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26 TRIPP-P Dec2024 with Conor Carroll

Airs at: Sat, 12/14/2024 at 12:15am - Sun, 12/31/2028 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
In December 2024, TRIPP-P spoke the owner and operator of Show Your Work, LLC, Conor Carroll about elections, campaigning and politics in the local Portland metro area.   Have a listen! Read more

Cow Poop Won't Solve the Climate Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 04/07/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Concentrated Animal Feed Operations have been around for a few decades. Basically concentration camps for cattle, pigs and chickens, these factory farms not only torture animals but also are major polluters and a principal emitter of greenhouse gases. But in recent years... Read more

Will Falk on the Tragedy of Thacker Pass

Airs at: Thu, 03/27/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
The guest is Will Falk of Protect Thacker Pass. Their campaign ended in a loss last year, construction of the open pit lithium mine in Nevada near the Oregon border is underway, and he is one of the protestors being sued by the mining company. Read more

Women's History Month

Produced for:  The Underground
For the March episode The Underground is taking a look at women, feminism, and sexual health. The episode includes discussions of women who have changed the world through their art and accomplishments (including Patti Smith, Nina Simone, Odette Siko, and Joni Mitchell) a... Read more

Improving Taxation

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Economist Mary King explains the need for taxes and the  inequities of current property taxes in Oregon,  and she proposes several ways to raise state and local funding to support housing, health care, education, and more.          Why do we need taxes and what can we ... Read more

El Norte

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Frann Michel discuss the 1983 film El Norte. Directed and co-written by Gregory Nava, El Norte is an award winning, independent epic US film, notable for centering the experiences of two indigenous Mayan migrants from Guatemala as they move... Read more

Growing up Undocumented

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living as an impoverished Latina without papers. She relates how encountering the ideas of socialism offered her a new perspective on how imper... Read more

Who is Running Portland's City Government

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
When voters overwhelmingly passed a new city charter in 2022, optimism abounded that the new form of government would more truly represent all of Portland, not just the business elite who had been running things pretty much for over 150 years. The city was supposed to be... Read more

Putin's Russia - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 03/13/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  As Vladimir Putin flexes his geopolitical muscles at the start of a second Trump term, we revisit our March 2022 conversation with British comics artist Darryl Cunningham, author of Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator. In this hour-long special, Darryl tracks the ... Read more

Nukes for Needless Energy Take 2

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
An unholy marriage between big tech and nukes threatens to upend the Pacific Northwest as we know it. 45 years ago, soon after a serious accident at one of the nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island caused the core to partially melt down, Oregonians overwhelmingly passed ... Read more