On Saturday, June 3, a rally is scheduled in conjunction with other
gatherings across the country calling for a transparent, comprehensive
investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the
2016 presidential election.
Called the March for Trut...
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Bill Resnick talks with the editor of Foreign Policy in Focus, blogger,
writer, and author of the novel Splinterlands, John Feffer, about his
nightmare of the breakdown of the world system in the next half-century.
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Solidarity: global and local; past and present. How do we organize to
confront a crisis? We'll be talking with folks who have answered the call for
community-and-activism on issues of sexuality, safety, health, and
well-being.
In the first half of the hour, we'll be...
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This program was originally broadcast on March 20. 2017
In 2012 a massive fire ripped through the Chevron Richmond Refinery, sending
a towering plume of toxic smoke into the air over Richmond, California. For
over a hundred years, Richmond was a classic company town, who...
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Disability Rights Oregon attorneys Bob Joondeph (Executive Director) and Joel
Greenberg join host Karen James to discuss DRO’s report “Behind the
Eleventh Door: One Year Later”, released in April 2017 that found the
Oregon State Penitentiary fell short of its goal to imp...
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Join Theresa Mitchel on the last day of KBOO's Spring Membership Drive as she
welcomes Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi and Democracy Now's Amy Goodman to make
a last minute pitch for new and renewing members.
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Bill Resnick and Brian Tokar discuss Municipalism and how to combine
electoral politics with grass roots movement building to support a radical
political turn. Brian Tokar is an activist, author, and a lecturer in
Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. H...
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Saudi Arabia is a quixotic ally of the U.S., to say the least. Fifteen of the
nineteen 9/11 hijackers were from the desert kingdom. In the wake of the
attack, the U.S. flew Saudi elites out of the country and then preceded to
invade Afghanistan, through no Afghans wer...
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Denise Morris hosts this membership drive episode of the Old Mole, which
includes Joe Clement on Banjo and
Brian Tokar talking with Bill Resnick about municipal assemblies;
Huy Ong of OPAL talking with Desiree Hellegers about Protesting Trimet
Policing;
Rachel Hanes ...
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The concept of framing in politics was introduced over a decade ago by George
Lakoff, but cognitive scientist Elisabeth Wehling feels that frames are still
misunderstood and that much of her work "still consists of explaining what
political framing is at all. There ar...
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