Bill Resnick talks with the editor of Foreign Policy in Focus, blogger,
writer, and author of the novel Splinterlands, John Feffer, about his
nightmare of the breakdown of the world system in the next half-century.
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Jan Haaken talks with Jacob Reisberg, an attorney who just returned to
Portland after doing legal work in North Dakota in alliance with the Water
Protector Legal Collective and the Freshet Collective for activists arrested
in the No DAPL actions at Standing Rock. They di...
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On June 3, 2016, the small town of Mosier in the Columbia River Gorge, near
Hood River, made regional and national news of the most unfortunate kind.
Firefighters battled for 14 hours to contain a dangerous oil fire from a
derailed 96-car Union Pacific train carrying highly...
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Frann Michel hosts this Memorial Day episode, which features music by Bob
Marley, "War"; The Clash, "Washington Bullets"; and Curtis Mayfield, "We
Got to have Peace"; as well as these segments:
Jan Haaken talks with Jacob Reisberg about Standing Rock Legal Defense
Bil...
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This program was originally broadcast on March 20. 2017
In 2012 a massive fire ripped through the Chevron Richmond Refinery, sending
a towering plume of toxic smoke into the air over Richmond, California. For
over a hundred years, Richmond was a classic company town, whose...
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We mentioned last time that we were moving back to NYC (the place we grew
up); and yes, though we have lived on the West Coast for a very long time, we
are reminded by others from time to time that the New York-ness never left...
with that, we felt inspired to play some mu...
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Denise Morris hosts this membership drive episode of the Old Mole, which
includes Joe Clement on Banjo and
Brian Tokar talking with Bill Resnick about municipal assemblies;
Huy Ong of OPAL talking with Desiree Hellegers about Protesting Trimet
Policing;
Rachel Hanes ta...
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What role can civil disobedience play in the stuggle for social change? Peter
explores this question with two guests: first, environmental organizer Tim
DeChristopher recounts his experience delaying a federal oil and gas lease
auction, and how the legal doctrine of "nec...
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Daniel McGowan is a former member of the Earth Liberation Front, who was
convicted of the arsons of two Oregon-based lumber companies in 2001.
The FBI eventually closed the loop on McGowan’s case during “Operation
Backfire,” an investigation that the bureau described as a c...
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Join us for a lively discussion with Jeremy Brecher, the author of Against
Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual.
It's no news that climate change is happening, and carries dire consequences.
We are living in a state of emergency.
Jeremy's book works as both a call to action...
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