Join me Monday August 30 for a discussion with social critic and theologian Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou.

Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, a third generation elder in Church of God in Christ, has been hailed by Cornel West as "one of the most prophetic and courageous voices of our times." Rev. Sekou's recent book of essays is entitled Gods, Gays, and Guns: Essays on Religion and the Future of Democracy. As a public intellectual and cultural critic Rev. Sekou has written and spoken out on a broad range of issues including war and peace, liberation theology, homophobia in the black church, and the criminal justice system.

Frann Michel hosts and we hear:

NOTHING THAT IS POISONED CAN GROW: THE RICHMOND OIL REFINERY FIRE

At 6:30 in evening on Hiroshima Day this month, the Chevron Oil Refinery in Richmond exploded in a massive fire, spreading a mushroom cloud of thick black smoke over the homes and gardens of the residents of this marginalized community. That night thousands of people flocked to local hospitals complaining of respiratory problems. No one seems to know what toxins were contained in that dark cloud that settled over the city for a couple hours, before the winds changed and the toxic cloud dispersed above more affluent communities.

 Host Dr. Naimon talks with David K. Randall, senior reporter at Reuters, about his new book Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep.  

"This fabulous book is likely to address any and all questions you might have about sleep.... There’s plenty of practical information, like how to overcome insomnia without drugs, how to combat snoring, how to encourage young children to get to sleep and, perhaps most useful, how to bet successfully on professional football games: our circadian rhythms favor West Coast teams over East Coast teams on Monday nights. This is one book that will not put you to sleep.” (Publishers Weekly )

Health and Health Care Forum hosted by Roberta Hall.

Roberta speaks with Beyond Toxics executive director Lisa Arkin, and the outreach director Alison Guzman. Beyond Toxics. Beyond Toxics works toward providing environmentally safe environments for all Oregonians, and is especially interested in assuring environmental justice for all communities.

In the photo: Lisa Arkin (left) and Alison Guzman (right) with a Beyond Toxics flyer between them.

It's a sunny August radio show on Monday the 20th. Retta Christie brings you songs about being tired, worried, sick and hurt! You won't want to miss it. Noon until 2 pm

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In our first hour, Robin Jackson, a member of Vagabond Opera, will perform with some friends. And, "one man band" Tony Smiley will set up in the studio for our second hour. Sick Boy and Miss Davidson return to tell us what happened during their current participation in the 48 Hour Film Project. We'll also run down the up coming special screenings at The Hollywood Theater with Dan Halsted..And singer/songwriter Lakin, who is touring through the NW, will co host with Fortunato, presenting some of her songs and anything else she can find in our music library.

Patty Katz and guests discuss Hands Across the Bridge, a Labor Day annual event where people in recovery and their families and friends join hands across the Interstate 5 Bridge to celebrate sobriety.

http://www.handsacrossthebridge.org/

Tonight host Danielle Parks features the work of Lucia Dlugoszewski, a Polish-American composer, performer and inventor. She created over a hundred unique percussion instruments, such as ladder harps, closed rattles, unsheltered rattles, tangent rattles, wave rattles, quarter-tone gongs, and square shaped drums - all made from a wide variety of materials including wood, plastic, metal, glass, and paper.  As she wrote in her essay called 'What Is Sound to Music', "In 1954, I began the immense journey in search of a Logos for music.  I was also more aware than ever before or since of the fragility of sound when it is music.

Tonight we present one of Jack London's South Seas Adventure Stories, The Seed of McCoy. A steel hulled clipper ship, carrying grain has a slow smoldering fire deep in one of her cargo holds. Still afloat and under sail, but enveloped in smoke, the captain seeks to go aground on an island. Allowing the fire to burn the wooden parts of the vessel, but leaving its metal hull intact. They have arrived at Pitcarne Island, home to the descendants of the crew of the Bounty. Their governor, old man McCoy, convinces the captain that there is not harbor or even a beach on the island, and he volunteers to lead the ship to the nearest island they can put the ship ashore.