Ali Abunimah speaking last weekend in Portland on the One State Solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions Movement and Israeli apartheid.
Host S.W. Conser welcomes Dame Darcy, painter, fashion designer, reality TV star, and frontwoman for the band Death By Doll, as well as the creator of the charmingly macabre comic Meat Cake. Formerly based in New York and L.A., Darcy currently finds the murky climate of Portland much more to her liking.
Private prisons, private military, privatized schools...Keeping America safe for wealth. It's the fast-track to a wage-slave state a social chemistry set designed to distill labor into a nugget of gold at the top and a vast army of low-paid drones at the bottom. Privatizing education is another form of union-busting...But it's so much more. When parents choose to send their young to a learning environment that reflects their religion, ethnicity, morals, ethics, politics and shopping patterns, the kids grow up in a synthetic learning environment. In such a world they never confront people who look markedly different from themselves, never converse with people whose ideas differ from those in which they have been indoctrinated. They exist in 'Mirr
In June, 2006, Stephanie Potter spoke with Morgan Brent about developing a way of life devoted to the cultivation of our humanness in conscious, respectful, and free flowing dialogue with the natural world. According to Brent, one so integrated into the sylvan cosmos, the society of Nature, is known as a sylvapolitan. Brent teaches that the sylvapolitan is educated via self-transformation (knowing something by becoming it), accultured into a spiritual ecology and its manifestations in natural ecosystems, and pro-active in the Program of spiritual evolution. Morgan Brent is founder of Tribes of Creationand leads workshops throughout the Northwest.
Kimberly A. C. Wilson is a reporter for the Oregonian newspaper and was sent to Haiti after the January earthquake to cover stories related to the Pacific Northwest. This radio program is taken from interviews conducted by Kboo host Linda Olson-Osterlund and provide a personal look back at her trip to Haiti.