Host Michelle Schroeder-Fletcher interviews Chris Hedges about his article "Facing the Threat from the Far Right: Noam Chomsky Says He 'Has Never Seen Anything Like This'"   Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.  Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism.  He has written nine books, including Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), I Don’t Believe in Atheists (2008) and the best-selling American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2008). His book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Host Stephanie Potter speaks with Peter Lumsdaine who will be speaking in Portland tonight, Monday, April 19. Veterans for Peace Chapter 72 is bringing in Peter to the Friends Meeting House at 43rd and SE Stark, 7-9PM. $5-10 donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. Peter has worked for over 20 years with nonprofit programs addressing peace and international security, as well as global economic, ecological and cultural issues.  After serving as interim co-pastor at Boise's Hyde Park Mennonite Fellowship and conducting meetings at the 2009 Mennonite national convention, Lumsdaine organized the inter/national Alliance to Resist Robotic Warfare & Society (ARROWS), the first organization of its kind, and initiated planning for the first civil society conference ever held on challenging robotic warfare and social control. The conference was held in Hood River, and included a nonviolent action outside of  the Boeing Insitu factory in Bingen, Washington. Boeing Insitu now employs over 700 people at sites up and down the Gorge to manufacuture surveillance drones that are used in weapon systems in targeted attacks in the Afghan-Pakastani frontier region.  For more info visit Columbia River Fellowship for Peace.  Also Peter suggests contacting tierralinda@live.com or calling 509-447-4250.  For more information on Peter's talk tonight, contact Jenika, Vice President of Veterans for Peace, Chapter 72 -503-232-1322.

 Farmer Joel Salatin on Sustainable Farming

Today's guest is Joel Salatin, the sustainable farmer made known by Michael Pollan. He is featured in a new film called FRESH which is opening in Portland on April 24th. at the Hollywood Theatre April 24 - April 28 2010, at 4122 Northeast Sandy Boulevard Portland, OR 97212

Also Joel Salatin Lecture "The sheer ecstasy of being a lunatic farmer."

Monday, April 19 2010 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
The Tiffany Center
1410 Southwest Morrison Street Portland, OR

 Today Roberta Hall interviews John diLorenzo, a Portland attorney who has developed a financing plan for universal health carein Oregon, and has worked with a bipartisan group of Oregon legislators on the plan.