Activism

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Bomb Trains

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On July 6, 2013, a train hauling crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken region derailed in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, resulting in fires and explosions that killed 47 people and wiped out a large part of the small Canadian town's center. In the six months following the deadly disa... Read more

Climate Strike

Airs at: Mon, 09/09/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks to Greg Smith, a radical teacher of teachers and curriculum writer, on teaching climate change and the current uprising of youth around the planet. They discuss how young people are being radicalized by their understanding of climate change and by their e... Read more

Support for County On-Call and Temp Workers

Airs at: Mon, 09/09/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Old Mole, library employee, and union member Joe Clement explains the ongoing struggle between  Multnomah County and temp and on-call workers who wish to join the union. You can support these workers by going to the County Board meeting at the Multnomah County Building, 501... Read more

Conversation With Journalist Jimi Devine

Airs at: Wed, 09/11/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century, a conversation with journalist and cannabis connoisseur Jimi Devine, senior staff writer for Cannabis Now and a contributing writer for the LA Weekly. Read more

Buscando America on 09/10/19

Airs at: Tue, 09/10/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
El pintor mexicano Francisco Toledo falleció a los 79 años a causa de cáncer. Javier Sierra del Sierra Club habla sobre el cambio climático,  la corrupción del presidente Trump y  las universidades verdes. En Krónikas de Viaje conoceremos a  Natasha Montes de la organizaci... Read more

Youth & Measure 11 Reforms

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Prison Pipeline’s 1-hour Membership Drive Special focuses on the historic passage of SB 1008 by the 2019 Oregon Legislature.  Host Karen James is joined by Babak Zolfaghari-Azar, a Community Healing Initiative Family Care Manager for PortlandOIC + Rosemary Anderson High Sch... Read more

#EmptyThePews: talking with Chrissy Stroop, trans ex-vangelical activist and author.

Airs at: Tue, 09/10/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
  Christian fundamentalist trauma is an experience of pain and alienation from their faith that more and more people are talking about. Chrissy Stroop is an activist in the ex-vangelical movement who is telling her own story of leaving fundamentalism behind, to engage in s... Read more

Activists Mobilizing for Power 2019

This Podcast was recorded at the Activist Mobilizing for Power conference in Spokane Washington.   Read more

Interview with the Director of Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative at PSU

Airs at: Thu, 09/05/2019 at 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
  38,000. That’s the number of people who are without housing in the Portland area in a given year, according to new Portland State University research. KBOO’s Annette Newell talks to Marisa Zapata, the director of the Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative at PSU.... Read more

Interview with Mosquito Fleet

Airs at: Tue, 09/03/2019 at 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
  Monday afternoon, protesters involved with the activist group Mosquito Fleet gathered on the Columbia River in canoes and kayaks in protest of the Transmountain Pipeline Expansion Project. This project would triple the current capacity of Transmountain, which carries cru... Read more