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.
Join Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod as they review the important events of
2014 and examine what may be the key issues in 2015. Share your reflections
on the news that impacted you and your community this past year and what you
think will be the significant news storie...
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Guest host Per Fagereng interviews investigative journalist Pepe Escobar, the
roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT, and a
TomDispatch regular. They will talk about Escobar's recent articles on the
how the world looks different when viewed from...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Kevin Alexander Gray, civil
rights organizer in South Carolina and author of Waiting for Lightening to
Strike!: Fundamentals of Black Politics. He is co-editor, with Jeffrey St.
Clair and JoAnn Wypijewski, of Killing Trayvo...
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Repentance, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation. As many enter into the holiday
season, Celeste and Cecil invite listeners to reflect on the themes of
repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Call in and share stories about
repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation. Wha...
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Celeste and Cecil invite people of color, especially peopleof color under
25, to call in and share your reflections on the events surrounding and
following the grand jury decision in Ferguson. What are your reactions to the
events in Ferguson? Have you participated in r...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Craig K. Collins about his
memoir THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS: A Portrait of American Gun Culture. In the
book Collins talks about growing up with guns and explores gun violence
from the perspective of someone who has experie...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview investigative journalist
Reese Erlich, who was recently in Syria, about "Assad, ISIS, Obama and US
Middle East Policy." Erlich is the author of the new book "Inside Syria:
the Backstory of Their Civil War and What the Worl...
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"So pot is legal, but some mothers can not get driver cards to take their
kids to school?"
The recent elections in Oregon revealed that there is much work to be done
before Oregon can boast that it is a progressive state. In a recent blog Adam
Phillips wrote "Our version...
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On October 27, 1997 Oregon enacted the nation's first Death with Dignity Act
which allows terminally-ill Oregonians to end their lives through the
voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly prescribed by
a physician for that purpose. Since that time t...
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