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Siletz River Ecosystem Intervenes in Lawsuit against Aerial Pesticide Ban

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
On Monday July 24, the Siletz River Ecosystem filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against Lincoln County along Oregon’s coast.           The lawsuit was brought by Rex Capri of Newport and Wakefield Farms of Eddyville, who dispute the legality of a ballot measure bann... Read more

Fighting Goliath

Airs at: Mon, 08/28/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. On this episode of Locus Focus we present FIGHTING GOLIATH, produced and broadcast in 2014. The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on ear... Read more

An Interview with D Pei Wu

Airs at: Fri, 07/28/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
  Our interview with organizer D Pei Wu is finally here for your ears! D is an organizer and former head of Jobs with Justice in Portland. We talk to them to find out about their journey in organizing and find out why the labor movement is important to them.  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

KALAMA METHANOL REFINERY UPDATE

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As the fossil fuel industry targets the Pacific NW for massive fossil fuel development, communities across the region have drawn a thin green line of resistance. Most of these proposals are being vehemently opposed, but on either side of the Lower Columbia River, the larges... Read more

Naomi Klein in conversation with Jo Ann Hardesty

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Naomi Klein joins Jo Ann Hardesty in a wide ranging and engaging discussion.  Recorded in Beaverton at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing. “This is one attempt to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover o... Read more

Lighthouse Sessions

Every Other Friday from 12-3am   Lighthouse Lessons is the media-production arm of Lighthouse Art Collective, a community which exists to empower creators and neighbors to engage with each other and the greater civic arena in order to facilitate growth, equality, abundanc... Read more

Bread and Roses

Airs at: Fri, 07/28/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Founder of the Disability Visibility Project and storytelling fellow from Making Contact, Alice Wong, and I chat not just about bringing the figurative voices of disability into radio and podcasting more, but actual disabled voices. Voices where you can hear that the person... Read more

THE F-WORD: Neo-Fascism in Benton Harbor

Airs at: Wed, 07/26/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  This show is all about confronting attacks on healthcare, free speech, voting and the Second Amendment rights for people of color. And this is the third Friday of the month so it's time for the F-Word, our discussion of fascism. This month's guest is the human rights act... Read more

Rethinking Collateral Consequences

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
The Justice Reinvestment Summit and What Works in Public Safety Conference were held jointly in February 2017 in Salem, Oregon.  One event presenter, Judge Frederick Block, US District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York, discussed the profusion of collateral c... Read more