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Michael Beer of Nonviolence International on the War in Syria (Between the Lines)

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2016 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Air Cascadia
  Air Cascadia is off today. Instead we'll hear an excerpt from the series Between the Lines featuring Michael Beer of Nonviolence International on the War in Syria. Read more

Ali Sharif on Permaculture in Latin America and Africa and Maurice Carney and Harvey Wasserman on Racism, Environmentalism, and Ending War

Airs at: Fri, 09/02/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  We speak with permaculture expert Ali Sharif who has thirty years of permaculture field experience in 6 countries.  After taking his Permaculture Design course in the USA in 1984, Bill Mollison, the "father of permaculture," instructed Ali Sharif to take permaculture to... Read more

Ali Sharif on Permaculture in Latin America and Africa

Airs at: Fri, 09/02/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  We speak with Ali Sharif, founder of IPERMO, an organization promoting permaculture in Mozambique. Ali Sharif, has 30 years of field experience in 6 countries.  After taking his Permaculture Design course in the USA in 1984, Bill Mollison, the "father of permaculture", i... Read more

Winona LaDuke on Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline; Also the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and Armed Struggle in the Philippines

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Today on a Flashpoints...indigenous activist Winona Laduke provides an update of the ongoing protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline on the land of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, then we go to the situation in Brazil where president Dilma Rousseff was impeached today... Read more

Syria and Hillary Clinton

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2016 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Host Per Fagereng asks, "When did the U.S. first become involved in the Syrian Rebellion? Was the U.S. actually involved prior to the first protests against the Assad government?  Read more

Vigil commemorating two year anniversary of Gaza invasion

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2016 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Two years ago, the Israeli army began one of its bloodiest attacks on Palestinians in Gaza. That fighting went on for fifty-one days, lasting from July 8 through August 27. Well over two thousand Gazans were killed, upwards of seventy percent of them civilians. Sixty-six... Read more

Through Our Own Eyes: 16.08.09 Citizens Disrupt Investment Summit at the Sheraton in Puerto Rico

Today at 9am activist crashed the 2016 Puerto Rico Investment Summit at the Isla Grande Sheraton hotel. The arrived in mass and with banners and called for an end to Act 20 and 22. Both of these laws give unfair advantages to foreign and US corporations and investors. Act 2... Read more

Free Culture Radio

Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
  Drugs in society and society on drugs Third Wednesday of each month from 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm Free Culture Radio is an examination of drugs, drug cultures, and the ineluctable, indelible, and indispensable influence of drugs on society. Free Culture Radio neither promot... Read more

Black Lives Matter Endorses Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel

Airs at: Mon, 08/08/2016 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Black Lives Matter has endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, in solidarity with the people of Palestine. To find out more, KBOO reporter Doug McVay spoke with Ned Roche from the Portland chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. Read more

Henry Giroux on Critical Pedagogy

Airs at: Wed, 08/17/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff of the Project Censored Show speak with author/educator Henry Giroux. Giroux explains the concept of 'critical pedagogy,' and the pivotal role that education plays for the whole of society. He warns of the increasing domination of the world... Read more