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Flashpoints: Update on Standing Rock

Airs at: Wed, 11/30/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Today on Flashpoints: We devote the entire show to an update on Standing Rock: We'll speak to Bill Means, who is advising the Elders regarding local, state and international law: And well speak to several of the Water-Protectors on recent actions and what comes next in t... Read more

Water is Life Peace and Prayer Caravan

Airs at: Tue, 11/29/2016 at 5:15pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The Water is Life Peace and Prayer Caravan is headed out to North Dakota is bring supplies and support to the water protectors who continue to struggle in stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline. KBOO News spoke with John Sanchez, elder Buzz Nelson, Rose Looking, and Tachina Mc... Read more

Presidential Recounts in Key 2016 Swing States

Airs at: Wed, 11/30/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet.org including America's democracy and voting rights, campaigns and elections, and many social justice issues. He is the author of "Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting."  He'll discuss the issues involv... Read more

The Aftermath . . .

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Grappling with VP-elect Mike Pence's religious-based bigotry; and an interview with John Waters!

Airs at: Tue, 11/29/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll be talking with Indiana queer activist JJ Gufreda about Mike Pence, Vice-President-elect, and his history of anti-LGBTQ legislation and actions as Indiana governor, and in the years prior to his taking office. There's a lengthy list of ways that Pence has found, to ma... Read more

Greg Palast on Political Perspectives

Airs at: Wed, 11/30/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
    Greg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television and in The Guardian and Rolling Stone Magazine. Palast has released a new movie: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, based on his boo... Read more

Alternative Radio: Vijay Prashad

Airs at: Tue, 11/29/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Vijay Prashad is professor of international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He teaches courses in international law and human rights. He is the author of many books, including Arab Spring, Libyan Winter, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the ... Read more

End of Growth / Rise of Trump

Airs at: Thu, 12/01/2016 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Join host Per Fagereng as he welcomes award winning writer and journalist Andrew Nikiforuk for a discussion on the End of Growth and the Rise of Trump.  Plus, the diminishing returns in energy from oil. Andrew Nikiforuk has been writing about the oil and gas industry for... Read more

Disability Awareness

Airs at: Mon, 11/28/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Disability Awareness
  Host Grace Eagle Reed welcomes Lisa Lake, an activist for the homeless, and Laura Sandow Read more

Children in the Adult System

Airs at: Mon, 11/28/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Oregon voters were misled into voting for Measure 11. That initiative set up mandatory minimum sentences for adults convicted of certain offenses. The idea that voters were sold was that the measure would only apply to people aged 15 or older, and that the offenses to which... Read more