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Press**Watch: Fascism accelerates

Airs at: Thu, 11/15/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Presswatch
The demagogue in Chief is not cornered, but he can hear the hounds baying in distance. Now he prepares his defense.  The best defense is a good offense, so he attacks his enemies--POC, Muslims, Judaism, transgender Americans--and we hear words of disparagement against Irani... Read more

How Hitler Happened: Benjamin Hett

Airs at: Tue, 11/13/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The post-WW1 Weimar Republic in Germany was the height of European civilization. Its scientists and scholars led the world. Its Bauhaus architecture was the rage. Its arts featured such luminaries as Fritz Lang, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Thomas Mann. Yet, out of thi... Read more

Native American political and ethical leadership: with co-host Jacqueline Keeler

Airs at: Wed, 11/14/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    With the first two Native women elected to Congress, and the Native vote playing a key role in numerous elections, monthly co-host Jacqueline Keeler discusses how Native people can not only help tip the balance of power in Congress in close races like that of Democrat... Read more

Nasty Women Get Shit Done

Airs at: Wed, 11/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  The RadioActivist
Nasty Women Get Shit Done PDX (NWGSD) emerged in Portland, Oregon in response to the 2016 presidential election results when friends gathered together to brainstorm ways to help their community and to actively resist the xenophobia, racism, misogyny, ableism, anti-LGBTQ, an... Read more

The Wheeler-Outlaw Ordinance Restricting Protest Fails to Get a Vote

Produced for:  Evening News
Mayor Wheeler’s emergency ordinance to restrict Portland protesters failed to get a vote at city hall yesterday afternoon. The Mayor quickly substituted a new ordinance and Council voted to at least hear from the assembled stakeholder. As Mayor Wheeler noted in his opening... Read more

How to go for broke as an anti-war advocate - Scott Horton interview Part 1 - Ep 27

Airs at: Fri, 11/09/2018 at 12:00pm - Thu, 11/15/2018 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
Today, Danny and I present part 1 of our sitdown with Scott Horton, host of Anti-War Radio on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, which is also known by its podcast name, the Scott Horton Show.  Scott has hosted Anti-War Radio since 2003 and has done several thousand interviews wi... Read more

Puerto Rico's Quiet Revolution

Airs at: Mon, 11/12/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, it resulted in thousands of deaths and knocked out power for nearly a year. Further, the devastation worsened a debt crisis that's crippled public services for years. So residents of already-abandoned communities were not surprise... Read more

Dr Michael Mehaffy on the Demise of the Portland's Neighborhood Associations

Produced for:  Evening News
Remarks to the Eastside Democratic Club Michael Mehaffy * November 6, 2018   Thank you very much for the invitation.  I am an urban researcher, sometimes professor and consultant, focused mostly on city growth and its characteristics – and on the human side of growth, the... Read more

Why the Constitution Won't Save Us

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker reads from an articleby J.M. Opal, “Here's Why America's Constitution Won't Save Us from Trump”; Opal, an Associate Professor of History, McGill University, argues that both 18th century Britain and present day America were/are plutocracies hidden beneath a pa... Read more

Zoe Leonard Wants a President

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Zoe Leonard reads and comments on “I Want a President”     Read more