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11 TRIPP-P 3Nov2019

Airs at: Sun, 11/03/2019 at 11:15pm - Thu, 11/30/2023 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
TRIPP-P episode 11 features guest Ryan Haas.   Ryan is currently a News Content Manager at OPB & audio-host of the podcast "Bundyville." He has previously worked as Editor of The World newspaper in Coos Bay, Oregon and has freelanced in Florida and the Southern Oregon c... Read more

Buscando America on 11/05/19

Airs at: Tue, 11/05/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En esta emisión hablamos sobre las precarias condiciones que se viven en los centros de detención con las activistas y defensoras Maru Mora Villalpando y Colleen Flynn. En krónicas de Viaje, Karen Torrente contextualiza el conflicto chileno desde los años 90´s. Foto: La ... Read more

Immortal Technique talks new album, Afghanistan and this activist moment

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Immortal Technique is an indigenous hip hop artist and revolutionary, known for his raw, highly-political lyrics. He is performing this evening at 8 p.m. at the Hawthorne Theater. KBOO’s Tammy Habteyes spoke to Immortal Technique about his life, work and perspective o... Read more

SOUL'D

Airs at: Tue, 11/05/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features SOUL’D: the economics of our black body, a new devised ensemble piece that examines the American Economic Dream for Black Americans. She'll talk with director Damaris Webb (who is also co-director of Vanport Mosaic) and actress Shareen Jacobs who perform... Read more

The Amazon & the Health of the Planet

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
This year the world watched with alarm as the Amazon Rainforest burned. While news coverage of those fires has receded as attention shifts to the fires of impeachment, the Amazon is still burning. For many people around the world it is hard to fathom rainforests on fire,... Read more

024 Climate Change: Weather Extremes and Rising Sea Levels

Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2019 at 7:00am - 7:30am
Produced for:  Prescription for Justice
Guest Kristina Dahl, PhD, senior climate scientist for the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and lead author of Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days, Union of Concerned Scientists, 2019. Nove... Read more

023 Climate Change: Causes, Costs, Consequences, and Call to Action

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 7:00am - 7:30am
Produced for:  Prescription for Justice
This episode reviews the evidence for the ecologically-disastrous human-caused global warming occurring since the advent of industrialization; the health, environmental, and economic consequences of global warming; weather extremes, rising sea levels, changing patterns o... Read more

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Airs at: Tue, 11/12/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We spend time today with organizers of one of Portland's Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) events. TDOR is Wednesday, November 20th.   Per GLAAD:  "Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to hon... Read more

National Period Day sheds light on the challenges faced by menstruators in poverty

Airs at: Tue, 10/29/2019 at 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Access to menstruation products continues to be an issue facing women and menstruators across the nation. For those without sufficient financial resources, a period can mean missed school or work, or even a decision between a meal and having the products to address t... Read more

The Unipiper & Weird Portland United

Airs at: Wed, 10/30/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Good Vibes Only, Radiozine
The Unipiper, celebrated as the city’s Mascot of Weird, is Brian Kidd's alter ego.  This Portland persona rides through the city on a unicycle while wearing a Darth Vader mask and playing bagpipes that shoot fire.  The performance reliably leaves dumbfounded bystanders m... Read more