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Group Opposing Lincoln County Spray Ban Gets Help from Dow Chemical

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A ballot measure in Lincoln County would ban the aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides. The last few years have seen a number of local and statewide agriculture reform measures face overwhelming industry opposition--for example the 2014 GMO bans in Jackson and Jo... Read more

Trump's Syria Missile Strike: Symbolic Show of Force or Prelude to Wider U.S. War?

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  "Let's not forget that serious questions were happening in the media as well as serious congressional oversight and investigation in the possibility of the Trump campaign being in cahoots with Russia." On April 6, President Trump launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to... Read more

Getting to the root, cutting the weeds... and continuing to grow.

Airs at: Thu, 04/13/2017 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
The inundation of increasingly compact technology is said to 'free us up' from being tied to one place, enabling us to create larger (global) communities, based on our interests and ideologies.  What we have seen though, is that this has led to the marketing and perpetua... Read more

Is There a Trump Foreign Policy?

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Conn Hallinan about Trump’s foreign policy: Is there a pattern? Is he just an impulsive madman? Or are we looking at the throes of the wounded U.S. empire at the end of the American century? Conn Hallinan writes for  Foreign Policy In Foc... Read more

April 10 2017 Old Mole Variety Hour

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  On the next Mole, Frann Michel hosts, and we hear these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Conn Hallinan of Foreign Policy on Focus about Trump's foreign policy; Desiree Hellegers talks with Huy Ong of OPAL Environmental Justice about Trimet's new budget and policing; ... Read more

Court Case Tackles Infiltration of Activists in WA

Airs at: Thu, 04/06/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In the case of Panagacos v Towery, US Army Force Protection Division employees at Fort Lewis in Washington State have appealed a state order. The order denies motions to dismiss 1st and 4th Amendment claims brought against them by Olympia-area activists. The activists s... Read more

Squirrels Know

This is a 2 hour program, produced from April 2017 to October 2024.   Enjoy the Archives! 🌠😎   Squirrels Know is a galactic radio show, broadcast throughout the galaxy as part of the Ongoing Protocols of Galactic Interaction. --- Down the rabbithole of Consciousness an... Read more

Gandhian Nonviolence Today

Airs at: Tue, 04/04/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  As protests and demonstrations continue around the world, once again the relevance of the strategies and tactics of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance arise. What are we to do when faced with injustice? Look away? Or resist? Are sit-ins, blockades and boycot... Read more

Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Airs at: Sun, 04/02/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
Part one of our coverage of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy conference, with SSDP Executive Director Betty Aldworth and Deputy Director Stacia Cosner, plus Nazlee Maghsoudi with the International Center for Science in Drug Policy. Students for Sensible Drug Policy... Read more

10 Steps to End Mass Incarceration in America

Airs at: Thu, 03/30/2017 at 8:00am - Fri, 03/31/2017 at 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
   Howell Woltz speaks from personal experience. He was arrested, illegally denied bail, and unlawfully held for seven years by the U.S. Government, though never convicted in or by any court of jurisdiction. Woltz vividly illustrates each of his suggested reforms with r... Read more