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Food Alliance Certification: how food choices can support the environment, social justice & humane treatment of animals

Airs at: Wed, 11/24/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
With little regard for animal suffering, the environment, or fair labor practices, our conventional food system has been based on the premise that food is a commodity that should be cheap and plentiful--the costs, even to our health, are downplayed.  Scott Exo, executive di... Read more

Linda Neale on the Earth and Spirit Council and Grandmother Maria Alice

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Linda Neale on the Earth and Spirit Council and Grandmother Maria Alice Host Sue Supriano interviews Linda Neale of the Earth and Spirit Council about their event with Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire on Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. She will be speakin... Read more

BE LOVE NOW - A Conversation with Rameshwar Das on the teachings of Ram Das

Airs at: Mon, 11/22/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Richard Alpert was an eminent Harvard psychologist on the fast track to success when he fell in with fellow Harvard professor Timothy Leary who turned him on to LSD. Harvard University did not appreciate their ardent research on the psychological and spiritual potentials un... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 11/18/10 - Mayor Adams New Gun Control Proposal

Airs at: Thu, 11/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
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Movie Moles: "Cool It"

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Wendy Webb review Cool It, a documentary about Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish economist and environmentalist.  Lomborg does not deny global warming, but urges a more measured and adaptive response to it while refuting some of the more catastrophic pred... Read more

Do we live in a Democracy, Plutocracy, Fascist State, or something totally different?

Airs at: Tue, 11/16/2010 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris As the populist wave that swept President Obama into office gives way to Business as Usual, Americans are waking up to the realities of life in a Plutocracy. Both Frank Rich in the New York Times and Chris Hedges on Alternet reflect on th... Read more

CAFO: THE TRAGEDY OF INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL FACTORIES

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Most Americans - and a growing number of people around the world - now eat meat that was grown on factory farms. The brutal, inhumane conditions in which factory farm animals are raised calls into question not just the ethics of eating meat but the very foundations of the d... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 11/11/10 - Susan Banyas and The Hillsboro Story

Airs at: Thu, 11/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
#cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content div { margin: 0px; } A celebration of civil rights: Susan Banyas and The Hillsboro Story Two months after the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision legally ending school segregation, the county engi... Read more

Public Hearing on Boardman Coal Power Plant

Airs at: Tue, 11/09/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 Last night the public was invited to voice their thoughts and concerns over the proposed closing date of the Boardman power plant in eastern Oregon.            The plant has become particularly controversial in recent years, as it is the final coal-powered plant ... Read more

Tar Sands Shipments Coming Through Portland

Airs at: Wed, 10/13/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 Last night the group “Northern Rockies Rising Tide” spoke at the Red and Black Café about the Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada and the current no shipments movement.  The tar sands, an oil extraction sight the size of Florida, have been called the largest and most d... Read more