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Carrie Newcomer, The Beautiful Not Yet

Airs at: Sun, 09/18/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Carrie Newcomer is a songwriter, recording artist, performer, and educator. She has released 15 albums. She was on Progressive Spirit when it was called Religion For Life a couple of years ago when her album "A Permeable Life" and its companion book, "A Permeable Life: Poem... Read more

Bread and Roses on 09/16/16

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
  Tonight, we talk to award-winning independent media artists Barbara Bernstein and Elaine Velazquez who run The Media Project. They collaborated on a new documentary focusing on food, environmental, and racial justice called Gaining Ground. GAINING GROUND is a feature-le... Read more

Aurora Levins-Morales, nationally known Puerto Rican-Jewish feminist, author and activist

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Host Dennis Bernstein devotes the entire show to an interview with Aurora Levins-Morales, nationally known Puerto Rican-Jewish feminist, author and activist, who is planning to travel the US in her mobile radio station, talking about the confluence of ecology, health and... Read more

Lies, and the Concept of a Post Truth World

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Have you dear listener been having trouble believing what you hear or read lately, or wondering why some of our fellow citzens are lapping up  what seems to be impossible and contradictory stories as truth? Well, Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters wrote a book, Lies Incorpora... Read more

Protest and Song with Jaffe and Newcomer

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
The Beloved Community is a new 60 minute show that airs every second Friday from 9 to 10 a.m. on 90.7 KBOO/Portland. On the Beloved Community we address the philosophical and spiritual foundations for non-violence, activism, political engagement and peace building. We also... Read more

DEMOCRACY FROM THE BOTTOM UP

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The end of a stable climate, along with the end of cheap energy and the possible end of economic “normalcy,” could spell the end of political normalcy. If the U.S. election season is any guide, we may already be witnessing the early stages of a political sea change, as nati... Read more

Journalist David Daley on "Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy"

Airs at: Wed, 09/21/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher speaks with David Daley, the former editor-in-chief of Salon and the author of "Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy," the explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fund... Read more

Indigenous Activist Tom Goldtooth on More Arrests in North Dakota and Excerpts from Greg Palast's New Film

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Today on Flashpoints: More arrests in North Dakota in defense of mother Earth. We'll speak with Tom Goldtooth, a Native American environmental activist. And we air excerpts of the documentary film by Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.   Read more

Youth Moving Beyond Detention

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Carlos Chavez features the MacLaren youth in a podcast from the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn.  Kevin Le, the head instructor of Morpheus Youth Project’s break dance program, along with others, will talk about teaching break dancing at the Multnomah ... Read more

Building a Movement Inside & Outside: Reflections on September 9th

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli will interview national, local and regional organizers from groups like Black Lives Matters, Anarchist Black Cross and the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee about organizing for the September 9, 2016 call for a national prisoner strike. Organizers wi... Read more