Host Jay Thiemeyer speaks with Dr. Margaret Flowers. congressional fellow for the 18,000-member Physicians for a National Health Program, about a single-payer health care program.

She will be one of the speakers at the Single Payer Health Care: State Wide Conference on Saturday, January 29th at the First Unitarian Church 1211 SW Main Street Portland, OR

National and local speakers, including:
• U.S. Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), Author of HR 676, The National Single Payer Bill
• Dr. Margaret Flowers, Maryland Pediatrician & Congressional Fellow, Physicians for a National Health Program
• Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! national single payer advocacy group
• Mark Dudzic, Labor Campaign for Single Payer national organizer

http://www.SinglePayerOregon.org

  Host Sue Supriano speaks with Daniel Lerch, Program Director of Post Carbon Institute about his book, The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises.

Daniel Lerch is the author of Post Carbon Cities (2007), the first major municipal guidebook on peak oil and global warming, and the lead editor of The Post Carbon Reader (2010), a collection of original essays by some of the world's most provocative thinkers on the 21st century's interconnected sustainability crises. One of the few experts specializing in local government responses to global fossil fuel depletion, Daniel has delivered presentations and workshops to elected officials, planners, and other audiences across the United States, as well as in Canada, Ireland, the UK, and Spain. He has been interviewed in numerous radio, video, and print outlets, and has been quoted in major publications including The New York Times and Business Week.

Daniel has worked with urban sustainability and planning issues for nearly fifteen years in the public, private and non-profit sectors. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Rutgers University in New Jersey and a Master of Urban Studies from Portland State University in Oregon.

Political Perspectives presents a talk by Sister Helen Prejean who spoke in Portland on October 21st of this year at the First United Methodist Church in support of Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty ( www.oadp.org ). She is introduced by Nasseem Raka, author of The Crying Tree.

Sister Helen Prejean was asked to become the spiritual advisor to death row inmate Patrick Sonnier, and after witnessing his execution she wrote a book about her experience: Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. She then became a leading advocate for the repeal of the death penalty. She has since accompanied six more men to their deaths and began to suspect that some of those executed were not guilty. As a result she has recently published: The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions.

This program was produced by Stephanie Potter. 

Die German Stunde talks about immigration to Portland -- old v. new. The German American Society is having trouble reconciling immigrants who came in the 50s and 60s with newer arrivals. Other ethnic communities are facing similar dilemmas. Guests:  Sascha Siekmann from the German American Society, Mahnaz Milani from the Iranian Community, Andrea Bartoloni, Italy's Vice Consul here in Portland and KBOO's very own Lucia Galizia, host of KBOO's Italian Hour.