Air Cascadia

Normal 0 "Out on the Hanford site, we have 177 waste tanks that have exceeded their design life. A third of them have leaked. What will happen with that material that's in the ground, and whether it pollutes the river 100,000 years from now, is being studied. Not a good t... Read more

Normal 0 These are Deeply Strange Days for Labor, and no more so than right here in River City.  TriMet workers represented by the amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 have been working without a contract from TriMet for many months now.  And Management just keeps clearin... Read more

Normal 0 The November elections are just a kiss away..and out of the ruins there will arise the worst chimera Labor and the environment have ever faced.  Bear in mind that Labor is about all the Big League support the Democrats have.  And yet amid the post-election fall-o... Read more

Normal 0 This is KBOO’;s News & Public Affairs Day – second only in poularity to the Grateful Dead – and joining the “whole Sick Crew”  here at the station my guest is Janice Thompson with Common Cause Oregon.   In this perhaps America’s most contentious election cycle in... Read more

For farm-related reasons I didn't get to the station  until about 15 minutes before airtime - plan in hand.  In the world of activism every cause has a particular character as it comes together.  Coalitions are individuals in a sense.  That's what makes them compelling to d... Read more

Normal 0  Tomorrow: Normal 0 PSU brings on the National Defending Education rally, 10 am - 2 pm in the South Park Blocks.  For more information on the national call to action visit, www.defendeducation.org.  For local information visit www.defendeducationpdx.wordpres... Read more

This for the most part, from Indymedia. Normal 0 The attorney for a retired special agent with the U.S. Coast Guard has filed a motion to dismiss a federal lawsuit alleging that the agent spied on members of an Olympia anti-war group.    The motion, filed on Sept. 30, ... Read more

Normal 0 Odd isn’t it that the father-son team that blew up the West Coast bank in Woodburn in December of 2008 have not been labeled ‘terrorists’ by mass media?  What if the two were Muslim?  What would Glenn Beck say?   For that matter, what would the Oregonian – which ... Read more

Normal 0 Sharpish listeners are aware that Air Cascadia is on the Third rail this week and for the next two weeks.  The question we are asking is, What role do third party candidates play in the Great American Tragedy that is electoral politics?  That’s the question.  I ... Read more

Normal 0 The G20 fiasco continues in Toronto.  On Wednesday night, prominent Indigenous rights activist,  Jaroslava Avila was arrested at Queen's Park Station by nearly a dozen police officers.  This morning at 11 am East Coast time,  Avila was  arraigned.  We really are ... Read more