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Deportations, Ice raids, DACA & Oregon's Drivers Licencing

Airs at: Wed, 11/22/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes Andrea Williams, the Executive Director of Causa....Oregon's Immigrant Rights Organization founded in 1995 by farmworkers, Latinos, immigrants, and allies in order to defeat ballot measures that would have negatively impacted the lives of L... Read more

Getting to Universal Health Care

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with Joshua Holland, who argues that current bills for single payer or Medicare for All are not tactically the best route to universal comprehensive health care for all. His recent article in The Nation lays out his vision.  Photo by Joe Newman.   Read more

JFK Assassination & the Gangster State: Michael Parenti

Airs at: Tue, 11/21/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The murder of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 is the most discussed, scrutinized and written about assassination in history. The official narrative is that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Dallas and that there was "no evidence of any conspiracy, domestic ... Read more

The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
  Sarika Mehta talks to author Alia Malek about her memoir The Home That Was Our Country...about Syria's history and contemporary politics through stories of her own family from the NYT: "Alia Malek’s memoir, “The Home That Was Our Country,” is one of the finest examples... Read more

Happy Women in Apprenticeship Day!

Airs at: Thu, 11/16/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This week is National Apprenticeship Week, established by President Obama in 2015. Today, November 16, is Women in Apprenticeship Day in Oregon as declared by Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. In Portland, one of the primary organizations working wi... Read more

The Case of Michelle Wright

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Emma Lugo interviews Kelly Simon from the ACLU concerning the case of Michele Wright. Michelle Wright is a transgender female prisoner incarcerated in a men’s prison in the state of Oregon who recently won a lawsuit regarding adequate medical care and requesting a bi-monthl... Read more

The inside story of the Saudi night of long knives

Airs at: Thu, 11/16/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  from Asia Times: "The House of Saud’s King Salman devises an high-powered “anti-corruption” commission and appoints his son, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, a.k.a. MBS, as chairman. Right on cue, the commission detains 11 House of Saud princes, four current ministers... Read more

Native Voices from the Edge

Airs at: Thu, 11/16/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Guest hosts Cary Watters & Amory Zschach welcome Denise Wickert to speak about mental health in the Native community & Traci Price to discuss the intersection of environmental justice and environmental education. NAYA FAMILY CENTER IN 2061 Guided by our elders and trust... Read more

Origins of Radical Right-Wing Power

Airs at: Tue, 11/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The history of the anti-government and anti-democratic politics that have transformed the U.S. in recent years is largely obscured from view. The radical right’s agenda includes: suppression of voting rights, privatization of everything from schools to Medicare to Social... Read more

The Costs of War

Airs at: Wed, 11/15/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. They use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the ... Read more