Activism

Interrupting Police as First Responders in a Mental Health Crisis / The Fight to Abolish Prison Slavery

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Join co-host Emma Lugo with guests Esther and Buckley of Critical Resistance PDX about strategies to interrupt the police as first responders to people experiencing mental health crisis.  Critical Resistance Portland (CR-PDX) is developing a campaign to interrupt the use... Read more

SAVING THE ORANGUTANS

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
  Host Dab Steadman talks with Dr. Birute Galdikas, the world's foremost expert on orangutans.   For more than four decades, Dr. Galdkas has studied and worked closely with these great apes in their native habitat in Indonesian Borneo.  She has been on the cover of Nati... Read more

Good in the Hood

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for: 
  Shawn Penney, the Board President of Good in the Hood, joins Cecil and Celeste to discuss the history of neighborhood festival and where it's headed in a fast changing city. Good in the Hood (GITH) is a non-profit organization founded in 1990.  Their purpose is to be... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 06/18/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
It's our annual Pride show. In the spirit of these turbulent times, we'll be featuring protest and social justice music from Jewish LGBTQ artists. We'll also have a live interview with Jewish LGBTQ people and straight allies at the parade; this year will feature the larg... Read more

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine

Airs at: Wed, 06/14/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Trump's Rationale for Withdrawing the US from Paris Climate Accord Based on Lies; Trump Moves to Re-impose Drug-War era Harsh Sentences in Federal Drug Cases and Use of Private Prisons; California Senate Takes First Step to Move the State to Single-Payer Universal Hea... Read more

Lessons from Kenya: Healing and Rebuilding our Communities

Airs at: Thu, 06/15/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Getry Agizah is a Kenyan peace activist and social change agent. She is the Director of Transforming Communities for Social Change and Coordinator of Friends Church Peace Teams in Kenya. She will discuss work underway at the Mt. Elgon Community Peace Center working to... Read more

Sick of Oil Terminals

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Desiree Hellegers speaks with health professionals, organizers, elected officials and concerned community members who testified at Wednesday’s EFSEC hearing in Vancouver about the anticipated health impacts of airborne emissions from proposed Tesoro Savage oil te... Read more

Pinkwashing and Palestinian Rights; and Saturday's Portland Trans Pride March

Airs at: Tue, 06/13/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
From jewschool.com: "The Celebrate Israel parade has long been a contentious display of Israel’s grip on NYC politicians, its militarization of the NYPD, and its driving role in perpetuating Islamophobia  – and last weekend New Yorkers took our objections to the street... Read more

The Country that Voted for Trump

Airs at: Tue, 06/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The election of Donald Trump was a stunning political upset. His victory defied the predictions of almost every pundit and pollster. Though he received about 3 million fewer votes than his opponent, the antiquarian Electoral College system in the U.S. gave him the pre... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 12, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge hosts, with music from Weather Report and these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Mark Weisbrot about Labour gains in the UK Elections. Desiree Hellegers brings voices from the last hearing on the proposed Tesoro terminal. Clayton explores why our s... Read more