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Leader Dogs for the Blind

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Hosted by Paul Van Dyck You may have seen a monkey riding a unicycle, but have you ever seen a lion riding a bicycle? Mark Mansell, superintendent of the La Center Public Schools is a member of Lions International. He plans to ride his bicycle from Portland OR to Portland... Read more

Forced Drugging of Children Focus of Rethinking Psychiatry Symposium

Airs at: Wed, 05/09/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving   The Rethinking Psychiatry Symposium is this weekend, featuring attorney Jim Gottstein, lectures, talks and panels, and a resource fair. Our guests this morning are Jim Gottstein and symposium founder Marcia Thompson, speaking on Psychotropic Drugs... Read more

Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance tell their stories

Airs at: Fri, 04/20/2012 at 12:00am
Hosts Marvin Simmons and Bill Bires speak with members of the Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance. The group is working to create a community of people who desire to find justice, answers and support for the generational victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin. It was found... Read more

Morquio Syndrome

Airs at: Mon, 04/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Hosted by Paul Van Dyck   Students at Central High School in Independence, Oregon have banded together to raise money to help their classmate, Mason Stokes, who has Morquio syndrome, an inherited, seriously physically deforming disease. We will learn how the students have... Read more

Dr. Paul Gorman on why we need a National Single Payer Health System

Airs at: Tue, 04/17/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris. Today's guest is Dr. Paul Gorman from Oregon Health & Science University. Here in America, we pay some of the Highest Costs for Medical Care, yet reap some of the Worst Results. Why?  We Waste Way Too Much Money on the Private Health Insurance Industry.     Read more

Analysis of the Mental Health Industry

Airs at: Wed, 04/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving   Is it possible that the drug-based psychiatric care industry has actually fueled an epidemic of mental illness? Our guest is Dr. Harriet Cooke of the local group Rethinking Psychiatry, which puts on an annual symposium scrutinizing the mental hea... Read more

Kambri Crews, author of "Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir."

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Host Paul Van Dyck interviews Kambri Crews, author of "Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir." She tells her story of growing up hearing with deaf parents. Read more

Why are so many children being diagnosed bipolar?

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2012 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Madness Radio
Hosted by Will Hall Today Madness Radio asks, Why are so many children being diagnosed bipolar? Are medications needed to treat disease - or just keep children under control? What else can parents do when faced with difficult behavioral problems? Sharna Olfman, Psychology ... Read more

Josh Eidelson: Business Unionism vs. Organized Labor

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and Josh Eidelson talk about the pitfalls of organizing workers (into unions) on the model of a business. The practice is widely known as "service-unionism" or "business-unionism" and  in many ways boils down union membership to a customer relation to a service ... Read more

Access to the voting booth by people with disabilities

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Hosted by Paul Van Dyck   The race for The White House is heating up. Four years ago Sounds of Awareness broadcast a program on access to the voting booth by people with disabilities. Though some of the names have been changed since then to protect the innocent, we felt th... Read more