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Populist Dialogues - 13-34 - Oregon Drone Law

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Tue, 09/03/2013 - 3:04pm
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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.

Populist Dialogues - 13-33 - Citizens Climate Lobby

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Tue, 09/03/2013 - 3:02pm
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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.

Populist Dialogues - 13-31 - Challenging Corporate Rule via Ordinance

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Tue, 09/03/2013 - 2:57pm
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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

Populist Dialogues - 13-32 - Ending Corporate Rule via Local Community Rights Movements

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Tue, 09/03/2013 - 3:00pm
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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.

2012 No Film Film Festival - Part 1

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Fri, 08/30/2013 - 3:17pm
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This is part 1 of a 3 part broadcast screening of the complete 2012 No Film Film Festival.

Part 1 includes the following short films:

>Team Avasara's "BREAK" (Archer Mayor's Tag Man as a Romance)
>Safron film's "ONE FLEW INTO THE CHICKEN COOP" (Archer Mayor's Tag Man as a Mystery)
>Landryn Production's "IT'S AN APOCALYPTIC LIFE" (It's a Wonderful Life as an Alien film)
>Wired Wednesday's "TRAPPED! THE ARTISTS' WORLD" (Wizard Of Oz as an Adventure film)
>Team Pallet Town's "HAVE A WONDERFUL LIFE" (It's a Wonderful Life as Film Noir)

2012 No Film Film Festival - Part 2

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Fri, 08/30/2013 - 3:18pm
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This is part 2 of a 3 part broadcast screening of the complete 2012 No Film Film Festival.

Part 2 includes the following short films:

>Steep Hill Production's "MANNEK" (Psycho as a Musical)
>Team UVC's "WAFFLES GO IN MOUTHS" (Close Encounters as a Musical)
>Los Tres Perritos' "CITIZEN PAIN" (Citizen Kane as a Horror film)
>Team Bear's "NO TURNING BACK" (Psycho as an Action film)
>The Brat Mac's "ADVENTURE OF A HEAD CASE" (Psycho as an Adventure film)

2012 No Film Film Festival - Part 3

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Fri, 08/30/2013 - 3:20pm
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This is part 3 of a 3 part broadcast screening of the complete 2012 No Film Film Festival.

Part 3 includes the following short films (and is 1/2 hour long):

>The Carbon Kid's "ARK" (Archer Mayor's Tag Man as Fantasy)
>Nerds With Attitude's "IN THE TUBES" (The Truman Show as a Science Fiction/Alien film)
>Your Father's Moustache's "JERSEY GIRLS FROM SPACE" (Archer Mayor's Tag Man as a Science Fiction/Alien film)