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Paul Roland
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Environment/Climate, Activism
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Housing and Houselessness: Community self-organization is the only solution (speculation and private profit are the problem...)

Airs at: Wed, 08/31/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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Host Paul Roland speaks with mayoral candidate and urban planning activist Sarah Iannarone, Amanda Reese of Backpacks of Hope and Austin Rose of Portland Tenants United. They'll talk about the City Council's discussion on extending their declared "Housing Emergency," the... Read more

More on the Dakota Access Pipeline and Climate Change

Airs at: Wed, 08/24/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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Major battle erupts over Dakota Access Pipeline

Airs at: Wed, 08/17/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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Guest LaDonna  Brave Bull Allard is from Cannonball, North Dakota and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She is owner of the 360 acres of land on which the Sacred Stones Spirit Camp is located, where  resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline is growing. Camp con... Read more

Another hour with Guy McPherson

Airs at: Wed, 08/10/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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The Banality of Annihilation: A Conversation with Guy McPherson

Airs at: Wed, 08/03/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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Today's guest is Guy McPherson, Ecologist and Evolutionary Biologist who coined the term "Near-term Human Extinction," saying that the human species could go extinct as soon as 2030, due to habitat loss and rapidly accelerating global warming. He taught for many years at... Read more

Democracy Now Special Hour 2 of Convention Coverage

Airs at: Wed, 07/27/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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  Democracy Now! will expand to two daily hour broadcasts during the 2016 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! crew will travel to Cleveland and Philadelphia to report from the streets, to the suites, to the convention floor... Read more

Democracy Now Special Hour 2 of Convention Coverage

Airs at: Wed, 07/20/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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  Democracy Now! will expand to two daily hour broadcasts during the 2016 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! crew will travel to Cleveland and Philadelphia to report from the streets, to the suites, to the convention floor... Read more

Hungry for Climate Justice: Guest Patrick Mazza is with group fasting at State Capitol in Olympia

Airs at: Wed, 07/13/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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With both federal and international action on global warming either in political gridlock or painfully slow, citizens and municipilaties are taking matters into their own hands. A rule proposed by the Washington Department of Ecology to limit carbon pollution will have a... Read more

Need to declare global climate emergency, with Paul Beckwith

Airs at: Wed, 07/06/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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Beckwith was scheduled to be on last week's program, but due to a misunderstanding, he only was able to be on for the last 20 minutes. So we brought him back for the full hour.  He is a physicist, engineer, and now a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa. He i... Read more

Too Late or Not Too Late: Is that the Question? With Paul Beckwith

Airs at: Wed, 06/29/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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To those willing and able to come to grips with the vast and accelerating changes happening to our global climatic system, the tendency to despair or to just turn it all off can be ever present. And there are those, like Conservation Biologist, social critic (and certifi... Read more

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