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A Forest Lets Out the Liberators in Jails

Airs at: Wed, 11/16/2022 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  Brittney Griner and Alaa Abd el-Fattah speak to us in this Earth Riot, and two women from New Zealand follow up: India and Leila. My attempt to translate the Earth's language is guided by these special teachers. First, I try to leap over Trump's wall, where I have been t... Read more

Analog Media - Comics and Comix

Airs at: Thu, 11/10/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Ian Sundahl, Tim Goodyear, and Emily Nilsson are deeply committed to the preservation of physical media — film, video, comics, and underground newspapers. Ian is a cartoonist, filmmaker, curator, and the co-publisher of the Vision Quest free comics newspaper.  His long-... Read more

Whatever it Takes to Break the Trance

Airs at: Wed, 11/09/2022 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  The riddle of our time is, "How can we be passive in the face of the Earth's crisis?" The answer is, we are in a trance state induced by extreme Consumerism. We are coming to understand that Consumerism, the enforcement arm of Capitalism, is a very deadly situation.   ... Read more

David Hattner on Portland Youth Philharmonic's 99th Season

Airs at: Thu, 11/10/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
99 years is a long time, for people and orchestras, no matter how popular and well established. So when one or the other reaches that milestone of longevity, it’s cause for both astonishment and celebration. And that’s what we’ll be doing on today’s show for a very popular ... Read more

Dubya Re-Dub

Airs at: Tue, 11/08/2022 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  Vinyl Pajama Party
Return with us, won't you ? To a (somewhat) simpler time. It was election day November of 2004, and this was on your radio... Read more

Gratitude to the Earth Kills the Carbon-Heavy Gods

Airs at: Fri, 11/04/2022 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  How do we start actions over? Start by living in the present tense, that vivid moving thing. In consumer society, which imitates the old religions and fascism, we are distracted away from what we are doing now. Our present tense life is an infinite source and is where th... Read more

Portland Book Festival 2022 Preview

Airs at: Thu, 10/27/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
It’s been a long, hellishly hot and smoky summer here in Portland. But it seems like fall has finally arrived. Along with the rain and cooler temperatures, we look forward, as we do every year, to the big holidays – Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Sukkot – and a few che... Read more

A Different Nature: Coda

Airs at: Mon, 10/24/2022 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature: Coda
UN PEUX PLUS DE RADIO Or: The Return of the Velvet Gentleman.   Ce soir on mettra en vedette la musique du doux excentrique, M. Erik Satie. Les Embryons Desséchés, Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire, Trois Sonneries de la Rose-Croix, Aperçus Désagréables, et plus. Écoute, L... Read more

Can't Translate the Wildness

Airs at: Fri, 10/21/2022 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  We can't catch up with the Earth, no matter how hard we try. Numbers, tech and human efforts to defeat the catastrophes we invented are no match for the energy of the Earth. With Saint Barbara Erenreich and The Stop Shopping Choir  Hosted by Reverend Billy and Savitri D... Read more

A Cartoon Arts Museum in the Pacific Northwest

Airs at: Thu, 10/13/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  San Francisco has one, New York has one, Brussels has one, and now Portland may be home to a cartoon arts museum, if a group of academics, activists and industry artists get their way. Dr Mike Rosen, Sean Wynn, Michael Ring, and Katie Pryde are four of the board members... Read more