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The Oregon legislature passed a bill regulating drone use in Oregon by public agencies but left drone use by individuals and corporations without rules or oversight. Guest Jason Kafoury, a Portland Trail lawyer and organizer with the Oregon Progressive Party, talks about the party's campaign first with the City of Portland and now the state to craft laws which would ban private drone use, create a registry of drone users (both public and private) and put in place effective controls on public agency use of drones.

Guests Tamara Staton and Phil Carver discuss the growing Citizens Climate Lobby (CLL) and how people can be involved to advance a Fee & Dividend Proposal to reduce the amount of climate carbon to below 350 PPM. Tamara Staton is the leader of Portland's CCL chapter and Phil is a policy advisor to Oregon's Department of Energy. Fee & Dividend would impose a fee on the production of fossil fuels and rebate it back to the citizens, creating an incentive to reduce the amount of fossil fuel production and use.

Paul Cienfuegos returns for part 2 of our 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.

Community Rights organizer Paul Cienfuegoes wants to reduce or eliminate corporate rule by engaging communities to enact community rights ordinance which says that corporations are prohibited from engaging in certain activities in local communities, many times in direct contradiction to state or federal law. Paul discuss successes in American local communities as well as internationally. Part 1 of 2 part series

Highlights from the World Premiere screening of the No Film Film Festival 2: 80's Remake at the Bellows Falls Opera House on June 29, 2013. Highlights include interviews and audience question and answer sessions with the film makers compeeting in this year's contest.

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The No Film Film Festival is an international contest that challenges start-up filmmakers to produce a short digital film based on a popular 1980’s movie in just one weeks time. This year eighteen teams from across the country answered the call with only fifteen teams surviving the exhaustive task.

This episode chronicles the efforts of a couple of teams as they write, shoot and edit their entry for this competition. On Saturday, June 29th the films will premiere on the largest screen in southern Vermont at the world renowned Bellows Falls Opera House.