Activism

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Stopping Zenith Energy Once and For All

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For seven years Portland community members have been trying to shut down Zenith Energy, a Houston-based oil company that sneaked into Portland in 2017. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality just opened the public comment period for Zenith’s draft Air Contaminant... Read more

Queery: Existence is Resistance

Airs at: Sat, 11/16/2024 at 10:00pm - Sun, 11/17/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Queery
This month, we’re exploring queer protest songs. The Invitation, Mary Oliver Rid of Me by PJ Harvey. Uprising of Love by Melissa Etheridge. Inspired by the Russian governments’s violent abuse toward the LGBTQ community, which was only highlighted by the 2014 Winter Olym... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 18, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 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: The Palestine Exception: After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As s... Read more

In Tribute to Joe Hill

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Hill was a beloved member of the IWW, a songwriter and activist who is known for such labor classics as “The Preacher and the Slave,” “There is Power in a Union,” and “Rebel Girl.” In 1914 he was convicted of a murder the evidence suggests he did not commit. Tomorrow... Read more

Palestinian Novel

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What role might be played in political struggle by cultural creations? A new novel, Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, raises this question doubly: both as a novel set in current struggles and in the story it recounts about the contested effort to mount a theatre production... Read more

The Palestine Exception

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticis... Read more

Oregon Healthcare Workers Join National Call: Stop the Gaza Genocide

Airs at: Fri, 11/08/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
On November 1, Portland Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine (HCW4P-PDX) joined the National Actions by HCWs in cities around the world to demand that their hospitals and health systems take urgent and immediate action to protect healthcare in Gaza. Healthcare Workers (HCWs) r... Read more

Unpacking November 5

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
 What the hell just happened? The guests are Ani Haines and Teresa Mitchell. We’re unpacking the future. Read more

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, A NOVEL, by Sidney Morrison

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
     Author Sidney Morrison joins us to discuss his book, Frederick Douglass:  a Novel, about the man considered the most prominent African American of the 19th century.  Frederick Douglass was instrumental in ending the institution of slavery from which he escaped to be... Read more

Striking Back at Northwest Natural

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Northwest Natural, Oregon's largest fracked gas utility, has been doing its best for several years to delay the region's move to full electrification. But in the past few months the company is getting its comeuppance in the form of an expanded lawsuit from Multnomah Coun... Read more