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More Talk Radio on 2/15/10

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Tre Arrow is a green anarchist who gained prominence in the U.S. state of Oregon in the late 1990s and early 2000s for his environmental activism, bid for Congress as a Pacific Green Party candidate, and then for his arrest and later conviction for committing acts of arson ... Read more

SUSTAINABLE SELLWOOD: THE MAKING OF COMMUNITY

Airs at: Mon, 03/01/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Last year a group of Sellwood residents created a neighborhood movement that helped shape the design and impact of the soon-to-be rebuilt Sellwood Bridge. At the height of this organizing drive, a neighborhood march drew hundreds of people from all corners of the neighborho... Read more

Fight the Empire on 03/04/10

Airs at: Thu, 03/04/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: Fight the Empire

Host Per Fagereng interviews Michael Klare, author of "Resource Wars." Klare suggests to James Cameron what his next Avatar film should be, a 2144 prequel set on a resource-ravaged planet Earth -- Michael Klare, "Avatar: The Prequel, Will Earth's Last Stand Sweep the 2013 ... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 02/25/10

Airs at: Thu, 02/25/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme court took another step in the long - and many say misguided - journey to granting corporations personhood under the U.S. Constitution. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a five-member majority of the court increased the... Read more

February 22, 2010 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

This edition of the Old Mole Variety Hour is hosted by Denise Morris. It deals with making energy locally, the racial, gender and class politics of the Southern plantation household, Alice Munro's latest book, a novel by Nobel Prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, an... Read more

Energy Self-reliance

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Will the transition to Clean Energy lead to decentralized, worker and community controlled energy production? Or will it be centralized under corporate and state control and promote high usage and consumerism? John Farrell works with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance w... Read more

Democratizing the Energy Grid

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Oregon is about to institute a new incentive for households to power themselves using alternative energy sources like solar and wind. This method is called Feed-in Tarriff and is already in place in much of Germany as well as Vermont. Mark Pengilly and Judy Barnes, with Ore... Read more

Radiozine on 2/22/10

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Radiozine

Host Bruce Silverman interviews Alissa Hamilton, author of "Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice." Alissa Hamilton is a Food and Society Policy Fellow with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. She lives in Toronto. Close to three quarters of U.S. ho... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 02/18/10

Airs at: Thu, 02/18/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

What's next in the Aaron Campbell case? Also, an interview with Oregon Attorney General John Kroger Tuesday night, Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke to over 1,000 Portlanders at Maranantha Church about the "execution" of Aaron Campbell, the most recent victim of a police shoo... Read more

Signs of Change

Airs at: Wed, 02/17/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Circle A Radio

Tonight on Circle A Radio, we’ll take you on an audio tour through the art exhibition: Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now. Hundreds of posters, photographs, video, and audio representing more than forty years of activism, political protest, and social j... Read more