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A 'Kinder, Gentler' Drug War And Other Lies: #Reform2023 Highlights Part One

Airs at: Mon, 10/23/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On this week's edition of Prison Pipeline: A 'Kinder, Gentler' Drug War And Other Lies: #Reform2023 Highlights Part One. The Drug Policy Alliance held its 2023 biennial international Reform conference over the weekend of Oct. 19-22. Over a thousand activists, advocates, or... Read more

Eclectic Pandemic: The Rose Looking Happy Face Show (Pilot Program) with DJ Thomas James

Airs at: Sun, 10/22/2023 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
This was the pilot program for "The Rose Looking Happy Face Show with Host/DJ Thomas James" which is now being considered by KBOO as a show in regular rotation every two months. The show highlights recovery from active addiction, resources and outreach in the PDX community ... Read more

Previewing the 2023 Portland Fermentation Festival with Liz Crain and Heidi Nestler

Airs at: Tue, 10/17/2023 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
The annual Portland Fermentation Festival, affectionately known as “Stinkfest”, is back this year after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic. The Festival returns for the 11th time, since its start in 2009, this Thursday, October 19th from 6 to 9PM at Ecotrust's Irving ... Read more

Safer Supply Saves Lives

Airs at: Wed, 10/18/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Safer Supply Saves Lives. The National Safer Supply Community of Practice recently launched the London, Ontario InterCommunity Health Centre Safer Supply Program 2023 Evaluation Report. We’re given an overview of the report by Gillian Kolla, Ph... Read more

Boiling Point

Airs at: Wed, 10/18/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs will hold a high-level ‘mid-term review’ in March of 2024 to take stock of progress made and challenges remaining for the international drug control regime. In preparation for this, the International Drug Policy Consortium hel... Read more

"That Way Madness Lies" with filmmaker Sandra Luckow

Airs at: Wed, 10/11/2023 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
Yesterday, October 10th, was World Mental Health Day. So it’s a fortunate coincidence our In Depth guest today is filmmaker Sandra Luckow. Sandra, along with her family, was personally affected by mental illness. And she turned that experience into one of the most moving an... Read more

The Wind of Change

Airs at: Wed, 10/11/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: The Wind of Change. United for Marijuana Decriminalization is a coalition of marijuana policy reform organizations. They held a news conference October Fifth to discuss how the Biden Administration can move forward to advance marijuana decrimi... Read more

Pause--A Spiritual Power

Airs at: Sun, 10/15/2023 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
Rob Wykes is a former builder turned Chaplain with a post-graduate degree in Applied Theology. Rob has spent over two decades as the Chief Executive of a faith-based charity. It was there that he developed the passion to walk with and whisper encouragement and hope into the... Read more

Hanford's Horrors

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Before the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was created, since time immemorial this extraordinary bend in the Columbia River was a vital and sacred place to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakama Nation, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Nez Pe... Read more

Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs and Harm Reduction

Airs at: Wed, 10/04/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs and Harm Reduction. On this edition of Century, part two of a conversation with Doctor Tim Piatkowski, a researcher and lecturer at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, who has been doing some gro... Read more