Wednesday Talk Radio

  Five years ago, the building resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota exploded into an unprecedented series of encampments near the Cannon Ball River, on the Standing Rock Dakota Sioux Reservation. While Trump famously reversed the (belated) Obama de... Read more

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  The horrific murders of mostly Asian American women in Atlanta last week brought increased national attention to the rising wave of anti-Asian American harassment, assaults and rhetoric. Oregon has seen its share of anti-Asian violence. For example, in Multnomah County, ... Read more

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  From a recent Willamette Week article, Oregon Considers a New Approach to People in Mental Crisis   Oregon House Bill 2980 would provide funding for three "peer respite centers"—short-term, homelike facilities for people experiencing mental health crises. Currently, p... Read more

  Today's guest, Mitch Jones, mjones@fwwatch.org, is policy director of Food & Water Watch, which recently released a statement on the Texas power debacle: “The climate change-supercharged deep freeze covering Texas has left millions without power and water. The failure of... Read more