Civil Rights/Human Rights

MALCOLM X vs JAMES BALDWIN

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Radiozine

-from OpenCulture.com One often hears lamented the lack of public intellectuals in America today. Very often, the lamenters look back to James Baldwin, who in the 1950s and 1960s wrote such powerful race-, class-, and sex-examining books as Go Tell It on the Mountain, G... Read more

Captain Ahab & U.S. Empire: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

The demonic Captain Ahab in Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick represents a quest for power and domination that is a death wish. Hubris will doom Ahab and his Pequod crew, all perish except for Ishmael. Is there a larger lesson to be learned? Is the United States much diffe... Read more

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: Radiozine

In 2008 the United States elected its first black president, and recent polls show that only twenty-two percent of white people in the United States believe that racism is a major societal problem. On the surface, it may seem to be in decline. However, the evidence of di... Read more

The Politics of Living - Episode 18

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am

Produced for: The Politics of Living

August 1, 2018 The Politics of Living – August 1, 2018 - 30 minute show Content Contributors: Rachelle Schmid (Conversations With Elders) Dennise Kowalcyzk (Portland 2003 protests audio) Kristin Thiel (The She Ra Solution) M L lauri (Let's Stop For A Minute) Vicky... Read more

From Shrinking Bears Ears, Approving Pipelines and Pocahontas: What Trump Means to Indian Country

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

What is the scope of the threat Trump poses to Indian Country and what do Native Americans have at stake in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections? Native American Portland-based journalist Jacqueline Keeler leads a discussion with Native American leaders from across th... Read more

Buscando America on 07/31/18

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

POP MOB, Popular Mobilization, es un grupo de habitantes de Portland preocupados por un objetivo común, inspirar a las personas a participar y resistir el Alt-Right que se está viviendo en Portland. Además escuchamos un trabajo de Griselda Sánchez, Radioasta Mixteca que en... Read more

Talking with Cameron Whitten, new interim ED of Portland's Q Center.

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Preference

We'll by talking with Caermon Whitten, activist and organizer, about the Q Center and his role as new iterim ED. The Q Center has needs! including raising funds for some building repair. The Q Center also hosts programming related to GLBTQ community needs. After, we'll ... Read more

Democracy: Michael Parenti

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Discussions about democracy probably start in Athens about 2500 years ago. A truism is society is democratic to the extent that its citizens play a meaningful role in managing public affairs. Democracy is located within the capitalist economic system infamous for produci... Read more

Can You See the White? (Part 1)

Airs at: Fri, 08/03/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am

Produced for: Valley Views

Faith is a white woman who reflects on personal and societal events that shaped her life’s journey to racial justice and equity awareness. I asked Faith to be on the show because she and I have had many conversations about race that may be inspiring to listeners. I admire... Read more

The War on Reproductive Rights

Airs at: Sun, 07/29/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week on Century of Lies we hear from Lynn Paltrow, founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and Dorothy E. Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and th... Read more