Environment/Climate

Activist Group Uses Virtual Reality Cameras to Document Animal Abuse

Airs at: Thu, 07/06/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Evening News

Today, the animal rights activist group Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, released a new type of footage from inside an industrial pig farm. Activists infiltrated Circle Four Farms in Milford, Utah, one of the country’s largest pig production facilities. They used newly dev... Read more

Stopping Fascism: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 07/04/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Recorded at the Aladdin Theater, Chris Hedges visited Portland and spoke as a guest of KBOO community radio. Chris Hedges is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America. He writes a weekly column for Truthdig.org ... Read more

Removal of Federal Protection from Grizzly Bears

Airs at: Thu, 06/22/2017 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Evening News

The U-S Department of the Interior today announced that it would be removing federal protections from grizzly bears in the area of Yellowstone National Park. In a press release, Interior Secretary and former Montana Republican congressman Ryan Zinke called the decision ... Read more

Climate Change & the Media

Airs at: Tue, 06/27/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Robert Hackett, a leading critic and media theorist, is professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, SFU in Burnaby, BC. He has published widely on media issues. He is co-author of Journalism and Climate Crisis. Climate change poses a long-term t... Read more

MOSIER OIL TRAIN DERAILMENT ANNIVERSARY

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

On June 3 of last year, an oil train derailed in the Columbia River Gorge in the little town of Mosier. Several cars caught fire and burned for 14 hours. If the normal Gorge winds had been blowing that day, Mosier would been destroyed, like Lac-Megantic. On the first anniv... Read more

The Latest Crisis at Hanford

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2017 at 10:15am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

On May 9 of this year, an extremely radioactive tunnel at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state partially collapsed. The tunnel is part of the PUREX facility (Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant), which was used to manufacture plutonium for nuclear weapons. The... Read more

Marc Bekoff on The Animal's Agenda

Airs at: Wed, 06/28/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Recovery Zone

We humans pride ourselves on our singular intelligence and sensitivity, but each day brings new stories about the the intelligence and depth of feeling experienced by other animals. The Animals' Agenda makes a strong case that it is past time we use what we know about i... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 19, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick is our host for this edition of the Mole which includes these segments: 1. Tom Athanasiou talks with Bill Resnick about policies and movements necessary to deal with climate change. 2. Jovanka Beckles explains how the Richmond Progressive Alliance won in Rich... Read more

Saving Ourselves, Saving the Earth

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Tom Athanasiou, author of Divided Planet, about what's happening, and what needs to happen, to challenge climate change. After Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Accords, will the international "community," particularly China and England, take me... Read more

Noam Chomsky on Neoliberalism: An Accounting

Airs at: Tue, 06/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Neoliberalism is an odd term when you think about it. It is hardly new and it is not particularly liberal. It has been a great economic success story-for the 1%. The detritus of neoliberalism litters the landscape from smashed unions to shredded safety nets, and deregula... Read more