Government/Politics

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Portland's Proposed City Charter Change Part 3

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Now that election season is really upon us, it's a good time to take another look at the proposed changes to Portland's city charter, which will be on this November's ballot. These changes will be quite dramatic, not only changing our  city government from a commission to a... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 12, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The National Security Tour: Laurie Mercier speaks with Miriam Pemberton about her new book, Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies. Pemberton has stu... Read more

Rise Up!

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Jeremy Brecher, labor activist, writer and historian, who has extensively studied popular upheavals through U.S history. In the 1930s and again in the ‘60s very few predicted the explosive uprisings from below, which profoundly changed this country. ... Read more

The National Security Tour

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks with Miriam Pemberton about her new book, Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies. Pemberton has studied the U.S. military economy and the means of shrinking it down to size for decades, first as Director of the National C... Read more

On Community Resistance to Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone in Port Arthur TX, with John Beard

Airs at: Wed, 09/07/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  EcoJustice Radio
  Unbeknownst to many, the United States is soon to be the largest exporter of oil and gas. With increased drilling and fracking in the Texas Permian Basin, many proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities, and multiple oil and gas pipelines headed for the Gulf of Mexi... Read more

Israel, Palestine, Texas, Immigrants, Chile

Airs at: Wed, 09/07/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  The Israeli Army grudgingly acknowledges that it gunned down in broad daylight the revered Palestinian American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh: Also Texas Governor Greg Abbott continues to terrorize immigrants and refugees, as more and more whole families drown trying to ... Read more

Henry Giroux: The Attack on Public Education

Airs at: Tue, 09/06/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  These are difficult times for public education. It is under political attack by what noted educator and scholar Henry Giroux calls the apostles of authoritarianism. Professor Giroux says, Public schools, more than ever, are subject to the toxic forces of privatization an... Read more

Environmental Racism in Mississippi / Police vs Black Children

Airs at: Fri, 09/02/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Civic Cipher
  In the first half of today's episode, discuss environmental racism and cite examples from recent stories in the United States. We spend a good amount of time discussing the recent example that has left Jackson, Mississippi without water indefinitely. In the second part o... Read more

Roe On The Rocks: Episode 5 Barriers in Tennessee (continued)

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2022 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Roe on the Rocks
  Roe on the Rocks is a 30 minute 8 part series. The "Roe on the Rocks" podcast, executive produced by KBOO's Claire Rischiotto, takes a look at how Oregon, a state with some of the most progressive abortion laws in the nation, will be impacted if Roe is overturned by the... Read more

Why Arizona Matters: GOP Extremism & "Great Replacement" Hysteria

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
  American Standoff, live in-station, with host Jackeline Keeler.  In this episode, we will take a look at how Trump's Big Lie is gaining ground in Arizona, a battleground state that host Keeler has covered and which includes a large part of the Navajo Nation, of which she... Read more