Activism

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 ... 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 methano... 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 pro... 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 Orego... 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... 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 di... 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

Foreclosures for Sale: Revisiting Stories of Worcester’s Mortgage Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 08/13/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

This week on Locus Focus we feature a new radio documentary produced by our friends at WCUW in Worcester, Massachusetts. Foreclosures for Sale: Revisiting Stories of Worcester’s Mortgage Crisis is produced by Hallie Blashfield and Beatrice Misher. It tells the stories of ... Read more

Jeannie Alexander: No Exceptions Prison Abolition Collective

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Jeannie Alexander is a former prison chaplain turned prison abolition activist and organizer with No Exceptions Prison Abolition Collective and Harriet Tubman House, a collective living community for prison abolition activists and people transitioning out of the mass inc... Read more