Community Building

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Taela Smith of City Repair Project talks to us about Village Building Convergence

Airs at: Thu, 02/23/2023 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  This Saturday 02/25 is the deadline to send your proposal to cityrepair.org For more information, email: info@cityrepair.org   If you'd like to get connected, there are weekly meetings on Wednesdays, 5:30pm  BridgeSpace 133 SE Madison       Read more

WRR: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel recommends the work of Kelly Hayes, and shares excerpts from her post "From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty"  at her newsletter Organizing My Thoughts.  You can also find her work on the Movement Memos podcast a... Read more

WRR: Hereness Against End Times Fascism

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel recommends, summarizes, and reads excerpts from the essay "The Rise of End Times Fascism" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, published in April in The Guardian. See also Margaret Killjoy, Live Like the World is Dying and Birds Before the Storm Let’s Learn ... Read more

The Continuing Struggle to Stop NEXT at Port Westward

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For years the fossil fuel industry has set its sights on Port Westward, just outside Clatskanie, Oregon, where there is a small industrial park along the Columbia Estuary. Port Westward has very little industrial development on what is primarily highly productive agricul... Read more

Renting Games With Portland Game Library

Airs at: Tue, 07/15/2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Winner's Bias
James and Nate welcome Gene and Nathan of Portland Game Library, a subscription service where they offer their game collections to rent. They discuss the impetus for making their collections available, the most popular games in the collection, and lost pieces. Read more

As Portland Re-envisions Itself

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Portland now has a new form of government and a revamped city council that in many respects represents the new vision that created this change in our city government. But many tensions remain between some of the city council visionaries and an established way of thinking... Read more

Building the World We Believe In

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on June 2, 2025 In these disturbing times as we watch democracy crumble and wonder whom the oligarchs will go after next, how do we ground ourselves in the work we need to keep doing? First they come for the immigrants, then international ... Read more

Chasing Chimeras

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on January 27, 2025 As we confront the existential crisis of climate chaos there are two paths we can take. We can make dramatic changes that meaningfully reduce carbon emissions. Or we can accept the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving cl... Read more

Hydrogen Hype

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on October 7, 2024 Unpredictable and destructive weather events dramatically illustrate how climate chaos is impacting us right now. Yet while there are real solutions that will enable us to stop emitting greenhouse gases, the fossil fuel ... Read more

Nukes for Needless Energy

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on December 23, 2024 As we transition to a truly renewable world two of the things we need less of are more and larger server farms and nuclear power reactors to feed them electricity. Yet that is the plan being hatched by Microsoft, Amazo... Read more