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motive in health care? Why should we endlessly capitulate to the private insurance industry? Why do people go without essential preventative care, while the executives take home millions of dollars? And why have we put up with this for so long?
Dick Roy, co-founder of 
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So we've made it around the Sun, one more time. The longest night of the year comes next week-- Winter Solstice is Tuesday, the 21st, with the Sun going into Capricorn at 3:38 PM, Pacific Time. Audio
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Host Melodie Silverwolf speaks with the media director for the National Resources Defense Council about environmental issues and the new administration.
- Title: Positively Revolting
- Producer: Melody Silverwolf
- Length: 55:44 minutes (51.02 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
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Crisis in Gaza and Local Response
Host Ani Haines speaks with Nael Saker about the upsurge of violence in Gaza.
Nael Saker works with the Arab American Cultural Center of Oregon. While he is now a U.S. citizen, Nael is originally from Gaza City, where his brother and sisters still live.
International pressure is mounting to stop the violence and to demand humanitarian aid be allowed to the region.
Attacks are continuing, even as talk of a ceasefire is underway.
- Title: Crisis in Gaza and Local Response
- Album: Gaza
- Length: 49:27 minutes (45.27 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
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Madeline Martinez of Oregon NORML
Hosts Melodie Silverwolf and Crystal Leighty speak with Madeline Martinez of Oregon NORML about the upcoming Oregon legislative session, what to expect and how to express your views to your representatives.
- Title: Madeline Martinez of Oregon NORML
- Length: 55:23 minutes (22.19 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
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Harm Reduction and Intervention Talk Radio with Members of the Dicentra Collective
Host Ani Haines speaks with guests Amelia Cates and Lydia Ann Bartholow of the Dicentra Collective about harm reduction and building relationships within and between communities. The collective has organized a series of events to address many different issues related to harm reduction and building compassionate community.
How can communities work together to address issues of domestic and interpersonal violence, police brutality, substance abuse and mental illness?
Harm Reduction and Intervention in Portland and across the Northwest is a series of discussions bringing together practitioners and organizers around harm reduction. Participants will explore the landscape of practices and concepts as they seek to address domestic and interpersonal violence, police brutality, substance abuse and mental illness, dispute resolution and street facilitation. Speakers include members of Rose City Copwatch (Portland); Cahoots, a program of the White Bird Clinic (Eugene), Yellow Brick Road, a program of Janus Youth (Portland), Dicentra Collective (Portland) and others.
For more information about this series of events, visit the Dicentra Collective's website
www.dicentracollective.org
- Title: Harm Reduction and Intervention Talk Radio with Members of the Dicentra Collective
- Length: 50:34 minutes (46.31 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Chris Hedges about "America the Illiterate"
Hosts Melodie Silverwolf and Crystal Leighty speak with Chris Hedges about his current article on truthdig.com called "America the Illiterate."
Chris Hedges, currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Hedges, who has reported from more than 50 countries, worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, where he spent fifteen years. He is the author of the best selling “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,” which draws on his experiences in various conflicts to describe the patterns and behavior of nations and individuals in wartime. The book, a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was described by Abraham Verghese, who reviewed the book for The New York Times, as “...a brilliant, thoughtful, timely and unsettling book whose greatest merit is that it will rattle jingoists, pacifists, moralists, nihilists, politicians and professional soldiers equally.”
- Title: Chris Hedges about "America the Illiterate"
- Producer: Melodie Silverwolf
- Length: 56:56 minutes (22.81 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Talk radio post election: the work ahead.
Now that the election is over, how can we work together to create a broad based movement to shape an egalitarian and sustainable future.
Talk Radio with Ani, Andrew Geller, and Norman Solomon. Norman Solomon is an United States journalist, media critic, antiwar activist and former KBOO volunteer. Solomon is longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR). In 1997 he founded the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts which works pro-actively to provide alternative sources for journalists, and serves as its executive director. His weekly column, "Media Beat", has been in national syndication since 1992.
- Title: Talk Radio with Ani, Andrew Geller, and Norman Solomon
- Genre: Talk
- Length: 48:40 minutes (44.56 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Journalist Will Potter on the RNC
Hosts Melodie Silverwolf and Crystal Leighty speak with journalist Will Potter of greenisthenewred.com. They discuss the protests, the arrests, and other aspects of the RNC and DNC.
- Title: Journalist Will Potter on the RNC
- Album: rnc
- Producer: Melodie Silverwolf
- Length: 53:26 minutes (42.81 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 112Kbps (CBR)
Interview with Bev Harris from Black Box Voting
Please join Ani Haines and Melodie Silverwolf on Positively Revolting Talk Radio for an enlightening interview with Bev Harris, Founder and Director of Black Box Voting (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/) America's Elections Watchdog Group.
- Title: Interview with Bev Harris from Black Box Voting
- Album: KBOO News And Public Affairs
- Producer: Melodie Silverwolf
- Length: 27:42 minutes (25.36 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
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this morning's program: host & speaker
I am a daily KBOO listener; however, while todays speaker while speaking from the heart regarding her dismay over the Afganistan theater of war, she makes vague statements, with great emotion, but few references to facts, which could easily be woven into her statements to make them more illuminating, it would give more power to her rally cries. Tt feels as though I am simply listening to hyperbole LIKE ON CREEPY FOX NEWS! The Hosts of the program, similarly, are never probing or asking for clarification of the important issue, an important question to probe is: "why ARE we there?". This program is dithering, and the speaker is bland, unconvincing of any knowledge base, boring, 10th rate. Additionally, this is typical of the "Positively Revolting" hour, I usually never tune in when I know these two hosts will be on, bcs. it is never a provoking program, it rarely reveals or provides any new information about anything. If this program has to continue to be on at all, consider putting it on late at night....it is pablum.
Good Sista' Bad Sista' on the other hand was a great relief for me on Friday morning's programing, those women are sharp, witty and smart.
Do not dumb us down with this progam "Positively Revolting", it is a zero.
Pay Equality
I recently heard the argument that the pay differential between men and women is actually fair. This idea is based on the situation of women living longer than men but work the same period of time. This argument claims that the total difference of pay between men and women equals the cost of additional medical care spent for women in their senior years.
For example, let's say a man and a woman work the same number of years (about 40), in the same job with the same responsibilities, and the man makes 10% more than the woman. Say that the job pays (in constant dollars) an average of $30,000 over the forty years. The man makes $1.2 million over this period and the woman makes $1.08 million.
The difference is $120,000. Now at age 60, a man will generally live to be 75 and a woman will live to be 85. Most medical expenses are incurred in the last ten years of live. These costs are paid mostly by public funds through MediCare. The pay_inequality_is_fair argument holds that this $120,000 pay differential is used by society to pay the additional medical expenses that women use and men don't.
I realize that this argument will float like a lead zeppelin on the Positively Revolting community. However, you may want to be aware of it so you don't get blindsided by it in a public debate on the issue.
Thank you,
Alan in Portland
Where did Ani go?
Where did Ani go? I miss her!
I'm here, honest
Wow... How about some positive feedback?
I must have picked a good week to start listening to KBOO. My unhealthy addiction to KPOJ has been shaken. What stirred me to radio hop was the recent clubbing and scrubbing of morning show co-host Heidi Tauber.
Thankfully (along with news I'm not hearing elsewhere) I struck gold with back to back to back mornings of call in shows which were right up my avenue. On Wednesday Barbara Bernstein and friends of the 40 Mile Loop took me on a bike ride down memory lane. The next day, Dave and Jo Ann took on the very difficult but extremely important topic of race and justice in America. I found the candor of the hosts and callers-in to be a much needed breath of fresh air.
Yesterday was quite synergenic. I didn't think anything Positively Revolting would be my pint of brew, but the community of thought that came together was positively revolutionary. I'm still not entirely successful in finding joy amidst the madness, but the range of emotions I was able to experience during the show were a welcome departure from depression. Together we just may succeed... or at least, survive.
KBOO, I think I love U. (And Jeff always has sumpin' to say to go along with that sexy voice! I'm glad he seems to hop around the dial too.)
Friday's Program Was Not Acceptable
HI,
I like to listen to KBOO in the morning when I drive to work. I usually learn something interesting and enjoy the thought provoking discussion. Last Friday (2/22/08) about 8AM their was a caller who make a very good point about the disparity of wealth being less meaningful then the disparity of consumption. I thought it was an excellent point he made, someone has to own the companies that employ people, and the companies have a great deal of value, but it's not liquid and it's not like the owner is spending it all the time. The radio show host really put the caller down, and I don't feel even tried to understand, let alone address his argument. Furthermore, the co-host said that the whole discussion was too "intellectual", like it's not okay to think on a talk radio show. I felt like the hosts just wanted to complain about people being rich, without addressing anything of substance. I expect this sort of opinion driven mush on AM talk radio, but I feel it is below the standards of KBOO. I"m really disappointed.
-Ryan
Appropriate title - Positively Revolting
One is wise to pick their battlefields, as well as their battles - this is mine. As a listener to this morning's program, I initially thought I had some valid opinions to voice with regard to the topics presented. Since the lines were busy, I was satisfied to just listen. The objects of my opinions changed radically as I did so - the topics of discussion soon took a back seat to the format of the discussions. Are calls only taken based upon the caller's willingness to agree with Ms. Silverwolf? Time after time, she disconnected callers based upon her unwillingness to allow their point of view to be heard.
Granted, not everyone is skilled at making a point; however, that is where the skilled[?] announcer should be trusted to guide the conversation, not terminate it. While Ms. Silverwolf may be a volunteer, bravely taking on the awesome responsibility of accepting live calls from the public on volatile subjects, she should remember that it IS community radio, not just a forum for those who agree with her.
Based upon what I heard this morning, I am seriously reconsidering my continued support of KBOO.
Most sincerely, and thank you for not taking my call
Kurt H. Selvig
Portland, OR
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