Oregon Voices Podcast - Elevating Oregonians' Lived Experiences
Oregon has a reputation as a progressive state. Democratic supermajorities control the legislature. We pass symbolic resolutions. We talk a good game about equity, climate action, and workers' rights.
But the actual policy outcomes tell a different story.
Progressive bills die in committee. Corporate tax breaks get protected. Housing remains unaffordable. Education funding lags. The gap between Oregon's reputation and reality keeps growing.
Why? Because Oregon's Democratic establishment is funded by the same corporate interests that fund Republicans everywhere else. The money controls the votes. The machine protects itself. And working families lose.
Oregon Voices Podcast - Elevating Oregonians' Lived Experiences
Latest Episodes
Oregon Voices Podcast: Episode 21 - Sarah Duncan & Maria Hinojos Pressey, Marion Co. Comm. Cand.
Sarah Duncan and Maria Hinojos Pressey are running together as a Democratic slate for the Marion County Board of Commissioners, in a county Republicans have held for more than forty years. Sarah is challenging Kevin Cameron for Position 1. Mari...
Oregon Voices Podcast: Episode 20 - Denise Piza & Lisa Finkle, SEIU 503 Reform Slate
This week on Oregon Voices Podcast, we sit down with Denise Piza and Lisa Finkle, two women running to change the direction of SEIU 503, Oregon's largest public employee union. Denise came to this country from Guadalajara as a young child, lear...
Oregon Voices Podcast: Episode 19 - Juan Carlos Ordoñez, Oregon Center for Public Policy
This week on Oregon Voices Podcast, we sit with Juan Carlos Ordoñez, Communications Director for the Oregon Center for Public Policy and host of the syndicated radio show and podcast Policy for the People. Juan Carlos was born in Guatemala duri...
Oregon Voices Podcast: Episode 18 - Toni Lopez, Community Organizer & Public Defense Advocate
Toni Lopez came to this country at three years old, moved to Cornelius, Oregon at fourteen with a bag of clothes and no warning, dropped out of Forest Grove High School because the racism was relentless, became a mother young, spent eight years...
Oregon Voices Podcast: Episode 17- John Lenssen: Identity, Whiteness, and What Was Lost
Before you can know where you stand, you have to know what was taken from you to get you here.John Lenssen has spent a lifetime studying how identity forms, deforms, and finds its way back to something true. In this second conversation, ...
