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Special Interests

Produced for:  The Underground
The Youth Collective gets personal by diving deep into all the things that interest them. From twentieth century history to alternative fashion, this episode's got something for everyone! Read more

Providence Caregivers on Strike

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Striking nurses and doctors at Providence St. Vincent's, Providence Portland, and Providence Seaside Hospitals talk about working conditions, worker solidarity and community connections on the picket line, on day one, two and three of the open-ended strike involving over... Read more

Rebroadcast: Common Ground Puts Common Ownership of Land on the Agenda

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guest is Jeff Strang from Common Ground OR/WA, talking about land ownership, wealth control, and taxes. He’s talking about a policy strategy for Oregon like in Alaska, where residents get money every year through a tax on the oil industry – except in Oregon it would ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 6, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. How should we understand the relationship between capitalists, big and small, and the Republican and Democratic parties — especially in the wake of Trump’s return to power?... Read more

Providence Caregivers Ready to Strike

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Richard Botterill and Kim Martin, rank-and-file leaders in the Oregon Nurses Association, give us a blow-by-blow lead up to the biggest-yet, possible Providence Health strike, involving over 5,000 caregivers in eight hospitals and six clinics across Oregon. Read more

The Corporate Roots of Climate Change

Airs at: Thu, 12/26/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
New documents show how a deceptive PR strategy pioneered in 1950s California first exposed the risk of climate change and then helped the industry deny it.  Read more

"We Are the Union" with Eric Blanc

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
"We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" is Eric Blanc's latest book.  In this interview, he talks about how recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable power by... Read more

Socialist City Councilors-elect Talk Labor

Airs at: Mon, 11/25/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Socialist City Councilors-elect Tiffany Koyama Lane, known as Teacher Tiffany, and Mitch Green, a green energy economist, talk about their vision for building working-class power in Portland, Oregon Read more

Unpacking November 5

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
 What the hell just happened? The guests are Ani Haines and Teresa Mitchell. We’re unpacking the future. Read more

25 TRIPP-P with Jesse Valencia

Airs at: Sun, 10/20/2024 at 12:15am - Fri, 12/31/2027 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
Portland, Oregon's independent music scene generates around $3 billion per year and is the last major U.S. city without a LiveNation venue.   "It is more than just the music scene. It is how we want Portland to be built." --Jesse Valencia   Jesse Valencia is a musicia... Read more