Activism

Out-Organizing Racists: ROAR Conference 2019 + Spencer Sunshine on Fascism

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 04/12/2019 at 5:00pm

Produced for: The Final Straw Radio

ROAR Conference 2019 + Spencer Sunshine on Fascism [Sean Swain at 2m40s] This week on the show, we feature two segments. First up, an organizer with the Revolutionary Organizing Against Racism, or ROAR Conference shares perspectives on the upcoming conference, May 18 & 19,... Read more

David Easley, Resisting From Inside

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 04/19/2019 at 5:00pm

Produced for: The Final Straw Radio

David Easley of Ohio IWOC & Jasper of FOM ****This show carries a heavy content warning for institutionalized violence against incarcerated people, suicide, and issues related to mental wellness//unwellness.****** This week I’m sharing a conversation with David Easley, an ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 22nd, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts. Bill Resnick interviews Joanna Misnik about Chicago and the DSA's success in their recent election winning six seats in the 50 person city council. Clayton Morgareidge discusses Music, Language, and Capitalism. Jan Haaken talks with Anais Tuepker... Read more

Expunging Criminal Records

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

This show will air 6:30 PM on May 27, 2019. Karen James speaks with Nikki Thompson about expunging criminal records for youth and adults. Nikki, an attorney with the Metropolitan Public Defenders Community Law Division, runs the MPD Expungement Clinic. A motion to set... Read more

Little Big Union Launches Portland's Second Fast Food Workers Alliance

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

Workers at the Little Big Burger restaurant chain have launched Portland's second fast food union. Like the Burgerville Workers Union, Little Big Union is affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World and has already been engaged in direct actions on the shop floor t... Read more

Filmmaker Josh Tucker discusses Alaska's proposed pebble mine

Airs at: Thu, 04/18/2019 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm

Produced for: Evening News

Part 1 of KBOO reporter Emily Gresham Beamer’s in-depth interview with Filmmaker Josh Tucker about the Pebble mine proposed in southwest Alaska, and his documentary ‘We can’t eat gold’. The proposed open-pit gold mine, located in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed, would be t... Read more

Resist Like Our Lives Depend On It

Airs at: Fri, 04/19/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

Join us for a conversation with Michael G. Long, editor of the new book We The Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States. Compiling first hand accounts of non-violent resistance movements from 1657 through the present, Michael Long contex... Read more

Recovery

Airs at: Wed, 05/15/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Free Culture Radio

This week on Free Culture Radio, a reprise of our Recovery Month Extended Special with Sheila Vakharia, PhD, from the Drug Policy Alliance's Office of Academic Engagement. Read more

Clean Energy Jobs Earth Day Update

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This Earth Day was supposed to be the day that Oregon's Clean Energy Jobs bill was signed into law. Instead, while industry groups try to water down the bill, environmental groups are still lobbying Oregon legislators to pass the strongest law possible. They are being urged... Read more

An Interview on the Inside

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Join host Isabelle Sinclair in an interview with currently incarcerated aspiring writer Damon Lee Petrie. Damon has been incarcerated at Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) for the past 26 years, and shares his insight about life within the prison system, and about the fundamen... Read more