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Populist Dialogues - 13-46 - Community Rights Movement

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Today we continue our conversation with Paul Cienfuegos, 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 viewed as property and advocates for giving nature rights.

Populist Dialogues - 13-45 - Continuing Crisis at Fukushima

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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.

Populist Dialogues - 13-44 - Tigard First vs Walmart

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Guests Steve Bintliff and Gary Jelinek talk talk with host David Delk about their effects to prevent the opening of a new Wal-Mart in their community just south of Portland. Wal-Mart has been shielded from most of the usual pubic input hearings and review processes by taking over development plans originally approved for different retail operation. Residents are therefore facing off against a local government united with Wal-Mart against the interests of the regions citizens.