This week on Century of Lies: State of the Global Drug War 2024.
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs held a set of thematic
discussions November 12 through 14. On this edition of Century hear from
Chloe Carpentier, Chief of the Research and Knowledge Production ...
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Today we honor Oregon Environment Icon Bob Sallinger, who died on October 30.
For over 30 years Bob has been a regional fixture advocating and fighting to
protect our rivers, wildlife, forests and communities from environmental and
social degradation and injustice. One of h...
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Socialist City Councilors-elect Tiffany Koyama Lane, known as Teacher
Tiffany, and Mitch Green, a green energy economist, talk about their vision
for building working-class power in Portland, Oregon
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This week on Century of Lies: Descheduling and Decolonizing Coca.
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs just completed a set of intersessional
meetings in Vienna, Austria, which were held November 12 through 14. One of
the topics under discussion was the international scheduling...
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Friday, November 15th kicks off QDoc Film Festival 2024, at the Hollywood
Theatre. Portland's Queer Documentary Film Fest is known for showcasing
unique stories of the LGBTQ+ community and providing a window into the film
making process, with documentary subject and film...
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For seven years Portland community members have been trying to shut down
Zenith Energy, a Houston-based oil company that sneaked into Portland in
2017. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality just opened the public
comment period for Zenith’s draft Air Contaminant Di...
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This month, we’re exploring queer protest songs.
The Invitation, Mary Oliver
Rid of Me by PJ Harvey.
Uprising of Love by Melissa Etheridge. Inspired by the Russian
governments’s violent abuse toward the LGBTQ community, which was only
highlighted by the 2014 Winter Olympi...
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En esta emisión escucha a Gemaly Padua Uscanga, mujer afrodescendiente del
sur de Veracruz y fundadora del colectivo Altepee.
http://instagram.com/colectivo_altepee
También recordamos a la Décima Musa, Sor Juana Inés De la Cruz, en la
voz de la investigadora Mexicana Margo...
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This week on Century of Lies: Decriminalizing and Decolonizing Coca.
The nations of Colombia and Bolivia held an event at the United Nations in
New York on November Seventh to challenge the negative connotation attributed
to the coca plant. The event was entitled "Beyond De...
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James and Nate talk with Stephen Jacobs, a Professor at Rochester Institute
of Technology's School of Interactive Games and Media and Scholar in
Residence at The Strong National Museum of Play. We talk about how one finds
themself as a scholar of games and play, the origina...
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