Cecil and Celeste welcome your calls. This program is open to local, national and international issues ranging from poverty in Portland to politics in Africa.
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Patricia Rumer and Marco
Mejia from the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice, a coalition of
individuals, faith leaders and diverse faith communities called by conscience
to respond actively and publicly to the suf...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Keela Johnson, Facilitator
with Resolutions Northwest, an organization that facilitates honest dialogue
to resolve conflict and advance racial and social justice. They envision
inclusive and just communities in which pe...
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Host Celeste Carey speaks with Gabriele Hayden about a class she is teaching
for Portland Underground Graduate School called "Elegizing Black Lives," The
course will look at how African American poets have elegized victims of
lynching and state violence. How have they...
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Host Celeste Carey speaks with Douglas Tsoi of Portland Underground Grad
School, or PUGS, about lifelong learning. She also speaks with two
instructors of upcoming classes at PUGS; Claire Vlach, who will be
teaching How to Change Your Neighborhood: Tactical Urbanism 1...
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Democracy Now! will expand to two daily hour broadcasts during the 2016
Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Amy Goodman and the Democracy
Now! crew will travel to Cleveland and Philadelphia to report from the
streets, to the suites, to the convention floor...
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Democracy Now! will expand to two daily hour broadcasts during the 2016
Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Amy Goodman and the Democracy
Now! crew will travel to Cleveland and Philadelphia to report from the
streets, to the suites, to the convention floor.
...
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How should parents' talk to their children about issues of police
violence, tensions between communities and color and police, and
institutional racism? Following the events of last week, Renee Mitchell, a
black mother, and Courtney E. Martin, a white mother, wrote artic...
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What was the best marijuana movie of the past decade? Who's the most famous
entertainer to be busted for pot so far this year? Is Willie Nelson really
as cool and kind as everyone says he is? What was it like working with Jack
Herer before he became famous? We find the a...
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