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Vancouver 21 Direct Action

Airs at: Mon, 06/27/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Desiree Hellegers speaks with Imogene Williams and Lowen Berman, two of the twenty-one activists who were arrested at the Vancouver, Washington oil train protest and blockade on June 18.     Read more

Good News For Salmon and the Columbia River

Airs at: Mon, 06/27/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In May, the U.S. District Court in Portland OR issued its long-awaited ruling on the federal government's Columbia/Snake River Salmon Plan. U.S. District Judge Michael Simon blasted the 2014 biological opinion issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as... Read more

Naomi Klein – The Radical Leap

Airs at: Tue, 06/21/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Naomi Klein of Canada, an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker, is in the forefront of environmental activism. Her articles appear in major newspapers and magazines all over the world. She is the author of the bestseller This Changes Everything. Political orga... Read more

KILLING CORMORANTS AND CLEANING UP THE SUPERFUND SITE

Airs at: Mon, 06/20/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
This week on Locus Focus we delve into two seemingly unrelated topics that actually have a lot in common: the mass killing of cormorants on East Sand Island in the Columbia River Estuary - in the name of protecting salmon - and the slow and painful (lack of) progress in dev... Read more

Our Toxic Air: We can do better!

Airs at: Wed, 06/22/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
  Breathing the air in Portland has been compared to drinking the water in Flint, Michigan, and Multnomah air has been ranked 58 out of 3,200 counties nationwide for the dubious distinction of causing cancer. A growing movement of concerned community members is demanding t... Read more

350pdx.org LIVE on KBOO Evening News

Airs at: Wed, 06/08/2016 at 6:15pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Grassroots organizers met last night to discuss how to address the transport of crude through the Pacific Northwest. Their meeting comes as a reaction to last Friday's oil train derailment along the Columbia River Gorge. Nick Caleb and Adrianna Voss-Andreae of 350pdx.org ta... Read more

Bark talks LIVE about Nestle on KBOO News

Airs at: Wed, 06/08/2016 at 6:15pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Despite a recent county ballot measure aimed at keeping the Nestle bottling company from botting water at Oxbow Spring, the city of Cascade Locks has announced that it will be moving forward with its plans to build the bottling plant. Alex Brown, executive director of Bark,... Read more

Portland Rising Tide LIVE on KBOO News

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2016 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In the wake of the crude oil train derailment along the Columbia River Gorge last Friday, many are calling for grassroots action against crude oil transport. Portland Rising Tide is having a meeting tonight in Portland. They spoke with us LIVE via phone on the KBOO Evening ... Read more

Do We Really Need Assault Weapons?

Airs at: Tue, 06/14/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
  Joe Uris had planned to discuss the future of the TPP trade agreement. In response to the massacre in Orlando, he has changed today's topic to the issues of guns, hate and violence.   Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 6, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode, which features music by Charlie Musselwhite and segments on global trade, psychological survival in the occupied territories, and debates about how to teach about climate change.   Bill Resnick interviews Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch ab... Read more