Recent Audio

On  Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 11:30am, Joseph Gallivan interviews collage artists Kirk Read and Angela Morrow about the show “Now What Remains: A Portland Collage Exhibition,” which was on at the Alberta Street Gallery through Feb 23.  Read and Morrow talk about wh... Read more

  In this retrospective, Grassroot News NW's LaNita Duke and Nia Gray remember a revolutionary Black leaders we lost in recent weeks, Oregon State Sen. Avel Gordly. Would you like to share your memories with us? Call and leave us a message at 971-801-1396, we may use i... Read more

It's another week where it's hard to know where to begin. Trump's setback with the Supreme Court? His re-branded tariff campaign? The drip-drip-drip of damning Epstein revelations? The debauched doings of Cabinet secretaries? The State of the Union? It's so much, all the... Read more

The comedians who are following the news and/or are on social media are fully prepared for another breakdown. Join us at 10pm to figure out just what type of breakdown they have.    Comedians joining the panel this month are Andrea Joseph (@AndreaDJoseph): Andrea Joseph... Read more

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Adam Carpinelli interviews Jalil Muntaqim, former Political Prisoner, co-founder of The Jericho Movement and Spirit of Mandela.  Discussion focuses on the legacy of struggle for Black and Brown people, self-determination and new form of governance.  Muntaqim launches his... Read more

Laura Wadlin and Meryl DePasquale of Portland Community College's instructors, academic professionals and classified unions, describe their struggle for a fair contract and their determination to strike for the first time in the college's history, if their members demand... Read more

More music, humor and maybe a radio drama. Read more

As data centers continue to pop up like noxious weeds, a growing movement is coming together to stop their spread. Like oil and gas pipelines before them, data centers are uniting people of diverse backgrounds and political views in a burgeoning movement of opposition to... Read more

  The struggle for labor across the color line has often been credited to white activists. However, as sociologist Cedric de Leon argues, the black labor movement, independently organized outside of the official union movement, propelled such efforts. He discusses the ... Read more