Circle A Radio
Circle A covers local, national and international issues, focusing on the voices of communities who, for political reasons, are not allowed a voice in the mainstream media.
For more information email us, or continue to the Audio Tab to listen to our past shows.
Circle A Radio is also currently broadcast on KRFP, 92.5 fm in Moscow, Idaho at 11:30 am Saturdays (http://www.radiofreemoscow.org), and also on WPRR 1680 AM a Pacifica affiliate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We broadcast Saturdays at noon, 8pm and over night Sunday at 4am. (http://www.
Audio
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
We speak with Amara Perez, (the former Executive Director of Sisters in Action for Power, currently involved with happyours more information at http://happyoursproductions.com.) and Emi Koyama (a multi-issue social justice activist, more information at www.eminism.org) about their contributions to the book edited by INCITE called The Revolution Will Not Be Funded.
- Title: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
- Length: 55:55 minutes (22.4 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Grace Paley
GRACE PALEY MEMORIAL AND CELEBRATON
December 11th would have been Grace Paley’s 85th birthday. We speak with local author, Judith Arcana, who is Grace Paley’s biographer . We’ll also hear archival recordings of Grace Paley reading her work and talking about her life
- Title: Grace Paley
- Length: 57:57 minutes (23.22 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Portland PFLAG
Long-time gay rights activists, and current PFLAG members talk about the Portland Chapter of Parents Friends and Families of Lebians and Gays. The recordings were made by the Preserving Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History class at Portland State University.
- Title: Portland PFLAG
- Length: 58:09 minutes (23.3 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Legacy Of Torture
We interview Claude Marks, of the Freedom Archives in San Francisco, CA, who produced the documentary Legacy of Torture: The War on the Black Liberation Movement. We also include audio from the documentary.
- Title: Legacy of Torture
- Length: 56:33 minutes (22.65 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Relational Cultural Theory
Relational Cultural Theory is the idea that the goal of development is the ability to participate actively in relationships that foster the well being of everyone involved.
We talk with Karen Hixson and Jenna Goldin about living within a culture of isolation, and how it effects communication both inside and outside activist groups.
- Title: Relational Cultural Theory
- Length: 53:38 minutes (21.49 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Native Occupation of Alcatraz
The Native American Occupation of Alcatraz Island began on November 20, 1969. At about 2 a.m., nearly eighty American Indians from more than twenty tribes pulled up to the island's eastern shore in three boats, and the island of Alcatraz was occupied until June 11, 1971. We talk with Robert Free Galvin and Lenny Foster, veterans of the Alcatraz movement, and also hear audio from Indian Land Radio, and other recordings made during the occupation.
- Title: Native Occupation of Alcatraz
- Length: 58:13 minutes (23.32 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Portland Black Panther Party
We speak with former members of the Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense: Oscar Johnson, Percy Hampton, Gary Clay, and Kent Ford.
- Title: Portland Black Panther Party
- Length: 39:08 minutes (15.68 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Margo Tamez
A coalition of Native Americans, border residents, and community groups continue the fight for their lands in the Rio Grande Valley. The Department of Homeland Security says it will seize Apache and other private lands using eminent domain to build the border wall and militarize the zone.
This is an interview with poet and scholar, Margo Tamez, about current and historical struggles along the US-Mexico International Boundary. You’ll also hear excerpts from the documentary film “Border Crossings/ Cruzando Fronteras”, by Heather Lares of Pan Left Productions.
- Title: Margo Tamez
- Length: 57:54 minutes (23.2 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Sierra Leone and Portland Filmmakers
We speak with local creators of two documentaries about Sierra Leone: Diamonds, Guns and Rice, and Moving to the Beat. Jan Haaken talks about Diamonds, Guns and Rice, which focuses on women’s perspectives on war and the peace process in Sierra Leone. She also is one of the Producers of Moving to the Beat. We’ll talk with Abdul Fofana, Moving to the Beat director, local videographer PC Perry and members of the Portland hip hop group, Rebel Soulz about hip hop, war, identity and their experiences making this film
- Title: Sierra Leone and Portland Filmmakers
- Length: 58:31 minutes (23.44 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Playlists
Circle A Radio playlist for 04/02/2009
As a country, we tend to forget the dangers of current methods of processing coal. We focus on the myth of “clean coal” and don’t pay much attention to stories such as the December 22nd Coal Ash Disaster in Kingston, Tenn.,
The 65 foot tall pile of 1.6 billion gallons of coal ash created by years of burning coal for electricity broke the dam that separated it from the nearby Emory river, spilling into the river and burying 400 acres of land.
Tonight on Circle a Radio we talk with Matt Landon of United Mountain Defense about the aftermath of the disaster, and we talk to Patricia Feeney and Joe Stanley of the Sludge Saftey Project in West Virginia about their community and legislative fight against storage of the toxic byproducts .
How connected you are to coal mining?
http://www.ilovemountains.org/myconnection/, and type in your zip code, and they’ll tell you where your coal is coming from
Sludgesafety.org – citizens report on underground injection and community action toolkit
Ohio valley environmental coalition ovec.org
DVD’s
Burning the future
Mountain mourning
info@sludgesafety.org
Circle A Radio playlist for 03/18/2009
Stop Joe Arpaio! Stop 287gs! Stop the ICE Raids!
On tonight's show we focus on the human and civil rights abuses against people of color, the misuse of 287g agreements, and the need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. We are talking with immigrant rights advocates in Maricopa County (AZ), where the worst examples of this abuse are happening at the hands of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. We talk with Silvia Herrera of the Puente Movement, Jason Odhner, and Antonio Bustamante. We also bring you short interviews from the National Convergence and Protest in Phoenix on February 27th & 28th, 2009.
For more information:
www.puenteaz.org
www.ndlon.org
Locally, you can get in touch with the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee at 503-236-7916 for more information.
Circle A Radio playlist for 03/04/2009
The 14th annual San Francisco Anarchist bookfair takes place this year on March 14th and 15th in Golden Gate Park, in lovely San Francisco California.
The bookfair began in 1996 to celebrate an the 20th anniversary of San Francisco’s anarchist collective bookstore Bound Together Books. Over the years, they’ve hosted many speakers, while showcasing anarchist and alternative book and magazine publishers
Tonight on Circle A Radio we’ll be listening to a variety of speakers featured over the years at the San Francisco Anarchist book fair, recorded and released by AK Press on the CD "Mob Action Against the State" and also hear from participants, and attendees.
Circle A Radio playlist for 02/18/2009
Dlycia Pagan
Dlycia Pagan, Puerto Rican Activist, Filmmaker, and Artist talks about her life as an Activist/Organizer, the nearly 20 years she spent in prison on charges of seditious conspiracy, her presidential pardon, and her advice to the younger generation.
Circle A Radio playlist for 02/04/2009
Dicentra Collective
The Dicentra Collective is based in Portland, OR. They are 7 individuals who are collectively committed to create radical communities of care, networks of support, and movements based on relationship building. We talk with the members of Dicentra Collective about their beginnings, their workshops, their ideas for radical caregiving, and include excerpts from a cronic pain zine, and other media they’ve produced.
Circle A Radio playlist for 01/21/2009
David Bacon
David Bacon is a writer and photojournalist on issues of labor, immigration and international trade. He will soon be coming to Portland to discuss these issues, and tonight on Circle A Radio, we hear from him about his life, his beginnings as a journalist and artist, and about immigration and popular struggles all over the world.
Circle A Radio playlist for 01/07/2009
Hawaiian Sovereignty
Queen Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian islands. She was deposed by opposition forces who called themselves the Committee of Safety, with the help of the U.S. Marines. On January 17, 1893, Queen lileo kulani yielded her authority:
. . . Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the Constitutional Sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.
Tonight, we discuss Hawaiian Sovereignty with Portland Author Elinor Langer, and Dr. Kekuni Blazedell, convenor of the Pro-Hawaiian Sovereignty Working Group.
Circle A Radio playlist for 12/17/2008
Studs Terkel, RIP
We visit the work and life of Studs Terkel, who died October 31, 2008 at the age of ninety-six.
Circle A Radio playlist for 12/03/2008
Proposition 8 and the fight for Marriage Equality
Proposition 8 was passed this November in California. It changed the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman and eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry .
We explore the issues of marriage equality, people of color and the LGBT movement. with Thomas Wheatley, Organizing Director of Basic Rights Oregon, and Bonnie Tinker and The Rev. Cecil Charles Prescod from Love Makes a Family.
Circle A Radio playlist for 11/19/2008
Teaching Rebellion - Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca
Tonite on Circle A Radio we’ll be featuring an interview with Melissa Mundt and Gustavo Vilchis, recorded on Oct. 28th. They joined us at the KBOO studios during their West Coast tour for “Teaching Rebellion”, a book that features first hand stories, and photography from the popular uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico. Many of the voices on tonight’s show were recorded in Spanish, with side by side translation.
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