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Another Bad Idea for the Columbia River Ecosystem

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
The Houston-based company, NEXT Renewables LLC Oregon is proposing to construct a major new refinery at Port Westward, near Clatskanie, on the Columbia. This project would immediately become one of Oregon’s top greenhouse gas polluters. The refinery would be one of the larg... Read more

Boeing Machinists on Strike - Week Two

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2024 at 6:00pm
Produced for Labor Radio
A Boeing worker, gives us an in depth analysis and the current mood on the eleventh day of 32,000 Boeing Machinists on strike. Read more

Why Portland's Economic Opportunity Analysis is so Important

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
For decades powerful corporate industries have set the stage for much of the city’s development along the  lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers through a little known process known as the Economic Opportunity Analysis, or EOA. Currently the Bureau of Planning and Sustainabi... Read more

Economic Degrowth, with Rachel Cheeseman

Airs at: Wed, 09/18/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
    Guest: Rachel Cheeseman     ------ Host: Grace Growing Medicine Reed    ------   Rachel and Grace discuss what it means to embrace economic degrowth, and the dynamics of a spiritualized economy and capitalism.   ----       Read more

Forests and climate over profits! Guests Alex Budd and Brenna Bell of the Pacific NW Forest Climate Alliance

Airs at: Wed, 09/18/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
  From the Pacific NW Forest Climate Alliance: Protecting Forests for the Climate Book Talk & Discussion -- Wednesday September 18th at 6pm What role can the temperate rainforests of the PNW play in alleviating climate change, what challenges do they face as we confront t... Read more

Forests Over Profits

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
The Wall Street investors driving the climate crisis and big timber corporations clearcutting PNW forests are coming to Portland for the annual “Who Will Own the Forest?” conference---now called “Canopy”---September 24-26. These big polluters hope to stall real climate act... Read more

New Seasons Labor Union Ready to Strike

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
After nearly two years of struggle for a first union contract, after management's committing dozens of unfair labor practices and refusing to bargain in good faith, the New Seasons Labor Union is preparing to strike, possibly all eleven unionized stores in the Portland area... Read more

Oregon’s Climate Protection Program at Risk

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Oregon's Climate Protection Program (CPP) 2024, overseen by the Department of Environmental Quality, aims to reduce 80-90% of harmful emissions from the state’s largest polluters by 2050.  Implementation of the CPP was delayed for three years on a technicality following a l... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 26, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2024 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: Justice and Palestine: On July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its opinion that Israel’s occupation and annexation of the Palestinian territories are u... Read more

FDA Rejects MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy

Airs at: Wed, 08/14/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: FDA Rejects MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy. On August Ninth, the Food and Drug Administration formally rejected a New Drug Application submitted by Lykos Therapeutics for its MDMA-Assisted Therapy. While this news came as a shock to some, back in J... Read more