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Countering "Unite the Right2" in Washington D.C.

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Unheard Voices Counter the 'Unite the Right2' Rally at the White House...What is Happening in Venezuela?...Headlines on Keystone XL, Children Still Snatched from their Parents, Young Climate Activists Challenge Dems WASHINGTON, DC, the belly of the beast of international... Read more

50th Anniversary of 1968

Airs at: Fri, 08/17/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  On this edition of From The Vault, we Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Pacifica Radio Archives recordings from 1968. As part of our ongoing preservation and access program, The Pacifica Radio Archives identified some 100 of our most outstanding recordings from 1968.... Read more

World War D

Airs at: Wed, 08/15/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
Our guest today is Michael Krawitz from Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access. Mike is a veteran of the US Air Force with a service-related disability. He’s a medical cannabis patient, an advocate and organizer both for veterans and for medical cannabis patients, and a longt... Read more

Fighting a Toxic Current

Airs at: Wed, 08/15/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  What's in the water and in the soil? Who put it there? How can you help make it right? Tune in Wednesday, Aug. 15 at 9am and join the conversation with Lisa Loving.  Call in at (503) 231-8187 How can the people force the corporate sector to clean up the Willamette River... Read more

Disenrollment and Immigration: How Sovereign are Indigenous Nations?

Airs at: Wed, 08/15/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Jacqueline Keeler welcomes Alfred Urbina, the attorney general for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona. The Pascua Yaqui are the first federally recognized tribe with a high-tech enhanced tribal card (ETC), a certified ID card for border transit. They were also on of the f... Read more

Whither Anarchism?

Airs at: Mon, 08/13/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with Kristian Williams about the future of the democratic left.  Williams is best known for his book Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America.  Kristian and Bill discuss his latest work, Whither Anarchism? which calls for social transformation ... Read more

Protesting Fascists, Surviving Police

Airs at: Mon, 08/13/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Hyung Nam talks with Effie B about recent mobilizations among the left against the right in Portland, and about the Portland police’s targeting of anti-fascist activists.  Although Effie organizes with PopMob, they are speaking here about their own views and not for the ... Read more

Ending The War On Drugs - Part Two

Airs at: Sun, 08/12/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century: more exclusive coverage of Congressman Earl Blumenauer's community forum on ending the war on drugs, which was held in Portland, Oregon on August First, including audio from Portland Police Bureau Deputy Chief Robert Day and Congressman Blumenauer. Read more

CRC Challenges Multiple Police Findings in Misconduct Case

Airs at: Wed, 08/08/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
OUTLAW TO RULE ON CHALLENGES Last Wednesday, the Citizen Review Committee, a volunteer group that hears appeals of Portland Police misconduct cases, voted to challenge decisions that let two officers off the hook for allegedly using force and issuing a traffic citation to ... Read more

Extraction Industries & Sexploitation: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 08/14/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
The scourge of male violence exists independently of capitalism, empire and colonialism. It is a separate evil. The fight to end male violence against women, part of a global struggle by women, must take primacy in our own struggle. We cannot stand up for some of the oppres... Read more