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What Is the Feet to the Fire Campaign?

Airs at: Wed, 09/19/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    In the wake of the recent release of the autopsy report for Jason Washington, a 45-year-old man shot dead by PSU police officers in June, the seeming futility of seeking justice for police violence is again in Portland's public eye. The autopsy report comes just six d... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 24, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which includes these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Guy Berliner and Bevan Byrnes of the Brooklyn Action Corps about air quality in Portland and the Sept 26th Town Hall on diesel pollution (7pm Sacred Heart Church, 3910 SE 11th). Desi... Read more

Press**Watch: Eat the Rich

Produced for:  Presswatch
President Trump is going to be really hard to get rid of.  There's a good chance he will win again in 2020.  How, you may ask?  Well, he's a triple threat:   1. He represents the super-rich, and they are very happy with him.  He has destroyed banking regulations put in pl... Read more

Buscando America on 09/18/18

Airs at: Tue, 09/18/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Se llevó acabo la Cumbre Global de Acción Climática en San Francisco y Javier Sierra, columnista de Sierra Club BC habla también sobre tormentas tropicales que atacan en las Carolinas y Filipinas. Iván Hernández habla de la iniciativa 22 la cual decidirá la Ley Santuario en... Read more

9/11 Unmasked, Part 3: David Chandler and the Day of Magical Physics

Airs at: Tue, 09/18/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  In Part 3 of my four-part series on the work of the 9/11 Consensus Panel, I speak with David Chandler about the physics behind the collapse of the three World Trade Center Towers on September 11th, 2001. Why do the buildings look like they came down in controlled demolit... Read more

Talking with Charlene Carruthers, author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

Airs at: Tue, 09/18/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
Alyssa Pariah and I will be joined on-air by Charlene Carruthers. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements is the highly anticipated first book from Carruthers—one of America's most influential activists. In Unapologetic she issues a call-to... Read more

Gautney on Our Revolution, Part 2

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In the second of a two part interview, Bill Resnick Talks with Heather Gautney, author of the book Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement. Gautney is an activist and writer teaching at Fordham University. She was recently appointed... Read more

Pipeline Protests Beyond Standing Rock

Airs at: Wed, 09/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Lisa Loving's guest is local multimedia journalist Christopher Francisco. He's also host of KBOO's show Human Beings With Five Fingers  https://kboo.fm/program/human-beings-5-fingers  . Christopher will talk about his work covering Standing Rock, and how the government s... Read more

What Movements Do: Frances Fox Piven

Airs at: Tue, 09/18/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The ruling class is organized and well-funded. What can be done to confront and defeat concentrations of power? As a veteran activist once said, “Organized people can beat organized money.” There is  a rich history of ordinary people getting together and doing extraordin... Read more

Pastures of Plenty

Airs at: Wed, 09/19/2018 at 5:30am - 7:00am
Produced for:  Pastures of Plenty
Join host Ed Mellnik for a small sample of some of the political and social commentary in folk and singer-songwriter music lately. A short excerpt from an interveiw last year with John McCutcheon is featured along with lots of great music. Read more