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Taking Risks

Airs at: Wed, 08/19/2020 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Rural Roots Rising
This month’s episode, Taking Risks highlights the voices of Suzanne Pharr, a renowned community organizer and movement elder, and Zachary Stocks, whose passion to make museums dynamic spaces accessible to everyone brought him into community organizing.    Find out when yo... Read more

Hot Dams on the Columbia

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Right now salmon are making the miraculous journey from the Pacific Ocean, up the Columbia, to the place each fish was born. All salmon ask for is a river with cool flowing water. But because of the stagnant reservoirs behind dams as well as climate change, the Columbia hea... Read more

Paying the Land

Airs at: Thu, 08/20/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Ten years after Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco returns with yet another masterpiece, Paying the Land.  "A tour de force . . . luminous . . . Joe Sacco's large-scale panels teem with detail, visual and verbal . . . What begins as an exploration of the effects of fracking on... Read more

Seattle Cruise Control

Airs at: Mon, 08/17/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Cruise ships are three times as polluting as airplanes, spew carcinogenic and other toxic particles from their smokestacks, and pump sewage and fuel oil contaminants into the ocean. Yet the Port of Seattle is largely dependent upon the cruise ship industry and is now planni... Read more

Hugh Palcic Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Hugh Palcic is a democrat running for the Senate district 28.  He talks with Don Merrill about how he thinks the non affiliated voters will be important to help him win what has historically been a Republican seat,  why he says the five counties his district covers are "adr... Read more

July 31- Webinar- The Long and Twisted Tale of Jordan Cove LNG

Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Salem Progressive Film Series in collaboration with KBOO Community Radio and the Media Project, is presenting The Long and Twisted Tale of Jordan Cove LNG, a slideshow that accompanies Part Two of Barbara Bernstein's "Holding the Thin Green Line” radio documentary serie... Read more

Making Polluters Pay for Clean Up

Airs at: Mon, 07/27/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The fossil fuel industry is a very risky business, and often these risks materialize. Think of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the 2016 oil train derailment in Mosier, Oregon, and the 2017 gas pipeline explosion in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. It might seem logical th... Read more

The Long & Twisted Tale of Jordan Cove LNG Revisited

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Last fall we aired Holding the Thin Green Line, a two part radio documentary about the increasing pressure on the Pacific Northwest to become an export hub for the fossil fuel industry - and the thin green line of resistance that is standing in the way of this development. ... Read more

DAPL loses in court;Trump invades Black Hills, D.C. football team likely to change name, and more! With co-host Jacqueline Keeler

Airs at: Wed, 07/08/2020 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Second Wednesday co-host Jacqueline Keeler joins regular host Paul Roland for a look at the whirlwind of recent events affecting Native Americans and beyond. Read more

Buscando America on 07/07/20

Airs at: Tue, 07/07/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
  En la segunda sesión de Corazón del Sur, Victoria Huanca habla  sobre la contaminación minera en Oruro, Bolivia en tiempos de pandemia. Maria García miembra de la comunidad latina en Portland habla de cómo los negocios locales están sobreviviendo a la crisis económica.  ... Read more