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.
Guest host Doug McVay speaks with Courtney Moran, a local attorney who heads
up the Oregon Hemp Industry Association. They'll discuss the current state of
the international hemp industry, and the prospects for hemp in the United
States. They'll also be talking about hemp...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Kristina Narayan, with the
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon or APANO, and David Anitok,
co-founder, COFA Alliance National Network. (COFA stands for Compact of Free
Association, representing U.S. residents from the...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Paul Kawika Martin, Policy
and Political Director of Peace Action, about his views on the recent deal
with Iran and how it relates to the potential for peace in places like Syria
and North Korea.
In response to the announ...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Michael Dale, executive
director, Northwest Workers' Justice Project, about wage theft and how some
Oregon workers aren't getting paid what they are owed.
Recent high-profile wage-theft busts on state-funded construction j...
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Representatives of Portlant Tenants United (PTU) speak with Celeste Carey and
Cecil Prescod about the housing crisis, the impact of inadequate tenant
protections, the organizing campaigns to take collective action toward
housing security, and the Housing Justice Rally an...
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White supremacy is an ideology that has shaped America since the first
European settlers. Join Cecil and Celeste as they speak to social justice
activist Francisco Holdman about how to identify and organize against white
supremacy.
Francisco Holdman was born In San Fran...
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Will the growing number of Hoovervilles organizing across the region force
local governments to act on affordable housing and jobs? Or is it up to us,
the people, to help our own friends and neighbors? Sitting in for Cecil and
Celeste this morning, host Lisa Loving speak...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler
about his recent article in Counterpunch, "When Were They Radicalized?
That’s Not the Right Question!"
Rev. Hagler is with the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in
Washington, D.C. ...
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Hosts Celeste and Cecil speak with independent journalist and climate
activist Wen Stephenson about his new book, WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR NOW IS
EACH OTHER: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice.
In this book Stephenson tells his own story and offers an up-...
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