We have for you a very special presentation from our award-winning series - All Things Guest James Russell is the author of "Social Insecurity, 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis. The retirement crisis is that people are going over a fiscal cliff instead of being able to retire with financial security. James states that this is the result of moving from traditional pension plans to 401(k)s and explains how that has happened with what consequences.
Marc Koller was a Bernie supporter, fan of the progressive agenda who is going to run for US Congress in 2018 as a Oregon Progressive Party candidate. We look at why he is running and what the issues are. "We need candidates who are not indebted to the corporate interests."
Host David Delk talks with Lee Mercer, President of Health Care For All Oregon on the problems of Obamacare, Trump(Ryan)Care, and how a universal affordable health care system would solve those problems. Includes a history of how the American system developed; and a description of various proposals to create a single payer system, nationally and in Oregon.
Steve Early talks with host David Delk about his new book, Refinery Town - Big Oil, Big Money, And The Remaking Of An American City. Richmond CA has historically been a company town. The company has been Chevron. Steve talks about the formation of the Richmond Progressive Alliance and the transformation of Richmond into a progressive light port on the west coast. The role special interest money has played is a large part of the story as is how the RPA has used reforms lke public funding of...
Host David Delk talks with Mark Darienzo and Joana Kirchhoff with Climate Jobs Portland. They discuss the organization's origins and purpose in presenting labor to environmental organization, recognizing the unions need to join in the movement for a renewable, and a sustainable energy economy. Then we talk about community solar, described as providing a chance for Oregonians to invest in solar power even if they individually cannot purchase and install their own solar system. Community Solar...
We give flowers, diamonds and gold as symbols of our love without thought as to how those symbols are mined or grown or even how they became symbols. Dr. Martin Donohoe discusses how these symbols have taken on their meaning and the consequences of giving these symbols.
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.
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 Project 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 function of holding the powerful accountable has been diminished to the point where...
Leah Rodgers, Dep Exec Director of Friends of Family Farmers (FofFF) describes how and why the organization formed in order to be a community voice supporting small socially responsible family farmers in opposition to a corporate farm in Oregon. FofFF is a non-corporate alternative for family farmers to the Farm Bureau, which is entrenched in the status quo of big corporate farming. Discussion covers challenges faced by small family farmers including access to capital. FofFF has promoted...
Populist Dialogues features progressive populist folksinger Tom Neilson for a sampling of his music starting with "Corporations Are Human?" Music selection included "These Colors Don't Run the World" and "Its a Crime."
This program features an address by Thomas Linzey, Exec Director of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF.org) on how we have gotten to the situation we find ourselves in and how using the regulatory system to escape that situation has failed. Why? Because the regulations were written by those who are supposed to be regulated. Tom goes on to address how English Common Law and the US Constitution have been used to establish the regulatory system and corporate power. And looks at the...
Thomas Linzey, Exec Dir of Community Environment Legal Defense Fund (CELFD.org) continues his presentation regarding how the regulatory system functions to control you, not the industry it purportedly regulates. He notes that the question of who decides has been centralized but people are learning how to resist. And discusses how we have been boxed in and the doctrines that accomplice that. Several examples of how people have resisted, a resistance which started in rural Pennsylvania, moved to...
More than two years have passed since the Japanese earthquake and tsunami caused three Fukushima nuclear power plants to melt-down. Charles Johnson, Director of the Oregon/Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Task Force on Nuclear Power, talks about that on-going crisis and connections between Fukushima and the Columbia (Nuclear) Generating Station (CGS) in Washington State. He calls for closure of CGS.
Today we continue our conversation with Paul Ciendfuegos, Portland organizer working with the Community Rights Movement, started by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF.org). Paul talks about how communities have grown tired of having their local decision making removed so that corporate projects, which they oppose and don't want, can proceed. Paul discusses the regulatory boxes created by industry to undermine our local decision making. Notes that the environment is currently...
Host David Delk talks with Rev. Kate Lore, Social Justice Minister for the First Unitarian Church in Portland. The detrimental effects of the ever increasing economic and social inequalities in the United States today are expressed through Kate Lore's personal experiences as well as scientific studies. Thoughts on what we do to address these issues are presented.
Discussion on Climate Change.
Although this show is about the other Portland's Water District on the other side of the country, we can learn from the issues that have effected or will effect their clean water.
Interview with Nathan Hunt about the growing issue of Student Debt.
Political economist Robin Hahnel returns as the guest this week talking about his new book, Of the People, By the People, The Case for a Participatory Economy. Saying that progressive people need a future vision of what an alternative economy might look like, Robin notes that the only alternative to capitalism is not the communist systems of the last century but rather one which allows the participation by workers and consumers in deciding for themselves. The private decision making structures...
Our guests today are Bethany Cotton with Greenpeace and Julia DeGraw with Food and Water Watch. Bethany discusses the plans by corporate issues to turn the Pacific Northwest into a fossil fuel export epicenter. Major national and multinational corporations plan to build coal and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) export terminals in Oregon and Washington. Those plans have met with great local resistance. Bethany discusses the environmental and economic consequences of these exports as well as way...
As 2013 comes, it is time to review some of the great Populist Dialogues program produced during 2012. So we have short clips from some of those shows. Featured guests are Kate Lore – Unitarian Social Justice Minister Jules Boykoff – Political Science professor's views on the Olympics Elizabeth Swager-Asst Director of Oregon Fair Trade Campaign on free trade agreements' effects Lisa Frack on the Paid Sick Day campaign Sami Alloy with the Oregon Working Families Party on Pay It Forward campaign...
Big special interest and largely secret donors are drowning out the voices of ordinary people, fundamentally undermining our democracy. Evan discusses the various types of organizations giving money, the role of Dark Money and what it is and reforms required to add transparency to the giving.
Dialogues of populist perspectives for better local, state, national and global governance that nurtures everyone - people and nature.
Dialogues of populist perspectives for better local, state, national and global governance that nurtures everyone - people and nature.