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14-24 Geoff Holland on Move to Amend
Author and producer Geoff Holland describes his motivations for producing a series of short video endorsements of Move to Amend's efforts to enact a 28th Constitutional Amendment saying that Corporations are not people and money is not speech. He talks about his views on the issue of corporate domination, the consequences of that and what we must do.
First Broadcast on December 21, 2014
Author and producer Geoff Holland describes his motivations for producing a series of short video endorsements of Move to Amend's efforts to enact a 28th Constitutional Amendment saying that Corporations are not people and money is not speech. He talks about his views on the issue of corporate domination, the consequences of that and what we must do.
First Broadcast on December 21, 2014
14-23 Work Conditions in the Dairy Industry
Host David Delk speaks with Indira Trejo, Global Impact Coorinator with the United Farmworkers Union. She talks about work conditions for dairy workers at farmer-owned Darigold cooporative. She notes that these conditions are industry-wide and includes information on how the viewer can help the workers in their struggles for better work conditions.
First broadcast on December 7, 2014
Host David Delk speaks with Indira Trejo, Global Impact Coorinator with the United Farmworkers Union. She talks about work conditions for dairy workers at farmer-owned Darigold cooporative. She notes that these conditions are industry-wide and includes information on how the viewer can help the workers in their struggles for better work conditions.
First broadcast on December 7, 2014
14-22 David Cobb advocates for 28th constitutional amendment
Our guest is David Cobb, chief spokesperson for Move to Amend, advocating for a 28th Constitutional amendment which declares that corporations are not people and money is not speech. David explains why we need such an amendment and why it needs to say both, rather than just one of these provisions. David notes that if we don't do this, we will not have an actual functioning democratic republic.
First Broadcast on November 16, 2014
Our guest is David Cobb, chief spokesperson for Move to Amend, advocating for a 28th Constitutional amendment which declares that corporations are not people and money is not speech. David explains why we need such an amendment and why it needs to say both, rather than just one of these provisions. David notes that if we don't do this, we will not have an actual functioning democratic republic.
First Broadcast on November 16, 2014
14-21 The Yin & Yang of Methane
Ted Gleichman, chair of the Beyond LNG Campaign of the Oregon Sierra Club, provides us with a primer to the most elegant and tangled hydrocarbon, methane (natural gas), and details why natural gas (methane) is not the bridge to the future as we transition from fossil fuel use to renewable energies.
First broadcast on November 2, 2014
Ted Gleichman, chair of the Beyond LNG Campaign of the Oregon Sierra Club, provides us with a primer to the most elegant and tangled hydrocarbon, methane (natural gas), and details why natural gas (methane) is not the bridge to the future as we transition from fossil fuel use to renewable energies.
First broadcast on November 2, 2014
14-20 Keeping Minor Parties Out of General Elections – Measure 90
Host David Delk interviews Portland attorney Dan Meek on the dangers which Oregon ballot measure 90 poses for the existence of minor parties in Oregon. Looks at who supports Measure 90 (One individual contributed over 60% and is a former Enron trader before Enron's collapse) and why. Also very quickly reviews why Oregonians should vote Yes for Measure 92, requiring the labeling of GMO containing foods.”
First Broadcast on October 19, 2014
Host David Delk interviews Portland attorney Dan Meek on the dangers which Oregon ballot measure 90 poses for the existence of minor parties in Oregon. Looks at who supports Measure 90 (One individual contributed over 60% and is a former Enron trader before Enron's collapse) and why. Also very quickly reviews why Oregonians should vote Yes for Measure 92, requiring the labeling of GMO containing foods.”
First Broadcast on October 19, 2014
14-19 Top Two Means No More Minor Parties?
November elections with no minor party candidates and no ability to write in candidates. Maybe not even any more minor parties? Who supports such a proposal? Who oppposes it? Populist Dialogues looks at the likely affects to Oregon general elections if voters approve Measure 90 on the Nov. 2014 ballot. We explore the likely consequences, based on the experience in Washington and California with Meghan Moyer, campaign manager of the No on Measure 90 campaign and recommend a No vote.
First broadcast on October 5, 2014
November elections with no minor party candidates and no ability to write in candidates. Maybe not even any more minor parties? Who supports such a proposal? Who oppposes it? Populist Dialogues looks at the likely affects to Oregon general elections if voters approve Measure 90 on the Nov. 2014 ballot. We explore the likely consequences, based on the experience in Washington and California with Meghan Moyer, campaign manager of the No on Measure 90 campaign and recommend a No vote.
First broadcast on October 5, 2014
14-18 TransPacific Partnership draws Blue-Green Opposition
Host David Delk has a discussion with Madelyn Elder, President of Local 7901 Communication Workers of America, and Ted Gleichman, chair of Beyond LNG Campaign of the Oregon Sierra Club about the still-being-negotiated-in-secret corporate trade agreement known as the Trans Pacific Partnership. After talking about details of the proposed agreement, including access to medicine, statue of Buy American and Buy Local Laws, and investor suits against nations, they agree that because we all live in the same world, damage to either labor or the environment are detrimental to all human beings. “We are all in this together.”
First Broadcast on September 21, 2014
Host David Delk has a discussion with Madelyn Elder, President of Local 7901 Communication Workers of America, and Ted Gleichman, chair of Beyond LNG Campaign of the Oregon Sierra Club about the still-being-negotiated-in-secret corporate trade agreement known as the Trans Pacific Partnership. After talking about details of the proposed agreement, including access to medicine, statue of Buy American and Buy Local Laws, and investor suits against nations, they agree that because we all live in the same world, damage to either labor or the environment are detrimental to all human beings. “We are all in this together.”
First Broadcast on September 21, 2014
14-17 Perils of Our Growing Inequality
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston speaks about his newest book, Divided, The Perils of Our Growing Inequality. David was at the First Unitarian Church in May and this is an edited version of his presentation.
First broadcast on September 7, 2014
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston speaks about his newest book, Divided, The Perils of Our Growing Inequality. David was at the First Unitarian Church in May and this is an edited version of his presentation.
First broadcast on September 7, 2014
14-16 Single Payer Health Care in Oregon
The guest, Dr. Samuel Metz, has been a long time advocate for an alternative to our present American health care payment system, an alternative which would be universal in its coverage, less expensive because it removes the private insurance middle man, and is not dependent on an individual's employment status. Such a system is sometimes called single payer, or improved medicare for all. Dr. Metz explains how we can move towards a system of Single Payer Health Care for Oregon.
First Broadcast on August 17, 2014
The guest, Dr. Samuel Metz, has been a long time advocate for an alternative to our present American health care payment system, an alternative which would be universal in its coverage, less expensive because it removes the private insurance middle man, and is not dependent on an individual's employment status. Such a system is sometimes called single payer, or improved medicare for all. Dr. Metz explains how we can move towards a system of Single Payer Health Care for Oregon.
First Broadcast on August 17, 2014
14-15 Opposing the Privatization of US Postal Service
Guest Jamie Partridge, a member of Portland Communities and Postal Workers United and a retired postal worker himself, discusses the efforts of the upper echelons of the US Postal Service to privatize the service and the efforts of communities impacted by such efforts united with postal officers to prevent that from happening. He describes the congressional mandate for the service to pre-fund pensions for 75 years, the efforts to end Saturday delivery, the cuts to facilities, and now the outsourcing of traditional postal service to minimum wage Staples workers, and calls for a boycott of Staples.
First broadcast on July 12, 2014
Guest Jamie Partridge, a member of Portland Communities and Postal Workers United and a retired postal worker himself, discusses the efforts of the upper echelons of the US Postal Service to privatize the service and the efforts of communities impacted by such efforts united with postal officers to prevent that from happening. He describes the congressional mandate for the service to pre-fund pensions for 75 years, the efforts to end Saturday delivery, the cuts to facilities, and now the outsourcing of traditional postal service to minimum wage Staples workers, and calls for a boycott of Staples.
First broadcast on July 12, 2014
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14-14 B Corporations, Be the Change
B Corporations and public benefit corporations are this program's topic with guests Brian Selzter and Sandra Morris, both Portland small business owners. Brian's business is a B Corporations while Sandra's is both a B Corporation and a public benefit corporation. They talk about how B Corporations can add the social responsibility back into the corporate world, what the difference is between one and the other, and more. First broadcast on June 29, 2014 |
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14-13 Labeling GMOs - it's our right to know
Host David Delk talks with Julia Degraw, NW Organizer with Food & Water Watch, on the Oregon initiative campaign to label foods which contain GMOs in Oregon. Julia reviews what GMOs are, how they are different from seed saving and hybridization; what happened during the special session of the Oregon legislature; how two local Oregon county campaigns turned out and more. First broadcast on June 15, 2014 |
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14-12 Project Censored: Pushing forward real news, not Junk Food News
Project Censored’s faculty adviser, Nolan Higdon, talks about the current condition of corporate news media and the need for alternative news sources. He describes how Projected Censored got started following the Watergate scandal; how they pick stories for their annual report on the 25 most censored news stories and why a non-corporate owned media is important for a fully functioning democracy. The fourth-estate’s function of holding the powerful accountable has been diminished to the point where it no longer functions due in part to the co-ownership of the news media and major multinational corporations. Nolan reviews several examples of the failures of corporate news with a focus on Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. First broadcast June 1,2014 |
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14-11 Our last hope, Nature's Trust Law
Guest Mary Wood, Faculty Director of the University of Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law Program, speaks with us about the use of nature trust law to bring us back from the fossil fuel induced environmental tipping point. She notes that our elected leaders as well as our regulatory agencies have been captured by the corrupting influence of the fossil fuel industries. Now we use he third branch of government to protect the environment. The judiciary branch has for the past 30+ years been engaged with regulatory decision making; now they must relearn how to use nature trust law. She explains what that law is and how legal suits are now being brought using it and points to the current effort in Portland OR to create via a ballot initiative a People's Water Trust as promising. First broadcast on Sunday, May 18, 2014 |
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14-10 Wolf-PAC for a constitutional amendment - Money is not speech
Colby Clipston, Oregon Director of Wolf-PAC, speaks with host David Delk on the need for a 28th Constitutional Amendment stating that money is not speech. Wolf-Pac works to achieve that goal by pressuring the state legislatures to pass resolutions applying for an Article V constitutional convention to achieve their goal. First broadcast on Sunday, May 4, 2014 |
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Human right to water! Eco-system right to water!
Just the beginning for Jonah Majure, chief petitioner for an initiative campaign in Portland Oregon to create a unique water trust to govern and prevent the privatization of the city's water and water resources. As Jonah explains, the sole purpose of the trust would be creation of benefit for the beneficiaries, the cities residents. The trust would establish operating goals for the trust, including the use of the precautionary principle, transparency, no conflicts of interest and protection for whistle blowers. And the residents would not be dependent on someone else to enforce the trust; rather the residents would have the power themselves. (www.peopleswatertrust.org) First broadcast on Sunday, April 20, 2014 |
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14-8 The Healthcare Movie
Guests Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg are co-producer of the new documentary, The Healthcare Movie. The documentary explores the differences between the Canadian Healthcare system and the American health insurance system and how/why Americans need to adopt a Canadian style single payer system. Laurie and Terry talk about how they came to make this movie, how the American and Canadian systems developed so differently. Terry notes that Canada has a tax system, while America has an insurance system First broadcast on Sunday, March 30, 2014 |
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14-7 Bad Idea - Coal and Oil Trains in the Pacific Northwest
Guest Rynn Rittenhouse is the Conservation Organizer with Friends of the Columbia Gorge. He talks about the dangers to community and the environment of transporting coal and oil via train to to-be built terminals in Oregon and Washington. All profit, no benefit, all danger. First broadcast on Sunday, March 16. 2014 |
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14-6 Ending Corporate Dominance via community rights ordinances
Guest Paul Cienfuegos returns to continue discussion of creating local community rights movements to prevent usually large national and multinational corporations from dominating our democracy. Paul reviews the history of the regulatory box designed by corporate interests to regulate the peoples' participation in decision-making. He also discusses the movement to give nature rights, enforceable by citizens and looks at how the community rights movement is developing here in Oregon. |
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14-5 Legalize Democracy
Our program today consists of an edited version of the Move to Amend documentary "Legalize Democracy." "Legalize Democracy" tells the story of the need to amend the US constitution to end corporate personhood and money equals speech. Features time lines for development of corporate personhood, and some of the major spokespersons of Move to Amend. First broadcast on February 16, 2014 |
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14-4 Portland Harbor Superfund Cleanup Situation Report
Guests Jim Robison and Robin Plance both serve on the Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group, a citizens advocate group, advocating for and advising on the decades long clean up of the Portland Willamette River superfund clean up. They discuss the history of the site, location, effects on fish and human health and more. First broadcast on February 2, 2014 |
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14-3 Olympic Games, Militarization, and Dissent
Guest Jules Boykoff, Political Science and Government professor at Pacific University in Oregon, talks about the militarization of the Olympic games, and the prospect of protests happening during the games at Sochi. Jules sees the Olympics as Celebration Capitalism, a form of public private partnerships in which the benefits move from the public to the private. The grisly underbelly of the games are talked about, especially the militarization and the affect on dissent. First broadcast on January 19, 2014 |
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14-2 Community Forum on the Trans Pacific Partnership
Populist Dialogues presents video of the recent "Community Forum on the Trans Pacific Partnership" in Portland OR. Speakers include * David Delk, President of Alliance for Democracy (Portland), speaking on the effects of so-called free trade agreements on democracy as well as how intellectual property rights in the TPP will affect affordable medicines, *Greg Pallesen, Vice President of the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers, speaking on the effects of these agreements on labor with the off shoring of manufacturing using as an example how these agreements have caused the closure of Oregon paper mills * Elizabeth Swager, Exec. Director of Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, talks about acting now to oppose the agreement and Fast Track Authority. First broadcast on January 5th, 2014 |
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14-1 Why Not Nuclear? The Case Against Nuclear Power
Guest David Hill is a volunteer working with Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility on their program to stop the use of nuclear power. He delivers a modified version of his power point presentation: “Why Not Nuclear? The Case Against Nuclear Power.” He provides a broad overview of how nuclear works (fission vs fusion), the environmental and health dangers of nuclear energy, discussion of Fukushima and the Columbia Generating Station at Hanford and why it needs to be closed down. First broadcast December 29, 2013 |
