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

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 4, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode, which focuses on becoming an organizer, and features these segments: Tim Norgren on The Thin Green Line (Part 2) Desiree Hellegers brings audio from a 2017 interview with climate justice activist and labor organizer Tim Norgren.  In Part... Read more

Drug Policy, HIV, and Health

Airs at: Wed, 07/30/2025 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
On this edition of Century of Lies: Drug Policy, HIV, and Health. The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central United Nations platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Developmen... Read more

Musicians Union Resiliency Expo

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Hunter Buen, bass player and organizer with the American Federation of Musicians. local 99, discusses the struggles of musicians in the Rose City, especially those who work in bars, clubs, restaurants and hotels as independent contractors.  Among many initiatives, the un... Read more

Portland Festival of Cinema Animation and Technology 2025

Airs at: Thu, 07/24/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  The annual Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology first landed at Portland's Oregon Museum of Science and Industry back in 2023, and has since become a hub for artists, directors, and audiences.  Marisa Cohen and Peter Alexander are the co-directors of the festi... 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