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Pie in the Sky

Airs at: Mon, 03/16/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement digs into the musical history behind some political rhetoric Joe Biden has used against Bernie Sanders lately. Joe will first share some historical audio of wobbly singer song-writer Haywire McClintock discussing how he introduced some of Joe Hill's most famo... Read more

Chemical Time Bomb:

Airs at: Mon, 03/16/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick speaks with John Rumpler, the clean water program director and senior attorney for Environment America, a national organization dedicated to protecting clean air, clean water, and promoting clean energy. Rumpler has spent years investigating the 80,000 chemi... Read more

Building an Ever Wider Circle

Airs at: Wed, 03/18/2020 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Rural Roots Rising
Join Rural Roots Rising this week as they take us to Wallowa County to hear from Gwen Trice with the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center, which offers a view into the lives of Black loggers in Northeastern Oregon. The Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center is a space wh... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 16, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 03/16/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg fills in as host today for the Old Mole, which features these segments: Chemical Time Bomb: Bill Resnick speaks with John Rumpler, the clean water program director and senior attorney for Environment America, a national organization dedicated to protec... Read more

The Digital Divide for March 2020: MAPS Psychedelic Research

Airs at: Fri, 03/13/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Digital Divide
Today we will be listening to an encore episode of The Digital Divide from 2014 featuring an interview with Maps Director of Marketing Brad Burge. Host Rabia Yeaman talks with Rick about FDA approved research and testing with various psychedelics under clinical condition... Read more

Battling Bottled Water in Randle, Washington

Airs at: Mon, 03/16/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Last year residents of Randle, Washington, a small community in eastern Lewis county nestled between Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens, learned that Crystal Geyser had bought property to get access to spring water for a water bottling plant. They immediately pressured their... Read more

Fukushima Anniversary Voices from Japan.

Airs at: Wed, 03/11/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
This week, Nuclear Hotseat's annual Fukushima Anniversary Voices from Japan. We’ll have an exclusive interview with reporter Takeshi Yamakawa, part of Tokyo Shimbun’s Nuclear Power Reporting Team.  Later, we’ll gain first-hand impressions of radiation problems in the Exc... Read more

Environmental activist Daniel McGowan

Airs at: Mon, 03/16/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Daniel McGowan.  Daniel is an environmental and social justice activist from Queens, NY. He was charged in 2005 with 15 counts of arson, property destruction and conspiracy, all related to two actions in Oregon in 2000, claimed by the Earth Lib... Read more

Forest defense is climate defense: how Bark plans to combat degradation and increase climate resilience

Airs at: Fri, 03/06/2020 at 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Forest defense is climate defense. That's the motto that Mt. Hood Forest advocacy group Bark lives by, and they are dedicated to preserving forests for this reason. Bark pushes back against the Forest Service on timber sales, which they do in a few different ways.  B... Read more

National Women and Girls AIDS Awareness Day

Airs at: Tue, 03/10/2020 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
  Today is National Women and Girls AIDS Awareness Day, an annual day announced by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. We'll hear a recorded talk on the topic by Dr. Gina Brown, of the NIH Office of AIDS Research. Head to hiv.gov for m... Read more