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Threshold Shift

Produced for: Threshold Shift

Hear the Earth You're Missing Threshold Shift is a collection of field recordings created and contributed by sound professionals, scientists, and student-citizens from across the globe. Why do we record? By many accounts, there is less than 2% of the Earth that is free ... Read more

Combined Culture Radio- Episode 5

Airs at: Wed, 08/23/2017 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Produced for: Combined Culture Radio

Local Portland Artist Blossom, Foday, and Covi disuss the emerging music scene in PDX. Read more

Direct Cinema - Part One

Airs at: Thu, 08/24/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: The Film Show

In the early 1960's a revolution in documentary filmmaking took root, inspired by both cultural uprisings and new audio-visual technologies. The movement known as Direct Cinema rejected authorial voiceovers and other narrative devices, opting instead for immediacy, ambi... Read more

Staying Connected: Incarcerated Moms & Their Children

Airs at: Mon, 08/28/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Karen James interviews Jessica Katz, the director of the Family Preservation Project (FPP) at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, and Nova Sweet, a former participant of the program. FPP is a program of the YWCA of Greater Portland that uses a holistic, fami... Read more

Our 10th (and final!) annual Michael Jackson tribute show!!!

Airs at: Thu, 08/24/2017 at 8:00pm - Fri, 08/25/2017 at 12:00am

Produced for: guess who's coming to radio??!!

It has been a long journey honoring the teacher. We remember the time (pun intended) we first had the idea to honor Michael in an episode dedicated to him, and it was thought of as a silly idea. As we tend to focus on jazz (in particular) and less popular artists on our s... Read more

Sojourner Truth: Did the Civil War ever end?

Airs at: Fri, 08/18/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Trump gives overt support for white supremacist organizations as they let the world know they are no longer hiding under sheets as in the days of the Ku Klux Klan. On Friday, August 11, they descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting "blood and soil," a slogan from... Read more

Combined Culture Radio- Episode 4

Airs at: Wed, 08/16/2017 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Produced for: Combined Culture Radio

Trump's America, Charlottesville, Black Journalist, and F.U.B.U. Read more

The San Patricio Battalion

Airs at: Thu, 08/17/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: Fight the Empire

On this episode of Fight the Empire Per reflects on the San Patricio Battalion, the mostly Irish soldiers who switched sides in our war against Mexico. They were led by an artillery man named John Riley and fought several big battles against the Yankee invaders. Mexico l... Read more

Ethnic Studies and Academic Freedom

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm

Produced for: Labor Radio

Join us as we discuss the struggle for educators to make their classes culturally relevant and empowering. Today we are joined by Bryan Chu of the Portland Association of teachers and hear recorded excerpts of an interview with Curtis Acosta, former Mexican American Studi... Read more