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IWW Organizing in New York

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
IWW organizer Marianne talks with the Old Mole’s Joe Clement about Stardust Family United, the union formed by singer-servers at Ellen's Stardust Diner with the help of the New York branch of the Industrial Workers Of The World. Though they won a big settlement ahead of tak... Read more

The Only Way to Save the Earth from Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Margaret Klein Salamon of The Climate Mobilization.  They advocate a World War II type great mobilization, here and around the world, to vastly reduce, or even eliminate, greenhouse gas emissions starting today. The group has just won Climate Emergen... Read more

Dr. Cynthia McKinney and the Deep State

Airs at: Fri, 08/10/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
  Former U.S. Congresswoman (1992-2002, 2004-2006) from Georgia and 2008 Presidential candidate for the Green Party, Dr. Cynthia McKinney, speaks with John Shuck on the Beloved Community. Topics include her entry into politics, racism, the various factions of the Deep Sta... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 6, 2018

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole and we will hear-- What it will really take to deal seriously with climate change How an IWW union in New York is organizing restaurant workers What we can learn from Antonio Gramsci How capitalism enslaves us all   Read more

Tacoma on the Front Lines

Airs at: Mon, 09/03/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on June 25, 2018 According to Sightline Institute Tacoma, Washington is the major frontline community in the fight to stop fossil fuel development in the Northwest. After vehemently rejecting a proposal to build the world's largest methanol ... Read more

Pacific Northwest in the Tar Sands Crosshairs

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program was originally broadcast on June 18, 2018. It seems likely that the Canadian province of Alberta—home to a massive tar sands industry that produces some of the globe’s dirtiest and most polluting oil—has put the Pacific Northwest in its crosshairs. The provi... Read more

Ending the War on Drugs

Airs at: Sun, 08/05/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century, exclusive audio from Congressman Earl Blumenauer's community forum on ending the war on drugs, which was held in Portland, Oregon on August First. Speakers on this show include Congressman Blumenauer and Bobbin Singh, executive director of the Oregon J... Read more

MALCOLM X vs JAMES BALDWIN

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  -from OpenCulture.com One often hears lamented the lack of public intellectuals in America today. Very often, the lamenters look back to James Baldwin, who in the 1950s and 1960s wrote such powerful race-, class-, and sex-examining books as Go Tell It on the Mountain, G... Read more

Captain Ahab & U.S. Empire: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The demonic Captain Ahab in Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick represents a quest for power and domination that is a death wish. Hubris will doom Ahab and his Pequod crew, all perish except for Ishmael. Is there a larger lesson to be learned? Is the United States much diffe... Read more

Presswatch on 08/02/18

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Armed Alt-Reich Nazi sympathizers are coming to town, and the Portland Police are ready to let them do as they will. Transgender people are being harrassed by the US government.  California is burning. Aside from that, things are good--how are you? Read more