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Class Struggle Unionism

Airs at: Mon, 12/27/2021 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Joe Burns, long time labor organizer and educator, author of three books: "Reviving the Strike", "Strike Back" and forthcoming "Class Struggle Unionism", talks with co-hosts Laura Wadlin and Jamie Partridge about his new book which describes three types of unionism in today... Read more

"Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival," with the author, Richard Heinberg

Airs at: Wed, 12/15/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and author of 13 previous books, has appeared numerous times on KBOO. His new book, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival, is a sweeping and in-depth investigation of the workings of power in the na... Read more

Kristen Radtke on American Loneliness

Airs at: Thu, 12/09/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Kristen Radtke is the author of two graphic non-fiction books: Imagine Wanting Only This and Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness. She’s also been the Art Director and Deputy Publisher at the magazine The Believer and a writer whose work has appeared in The Ne... Read more

Autonorama

Airs at: Mon, 11/29/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The auto industry is promising that high tech-driving will deliver us from crashes, congestion and carbon emissions. Today the panacea is autonomous vehicles, but this vision is the latest in a long history of illusory futuramas that the auto industry has invented to get mo... Read more

Strike Solidarity -- How and Why

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2021 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The "How" and "Why" of Community Strike Solidarity -- with the forty-day Nabisco bakers strike and with the almost-strike of Kaiser healthcare workers --  is discussed by Laura Wadlin and Gabe Erbs of the Portland Democratic Socialists of America. Read more

Pandemic Impacts PDX Food Scene & Factory Farm Biogas

Airs at: Wed, 11/17/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
How is the Portland food scene weathering the COVID19 pandemic, racial justice protests, the climate crisis, and workers calling out sexism and oppressive behavior? Alex Frane from Eater PDX joins the Food Show to discuss what’s been happening in the world of restaurants an... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 15, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2021 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 Monster Who Came up the River: Native peoples hold rich traditions of storytelling, passed on by elders from one generation to the next. These stories speak of resilience, w... Read more

The Dems and Democratic Reform

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Luke Savage discuss what’s happened to the Democratic Party after Biden defeated Trump by the slimmest of margins and the Democrats came to control the Congress. This raised great hopes on the left, especially when Biden proposed several trillion dollar pla... Read more

COP26-Watch

Airs at: Wed, 11/03/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Today's guest is long-time climate activist and writer Patrick Mazza. Patrick was a member of the Delta 5, which conducted an oil train tripod blockade at BNSF Everett Delta Yard in 2014, and was able to argue the first climate civil disobedience necessity defense in ... Read more

Power

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on September 20, 2021 Pollution, overconsumption, resource depletion, habitat destruction, overpopulation have all led to our current climate crisis. And power is at the core of the problems confronting humanity. How have human beings—one s... Read more