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.
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Host Cecil Prescod interviews Peter Van Buren about the ever-greater erosion
of American rights. Van Buren is the author of a recent article on
TomDispatch called, “No Free Speech at Mr. Jefferson’s Library, George
Orwell, Philip K. Dick, and Ray Bradbury Would Have ...
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On Tuesday Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber announced that he is stopping the
scheduled execution of Oregon death row inmate Gary Haugen. He also said he
would not allow any other executions during his term as Governor. The
Governor's announcement came just after the Oregon S...
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Host Cecil Prescod interviews Christopher Phillips, author of "Constitution
Cafe: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution: Jefferson's Brew for a True
Revolution."
A radical in his own day, Thomas Jefferson believed that the Constitution
should be revised periodically to ke...
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Host Cecil Prescod speaks with Kevin Williams, writer, director and editor of
the film "FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN: Does the Republican Party Really Want
More African Americans?"
From the Civil War to FDR, the GOP was the party for African-Americans.
Today, less than 10% ...
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Cecil Prescod hosts a show about the so-called Super Committee's possible
proposals for cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and the effects
the cuts might have on Americans. His guest are Nancy J. Altman, who has a
thirty-five year background in the areas of Soci...
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Host Cecil Prescod speaks with John Grueschow of the Military & Draft
Counseling Project of War Resisters League about the Portland School Board's
decision to give counter-recuriters the same access to high school students
that military recruiters enjoy under federal law. A...
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Host Cecil Prescod speaks with Professor Jeffrey Winters, author of the new
book "Oligarchy," Winters says: "By choosing Wall Street as the origin of
their action, and by focusing on the gap separating the 1% from 99%, the
Occupy movement has hit upon the chronic problem...
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Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey interview Christian Parenti, author of
Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. Parenti
explores how, from Africa to Asia, extreme weather brought on by global
warming is unleashing cascades of unrest and viole...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod Andrew Potter about his book, The
Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves. Andrew Potter is
public affairs columnist with Maclean'smagazine, Canada's premier
newsweekly, and a features editor with Canadian Business magazine...
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Solyndra, a solar power company that got more than half a billion dollars in
loan guarantees from a Department of Energy Recovery Act program, went
bankrupt at the beginning of September. The reason why it happened and
who’s to blame is still unclear, but that’s not the mai...
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