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Giant walnut tree axed at new Beaverton high school

Airs at: Tue, 03/29/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The newest high school in the Beaverton School District – South Cooper Mountain – is currently under construction, with plans to open in September 2017. The development plans called for keeping the giant walnut tree at the edge of the site, on the corner of Southwest 175... Read more

Guest Karen Coulter (Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project) on defending eastside forests

Airs at: Wed, 03/23/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Our guest today is Karen Coulter, who has dedicated herself tor over two decades to protecting native forest ecosystems on the east side of the Cascades with her organization, the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project.  Host Paul Roland has crossed paths with her numerous tim... Read more

Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 by Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 04/21/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Late in the Day, Ursula K. Le Guin’s new collection of poems (2010–2014) seeks meaning in an ever-connected world. In part evocative of Neruda’s Odes to Common Things and Mary Oliver’s poetic guides to the natural world, Le Guin’s latest give voice to objects that may not s... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 21, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this show, and we hear --  1.  Jack Metsgar, talking with Bill Resnick, explains that it's not white working class men who are voting for Trump so much as men with college degrees.  2.  Joe Clement reads from a book by Andrew Sayers's explaining the im... Read more

"Free Trade," Fair Trade, and the TPP

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks to Michael Shannon of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign on U.S international trade policy that has been designed by corporate lawyers to benefit international capital at the expense of workers around the planet, unions, human rights, and the environment.  Read more

Apache fight against Resolution Copper land grab at sacred site

Airs at: Wed, 03/16/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
In a midnight rider in December, 2014, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) forced a provision in the must-pass Defense authorization bill, which transferred the sacred Oak Flat area southeast of Phoenix to a foreign-owned mining corporation for the largest copper-mining project in N... Read more

After Murders, Investment Banks Suspend Funds for Agua Zarca Dam

Airs at: Thu, 03/17/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A second indigenous-rights activist who opposed a major dam project has been murdered in Honduras. Nelson Garcia was shot point blank by unidentified gunmen at his home on Tuesday, two weeks after the similar murder of Berta Caceres. They were both involved in advocating fo... Read more

CLIMATE VICTORY: FERC deals blow to Coos Bay gas export facility and pipeline

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
In a decision that stunned both backers and opponents of the project, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Friday dealt a major blow to the proposed Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas export facility in Coos Bay. FERC denied applications from the Calgary-based e... Read more

Landmark youth climate case defended against Motion to Dismiss in Eugene court hearing

Airs at: Wed, 03/09/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Twenty-one youth, represented by attorney Julia Olson, defended their landmark constitutional rights climate case before Judge Thomas Coffin in District Court in Eugene this morning. Their lawsuit, which argues that the federal government violates their rights to life, libe... Read more

Guest Beverly Bell on last week's murder of Honduran Indigenous activist Berta Caceres

Airs at: Wed, 03/09/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Last Thursday, March 3, Honduras Indigenous leader and environmentalist Berta Caceres was gunned down in her home in La Esperanza. She was 44. Caceres had been in the middle of a decade-long struggle to stop a dam project in the territory of her indigenous Lenca people. A j... Read more