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.
Will the growing number of Hoovervilles organizing across the region force
local governments to act on affordable housing and jobs? Or is it up to us,
the people, to help our own friends and neighbors? Sitting in for Cecil and
Celeste this morning, host Lisa Loving speak...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler
about his recent article in Counterpunch, "When Were They Radicalized?
That’s Not the Right Question!"
Rev. Hagler is with the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in
Washington, D.C. ...
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Hosts Celeste and Cecil speak with independent journalist and climate
activist Wen Stephenson about his new book, WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR NOW IS
EACH OTHER: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice.
In this book Stephenson tells his own story and offers an up-...
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Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with Jon Bartholomew, AARP
Oregon's Director of Government Relations about family caregivers in Oregon,
the Oregon CARE Act, and other issues related to caregiving and helping
people live independently as long as possible.
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Richard Baxley, staff
attorney at FlyersRights about the recent artilce on FlyersRights.org on
"Airline Monopolies: Back to the Future."
During the last 10 years, the Associated Press reported that domestic
airfares rose...
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Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with Drew Spencer, legal director
at FairVote about the role that electoral reform played in the 2015 elections
this year.
They will follow up on a discussion that KBOO host Lisa Loving had with Drew
Spencer on Democracy in Mot...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Tyler Mac Innis, Policy
Analyst, at the Oregon Center for Public Policy, about recent reports
that Oregonians are more likely to live in poverty now than during the Great
Recession and how more Oregonians are struggling to...
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Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with scholar and activist
Premilla Nadasen about her book, HOUSEHOLD WORKERS UNITE: The Untold Story
of African American Women Who Built a Movement and the little-known history
of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s...
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