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Criminalizing Native Dissent

Airs at: Wed, 08/08/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Jacqueline Keeler welcomes two Native activists who've been targeted by law enforcement for their politcal expressions. Tracy Molina is a Native veteran and activist who was arrested on Saturday at the Patriot Prayer Rally in downtown Portland. She was charged with seco... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 6, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, with the following segments: 1. Margaret Klein Salamon of The Climate Mobilization talks with Bill Resnick about the massive WWII-size commitment necessary to deal adequately with climate change. 2. Joe Clement inter... Read more

Dr. Cynthia McKinney and the Deep State

Airs at: Fri, 08/10/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
  Former U.S. Congresswoman (1992-2002, 2004-2006) from Georgia and 2008 Presidential candidate for the Green Party, Dr. Cynthia McKinney, speaks with John Shuck on the Beloved Community. Topics include her entry into politics, racism, the various factions of the Deep Sta... Read more

Parenting From Prison, Inside Out

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  When one or both parents are incarcerated the family is also incarcerated and are adversely affected in profound ways that exacerbate existing structural inequalities and struggles. Programs for inmates and families like FamilyWorks and the Storybook Program, encourage r... Read more

Ending the War on Drugs

Airs at: Sun, 08/05/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century, exclusive audio from Congressman Earl Blumenauer's community forum on ending the war on drugs, which was held in Portland, Oregon on August First. Speakers on this show include Congressman Blumenauer and Bobbin Singh, executive director of the Oregon J... Read more

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

The New Morality: A Conversation with Eden Collinsworth

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  What is moral?  How has morality changed and how does that effect how we make decisions and evaluate the decisions of others in politics, business, and sex?   In Behaving Badly:  The New Morality in Politics, Sex and Business. Eden Collinsworth embarks on a personal jour... Read more

Jeannie Alexander: No Exceptions Prison Abolition Collective

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Jeannie Alexander is a former prison chaplain turned prison abolition activist and organizer with No Exceptions Prison Abolition Collective and Harriet Tubman House, a collective living community for prison abolition activists and people transitioning out of the mass incarc... 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