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Our 10th (and final!) annual Michael Jackson tribute show!!!

Airs at: Thu, 08/24/2017 at 8:00pm - Fri, 08/25/2017 at 12:00am
It has been a long journey honoring the teacher.  We remember the time (pun intended) we first had the idea to honor Michael in an episode dedicated to him, and it was thought of as a silly idea.  As we tend to focus on jazz (in particular) and less popular artists on our s... Read more

Sojourner Truth: Did the Civil War ever end?

Airs at: Fri, 08/18/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Trump gives overt support for white supremacist organizations as they let the world know they are no longer hiding under sheets as in the days of the Ku Klux Klan. On Friday, August 11, they descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting "blood and soil," a slogan from... Read more

Combined Culture Radio- Episode 4

Airs at: Wed, 08/16/2017 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Combined Culture Radio
Trump's America, Charlottesville, Black Journalist, and F.U.B.U.  Read more

The San Patricio Battalion

Airs at: Thu, 08/17/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  On this episode of Fight the Empire Per reflects on the San Patricio Battalion, the mostly Irish soldiers who switched sides in our war against Mexico. They were led by an artillery man named John Riley and fought several big battles against the Yankee invaders. Mexico l... Read more

Ethnic Studies and Academic Freedom

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join us as we discuss the struggle for educators to make their classes culturally relevant and empowering.  Today we are joined by Bryan Chu of the Portland Association of teachers and hear  recorded excerpts of an interview with Curtis Acosta, former Mexican American Studi... Read more

Combined Culture Radio- Episode 3

Airs at: Sun, 08/13/2017 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Combined Culture Radio
Brands Building Communities and Millennials in the Workforce.  Read more

Supporters of Cascade-Siskiyou Monument React to Zinke Visit

Airs at: Thu, 08/10/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was in Oregon last month, and paid a visit to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Southern Oregon. The Monument is "under review," to see if its recent expansion negatively effects economic interests in the area. The review fits in with t... Read more

Overlapping Action and Boundary Crossings

Airs at: Thu, 08/10/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Summertime is not traditionally the season for animation festivals, but two grassroots events are setting out to buck the trend. We're joined by Overlapping Action Mini-Festival curator Ben Chapin, who is bringing his bi-coastal traveling show to the Po'Boy Art Space in ... Read more

Christina Vanorder: issues facing incarcerated women

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Emma Lugo is joined by Christina Vanorder, formerly incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, to discuss inside to outside transition issues.  Vanorder successfully ran for State House in Oregon and she will discuss her life in Coffee Creek, her release, and ... Read more

Bureaucrat or Commodity? Becoming Human Again

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Sean Kerrigan, author of Bureaucratic Insanity:  The American Bureaucrat’s Descent into Madness,says that civilization is about the concentration of power. We are at a point now in which bureaucracy has stripped our lives of meaning.  We will talk about bureaucracy, collaps... Read more