Government/Politics

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Portland's CEI Hub

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As you drive along St. Helens Road in NW Portland, to the west rise the West Hills and Forest Park. But to the east you see a landscape diametrically opposed to the verdant scene acorss the highway. What is in those tank farms that go on and on, bordered by railroad trac... Read more

Mark Follman | TRIGGER POINTS: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America

Airs at: Sun, 05/29/2022 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Produced for:  Open Air
Acclaimed journalist, Mark Follman has been investigating gun violence and it’s impact on American society since 2012.  Follman’s new book, TRIGGER POINTS: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America, is the first-ever account going inside the world of behavior... Read more

Can humanity survive climate change?

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In his profoundly important essay “World War II Lessons for a Green New Deal,”  Martin Hart-Landsberg shows the way. In rich detail he describes the planning and politics of transformation, when the Roosevelt Administration took control of the U.S. state and from 1941 to... Read more

"You Are Doing Nothing" and the Deadly Tragedy of the Politics of Jesus, Guns, and Babies

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
Once again, for the second week in a row, as 19 children and two teachers lost their lives to gun violence in Uvalde, Texas. These mass shootings must be seen as the outcome of the deadly and cynical policies of right-wing Republican politicians. Georgia's Kandiss Taylor... Read more

Acting Locally

Airs at: Wed, 05/18/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Think Globally, Act Locally - building support for safe supply, safe consumption spaces, and the decriminalization of people who use drugs. Read more

A Health-Based Approach

Airs at: Wed, 05/25/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies, Canada's House of Commons discusses decriminalization and harm reduction in a debate over Bill C-216, plus Prof. Susan C. Boyd, PhD, on her new book Heroin: An Illustrated History. Read more

A Nuclear Comeback?

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
After the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in 1979, it looked like the nuclear industry’s halcyon days were over. The Chernobyl and Fukishima disasters drove home even more starkly just how dangerous nuclear power is. But in recent years there has been a... Read more

Oregon SB819 - Resentencing Prisoners

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2022 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Karen James speaks with Karen Newirth, Special Counsel with FA:IR Law Project, Oregon Justice Resource Center. Senate Bill 819, passed by the Oregon legislature in 2021, allows for resentencing of a person who was sentenced to any felony other than aggravated murder... Read more

A Message for China

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Why has the U.S. withdrawn its proposal for a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine war? What does the U.S. have to gain from an already defeated and weakened Russia? Why is the U.S. risking nuclear war?  Bill Resnick has a plausible answer: That U.S. political and milita... Read more

Mass shooters and their enablers, the demographic shift and the death spiral of white supremacy, with Scot Nakagawa

Airs at: Wed, 05/18/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Scot Nakagawa is a 42-year veteran of social and economic justice advocacy and has served as an organizer, political strategist, and social movement analyst in the struggle against authoritarianism and for equitable and inclusive democracy since 1988. Scot serves as... Read more