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INFO TO SUPPORT SUNDIATA ACOLI

What you can do to help and a sample letter: www.sundiataacoli.orgwww.myspace.com/freesundiataPlease write a letter of support for Sundiata Acoli. Your support is needed. Print it, sign it, mail it. It's that easy! Letter, links and more info are below! more details: ... Read more

The Decade In Review: Call in with your Best and Worst of the Decade

Airs at: Tue, 12/29/2009 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe UrisToday's show will be The Decade In Review...  Joe will seed the discussion with some of his own observations, then ask for yours. Read more

Palestinian Christians speak in Portland

Airs at: Thu, 12/24/2009 at 12:00am
Christians around the world are gathering to prepare for Christmas. But in Bethlehem, where the Christian religion began, the population lives under a military occupation, and surrounded by a Wall. Two Palestinian Christians, one from Nazareth, and one from Bethlehem, spok... Read more

Israel's chief pathologist admits to organ harvesting

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Israeli authorities have admitted that Israeli government pathologists illegally harvested organs from both Palestinians and Israelis, without the permission of their families. KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg brings us this story. Read more

Lakota Nation: Two Years of Secession

Airs at: Wed, 12/16/2009 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
December 21, 2009  marks the second anniversary of the announcement that  the Lakotah Nation was unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States. Garry Rowland from Wounded Knee was one of the delegates that made the trip ... Read more

Move Moles: "Invictus"

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Sports, politics and race combine in the new Clint Eastwood movie Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela.   Our Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken analyze the deep politics of this film. Read more

Voices from the Edge: What's behind Oregon's domestic violence murders-suicides?

Airs at: Thu, 12/10/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Fourteen Oregonians died last month in five murder-suicides and one attempted murder suicide. Why this sudden outbreak now of men using guns to murder their spouses, ex-spouses and themselves when domestic violence homicides in Oregon have been on the decline? In 1997, 22 d... Read more

Patricia Turner, author of "Crafted Lives : Stories and Studies of African American Quilters

Airs at: Thu, 12/03/2009 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Hosts Patricia Welch, O.B. Hill and Emma Jackson Ford speak with Patricia Turner, author of "Crafted Lives : Stories and Studies of African American Quilters." Turner explores the culture and recent history of African Americans through the creations and wisdom of nine quilt... Read more

A recent study shows that our dynamic Immigrant Community actually BOOSTS our local economy. Find out how!

Airs at: Wed, 12/02/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Common Sense Talk Radio Hosted by Kayse Jama and Grassia Melendez From the Center for Intercultural Organizing Today's guests are Joy Margheim from the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and Ronault "Polo" Catalani from Portland's Office of Human Relations.  Joy was an autho... Read more

Movie Review: Precious

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What do we learn from Precious, the movie about a pregnant black teenager, about poverty, education, and matriarchy?  What does it leave out or distort?  The Old Mole's Denise Morris talks with Juell Stuart, a writer and activist from Brooklyn whose article on Precious appe... Read more