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Totality of Circumstance | May 23, 2023

Airs at: Tue, 05/23/2023 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
  Sam and Jasmin talk about the details of the city's new bodyworn camera policy for cops, which could still see some changes following a 60-day pilot program involving Central Precinct and the Focused Intervention Team or FIT (AKA the gun violence team). The city and the ... Read more

Eugene vs. NW Natural Encore

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
    This program aired originally on April 3, 2023 On February 7, the Eugene City Council voted to phase out fossil fuels like gas in new homes and buildings, the first city in Oregon to take this step that will cut climate pollution, improve air quality, and lower utilit... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 26, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: “Anti-woke” legislation and the response: In at least 15 states, GOP officials have passed educational gag orders prohibiting classroom conversations about race, racism, and LGBTQ is... Read more

War and peace and real human needs

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks with Jeff Faux, founder of the Economic Policy Institute and author of the Servant Economy and the Global Class War, about how the gargantuan US military budget and the new Cold War are exacerbating inequalities and climate catastrophe and how the Amer... Read more

“Anti-woke” legislation and the response

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In at least 15 states, GOP officials have passed educational gag orders prohibiting classroom conversations about race, racism, and LGBTQ issues in public schools. Florida’s “Stop W.O.K.E Act,” a portion of which was challenged in federal court last fall, has been at the va... Read more

Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Throughout history, mankind has dammed rivers at the cost of wild fish, Indigenous peoples, forested land, and healthy watersheds. Adding to the havoc of today’s climate-change-induced weather extremes and water shortages, science says there’s no future for the business of ... Read more

Earth Could Feasibly Descend Into Chaos, Physicists Warn

Airs at: Wed, 06/21/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  The impact of human activity on the Earth system could result in unpredictable chaos from which there is no return, physicists have calculated. Discuss.   https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-could-feasibly-descend-into-chaos-physicists-warn?fbclid=IwAR37fWuQKf0qtT-CVT1vy... Read more

'99 Jessie

Airs at: Tue, 06/20/2023 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  Vinyl Pajama Party
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Drug Policy, Health, and Human Rights

Airs at: Wed, 06/14/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Drug Policy, Health, and Human Rights. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Professor Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD, Director of the MGH Institute for Technology Assessment and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and one of the c... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 19, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Juneteenth image by breefulmelange, public domain, courtesy of Pixaby: https://pixabay.com/users/breefulmelange-16833170/ Patricia Kullberg hosts this Juneteenth episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Juneteenth, George Floyd and Black Resistanc... Read more