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Managing Pain

Airs at: Sun, 02/25/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week, we discuss pain and pain treatment with Professor Beth Darnall, PhD, a pain psychologist, clinical scientist, and clinical professor at Stanford University. Read more

GREEN JOBS & INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STRIKE

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Camilo Marquez, representing the Portland Climate Action Community Benefits Initiative, will discuss this local GREEN JOBS 2018 ballot initiative which trains and employs workers from marginalized communities to weatherize and solarize homes and businesses, funded by a surc... Read more

Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle, Portland and Toronto

Airs at: Fri, 02/23/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  One Land Many Voices
Dean Spade, the Seattle-based producer of the film Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back, describes Pinkwashing as "A term used by activists to describe an explicit strategy taken up in recent years by the government of Israel to portray Israel as a leader in gay rights ... Read more

Progressive parking policies urged by Portlanders for Parking Reform

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
  Portlanders for Parking Reform (PPR) is a grassroots advocacy group focused on implementing progressive parking policies to encourage more affordable housing, increase use of alternative transportation modes, and take action on climate change. Policy victories have inclu... Read more

Press**Watch: News you're not supposed to know

Airs at: Thu, 02/22/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Today we'll be looking at some of the great accomplishments of USA society, like soreading anthrax through beetles that children are likely to handle, conducting interrogations purely for the sake of terror, villages in order to save them, dropping out of the wimpiest possi... Read more

The LNG Terminal that Refuses to Die

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Before oil and coal project proposals started popping up in communities across the Pacific Northwest, plans to build Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminals were emerging along the coastline from Oregon to British Columbia. And now that nearly every proposed oil and coal termina... Read more

Librarian Stereotypes

Produced for:  Off The Shelf
What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word "librarian"? If you're like most people, the images you conjure up come from a variety of sources, including movies, TV, and popular culture, but they typically don't reflect who librarians are or what kind of work ... Read more

Librarian Stereotypes

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 8:45am - 9:45am
Produced for:  Off The Shelf
What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word "librarian"? If you're like most people, the images you conjure up come from a variety of sources, including movies, TV, and popular culture, but they typically don't reflect who librarians are or what kind of work ... Read more

Off the Shelf

Produced for:  Off The Shelf
What do you think of when you hear the word "librarian"? Chances are the images that you conjure up immediately come from a variety of sources, including movies, TV, books, and other forms of popular culture, but they likely bear little relationship to what librarians do on... Read more

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything you know about Drugs and Society

Airs at: Wed, 02/21/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Today, we broadcast our one-hour special with Columbia University Professor of Psychology Carl Hart about his book High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything you know about Drugs and Society. Dr. Hart disputes some of our most bas... Read more