Wednesday Talk Radio

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Airs at: Wed, 05/01/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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Paul Roland

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Every Wednesday from 8:00 am - 9:00 am

News & commentary on local, national and international issues - we invite your calls at 503-231-8187

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Wednesday Talk Radio on 10/04/23

Airs at: Wed, 10/04/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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Where's it all going to end? Two guests from Code Pink address forever war and the climate apocalypse

Airs at: Wed, 09/27/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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We welcome back Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-imperialist peace organization Code Pink, to talk about next week's days of advocacy and action for peace in Ukraine (www.peaceinukraine.org). To lead off the show, we'll have her fellow Code Pink activist Melissa Ga... Read more

Mobilization against APEC: looking back and moving forward

Airs at: Wed, 09/20/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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Host Paul Roland welcomes three guests to look back at the mobilization against the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit held in Seattle in August: Katie Comfort, US Coordinator of the International Women's Alliance; Johnny Olson member of Migrante Portland and re... Read more

Guest host Jacqueline Keeler interviews host Paul Roland on his birthday!

Airs at: Wed, 09/13/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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Stop Calling It “Climate Anxiety.” It’s Climate Dread. With writer Hannah Seo

Airs at: Wed, 09/06/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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When burdened by the tangible angst and unease around the future of our planet, a term like “climate anxiety” can seem insufficient. It can feel paltry and shallow, implying we are fretting or fussing over an imagined future. In reality, seeing the mounting global disast... Read more

Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report

Airs at: Wed, 08/30/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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With Fulton County (Atlanta) District Attorney Fani Willis emerging as the latest hero of the liberal Dems for her prosecution of Trump and 18 co-defendants, we take a look at some of her other prosecutions with Black Agenda Report Executive Editor and Senior Columnist M... Read more

Confronting divisions on the Left, with David Rovics

Airs at: Wed, 08/23/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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Host Paul Roland returns after a three-week hiatus. Today he welcomes as guest David Rovics, who has been writing and performing politically charged music for decades, and has increasingly turned to writing about critical social and political issues, including those prev... Read more

Medea Benjamin on the Ukraine war, U.S. politics and how to build a more effective peace movement

Airs at: Wed, 07/26/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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Paul welcomes Code Pink co-founder and peace activist Medea Benjamin to his show seven months after her appearance last December. She'll bring us her perspective on where the Ukraine conflict stands, and then discuss the politics in the White House and Congress, the p... Read more

Resistance to APEC Ministerial Meeting in Seattle, July 29 to August 21

Airs at: Wed, 07/19/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, a regional economic forum established in 1989, with 21 member "economies," including the US, Japan, China, Australia, Indonesia, and Thailand, will be holding their third Senior Officials' Meeting in Seattle from late July through m... Read more