Everything is Fine in SWWA

Karissa runs the gamut with Dusti Arab, candidate challenging incumbent Glen Yung for Clark County Council, District 1! Thanks to Dusti for coming on the show! You can learn more about Dusti's platform, make contact, and find out how you can help the campaign on Arab's website: https://dustiforclarkcounty.com/

Karissa explores the recent resurfacing of allegations against Jim Mains, the Holidays on Franklin homeowner, Executive Assistant of the Ed Lynch Estate, and local establishment darling. This is Part 3 of the series. Link to RAINN: As the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization and operator of the National Sexual Assault Hotline, RAINN’s mission is to stop sexual violence by supporting...

Karissa explores the recent resurfacing of allegations against Jim Mains, the Holidays on Franklin homeowner, Executive Assistant of the Ed Lynch Estate, and local establishment darling. This is Part 2 of the series. Link to RAINN: As the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization and operator of the National Sexual Assault Hotline, RAINN’s mission is to stop sexual violence by supporting...

Karissa reads her article written for Current Affairs magazine, “The US War Machine is Earth’s Greatest Enemy”, and calls on listeners to bring this most important film to Vancouver for a showing! Calls to Action: -(Most important). Email info@kigginstheatre.com and request that they show Earth’s Greatest Enemy this April for Earth Day. -Go to Abby Martin’s @empirefiles account on Instagram. Share...

Karissa discusses a recent incident involving 3 Clark County women who observed and confronted ICE agents in our community and were threatened by the Clark County Sheriff's Office for felony stalking, as well as the Clark County Council's most recent discussion about their statement on federal immigration enforcement. She then explores where we might go from here.

Karissa platforms the testimony of the people of Clark County speaking out about ICE and about the Clark County Council's complicity in allowing the FBI (who are full-blown ICE collaborators, with one quarter of the FBI assisting ICE with operations, protecting immigrant detention facilities, violating protesters' civil liberties on the ground, covering up for the crimes committed by ICE, targetin...

Karissa challenges Clark County Councilor Glen Yung’s statement to a constituent regarding his flip-flop vote on supporting the FBI’s continued illegal use of Clark County’s nearly 4,000 acre, mostly forested conservation property, Camp Bonneville---including his belief that the FBI should not be “conflated” with ICE. Reporting over the last few months demonstrates unequivocally that the FBI is su...

Karissa breaks down the last year or so of shenanigans re: Camp Bonneville by various actors in Clark County government and law enforcement, as well as the state of the cleanup---ending with the latest vote by the Clark County Council to flip-flop and bring the FBI back to Camp Bonneville against clear, widespread opposition by the residents they're there to serve. This will set you up for Part 5,...

Karissa explores the recent resurfacing of allegations against Jim Mains, the Holidays on Franklin homeowner, Executive Assistant of the Ed Lynch Estate, and local establishment darling. This is Part 1 in the series. Music production and artistic rendition of MJ's "Man in the Mirror" by LT Page: https://soundcloud.com/eltee-page Become a Patron for as little as $5 a month to support the work and g...

Karissa sits down with John Bower, who is running for Clark County Charter Review Commission District 2, Position 1, and Leah Perkel, who is running for Charter Review Commission District 1, Position 3. They talk about why the Clark County charter matters, their individual platforms, and what amendment proposals are out there (such as Ranked Choice Voting!). Karissa finishes it off with a quick ru...

Karissa explores the recent complaint lodged by random dude and related developments as Kim Harless' re-election campaign heats up. Let’s not just lay down and let the establishment railroad us, shall we? Let's make the Columbian Editorial Board's endorsements even more irrelevant by SHOWING UP for Harless in the coming days. Sign up here: https://votekimharless.com/get-involved (They even have ph...

It's been a long time coming! Karissa and Phillip got a chance to sit down with Vancouver City Councilmember Kim Harless, who is running for re-election---with the primary election being THIS Tuesday, August 5th! We ran the gamut of topics, including the climate crisis and the environment, housing and homelessness (root causes, real solutions, and what the city has done), equity (including the pro...

You likely watched in horror as Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill passed Congress just before the Fourth of July, with only 2 Republicans voting against it, and have been trying to wrap your mind around everything that’s in it since then. This is being called the largest EVER upward transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich, with huge tax cuts for the wealthy paired with the slashing of Medic...

Phillip and Karissa sat down with a special guest to talk about World War III for this episode! Who better to discuss the selling of another bullshit American war at this precipice in human history than an Iraq war veteran? Jake Dailey, who served as a combat medic in Iraq and currently lives in Olympia, WA, graced us with his presence to talk about his time in Iraq, the cost of war, the US-Israel...

Karissa covers a controversial new decision made by Vancouver Pride Block Party organizers this year to hire the Vancouver Police Department for security, rather than using the combination of community defense and BIPOC private security used in previous years. We talk a little history, detail the criticism coming from the local queer community (many of whom were very close to the Pride Block Party...

Hey guys! This little snip should explain everything. It's not exactly a podcast episode; rather, it's an urgent action alert. Here is the link to the free Patreon video clip version of the call to action: https://www.patreon.com/posts/action-alert-for-128061872?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Below is a link to the Clark County me...

56. The Betrayals of Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Part 2 Karissa and Phillip team up again to talk about the day they (and hundreds of others) met up in the flesh to join the protest at Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's Vancouver town hall at the Leupke Center.

Karissa returns solo from a long hiatus to talk about Clark County Councilor Michelle Belkot's recent rogue behavior at the CTran Board to stop light rail on the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) project, her ouster by fellow councilmembers, and the backlash. Karissa also uncovers through hard research another Belkot scandal that was long rumored but never proven, and discusses the skewed presen...

Karissa interviews John Saulie-Rohman, Independent Candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, spanning the spectrum of topics, from foreign policy and the US war machine, environment, abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, campaign financing, education, healthcare, economy, free speech, national debt, and immigration! This is a comprehensive deep dive into John's positions focused on facts and honesty, which...

Karissa uncovers some oddities around Joe Kent's FEC filings, rants about campaign finance, and briefly discusses the only anti-genocide candidate in the 3rd Congressional District race.

Karissa and Phillip dig into some of the evidence that proves that the FBI has not been a “good tenant” at Camp Bonneville---that they have routinely been violating the terms of their agreement for years, contaminating the property, detonating explosives, and putting law enforcement at risk, and that the county knows about it. They also review more false information provided by 2 members of Parks...

Karissa and Phillip continue the journey into the story of Camp Bonneville by diving into the current process that is underway to review the environmental cleanup by Clark County with the Camp Bonneville Community Advisory Group (CAG) and discussing misinformation provided by staff about CB today and over the years. We uncover many shenanigans, more falsehoods, and question whether CAG members---o...

50. Camp Bonneville, Part 1: The Army, the FBI, and the Dirty Transfer Karissa and Phillip join forces once again to talk about Camp Bonneville, an old 3,800-acre forested piece of Clark County property located 5 miles from the Vancouver city limits, bordering both sides of Lacamas Creek and about seven miles north of the Columbia River, that was once owned by the United States Department of Defen...

Karissa was fortunate enough to be joined by a panel of amazing experts and advocates who have been leading the charge against the Freight Rail Dependent Uses (FRDU) mining expansion and industrial railroad plan in Clark County that is STILL being supported by the majority of the Clark County Council despite vast and growing opposition by its citizens. First things first: Everyone participating in...

Today, we cover the public outrage over budget cut proposals being made by the Evergreen School District. It was revealed at the last school board meeting that the overpaid district administrators were paid EVEN MORE in the form of supplemental contracts during the teacher’s strike at the beginning of the year, raising the question of whether they were incentivized to negotiate with the union in b...