Government/Politics

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Rose City Retrospective, a Hindsight 2020 production

Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  A decade is a lot of time to digest, so we’re biting off a more manageable chunks of time, three years, starting after the 2016 election. In this short hour, not everything can be covered, but with the benefit of hindsight we can look at the past and see some patterns em... Read more

Press**Watch

Airs at: Thu, 01/16/2020 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Arun Gupta, journalist and commentator, joins the show from Matamoros, Mexico, where he has been again covering the Trump concentration camps.  Join us as we look at White supremacy in its ascendancy. Read more

Public Health, Harm Reduction, and Recovery in the States

Airs at: Wed, 01/15/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio we’re going to look at state level efforts to enhance public health, reduce the harms associated with drug use, and support recovery. On Tuesday, January 14, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on En... Read more

Community gives input on Metro's proposed transit plans

Airs at: Tue, 01/14/2020 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  On Monday evening, Metro regional government held a public comment meeting about its proposed transportation funding package for the November 2020 ballot. The multi-billion dollar investment would focus on “corridors” in the region, major thoroughfares that are smaller ... Read more

Public Health in the States

Airs at: Wed, 01/15/2020 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing January 14 entitled “A Public Health Emergency: State Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis.” On this edition of Century of Lies we hear from: Jennifer Smith, Secretary... Read more

Politics and Secularism

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from two recent and related articles. “The unbearable wrongness of William Barr: Professor of secular studies explains why secularism doesn’t destroy moral order” is by Phil Zuckerman, Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies at Pitzer College and appeare... Read more

Green Jobs

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In the second part of a two-part interview, Bill Resnick speaks with Sam Gindin, who has spent nearly 50 years working to build radical unions. He is the former Research Director of the Canadian Autoworkers Union and Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice at York Universit... Read more

Victoria Baranetsky of Reveal News: Uncovering the Secret Landlords Buying Up Our Cities

Airs at: Wed, 01/15/2020 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Recently fellow public radio program "Reveal" has found that 30 percent of California's residential real estate purchases in major cities are being made by shell companies in cash. The situation appears to be very similar in Portland, as we’ve been covering for the pa... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 13, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts the Old Mole today and we hear: Green Jobs: Bill Resnick interviews Sam Gindin, who for fifty years has worked to build radical unions. Politics and Secularism: Readings on atheism, morality and politics. Reproductive Rights: Jan Haaken interviews Andra Ca... Read more

14 TRIPP-P 4Jan2020

Airs at: Sat, 01/04/2020 at 11:45pm - Fri, 12/31/2027 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
This podcast episode features guest Sara Rudolph. Sara is a community volunteer and member of Portland Assembly, which she describes as "a network trying to connect like-minded people together." Sara talks about some of the collaborations and outreach that she and Portland... Read more