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Would a Crisis Benefit Left or Right?

Airs at: Thu, 10/20/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Flashpoints was pre-empted last night for the Presidential Candidate Debate, so we'll hear the latest episode from the series Radio Ecoshock with host Alex Smith. The show asks, "Should we hope for a crisis as a way out?"  Alex speaks with Eddie Yuen from Pacifica's "Again... Read more

Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move with Reece Jones

Airs at: Thu, 10/20/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Host Jo Ann Hardesty speaks with Reece Jones, a geographer at the University of Hawaii and an expert on international border walls and the refugee crisis, Reece is in Portland to launch his book, Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move, at Powell’s books. Violent... Read more

ADHD Nation: The Making of an Epidemic

Airs at: Wed, 10/19/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
Flashpoints is off today. We hear an interview from the series Letters to Washington featuring an interview with Alan Schwarz, an award winning journalist with the New York Times who wrote the book "ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma and the Making of an American Ep... Read more

Walt McRee, Chair, Public Banking Institute. on Affording the Portland We Want

Airs at: Wed, 10/19/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Host Per Fagereng speaks with Walt McRee, Chair of the Public Banking Institute, about the too-big-to-fail banks that dominate the American banking system and how they have virtually unchallenged control in financing the future fiscal prospects of America’s cities, count... Read more

The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger

Airs at: Thu, 11/03/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  A new collection from “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into “a vortex f... Read more

Ralph Nader – Sovereignty of the People

Airs at: Tue, 10/18/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Ralph Nader has spent a lifetime fighting on behalf of ordinary people. Lifemagazine ranks him as one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century. Founder of Public Citizen, he is a long-time advocate for consumer safety and workers' rights. He rose to fam... Read more

Labor Radio on 10/17/16 - Interview w/two US Senate candidates

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2016 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
  The Candidates Speak Host Michael Cathcart gets to know two candidates challenging Ron Wyden for one of Oregon's US Senate seats. The guests: Shanti Lewallen of the Working Families Party Eric Navickas of the Progressive Party   Connect with Michael on Twitter @Mi... Read more

The 72nd Conference of the Oregon Public Health Association, October 2016

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Health and Health Care Forum, produced by Roberta Hall On October 10th and 11th the 72nd conference of the Oregon Public Health Association met.  On today's Health and Health Care Forum program we present excerpts from those two days of presentations and discussions, in... Read more

Election 2016: Syndicated Version

Airs at: Sun, 10/16/2016 at 6:30am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
This is the syndicated version of the Beloved Community. This is the election episode.   I speak with Laurence Leamer author of The President’s Butler, a fictional account of a billionaire who decides to run for president. Afraid of Trump becoming president?  Well, don’t b... Read more

Greg Palast's Election Crimes Bulletin, North Korea Update, Teacher Dismissed for Her Politics, and a Little Bob Dylan

Airs at: Fri, 10/14/2016 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Today on Flashpoints: The election crimes bulletin returns with Greg Palast. Then, the saber rattling continues against North Korea, even as the US carries out invasive war games in the south. Also, a Bay Area teacher dismissed because of her political views. And we cele... Read more