Environment/Climate

An Indigenous People's History: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 02/27/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

The history of the U.S. is one of settler colonialism. The state was established on the basis of white male supremacy, slavery, land theft and genocide. “From sea to shining sea” the Native nations were decimated and dispossessed. The survivors herded into concentration ... Read more

Meltdown in the Arctic: Humanity Beware?

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

What happens in the Arctic has an out-sized impact on the overall global climate. And right now, it's looking very, very bad. December of last year was the warmest on record in the Arctic, and 2018 has already set a string of records for lowest levels of Arctic sea ice... Read more

GREEN JOBS & INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STRIKE

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

Camilo Marquez, representing the Portland Climate Action Community Benefits Initiative, will discuss this local GREEN JOBS 2018 ballot initiative which trains and employs workers from marginalized communities to weatherize and solarize homes and businesses, funded by a surc... Read more

Progressive parking policies urged by Portlanders for Parking Reform

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Recovery Zone

Portlanders for Parking Reform (PPR) is a grassroots advocacy group focused on implementing progressive parking policies to encourage more affordable housing, increase use of alternative transportation modes, and take action on climate change. Policy victories have inclu... Read more

The LNG Terminal that Refuses to Die

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

Before oil and coal project proposals started popping up in communities across the Pacific Northwest, plans to build Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminals were emerging along the coastline from Oregon to British Columbia. And now that nearly every proposed oil and coal termina... Read more

The Hanford Reservation: A Ticking Time Bomb of Contamination

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, along the Columbia River in eastern Washington, is the most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere. Clean up of its innumerous leaking tanks and unlined pits of radioactive waste has been moving at a glacial pace for forty years... Read more

The End of Policing

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Alex Vitale is Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. Vitales book The End of Policing, is an accessible study of police history as an imperial tool for social control that continues to exacerbate class and ... Read more

The Brick House

Airs at: Thu, 03/01/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

The Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom is a place where people dream of love and loneliness, of the world's beauty, and of ongoing environmental degradation. In this short but moving work, travelers confront their lives in the strange, elemental language which dre... Read more

Wednesday Talk Radio, with regular monthly co-host Jacqueline Keeler

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Just back from a nine-day trip to North Dakota to write two in-depth pieces for High Country News, Keeler will talk with host Paul Roland about the case of Red Fawn and the other on-going federal defentants stemming from the No DAPL movement) and of Olivia Lone Bear a... Read more

Necessity Defense

Airs at: Mon, 02/12/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker discuss the moral necessity defense and how it has been used in civil disobedience cases, including the recent prosecution of climate activists known as the "valve-turners" who shut down five pipelines carrying tar sands crude oil. Photo court... Read more