for Justice Award for civil rights, founder of the Portland Youth Summit, small business owner, basketball coach, lifestyle a... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 10, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 07/10/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Image via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_hand.svg Nimiipuu Mole Julian Ankney hosts this show featuring audio excerpts from an April conference on “Native Sovereignty, Decolonization, Divestment, Reparations, and Environmental Justice,” s... Read more

Centering Culture in Climate Resilience

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
An attack on our homelands and waterways is an assault on our sovereignty, tribal treaty rights, fishing rights and human rights to flourish and thrive and cultivate our natural foods like the salmon. Indigenous people are rooted in the ways of the natural world here in the... Read more

Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, Fossil Fuels, Man Camps, and a Case for Divestment, Reinvestment, and Reparations:

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The sexual exploitation, torture and disappearance of Native Americans has deep historical roots, beginning in 1492. In some parts of the country, Native women experience rates of murder ten times higher than the national average. Rates of violence spike with the introducti... Read more

The Hottest Places in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 07/10/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On June 28, 2021, Portland State Geography Professor Vivek Shandas drove around Portland on this hottest day ever recorded in the city, measuring the temperatures of the pavement in various neighborhoods around town. And what he found was a dramatic discrepancy between the ... Read more

SCOTUS and Indian Country

Airs at: Wed, 07/05/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Portland-based Navajo/Dakota writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler joins host Paul Roland for the first Wednesday instead of the second this month.   https://atmos.earth/colorado-river-navajo-supreme-court/?fbclid=IwAR0tHs44gx3E0BGeQL6oMkp9p4_pZ1zFwwwm5Sdm5MFnawrxgHcy... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 3, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode fo the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Making Peace with China: Several top military officials and many pundit “experts” are predicting that mutual U.S. and China provocations by warships and fighter planes on and over the ... Read more

Strike!

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Johanna Brenner interviews two Portland UPS workers about how 350,000 UPS workers nationally are preparing for a strike and how Portland Teamsters are organizing. The contract between the Teamsters Union and UPS expires July 31 and so far the company is not budging.  Neithe... Read more