Faith/Religion/Spirituality

Woman Most Wild: Three Keys to Liberating the Witch Within

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Danielle Dulsky is an artist, teacher, and writer. A longtime activist for wild woman spirituality and the divine feminine's return, she leads womens circles, Witchcraft workshops, energy healing trainings, and basic and advanced yoga teacher trainings. Her website is www.... Read more

Why Good People Become Silent (Or Worse) About 9/11

Airs at: Tue, 06/19/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Frances Shure is a Licensed Professional Counselor who is now retired from her private practice and from her position as adjunct instructor at Naropa University at Boulder, Colorado. In her 20 years as a psychotherapist, she focused on "depth psychology," which involves bo... Read more

The Rabbi and the Faithless Feminist

Airs at: Fri, 08/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Beloved Community
North American culture is in transition in many ways, and religion is one of those areas that is in transition, especially away from organized religion to other avenues. As such these various avenues are resources for resistance to oppression and for positive activism in ou... Read more

Movie Moles: "Moana"

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review the 2016 Disney film, "Moana." The film tells the story of its tituluar character, a Polynesian teenage princess who reclaims her people's long-repressed identity as deep-sea voyagers. Against her father's protests, she leaves the island to... Read more

Danny Goldberg, In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
During one year, 1967, it seemed possible that the world could be transformed by peace, love, and meditation. The assassinations, violence, and polarization of 1968 hadn’t happened, and the hippies were exploring spirituality and social justice.   Danny Goldberg takes us b... Read more

Stopping Fascism: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 08/01/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  Recorded at the Aladdin Theater, Chris Hedges visited Portland and spoke as a guest of KBOO community radio. Chris Hedges is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America. He writes a weekly column for Truthdig.org ... Read more

Anthony Rogers-Wright talks about The Leap on 5th Monday Labor Radio

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
  Does it seem like the forces of “me,” personified by Trump, are increasingly powerful, while the forces of “we,” exemplified by the organized labor movement, are increasingly marginalized?  Naomi Klein believes so, and in addition to writing great books like The Shock Do... Read more

One More Time, on heartbreak and unrequited love

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Sometimes through the sadness, we find beauty...  But in the sadness we may also find clarity.  We wanted to focus on heartbreak and unrequited love not only in terms of our personal relationships (i.e. 'romance'), but also the relationship had with the U.S. (in particular)... Read more

An Indigenous Economic Model: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 07/25/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  The existing economic system in most countries is a kind of state capitalism. It produces enormous inequalities. Its extraction practices are environmentally destructive. Perhaps indigenous models provide a viable alternative. Chief Seattle was a Susquamish chief in what... Read more

Jesus Was A Communist

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Were the early Christians communists? Roman Montero makes the case that they were and backs it up with his book All Things In Common: The Economic Practices of the Early Christians.   Roman A. Montero spends a lot of time studying early Chrstianity, Koine Greek, early Chri... Read more