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Providence Nurses Fighting Back

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2022 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Faced with unsafe staffing, low compensation and benefits, and declining patient care, nurses in the Providence healthcare system are fed up and fighting back.  On the heels of a massive protest picket at Providence St. Vincent's hospital, Richard Botterill and Kim Marti... Read more

Nick Hess Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Nick Hess is a republican candidate for Oregon governor.  He talked with Don Merrill about why Oregon leadership doesn't get technology but needs to, why city run programs are bloated, expensive and ineffective in dealing with the homeless problem and why, as a businessm... Read more

Farrah Chaichi Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Farrah Chaichi is a democrat running for the Oregon House in the 35th District.  She talked with Don Merrill about how training in political science and criminal justice lead to social activism, why the housing market is difficult even for someone like her who is plugged... Read more

Portland Association of Teachers Gets New Leadership

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2022 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Join us as we hear from Portland Association of Teachers President-Elect Angela Bonilla, Vice President-Elect Jacque Dixon, and Executive Board member-elect Emily Golden-Fields about their recent election wins and their plans for their union. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 14, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: War and Resistance: Bill Resnick talks to Alice Slater, Chair of the Board of Directors of World Beyond War about Russia’s attack on Ukraine, why it happened, how it might be res... Read more

Michael Cross Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Michael Cross is a democrat running for Oregon governor.  He talked with Don Merrill about why he switched from a staunch republican to a staunch democrat, how is run-ins with the law gives him a perspective his other candidates don't have, and why he believes his plan o... Read more

Hopes for Oregon's Short Legislative Session

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Oregon’s 2022 short legislative session is drawing to a close. While short sessions, which happen during even years, often focus on budgets, unfinished business, and a limited set of new policy ideas, this year is different. Numerous bills have been introduced and are no... Read more

Christina Stephenson Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Christina Stephenson is a civil rights attorney with a long history defending worker's rights.  She talked with Don Merrill about her start in the working world at her parent's business, how BOLI's protections including not just civil rights we think about but protection... Read more

Jason Beebe Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Jason Beebe is a Prineville Oregon's conservative mayor who is running against Ron Wyden for the US Senate.  He talked with Don Merrill about the need to enforce the immigration laws already in place, the personal reasons why he believes in the right to life movement and... Read more

Art Talk Bus Stop with Kwame Mchuru

Airs at: Wed, 02/23/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Talk Bus Stop
Kwame Mchauru is the label manager for Maishi Music Tanzania and the Performing Arts Director of Nafasi Art Space in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Nafasi Art Space was founded in 2008 by a small group of Tanzanian Artists with the aim of improving access to and widening parti... Read more