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One Land Many Voices on 12/25/09

Airs at: Fri, 12/25/2009 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  One Land Many Voices
One Land Many Voices: Exploring political, social and cultural issues affecting Palestine/Israel. Hosts explore political, social and cultural issues affecting Palestine/Israel and the conflict there from a human rights centered perspective.   CD-1567 Read more

Clackamas County Commissioner Tootie Smith faces recall campaign for flouting COVID guidelines and racism defense

Airs at: Tue, 03/02/2021 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Clackamas County Commissioner Tootie Smith faces a recall campaign from her constituents. Smith notably boasted that she would flout COVID guidelines at her Thanksgiving celebration last November. More recently, Smith has come to the defense of fellow Clackamas County Co... Read more

Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade" and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America... Read more

Five Eastern Oregon counties will vote in May to consider joining Idaho 

Airs at: Mon, 03/01/2021 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Rural Oregonians who are frustrated with the state’s progressive politics are taking matters into their own hands. County by county, rural conservatives are petitioning for ballot measures, which ask voters if they want to consider moving Oregon’s border to form a "Great... Read more

New approaches to people in mental-emotional crisis, with Kevin Fitts and Janie Gullickson

Airs at: Wed, 03/03/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  From a recent Willamette Week article, Oregon Considers a New Approach to People in Mental Crisis   Oregon House Bill 2980 would provide funding for three "peer respite centers"—short-term, homelike facilities for people experiencing mental health crises. Currently, p... Read more

The Siege w/ Tom Secker - Ep 95

Airs at: Sat, 02/27/2021 at 6:30am - Sat, 03/13/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
We revisit “The Siege”, an action movie involving terrorist cells in New York City from 1998, starring Denzel Washington, Annette Benning, and Bruce Willis and we couldn’t in good conscience do that without our friend Tom Secker.  Remember that weird time New York City was ... Read more

Crime Survivors of Color

Airs at: Mon, 03/08/2021 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Karen James speaks with Amy Davidson, Partnership for Safety and Justice Crime Survivor Program; and Alexxis Robinson Woods, executive director of Call to Safety, Portland's domestic and sexual violence crisis line.  They discuss what crime survivors of color need after exp... Read more

Oregon Day of Empathy uplifts voices of those impacted by criminal legal system

Airs at: Mon, 03/01/2021 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
National Day of Empathy is an opportunity to uplift and amplify voices of people impacted by the criminal legal system. Oregon’s Day of Empathy is at noon, Tues, March 2nd.  Oregon’s virtual event will include women directly impacted by our criminal legal system who will di... Read more

The Gap: Keeping up with the Biden Administration and Non-Celebrity Role Models

Airs at: Fri, 02/26/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  The Gap
  On this episode of the Gap, Tammy and Althea start by discussing three recent federal actions related to the Biden Administration. We talk about the Equality Act passing the House, the $15 minimum wage increase being dropped from the COVID stimulus relief bill and a new ... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood - Joshua Samuel Brown

Airs at: Fri, 02/26/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
On last month’s show, we celebrated our local independent publishers and the authors whose work they publish with Dan Armstrong, of Eugene’s Mud City Press; Kathleen McFall and Clark Hays, of Portland’s Pumpjack Press; and Bobby Eversmann, Editor-in-Chief at Deep Overstock,... Read more