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We interview Ken Adams from community radio KMUZ in Salem Oregon and Oregon Community Media. Oregon Community Media is a coalition of 13 locally-controlled electronic media providers dedicated to sharing the voices of Oregon citizens with audiences across the state.  Through broadcast, cable, and online channels, the member organizations of Oregon Community Media offer citizens the opportunity to...

Mark Taylor-Canfield interviews investigative reporter Greg Palast about his career, voter suppression and other election fraud. Duration 24:52. Recorded 2020-07-30   Gregory Allyn "Greg" Palast (born June 26, 1952) [1] is an author and a freelance journalist who often worked for the BBC and The Guardian . His work frequently focuses on corporate malfeasance but has also worked with labour unions...

Angelina Llongueras is an arts professor, author, poet and actress known for her roles in Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's film "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down", and also "The Young Picasso."    In this archived report from 2018 she talks about the movement for Catalan independence and opposition from fascist elements in Spanish politics. Recorded 7-19-18 Duration 51:41    Angelina Llongueras:          ...

Photojournalist in Seattle, Terrence Wynder has been covering the protest area since it started. He details the difficulties he has encountered. It is difficult for one photographer to cover an event spanning several weeks of 24 hour activity that is large, rapidly changing, and moving. It is difficult to preserve the privacy of people being photographed. Police use of dangerous methods are someti...

Pink Umbrella Riot update by Mark Taylor-Canfield in Seattle on June 11. On Monday June 8th the Police Department removed valuables, boarded up, and evacuated the East Precinct headquarters as a deescalation technique. Demonstrations in that area had been ongoing for a couple of weeks. The civil occupation, also referred to as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, has continued with rally's, teach-ins...

Mark Taylor-Canfield reports on the police riot occasioned by the opening of umbrellas at the police line on Monday June 1, 2020 in Seattle. Mayor Jenny Durkin is receiving requests to resign by citizens who feel that she is more interested in protecting and asserting her power than in listening and responding to concerned citizens. Peaceful protests are being met with pepper balls, concussion gre...

Journalist/actor/musician Mark Taylor-Canfield talks about the inspiration behind his radio mystery drama series "Nick Savage Private Eye." MTC plays the role of Nick Savage, a Seattle private detective circa 1947. His culture jamming project is a tribute to all the old classic radio and film detectives including Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe, and other characters developed by authors Dashiel...

An archival report. Democracy Watch News Executive Director Mark Taylor-Canfield reports from Seattle on the 2018 primary election in the 9th congressional district of Washington State. 30 year old democratic socialist and berniecrat Sarah Smith challenged incumbent congressman Adam Smith for the Democratic Party's nomination.   Duration 10:09   Recorded 2018-07-19   #SarahSmith#AOC#democraticsoci...

Ever wonder what the staff of a news organization does on a daily basis? Welcome to the Democracy Watch News virtual newsroom! We describe our roles in the organization. Duration 24:23. Recorded 2020-01-15   #journalism,#newsroom,#DemocracyWatchNews,#news,#reporters,#editor,#nonprofit,#media,#democracy    Send listener feedback to    dwatchnews@earthlink.net Our production team https://docs.google...

Special Archived Report From Togo -  50 Year Dictatorial Regime: Suppression of Press Freedom and Democracy. Farida Bemba Nabourema, a correspondent and activist from Togo, briefs Democracy Watch News on the lack of press freedom and democracy in her country.    Duration 10:13. Recorded 2018-06-07   @ Farida_N   https://nobelwomensinitiative.org/meet-farida-nabourema-togo/   2017–2018 Togolese pro...

 In this archived report Mark Taylor-Canfield reports from Seattle. Seattle elections have strong support for the publicly financed option. Amazon flooded the current election by investing $1.5 million in Seattle City Council elections in 2019. Duration about 21:01. Recorded 2019-11-07   Amazon spends big in a publicly financed election.   https://getfisaright.wordpress.com/2019/11/07/with-the-usa...

Special archived report from Ethiopia with Mohommed Ademo Amo about the Oromia state.    Oromo pride opinion piece. Oromo is the largest ethnic group with about ½ of the population of Ethiopia. Oromo region is about the size of Texas. They lack control over their affairs. The central government is in control. They are coming out of a monarchy. The Oromo region is the most fertile area in the count...

  Seattle Campaign To Save The Showbox Theater From Demolition. An archived Report by Democracy Watch News Executive Director Mark Taylor-Canfield from Seattle City Hall where people gathered to testify at a public comment period on why the Showbox Theater should be preserved as a historic music venue. MTC interviews photographer Thomas De Soto and 17 year old Seattle music fan Neah Huber about th...

Dean Edwards, editor and news anchor for Democracy Watch News interviews, retired U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel , about his book, The Failure of Representative Government and the Solution: A Legislature of the People.  https://www.authorhouse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/789312-the-failure-of-representative-government-and-the-solution     https://mikegravel.com/   Senator Gravel explains on Youtube   http...

Our call participants describe the impact of the COVID 19 virus in their local areas. Seattle, Oregon, Pittsburgh, N.Y.C, and from India - Nitin Ronghe.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/democracycast/ FERC--Ciltizen_Action.mp3 Jerome Wagner, Sally Gellert and three others attempted to get citizen's recommendations heard by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during a recent FERC meeting in Washington D.C.. Their recommendations were to rapidly move to the use of renewable energy sources and phase out dependence on fossil fuels. Since public comment...

Our reporter, Mark Taylor-Canfield attended the 2020-02-19 Bernie Sanders political rally at the Tacoma Dome. About 17,000 supporters attended. Bernie called the President a "frawd," a "lyah," a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe, and a homophobe, he reminded everyone that Trump tried to kick 32 million Americans off their health care, and then highlighted the fact that Trump's new budget cuts Medicare...

Continuing an interview with radio theater personality Tom Lopez, known on-air as Meatball Fulton. He is a creator of ZBS media which has created and published audio theater since 1970. https://www.zbs.org/index_new.php/about_zbs   Interviewed on 2020-02-13. Duration 43:36. Mark Taylor-Canfield - a long-time fan of the genre interviews Tom. Listener feedback. dwatchnews@earthlink.net Radio Drama's...

An interview with radio theater personality Tom Lopez, known on-air as Meatball Fulton. He is a creator of ZBS media which has created and published audio theater since 1970. https://www.zbs.org/index_new.php/about_zbs   Interviewed on 2020-02-13. Duration 43:36. Mark Taylor-Canfield - a long-time fan of the genre interviews Tom. Listener feedback. dwatchnews@earthlink.net Radio Drama's Leading Ma...

Mark Taylor-Canfield recounts his witness of the Seattle  protests in 1999 during the World Trade Organization negotiations on economic globalization. The conference ended with participants unable to reach an agreement, in part due to the protests.   Known as the Battle-in-Seattle. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets on November 30 objecting to the lack of representation for the enviro...

In honor of the 20th Anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle. In November 1999, tens of thousands of people filled Seattle's streets to protest the World Trade Organization. For an entire week, the whole world watched as grassroots activists, labor, environmentalists, farmers, anarchists, and artists made history. Recorded 2019-11-21. Duration: 15:24. Our guests Jill Freidberg and Mark Taylor-C...

Dennis Edwards, an independent insurance adjusters details the effects of climate change on fire and flood insurance. Also, how drones are changing the insurance industry.52 minutes. California Bans Insurers From Dropping Policies Made Riskier by Climate Change https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/climate/california-fire-insurance-climate.html Insurance companies usually do not cover floods if you l...

Thomas DeSoto discusses his career as a professional photographer with Democracy Watch News Executive Director Mark Taylor-Canfield.       Thomas DeSoto is an internationally recognized photographer whose body of work includes images of cultural icons in the worlds of sports, politics, and the arts. His credits also include wildlife photography in Africa. Duration 1:08:23   DeSoto's clients have i...

Keep it in the Ground now means to cut pollution not just at the smoke stacks or exhaust pipe but to greatly reduce resource extraction that is on the supply side of those emissions. Duration 00:54:20. Archival recorded on 2016-07-16. Pollution control activism to date has put more energy into the former rather than the latter. To keep the global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees it will be...

The E.R.A., a proposed amendment to the Constitution, would guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It would also require states to intervene in cases of gender violence, such as domestic violence and sexual harassment; it would guard against pregnancy and motherhood discrimination; and it would federally guarantee equal pay. Duration 00:05:45. From the N.Y. Times...