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MacLaren Youth Radio Journalism Part II

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Prison Pipeline

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Mon, 02/11/2013

Carlos Chavez hosts part two of a two part series on the 2012 highlights of his radio journalism group in MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility.

This time they focus on a field recording exercise that was done by one of the students. He interviews Steve Llanes from the Office of Minority Services and other youth as they prepare for one of the sweat lodge ceremonies at MacLaren.

Carlos facilitates educational workshops at MacLaren for the youth incarcerated there. MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility is the largest facility in Oregon for incarcerating youth. Most of these youth face sentences ranging from 3 to 7 years or longer. During their time on the facility these young men have access to a high school education, college courses and job skills training.

28:08 minutes (38.63 MB)

City Workers Rally Against Cuts (RAW AUDIO)

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Labor

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Labor Radio

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Tue, 02/05/2013

February 5 DCTU rally Noon in front of Portland building

11:55 minutes (16.36 MB)

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Yesterday, Today and tTomorrow

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Air Cascadia

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Tue, 02/12/2013

(The linkks referenced in the programs will be here Wednesday.)

28:55 minutes (26.47 MB)

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Chris Hedges: The Myth of Human Progress

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Tue, 02/12/2013

Tom Becker reads from an article on Truth Dig by Chris Hedges, "The Myth of Human Progress". Hedges predicts massive starvation and misery await us this century if we do not stop climate change, and isolates a certain myth of progress that stymies that action.

6:27 minutes (4.43 MB)

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Kristian Williams on Community Alternatives to the Police

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Tue, 02/12/2013

Joe Clement talks with local police-scholar, Kristian Williams, about an up-coming panel at PSU about community alternatives to the police. The panel is a response to the Campus Public Safety Office's intention to give its agents more power to arrest as well as arm them. Kristian talks broadly about community alternatives to the police, what they've meant historical to the police abolition movement and what they mean in the context of the panel.

14:32 minutes (9.98 MB)

Candace Chellew-Hodge Extended Interview

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Thu, 02/07/2013

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Candace Chellew-Hodge, the founder of Whosoever: An online magazine for GLBT Christians, the pastor of the Jubilee! Circle in Columbia, S.C., and the author of Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians.I talked to Candace about the recent controversey surrounding Sweet Cakes bakery in Gresham, Oregon. Sweet Cakes denied to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple solely on the basis of their sexuality.

10:37 minutes (9.72 MB)

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 02/11/2013

Jan Haaken talks with Mary Liz Thomson, the director of Who Bombed Judi Bari?. Judi Bari was an environmental activist, labor organizer and feminist who helped to bridge crucial gaps between how timber workers and radical environmentalists understood each other. She also helped to feminize either side's understanding of their own interests. Bari worked with the Industrial Workers of the World, a revolutionary union with a famous past among timber workers, and EarthFirst!

16:19 minutes (11.21 MB)

Old Mole Variety Hour February 11th 2013

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Tue, 02/12/2013

Tom Becker hosts and we hear:

58:03 minutes (39.87 MB)

Larry Kleinman on Immigration Reform Part 2

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Tue, 02/12/2013

Bill Resnick talks with Larry Kleinman, Secretary-Tresurer of PCUN, a union for all Oregon's farmworkers. They discuss the potential impact of different kinds of immigration reform. This is the second of a two-part interview. The first can be found here.

13:13 minutes (9.08 MB)

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Memoirs From the Psych Ward, Day 0

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Sub-Human Intellect Theater

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Mon, 01/14/2013

The first installment of this multi-part series detailing a week spent in the psych ward.

Cast: RaScHo, Kirsten & Noah

Writer: Kirsten Liden

Director: Noah Madrano

Produced by Power T Productions

4:52 minutes (11.13 MB)

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Ellen Cassedy Interview

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Portland Yiddish Hour

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Sun, 02/10/2013

Interview with Ellen Cassedy, author of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust

Ellen Cassedy went to Vilnius, Lithuania in order to study Yiddish and connect with a place where some of her ancestry originated from.

Find out more at her website: http://www.ellencassedy.com/

19:51 minutes (18.17 MB)

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Nestle in Gorge Opponents Hold a Day of Awareness

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Evening News

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Fri, 02/08/2013

Today hundreds of Oregonians stood together to say 'NO' to a Nestlé proposal to bottle public water in the scenic Columbia River Gorge.

At the same time, Nestlé is busy in Salem trying to convince our elected leaders that taking public water from threatened salmon habitat is somehow good for Oregon.

KBOO’s Joe Meyer covered the action at Lower McLeay park in North West Portland and filed this report.