Public Health and Social Jusitce

Videos, TV, Radio

Television, YouTube, podcast, and radio appearances by Martin Donohoe regarding public health and social justice issues 

 

*Prescription for Justice (Community Access Cable Television Program – host; airs sixty times per month in the Portland metropolitan area and in 13 other states and D.C.). YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJt34I9c5vT2RpZtkg6Im2A. See Prescription for Justice page at https://phsj.org/prescription-for-justice-cable-tv-program/ for episodes, markets, and further information. Also available as a podcast on KBOO radio at https://www.kboo.fm/program/prescription-justice.

Other Television/YouTube:

Comments on the doctor-patient relationship and the pharmaceutical industry (from NaturalMedicineRev). See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIGwFQb0LGo. May, 2010

*Corporations and Health, “Conversations with Dr Don” (cable television program, March, 2011). Available athttp://www.veoh.com/watch/v208492269jJ8APJN (note: download Veoh web player, as per website, to watch full video). Also available at http://www.ctn5.org/shows/conversations-dr-don/conversations-dr-don-457-us-corporations-and-healthcare-4616.

*Does today’s U.S. government serve corporations or the people? (topics include the appropriate role of government in society and the U.S. health care system) Debate with Howard Ellberger, “Conversations with Dr Don” (cable television program), Portland, OR, May, 2011. Available at http://www.veoh.com/watch/v21004742PCxDDT99.

Stop predatory junk food marketing to children – protest against Ronald McDonald, Corporate Accountability International local action, Portland, OR, October, 2011. For media coverage and portion of interview, see http://www.kgw.com/home/Doctors-ask-McDonalds-to-stop-targeting-kids-132280788.html

*The corporate assault on human health and the environment (topics include General Electric, the American Council on Science and Health, and corporate infiltration of public education). Conversations with Dr Don (cable television program), Portland, OR, July, 2011. Available at http://www.veoh.com/watch/v21170152kDqfHBPE.

*Food Justice (show also includes discussion of activism and medical/public health education and training). Conversations with Dr Don (cable television program), Portland, OR, July, 2011. Available at http://www.veoh.com/watch/v24892987MqXa2ySr.

*Obesity epidemic: causes, consequences, and solutions. Conversations with Dr. Don (cable television program), Portland, OR, August, 2012. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q6STkJ-Xfo&feature=plcp.

Portland City Council says “no” to coal. Portland City Council Meeting, September 19, 2012. Available at KGW News Channel 8: http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Portland-says-no-to-coal-170430826.html (see 0’57” to 1’05”)

*Coal exports through the Pacific Northwest (with Bethany Cotton). Conversations with Dr. Don (cable television program), Portland, OR, October, 2012. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G0Ozyd1Tyg&feature=plcp.

Partial comments from Beyond Coal Campaign news conference preceding Oregon DEQ hearing. Available at http://vimeo.com/55076655 (see 3’44” to 8’35”).

*Social Justice. Conversations with Dr. Don (cable television program, February, 2013). Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD7fMoG1zWk.

*The intersection of public health and social justice, Populist Dialogues, Portland Community Media, May, 2013. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOIlZi2T91M.

*Coal (Documentary, KCTS/EarthFix Production, June, 2013): http://kcts9.org/coal/

Comments opposing coal exports through Pacific Northwest and Ambre Energy’s Proposal for the Port of Morrow, OR. Power Beyond Coal Rally, July, 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak37sirGo2g&feature=youtu.be

*Tokens of Love or Symbols of Destruction: Diamonds, Gold, and Cut Flowers, Populist Dialogues, Portland Community Media, September, 2013. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tntn68rypc0.

*War and peace, Conversations with Dr. Don (cable television program), September, 2013. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmGy8HmibWU&feature=c4-overview&list=UUfi1QHZLKx3ESeO0GrdeO2Q.

*Public health and social justice, Humanists of Greater Portland, September 29, 2013. Available at http://www.portlandhumanists.org/vimeo-of-programs.

*The Costs of the Symbols of Love: Floriculture, Diamonds, and Gold, Conversations with Dr. Don, Portland Community Television, February, 2014. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ZO6CVplV8&feature=c4-overview&list=UUfi1QHZLKx3ESeO0GrdeO2Q (first half of program is general conversation; second half of program covers topic).

*Health and Environmental Consequences of GMOs (also covers corporate agribusiness and labeling) – Includes talk plus slides. YouTube, Corvallis, OR, September, 2014. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA71hZbi1Y4.

*Everything you Wanted to Know About GMOs. Conversations with Dr. Don (cable television program), Portland, OR, September, 2014. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dVp1pNqy_U&list=UUfi1QHZLKx3ESeO0GrdeO2Q (first 26 mins general discussion of social justice, 27 mins through end focuses on GMOs).

Oregon Ballot Measure 92 (to require labeling of GM foods). Available at http://youtu.be/oKOKg0XCOY0.

Commercial for Yes on 92 (Oregon GMO labeling) campaign, October, 2014. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQA7SiFDAWk&list=UUjADBHcG7BE8smvenL74kAw.

*The kind of world we want for our children, Conversations with Dr. Don (cable television program, May, 2015). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B6nlNtaqQc.

*You are being watched: privacy, public health and society (one hour program, first half features mostly discussion about current political situation with respect to Syrian refugees, terrorism, and the rise of xenophobia and nationalism; second half covers privacy). Conversations with Dr Don (cable television program), Portland, OR, December, 2015. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQBP5vdlZY0.

*Doctors gone bad: research, torture, and terrorism. Conversations with Dr Don, (cable television program), Portland, Oregon, August, 2016. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUr1EYuLw7I

*Social justice take on the 2016 election. Conversations with Dr Don (cable television program), October, 2016. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfOq8V0JR_w.
Covers American democracy and exceptionalism, a variety of domestic and international social justice issues, and how to create a progressive and more just society.

*Gun violence: public health and public policy (last 17 minutes covers reflections on the election of Donald Trump). Conversations with Dr Don (cable television program), Portland, OR, November, 2016. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5cwchwu0kM.

*Science and Society: Illuminating the new Dark Age. Conversations with Dr. Don (cable television program, April, 2017). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjxgqucWmSA (first 15 minutes general discussion, topic covered 15 minutes onward). Covers the nature of the scientific enterprise, how governments and religion have responded to science throughout history, how science is and should be taught, the role of corporations in subverting science, the Trump administration’s war on science, and what scientists/journalists/citizens should be doing.

*Science in the new Dark Age. Populist Dialogues (cable television program, June 2017). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQLn8z2yjCg&feature=youtu.be.

Radio/Podcasts:

Caring and Flowers, Diamonds, and Gold, Radio Interview, “The Caring Generation,” KHOW, Denver, CO, February 14, 2011. Available at http://thecaringgeneration.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=5 (54:35-66:7).

Corporate corruption of public health. Brief interview with “The Mantle – A Forum for Progressive Critique.” New York, NY, March, 2011. Available at http://mantlethought.org/content/left-forum-2011-interview-martin-donohoe.

Health and environmental effects of coal from rally to prevent coal shipments from Powder River Basin through Pacific Northwest: http://earthfix.opb.org/communities/article/portland-city-officials-call-for-army-corps-of-eng/

Protesting Ronald McDonald. Interview for KBOO radio, February 4, 2011 (from Corporate Accountability International Protest to Retire Ronald McDonald). Available athttp://kboo.fm/node/26533.

*Social justice in health care, part I. Interview with Roberta Hall. The Health and Health Care Forum, KBOO Radio, December, 2011. Available at http://kboo.fm/node/32832 andhttp://ia600802.us.archive.org/32/items/HealthHealthcareEconomicsAndPolitics–interviewsAndTalks_727/039a.martindonohoeHealthAndJustice.mp3

*Social justice in health care, part II. Interview with Roberta Hall. The Health and Health Care Forum, KBOO Radio, Available at http://kboo.fm/node/33529 and at http://www.spokenword.org/program/1829177.

Comments opposing coal exports through Pacific Northwest. Sierra Club Rally, August, 2012. Available on Oregon Public Broadcasting at http://earthfix.opb.org/communities/article/portland-city-officials-call-for-army-corps-of-eng/

Comments from Beyond Coal Campaign news conference opposing coal exports through Pacific Northwest, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Hearing, December, 2012. Available on radio at KBOO Portland at http://kboo.fm/node/52248 (see 15’40 to 21’37). Video of portion of comments available at http://vimeo.com/55076655 (see 3’44” to 8’35”).

*Tokens of love or symbols of destruction: gold, diamonds, and cut flowers, Social Justice Series, First Christian Church , Portland, OR, August, 2013 (one hour podcast). Available at http://fccpdx.com/worship/sunday-services/. Sierra Club Anti-Coal Ad, February, 2014 :

*Health and Environmental Consequences of GMOs (also covers corporate agribusiness and labeling). Radiozine (host Roberta Hall), Portland, OR, September, 2014. Available at http://kboo.fm/content/drmartindonohoeonhealthandenvironmentaleffectsofgrow (or click below)