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Positively Revolting on 07-20-12 Peace & Justice Works / Portland Copwatch celebrate their 20th Anniversary

Airs at: Fri, 07/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Hosts ani and Lyn talk with Portland Peace and Justice Works / Portland Cop Watch organizer Dan Handelman, and long-time peace activist Ann Huntwork, how things have evolved in the movement over the last two decades. Since 1992, these groups have organized events that have ... Read more

Azfar Hussain: Micronarratives Against Domination

Airs at: Mon, 07/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier talks with Azfar Hussain, Bangladeshi writer and activist, about his forthcoming book The Politics of Sites, Subjects, and Scenes: Micronarratives and Other Essays, a collection of short texts that combine anecdote, story, and theory, and are meant to illu... Read more

Angela Tucker, host of the Web series Black Folk Don't

Airs at: Thu, 07/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Hosts O B Hill, historian and bookseller, and Patricia Welch ("Library Lady"), and Emma Jackson Ford ("Bookwoman") interview Angela Tucker, producer of the web series Black Folk Don't.  ABOUT BLACK FOLK DON’T Black Folk Don’t is a satirical documentary web series in its s... Read more

The Gender Entrapment of Black Women and How VIolence in the Lives of Black Women is Ignored

Airs at: Mon, 07/09/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Beth Richie, Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her new book is Arrested Justice:... Read more

Redefining our relationship with the homeless

Airs at: Thu, 07/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Redefining our relationship with the homeless Last year, Portland City Council approved a pilot "overnight sleeping" program that would permit churches and other non-profits to make their parking lots available to people currently living in their cars. The measure, loosed ... Read more

BRO, Female Impersonators, and The Mystery Box make a stop by to talk about health, sex, and fierceness

Airs at: Tue, 07/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Out Loud
On this exciting edition of Out Loud Radio we are joined by David,Trans Justice Organizer from Basic Rights Oregon (www.basicrights.org) to talk about the state of Trans Healthcare and a special event at PSU tomorrow. More infornation can be found on the BRO website. Next w... Read more

Comedian Hari Kondabolu

Airs at: Fri, 07/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Comedian Hari Kondabolu has appeared on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham as well as Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2007. He recently joined the writing team for FX Network's Totally Biased. While he was touring the Pacific Northwest, he joined Sarika Mehta in the KBOO studios to discu... Read more

John Jung, author of Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants

Airs at: Fri, 07/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
John Jung tells us about his family's Chinese-American immigrant experience, as the sole Chinese family in a small Georgia town and about his unexpected brush with history and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek.  He is the author of four books exploring how Chinese-American immigrants ... Read more

Rise of a New Racial Stereotype: The Homicidal Asian Male College Student

Airs at: Wed, 07/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving   Today -- have laws put into place after the Virginia Tech massacre created a new racial stereotype -- of the armed Asian male college student? Our guest is Henry Liu, who'll be talking about on his experience being branded as armed and dangerous ... Read more

Abe looks at the resurgence of nullification.

Airs at: Tue, 07/03/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is on vacation.   In the decades before the Civil War, the southern states resisted federal authority by way of the doctrine of nullification, which holds that an individual state has the right to invalidate any federal law which it has ... Read more