Bread and Roses

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Every Friday from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

 

Bread and Roses is a collective of women-identified radio activists. We offer feminist public affairs programming. We give voice to those working for social justice and equity, globally and locally. We strive to challenge systems of oppression. All this, and we have fun!

Bread and Roses highlights the achievements of women artists, activists, athletes, scholars and innovators. We strive for programming excellence and collaborative efforts, providing access and training to women.

 

Topic tags: 
Gender, Women, Youth, Class, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Community Building, Activism
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Retired

Bread and Roses on 06/21/13

Airs at: Fri, 06/21/2013 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Counter Clockwise,My Year of Hypnosis, Hormones, Dark Chocolate, and Other Adventures in the World of Anti-aging is Lauren Kessler's new book. "Lauren Kessler is an intrepid reporter, immersion journalist, and mid-life woman on a quest to turn back the hands of time as she ... Read more

Bread and Roses on 06/14/13

Airs at: Fri, 06/14/2013 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Bread and Roses welcomes the women behind The Concertina Wire, a weekly radio program on KWVA Eugene 88.1FM and kwvaradio.org.  The show highlights the written work and narrative stories of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals–particularly women and minorities... Read more

Bread and Roses on 06/07/13

Airs at: Fri, 06/07/2013 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Genocide Declassified!  National Security Archive Director Kate Doyle has uncovered and catalogued government secrets that have helped convict dictators, most recently Guatemala's Rios Montt.  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.htmlCall in: 503-231-8187 Read more

Bread and Roses on 05/31/13

Airs at: Fri, 05/31/2013 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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There were over 190,000 people aged 65 and older living in the PDX metro area as of the 2010 census according to the Greater Portland Pulse. By 2030 that number is expected to grow to almost 395,000.  Villages NW is a new nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon who... Read more

Bread and Roses on 05/24/13

Airs at: Fri, 05/24/2013 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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"WHAT KIND OF HOUSE DOES A MAN WHO HAS LIVED IN A 6' X9' BOX FOR OVER 30 YEARS DREAM OF?" This is the question that artist and activist Jackie Sumell asked Herman Wallace in 2003. Herman has been in solitary confinement or Closed Cell Restriction [CCR] for over 40 years. H... Read more

Bread and Roses Founder Susan Dobrof in 1993

Airs at: Tue, 05/21/2013 at 12:00am
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In 1993, KBOO AM News Director Kathleen Stephenson interviewed Susan Dobrof about the Bread and Roses Collective and its creation in 1978. Read more

Bread and Roses on 05/17/13

Airs at: Fri, 05/17/2013 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Bread and Roses celebrates 35 years on the KBOO airwaves, the longest-running feminist radio show in the country! We welcome Bread and Roses founder, Susan Dobrof, and 90's collective member, Pamlin Pegg.  We'll discuss the early days of the collective, play clips from the ... Read more

Women Under Siege

Airs at: Fri, 05/17/2013 at 12:00am
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Syria is undergoing a crisis, a civil war some call it, but Syria is also having a rape crisis. Jackie Blachman-Forshay is an epidemiologist graduate student at the School of Public Health at Columbia University. She is the lead researcher for Women Media Center's Women Und... Read more

Bread and Roses Archive: Women Working Against Racism 1978

Airs at: Thu, 05/16/2013 at 12:00am
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Lucia Pena, Faith Mayhew and Pina Williams talk about Racism in Oregon and organizing that they are involved with. Native American, Chicana and Balck groups that people could support are also discussed.Hosted by Margot FaegreRecorded in 1978 on Reel tape. Read more

Bread and Roses Archive: Radical Women Tape 1983

Airs at: Thu, 05/16/2013 at 12:00am
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Speech by Gloria Martin, one of the founders of Radical Women given at the 1983 Seattle International Women's Day's Forum on "Racism in the Women's Movement".Recorded on Reel tape in 1983Produced by LC Earnest Read more