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Pandemic Bailout

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews economist Yeva Nersisyan. Yeva has recently been studying and writing on the Federal multi-trillion dollar relief programs as the pandemic shut down the economy. She and many others have found that the Federal government is continuing a fifty year tr... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 25, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Densie Morris Hosts this Episode of the Old Mole which includes Pandemic Bailout: Bill Resnick interviews economist Yeva Nersisyan. Yeva has recently been studying and writing on the Federal multi-trillion dollar relief programs as the pandemic shut down the economy. She... Read more

News update for 5/22/20

Airs at: Fri, 05/22/2020 at 4:00pm
Produced for Daily News Headlines
  The Washington Post this week reports that Oregon Republicans’ new US Senate nominee is a QAnon supporter who believes in a deep state conspiracy against President Donald J Trump. Jo Rae Perkins on Tuesday won the GOP’s nomination to run against Sen. Jeff Merkley in Nov... Read more

Solidarity w Grocery & Postal Essential Workers

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2020 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
Co-hosts Amanda Hill, who works at Fred Meyer, and Jamie Partridge, a letter carrier retiree, discuss the hazards and struggles of frontline workers Read more

News Update for 5/20/20

Airs at: Wed, 05/20/2020 at 4:00pm
Produced for Daily News Headlines
The World Health Organization today announced that the past twenty four hours have seen the most new infections in a one-day period since the coronavirus pandemic began. The global health body said 106,000 new cases of infections of the novel coronavirus had been recorded ... Read more

What is Public Health?

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
In our new Old Mole segment on Public Health and the Pandemic, Jan Haaken and Patricia Kullberg follow the race for a coronavirus vaccine and some of the misleading claims circulating in the media, and they discuss ways of looking at infectious diseases from public health v... Read more

The struggle continues!!

Airs at: Wed, 05/20/2020 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
    Regular host Paul Roland is joined by 3rd Wednesday co-host Jonathan from Portland Assembly to talk about ongoing resistance and direct action against the neo-fascist and neo-feudal capitalist mis-rulers while in the Covid Zone.   https://www.facebook.com/events/3244... Read more

News Update for 5/18/20

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 4:00pm
Produced for Daily News Headlines
The top story this afternoon, The Chinese province of Jilin has put 108 million people into lockdown after 34 new cases of Coronavirus were discovered, resulting in one death.  Government officials have closed schools in addition to stopping busses and trains from leaving t... Read more

Inside the impacts of the CDC downgrade of PPE requirements for healthcare workers: a conversation with reporter Elizabeth Shogren

Airs at: Thu, 05/14/2020 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for Evening News, News In Depth
  "Her point was that the Hippocratic Oath does not ask doctors and nurses to commit suicide which was ... what the doctors and nurses were being asked to do by their hospitals." On March 10, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decided to roll back guideli... Read more

Labor Radio on 05/18/20 - On the HEROES Act

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
  Description: With millions out of work and another recession on the horizon, there is absolutely no leadership coming from our elected officials or industry leaders. Neither political party has presented a big picture strategy to deal with the combined public health and... Read more