Cecil and Celeste welcome your calls. This program is open to local, national and international issues ranging from poverty in Portland to politics in Africa.
Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod host a debate on Oregon Ballot Measure 97,
This description is from ballotpedia.org.
The Oregon Business Tax Increase Initiative, also known as Measure 97, is
on the November 8, 2016, ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute.
A "y...
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Local activist Phillip J Killlary joins Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod
in a discussion about the local and international solidarity movement to
support the Standing Rock Tribe and the effort to stop the Dakota Access
Pipeline.
Phillip J Killary is a 47 year old Portl...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Carol Anderson about her new
book "White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide."
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across
the ideological spectrum referred to the angry respon...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Daniel Hatcher, Professor
of Law at the University of Baltimore, about his book The Poverty Industry
The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens.
Government aid doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to. Foster...
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In this era of global corporations, how can the labor movement resist the
race to the bottom? "Free trade" deals, off-shoring, outsourcing, and the
liberty of profits, but not people, to cross national borders undermine
progress for the working class and threaten to undo...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Patricia Rumer and Marco
Mejia from the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice, a coalition of
individuals, faith leaders and diverse faith communities called by conscience
to respond actively and publicly to the suf...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Keela Johnson, Facilitator
with Resolutions Northwest, an organization that facilitates honest dialogue
to resolve conflict and advance racial and social justice. They envision
inclusive and just communities in which pe...
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Host Celeste Carey speaks with Gabriele Hayden about a class she is teaching
for Portland Underground Graduate School called "Elegizing Black Lives," The
course will look at how African American poets have elegized victims of
lynching and state violence. How have they...
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Host Celeste Carey speaks with Douglas Tsoi of Portland Underground Grad
School, or PUGS, about lifelong learning. She also speaks with two
instructors of upcoming classes at PUGS; Claire Vlach, who will be
teaching How to Change Your Neighborhood: Tactical Urbanism 1...
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