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More Talk Radio on 02/21/11

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Guest host Per Fagereng speaks with Barbara Ellis and Barry Ball of the WTC Research Alliance, who are proposing and advocating for a bill for an independent science and technology investigation into the destruction of World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2 and 7. CD-1982 Read more

Grace Paley Birthday Memorial Tribute 12/9/10

Airs at: Thu, 12/09/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Writer, poet and activist Grace Paley's birthday is December 11 (born in 1922, she died in 2007). In honor of Grace Paley Between the Covers presents an interview with local author Judith Arcana, who is Grace Paley's biographer, as well as parts of memorial show produced by... Read more

Code Pink's Medea Benjamin on the Bush Library Protests; Holding the War Criminal Accountable!

Airs at: Thu, 11/25/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: A Deeper Look

Join host Linda Olson-Osterlund this Thanksgiving morning and her guest Medea Benjamin, to talk about the Bush Library Protests. In his just released memoir, former President George Bush has admitted ordering torture and yet he is greeted with applause as he make the rounds... Read more

Radiozine on 11/24/10

Airs at: Wed, 11/24/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Radiozine

Host Dave Mazza interviews travel writer Jeff Greenwald about his experiences in Nepal in the '90s during the "people power" uprising. His new book Snake Lake explores his time beneath the Himalayas as he wins the friendship of a high lama who reveals the pillars of Tibetan... Read more

More Talk Radio on 11/08/10

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with labor organizer, writer and radical theorist John Cronan Jr. He will be speaking at Laughing Horse Books on Thursday, November 11th at 6PM with activist and student orgainzer Casey Asprooth-Jackson. John Cronan is a restaur... Read more

Ted Rall and Matt Bors: Extended Web-Only Afghanistan Stories

Airs at: Mon, 10/11/2010 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Ted Rall and Matt Bors generously stayed around the KBOO studios following their live radio appearance of October 11 to tell more stories of their unembedded travels through Afghanistan. The original live radio appearance of October 11 can be heard at this link. Ted Rall's... Read more

Medicare - what's at stake

Airs at: Mon, 09/20/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Dr. Oliver Fein, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, which is an organization of more than 17,000 doctors who advocate for single-payer Medicare for all. A general internist who is active in clinical practi... Read more

One Land, Many Voices - Nada Elia and Jess Ghannam are guests for an in-depth discussion of BDS, Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions.

Airs at: Fri, 09/24/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: One Land Many Voices

One Land, Many Voices welcomes Dr. Nada Elia and Dr. Jess Ghannam for an in-depth discussion of the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement that is taking hold here in the United States. Dr. Nada Elia is professor of Global and Gender Studies at Antioch University, Seatt... Read more

More Talk Radio on 08/26/10

Airs at: Thu, 08/26/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Host Cecil Prescod speaks with Beth Poteet and Marco Mejia of the Oregon New Sanctuary Movement (ONSM), an interfaith coalition of individuals and groups called by their faith to respond actively and publicly to the suffering of immigrants residing in the United States. ... Read more

Dr. Sherri Speede from the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center

Airs at: Mon, 08/23/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Radiozine

Host Lisa Loving speaks with Dr. Sheri Speede, founder of the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center and In Defense of Animals-Africa (IDA-Africa), about saving chimpanzees and gorillas. Moving to the Portland, Oregon area in 1988, Dr. Speede soon became a partner in Pacific... Read more