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Stimulant Culture Part Two: Mama Coca

Airs at: Wed, 12/20/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
On part two of our examination of stimulant culture, we explore cocaine -- Mama Coca, marching powder, Coca Cola's original secret ingredient -- with our guest Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Sanho Tree at the Institute ... Read more

Portland Rally in support of Jerusalem and Palestine

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Four Palestinians were killed over the weekend by Israeli forces in Gaza. The victims were protesting Donald Trump’s announcement last Wednesday that he would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This recognition denies the legitimate rights of the nearly one milli... Read more

What's behind Trump's slashing of the Bears' Ears protected area

Airs at: Wed, 12/13/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Guest Host Jacqueline Keeler, of Dine' (Navajo) and Yankton Dakota heritage has written extensively about the Bears' Ears National Monument. She contributed an essay to Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah’s Public Lands, a trade edit... Read more

The Politics of Living - Episode 10

Airs at: Wed, 12/06/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  The Politics of Living
December 6, 2017   In the wake of last year's presidential election, singer Ara Lee and songwriter Beth Wood wrote and produced a song entitled "Nasty Woman".  Their purpose was to raise money fo Planned Parenthood.   Over 50 Portland musicians and citizens united to ... Read more

Native Voices from the Edge

Airs at: Thu, 11/30/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Cary Watters and Amory Zschach return to host Voices From the Edge and welcome two community leaders to continue the discussion on Native American Heritage Month. Jessica Rojas is a 3rd generation Oregonian, raised in NE Portland. She provides technical assistance, advo... Read more

Shaping a Future: Life After Prison - Part 2

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On Sunday, October 29th 2017 nine individuals told their stories in a performance titled: Shaping a Future: Life After Prison. The performance was a culmination of  writing workshops sponsored by the Regional Arts and Culture Council. The project conceived of and organized ... Read more

Dennis Banks & Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  Dennis Banks left on his final Journey Dennis Banks is remembered for having organized, with AIM in a coalition of 8 indigenous nations, the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties. They converged on Washington, DC, with 500 followers to protest Indian living conditions and lost t... Read more

First Voices Radio: Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
  In the first half-hour of this special repeat edition of First Voices Radio, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Corine Fairbanks. Corine, who is Oglala Lakota, is Director for the American Indian Movement, Southern California. She has been working in the social justice ... Read more

Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium: Winona LaDuke

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  In her 1998 Mario Savio Free Speech lecture, "Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium," LaDuke explores the conflict between indigenous people who live on the land and urbanized industrial society - that is, cyclical versus linear ideas of the world, and their results. ... Read more

#NotYourMascot

Airs at: Thu, 11/23/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Voices From The Edge presents Jacqueline Keeler's Not Your Disappearing Indian...a new podcast about all the ways Native people are not going away and how America's got us all wrong.  On this episode you'll hear the sounds from a protest of the NFL during a game between ... Read more