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KEEP NESTLE OUT OF THE GORGE!

Airs at: Wed, 08/19/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Cascade Locks resident and Native activist Anna Mae Leonard is on a five-day fast at Cascade Locks City Hall, asking the City Council to withdraw its joint request for a water rights swap allowing the Swiss-based multinational Nestle Corporation to build a water-bottling pl... Read more

Field Moles: Shell No in St. John's

Airs at: Mon, 08/17/2015 at 12:00am
Desiree Hellegers brings a field report from Portland’s Cathedral Park where activists on July 29th attempted to delay the transit of Shell Oil's icebreaker on its way up to the Arctic. The segment features the voice of Greenpeace climber Marty Aranaydo, founder and directo... Read more

A People Curriculum for the Earth

Airs at: Mon, 08/17/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart on their new book *A People's Curriculum for the Earth*—a project focused on teaching students about the environmental crisis and climate justice. This edited volume features some of the best articles from *Rethinking ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 17, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 08/17/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick interviews Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart on their new book "A People's Curriculum for the Earth". Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile about the controversy over Planned Parenthood clinics and the sale of fetal... Read more

Drought Prompts Action at All Levels of Government

Airs at: Thu, 08/13/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The town of Banks, Oregon, located in western Washington County northwest of Hillsboro, recently implemented water use restrictions on businesses, partly in response to drought conditions across the state. For more on Oregon’s driest year in decades and government responses ... Read more

ONS Veteran Farm

Airs at: Tue, 07/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
0714 OR ONS VETERANS FARM   TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2015   CDRW# __   RUNS   1:55   W/LOCKOUT        KILL DATE/TIME __________________   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   A SENSE OF PURPOSE FOR RETURNING V... Read more

Monsanto Dreams

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 11:00pm - Tue, 08/04/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Audio Comix
It seems there’s been nothing but bad news in America lately. The death of Sandra Bland in a Texas jail, the House passing a bill that prohibits the labeling of GMO foods. However, what most of us consider bad news can, for a select few, be the stuff dreams are made of. Wr... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 3, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear music from Anne Feeney, variations on the Old Mole theme song, and these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Dan Handelman of Portland CopWatch about police violence and militarization. Frann Michel and Hyung Nam discuss democracy and its contra... Read more

Kayaktivists and rope-sitters block Shell's icebreaker rig

Airs at: Wed, 07/29/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  News In Depth
Thirteen activists are suspended from ropes hanging from the Saint John’s bridge, more than fourteen hours after they rappelled down from the bridge early this morning.  They are supported by around 150 ‘kayaktivists’, who gathered Tuesday night in Saint Johns’ Cathedral Pa... Read more

The Promise of Agroecology

Airs at: Mon, 07/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Frédéric Mousseau about agroecology: farming, ecology, and food. Mousseau is the Policy Director at the Oakland Institute where he coordinates the Institute’s research and advocacy activities on land investment, food security and agriculture... Read more