General Audiences - TV-G/ TV-PG

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."

We talk with Nakisha Nathan, Environmental Justice organizer with the Oregon Sierra Club. Just transitions and deep democracy are two aspects of environmental justice and we talk about their interrelationship.

Guest Greg Burrill, peace activist, entrepreneur and educator, talks about the Portland Public Schools and the financing of K-12 education in general in Oregon. Oregon is experiencing a funding crisis due to passage of Measures 5 and 50. Greg talks about what those measures did and continue to do, and how they took us from having a school system which was a national model to one characterized by underfunding and under-achievement.

Host Rose Sheehan interviews the Martin Luther King Day of Compassion and Action Coalition Founders, Brad Wagenknecht and Jennifer Swift, on the mission of the coalition; how to join; and the weekend series of events, talks, and service projects that are planned for Napa County following the devastation left by the firestorms. All with a focus on inclusion and diversity and in celebration of the legacy that Martin Luther King left with us.

12/14/17 #1377

Richard Fields, Timothy Snowball, John Cameron

Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky (First Amendment/Political Speech) (SCOTUS) Minnesota bans political t-shirts etc. at polling places under penalty of $5000 fine.

Spivey v. United States (police/gov agents cannot lie to gain "consent" for warrantless search of home) (SCOTUS).

Ricketts v. Miami Shores (city says cannot use front yard for vegetable garden for own consumption/property rights) (FL Supreme Court).

Host David Delk talks with Shari Sirkin, Exec Director of Friends of Family Farmers on what Friends of Family Farmers is and why it was formed and the conflict between family farmers and corporate farms, like mega-dairies. We talk about CSAs - Community Sustained Agriculture as a way for individuals to support local family farmers. CSAs represent a partnership between the eater and the grower.

"A Wave of Renewable Energy Resistance is Taking Root" (8 minutes)

This film tells the story of the Solar XL campaign, from where it started to where it's going. It takes you to the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota where the pipeline would run half a mile outside its border. It also shows the family farm of Jim Carlson in Nebraska where the first solar installation went up in his family’s corn fields.