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Expunging Criminal Records

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
  This show will air 6:30 PM on May 27, 2019.  Karen James speaks with Nikki Thompson about expunging criminal records for youth and adults.  Nikki, an attorney with the Metropolitan Public Defenders Community Law Division, runs the MPD Expungement Clinic.  A motion to set... Read more

Little Big Union Launches Portland's Second Fast Food Workers Alliance

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
Workers at the Little Big Burger restaurant chain have launched Portland's second fast food union.  Like the Burgerville Workers Union, Little Big Union is affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World and has already been engaged in direct actions on the shop floor t... Read more

Filmmaker Josh Tucker discusses Alaska's proposed pebble mine

Airs at: Thu, 04/18/2019 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for Evening News
Part 1 of KBOO reporter Emily Gresham Beamer’s in-depth interview with Filmmaker Josh Tucker about the Pebble mine proposed in southwest Alaska, and his documentary ‘We can’t eat gold’.   The proposed open-pit gold mine, located in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed, would be t... Read more

Resist Like Our Lives Depend On It

Airs at: Fri, 04/19/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Positively Revolting
Join us for a conversation with Michael G. Long, editor of the new book We The Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States. Compiling first hand accounts of non-violent resistance movements from 1657 through the present, Michael Long contex... Read more

Recovery

Airs at: Wed, 05/15/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Free Culture Radio
This week on Free Culture Radio, a reprise of our Recovery Month Extended Special with Sheila Vakharia, PhD, from the Drug Policy Alliance's Office of Academic Engagement. Read more

Clean Energy Jobs Earth Day Update

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
This Earth Day was supposed to be the day that Oregon's Clean Energy Jobs bill was signed into law. Instead, while industry groups try to water down the bill, environmental groups are still lobbying Oregon legislators to pass the strongest law possible. They are being urged... Read more

An Interview on the Inside

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Join host Isabelle Sinclair in an interview with currently incarcerated aspiring writer Damon Lee Petrie. Damon has been incarcerated at Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) for the past 26 years, and shares his insight about life within the prison system, and about the fundamen... Read more

PTSD, Psychedelics, and Medical Cannabis

Airs at: Sun, 04/21/2019 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies we speak with Arnold Diehl from Floridians For Freedom about their marijuana legalization initiative; with Bryan Krumm, NP, about medicinal cannabis and PTSD; and with Rick Doblin, PhD, executive director and founder of MAPS, about psychedelics,... Read more

Strikes Work!

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Appearing at the Trouble Makers School in Portland before more than 200 union members, stewards and activists, Barbara Madeloni discussed the national picture for public pchool teachers organizing and how and why strikes work.  Madeloni is the Education Coordinator at Labor... Read more

2019 Greenfield Peace Writing Scholarship

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
Cecil and Celeste talk to this year's winners of the Physicians for Social Responsibility's Greenfield Peace Writing Scholarship.  Read more