President Trump announced today that he is withdrawing the United States from
the Paris Climate agreement. This comes after several days of speculation on
what the predictably unpredictable president would do after meeting with
European leaders, who tried to pressure him...
Read more
A ballot measure has passed in the Lincoln County May Special Election which
bans the aerial spraying of pesticides. It also includes language pre-empting
corporate rights in favor of community rights, and is the first such law to
be passed directly by voters in the nati...
Read more
Today was the last day of the Vanport Mosaic Festival, celebrating the
history and impact of Vanport, once Oregon's second largest city before it
was destroyed by a flood and neglect in 1948. It was located in the area that
is now Delta Park. Shirley Minor's father was p...
Read more
Norm Diamond interviews Kari Marie Norgaard, Associate Professor of Sociology
and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, and author of Living
In Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life. They discuss climate
change unresponsiveness, the phenom...
Read more
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.
Read more
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...
Read more
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 hig...
Read more
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
B...
Read more
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, who...
Read more
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...
Read more
