Populist Dialogues

About this original series

The Alliance for Democracy - The Populist Dialogues is an interview program of news and views from a populist progressive perspective. Originates in Portland OR.

Episodes of Populist Dialogues

    • Play Solving the economic crisis: Austerity or spending - Populist Dialogues on Blip Populist Dialogues episodes on Blip

      Solving the economic crisis: Austerity or spending

      Our guest is political economist Robin Hahnel from the economics department at Portland State University and formerly with American University in Wash DC. What does history show as the solution to the current and continuing economic crisis? Robin explains why the current polices in Europe for austerity are wrong, why they will continue to be wrong in the United States, and how the correct policies would instead be to stimulate the economy in a manner similar to what happened following the Grea...

      • Release date
        May 24, 2012
      • Runtime
        28:31
    • Play 12-21 HealthCare as a Human Right - Populist Dialogues on Blip Populist Dialogues episodes on Blip

      12-21 HealthCare as a Human Right

      Host David Delk talks with David Young. Mr. Young is a volunteer with the Portland Jobs with Justice healthcare committee taking the position that universal healthcare is a human right. He talks about the campaign to bring a single payer healthcare system to Oregon via a new coalition of organizations and individual called HealthCare for All Oregonians.

      • Release date
        May 14, 2012
      • Runtime
        28:30
    • Play 12-20 There's a coal train comin', Laura Stevens - Populist Dialogues on Blip Populist Dialogues episodes on Blip

      12-20 There's a coal train comin', Laura Stevens

      Host David Delk interviews Laura Stevens with the Sierra Clubs campaign to stop using coal and opposing the building of coal export terminals in Oregon and Washington.

      • Release date
        May 8, 2012
      • Runtime
        27:33
    • Play 12-19 Gerry Pollet, Hanford Nuclear Reservation - Populist Dialogues on Blip Populist Dialogues episodes on Blip

      12-19 Gerry Pollet, Hanford Nuclear Reservation

      Gerry Pollet, Exec Director of Heart of America NW, the chief watchdog organization for clean up of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, talks about the status of clean-up, plans to designate Hanford as a national nuclear waste dump, and the likelihood that the Washington State Dept of Ecology could put an end to those plans via the state permitting process. Calls to Portland to turn-out for public hearing on May 16, 2012.

      • Release date
        May 5, 2012
      • Runtime
        28:30
    • Play #12-18 Bruce Gagnon - Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space - Populist Dialogues on Blip Populist Dialogues episodes on Blip

      #12-18 Bruce Gagnon - Weapons and Nuclear Power ...

      Host David Delk talks with Bruce Gagnon, national coordinator and co-founder of Global Coalition Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. This far ranging conversation covers the militarization of space, the response of America to a developing multi-polar world and the diminished power of the American empire. Talk includes discussion of Obama pivot policy (refocus from middle east to Pacific arena) and efforts to surround both Russia and China.

      • Release date
        Apr 30, 2012
      • Runtime
        26:00
    • Play 12-17 Scott Moore, American Legislative Exchange Council - Populist Dialogues on Blip Populist Dialogues episodes on Blip

      12-17 Scott Moore, American Legislative Exchange...

      David Delk interviews Scott Moore, Communications Director for Our Oregon, on ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEX is a corporate lead "exchange" between corporate leaders and state legislators in which the corporate members write legislation, give the legislation to the legislators for introduction into various legislatures around the nation.

      • Release date
        Apr 22, 2012
      • Runtime
        27:45
    • Play 12-16 Laurie King: Labor and the Economic Crisis - Populist Dialogues on Blip Populist Dialogues episodes on Blip

      12-16 Laurie King: Labor and the Economic Crisis

      Laurie King, Chair of the Economic Crisis Committee of Portland Jobs with Justice, discusses the "sea that we swim in. That sea is not a recovery for workers even as the top 1% and especially the top one-tenth of 1% have done very well. With the wealth and income flowing up, they need to invest in order to increase employment but it is not in their interest to do so. Laurie discusses the Republican and Democratic budget proposals and contrasts them with the proposal from the Congressional Prog...

      • Release date
        Apr 10, 2012
      • Runtime
        28:31
    • Play 12-15 Dan Meek, Campaign finance reform, Citizens United and lost opportunites - Populist Dialogues on Blip Populist Dialogues episodes on Blip

      12-15 Dan Meek, Campaign finance reform, Citizen...

      David Delk interviews Portland public interest attorney Dan Meek who authored Measures 46 & 47 to institute campaign finance limitations on contributions and expenditures in Oregon. We discuss the current status of those measures, the impact Citizens United as had in Oregon and the nation, how the Democrats missed opportunities to negate Citizens United and why, and look at prospects for democracy moving forward.

      • Release date
        Mar 30, 2012
      • Runtime
        28:30
    • Play 12-14 Lloyd Marbet on Fukushima and Hanford - Populist Dialogues on Blip Populist Dialogues episodes on Blip

      12-14 Lloyd Marbet on Fukushima and Hanford

      Host David Delk talks with anti-nuclear activist Lloyd Marbet on the connections between the nuclear melt-down at Fukushima and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland WA. Raises issues with the speed of the clean-up at Hanford, raises prospect that Hanford likely will be designated the national nuclear waste dump site since Yucca Mountain was eliminated as the site.

      • Release date
        Mar 28, 2012
      • Runtime
        28:31
    • Play 12-13 LNG and natural resource extraction - Populist Dialogues on Blip Populist Dialogues episodes on Blip

      12-13 LNG and natural resource extraction

      Host David Delk talks with Ted Gleichman, chair of the Oregon Sierra Club's LNG committee. We begin the discussion with comment on Oregonian for Renewable Energy Policy which advocates for good green jobs via the development of a feed-in tariff policy. Very successful in Germany, Spain and Ontario Canada. We discuss the dirty fussil fuels like "clean" natural gas, oil from the tar sands of Alberta and their possible transport to Texas for export to world markets. We talk about possible effects...

      • Release date
        Mar 20, 2012
      • Runtime
        28:31
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