Environment/Climate

History of Portland's Loyal Legion

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Old Mole and labor historian, Norm Diamond, offers some critical history surrounding the namesake of a hip new bar in Portland, Loyal Legon. Rather than a union in any good faith sense of that word, the Loyal Legon of Loggers and Lumbermen were a creation of the US milit... Read more

Snow Days Under Socialism

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge reads from a Jacobin magazine article, "Snow Days Under Socialism". All this begs the question: what would winter look like in a different world? What might change in a socialist society? In a society where ordinary people democratically controlled... Read more

2034: Welcome to the Holy Lands

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Ubu Hour

Welcome to the year 2034, fifty years after 1984. Refugees flee religious extremists in white robes. People try to cope in the face of out of control climate change and world upheaval.. The Ubu Hour presents the futuristic radio theater drama: 2034: WELCOME TO THE HOLY L... Read more

Live From Burns, OR: Report-back on the siege of Malheur, with Arun Gupta

Airs at: Wed, 01/27/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Special inside look at what's happening in Burns, Oregon. Roland and Gupta just spent a week in Burns, interviewing people in the community, visiting the occupation at the Malheur Wildlife refuge, hanging out in local bars, and generally getting a feel for how the "Bund... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 25, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this show and this is what it covers: 1. Desiree Hellegers talks with Cowlitz Tribal members about the threat to their ancentral lands from a mining company. 2. Laurie Mercier and Joe Clement discuss the purpose, strategy and actions of the Portland ... Read more

Water, Pesticides, and Flint, Michigan

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Dangerous water -- dangerous to our health -- has been in the news lately because of what happened in Flint, Michigan. Major polutants of water include pesticides from industrial agriculture. Jeremy Olsen is Assistant Director at the Northwest Center for Alternatives to ... Read more

Protecting Cowlitz Tribal Lands from Mining

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Desiree Hellegers speaks with Cowlitz tribal leadership about the battle to stop the Canadian mining company Ascot Resources, Ltd., from developing a copper, gold, and molybdenum mine in the Green River Valley, northeast of Mount St. Helens. The proposed mine would be on... Read more

Nine New York Activists call Necessity Defense on behalf of the Environment

Airs at: Thu, 01/21/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: News In Depth

Here in the Northwest we know about the Delta Five—the five Washington activists who in September blocked a mile-long oil train calling attention to the danger extraction industries have on the environment. They invoked the Necessity Defense claiming that thei... Read more

Cliff Thomason Interview

Airs at: Thu, 01/14/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between Us

Cliff Thomason is a gubenatorial candidate from Oregon's Independent Party. He strongly believes in Oregon agriculture and agricultural based solutions for some of Oregon's financial problems. Among them, he thinks the hemp and marijuana industries need access to legit... Read more

The Necessity of Disobedience, with guest Tim DeChristopher

Airs at: Wed, 01/13/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

While a group of armed antigovernment militants casually tears down fences and accesses personal and official files in their second week of occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge offices in Eastern Oregon, another group of protestors in Seattle goes on trial for blocking ... Read more