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#StopSessions

Airs at: Sun, 01/15/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
  This week we look at the newly released report from the National Academy of Sciences, The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids; and we continue our look at the man who might become the next US Attorney General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, and examine whethe... Read more

Why You Feel Tired, Brain-Fogged, and Overweight -- and How to Get Your Life Back

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
  Thyroid dysfunctions like Hashimoto's disease, hypothyroidism, and hyperthyroidism affect at least 20 million Americans and yet conventional medicine frequently misses the diagnosis.  Most doctors won't even order thyroid tests unless you specifically ask.  In The Thyroi... Read more

Sustainable Activism

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel shares information about "Sustainable activism: managing hope and despair in social movements" and recommends pluginpdx.org and a full day of workshops related to social and political activism and organizing scheduled for January 14: Stand Together. Photo Cred... Read more

Being Intersex

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Carrie Cantrell, the coordinator of the Northwest Intersex Action League based here in Portland. They discuss Intersex, people born with multiple different variations of male and female uro-genital structures. They discuss her experience from birth a... Read more

Legislation for Healing Not Handcuffs

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Karen James interviews Bob Joondeph, Executive Director, Disability Rights Oregon.  DRO is an organization that helps people with disability-related legal issues and also monitors Oregon’s jails and prisons.    Bob Joondeph discusses DRO’s proposed legislation for the ... Read more

It's 2017. The drug war continues.

Airs at: Sun, 01/01/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week: Mason Tvert with MPP on adult social use marijuana legalization, Yuri Fedotov with UNODC on Afghanistan opium, plus new research from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and a few words from travel guru and NORML board member Rick Steves. Read more

A Look Back on 2016

Airs at: Fri, 12/30/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
To close out the year, we'll play some memorable moments from 2016 episodes, including Danica Brown on transformative direct action at Standing Rock, Leslie Gregory on racism as a public health threat, Kiki Nicole with Unchaste Readers on erasure with their blackout poetry ... Read more

Make Peace With Your Mind

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Known as the superego or the judge, our inner critic is the voice in our heads that is hypercritical of everything we do and of who we are. The inner critic shames us and debilitates us. How do we become free of the inner critic?  The answer is mindfulness, awareness, compa... Read more

Eat Wheat with Dr. John Douillard

Airs at: Mon, 02/06/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
  “John Douillard has been on the leading edge of dynamic optimal health for decades. And I have personally benefited from it. Now ― he questions our obsession with gluten-free, dairy-free eating by asking the question, 'Why, after centuries of eating these foods with no p... Read more

How does the melting Arctic affect the rest of the world?

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Disability Awareness
  Disability Awareness is off this week, instead we present this special program: The Arctic is now warming twice as fast as the global average. That's the finding in the 11th Arctic Report Card released on December 13, 2016, at the annual American Geophysical Union meeti... Read more