Political Perspectives

Host Jay Thiemeyer speaks with Dr. Margaret Flowers congressional fellow for the 18,000-member Physicians for a National Health Program, about a single-payer health care program. She will be one of the speakers at the Single Payer Health Care: State Wide Conference on Satu... Read more

Host S.W. Conser speaks with actor Crispin Hellion Glover who is presenting Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show part 1 & part 2 at Cinema 21 this week. Crispin Hellion Glover performs a one hour dramatic narration of eight different profusely illustrated books. The im... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Helena Norberg-Hodge about her new film "The Economics of Happiness," a documentary about the devastating effects of globalization and the need for localization. Norberg-Hodge will be in Portland this Friday for a special screening and d... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Helena Norberg-Hodge about her new film "The Economics of Happiness," a documentary about the devastating effects of globalization and the need for localization. Norberg-Hodge will be in Portland this Friday for a special screening a... Read more

Host Sue Supriano speaks with Daniel Lerch, Program Director of Post Carbon Institute about his book, "The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises." Daniel Lerch is the author of Post Carbon Cities (2007), the first major municipal guidebook on... Read more

Host Sue Supriano speaks with Daniel Lerch, Program Director of Post Carbon Institute about his book, The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises. Daniel Lerch is the author of Post Carbon Cities (2007), the first major municipal guidebook on ... Read more

Clinical psychologist Kathy McMahon speaks on PEAK OIL VERSUS "PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMISM," recorded in Vancouver, Canada on October 18, 2010.  Kathy McMahon has heard it all, through her blog Peak Oil Blues. She's been called "the Peak Shrink." She offers ways to fend off ... Read more

Paul Pierson, co-author of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, was in Portland at the end of November and spoke with host Stephanie Potter. In an innovative historical departure Pierson and his co-author, ... Read more

Paul Pierson, co-author of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, was in Portland at the end of November and spoke with host Stephanie Potter. In an innovative historical departure Pierson and his co-author, J... Read more

In the first half of Political Perspectives we'll hear Sister Helen Prejean who spoke in Portland on October 21st of this year at the First United Methodist Church in support of Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty ( www.oadp.org ). She is introduced by Nasseem ... Read more