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Fentanyl Smuggling and the Failure of a Militarized War on Drugs

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Fentanyl Smuggling and the Failure of a Militarized War on Drugs. The Washington Office on Latin America recently hosted a group of experts in a discussion entitled Responding Effectively to the Fentanyl Overdose Crisis: Evidence from th... Read more

Tessa Hulls at the Portland Book Festival

Airs at: Thu, 10/10/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Tessa Hulls' debut as an author is the sprawling graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts, a story of her own family, of survival and madness and love, seen through the lens of three generations of women and covering nearly a century of Chinese history. Tessa is an illustrator, pa... Read more

Dian Greenwood, author of Forever Blackbirds

Airs at: Thu, 10/10/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Dian Greenwood, author of the new novel Forever Blackbirds, from Travelers Moon Press. Dian has published essays in the online magazine The Big Smoke, and is a contributor to the anthology 2020: The Year of the Asterisk from University of Hell... Read more

Buscando America on 10/01/24

Airs at: Tue, 10/01/2024 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este programa escucha sobre la contaminación de aguas subterráneas que pone en riesgo el agua potable de cientos de familias latinas en el este de Oregon. Hablamos con Ubaldo Hernández, director de Comunidades, Zaira Sánchez, directora de organización comunitaria en Oreg... Read more

Vadim Mozyrsky Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Vadim Mozyrsky has been through it.  As a relatively recent addition to Portland, he's worked hard to involve himself in causes he cares about, while also building name recognition.  Now, as he competes for the District 1 seat on the Multnomah County Commission against Megh... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 1, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 07/01/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Episode Audio: Download or listen to this episode here Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: New Forms of Democracy-Part Two: In part two of their discussion, Bill Resnick interviews Eleanor Finley, an anthropologist, who ... Read more

Asylum, Migration, and US Border Policy

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Download or listen to this segment here Biden's border policies have taken a dramatic shift to the right. Through an executive order he set a cap on daily migrant crossings at the US-Mexico border and allowed US authorities to deport migrants without processing their as... Read more

People's Summit urges Portlanders to reject militarization during Fleet Week

Produced for:  Evening News
  It’s Fleet Week in Portland, meaning American and Canadian military ships are parked in the waterfront during the Rose Festival. They’re welcoming visitors aboard the ships, but not all residents are eager to see them there. More than a dozen local community organizatio... Read more

The Cost of Free Land

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The American strategy to exterminate the indigenous people who lived on this continent before the European settlement was many pronged. One of its elements was to entice immigrants from Eastern Europe to come to America with the offer of receiving free land to farm. This of... Read more

Natural Happiness

Airs at: Sun, 06/02/2024 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
Alan Heeks is a conservationist, social entrepreneur and author of Natural Happiness: Use Organic Gardening Skills to Cultivate Yourself. Alan runs workshops on developing personal resilience using organic gardening parallels to help people handle the stresses of modern lif... Read more