Global Affairs

We Are Not Drowning, We Are Fighting! with Marshallese writer Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner

Airs at: Thu, 09/29/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

Host Jo Ann Hardesty speaks with Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner,a Marshallese writer and climate justice activist about We Are Not Drowning, We Are Fighting! A Night of Poetry and Conversation, happening Thurs. Sept 29, 7-9pm, at the First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave (Eli... Read more

Scarves of Many Colors

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joan Bohorfoush, one of the founding members of the Old Mole Variety Hour, produced, together with Dina Dickerson, an award winning radio documentary that presents a wide variety of views Muslim women have about covering the female body. It shows the falsity of common Weste... Read more

KBOO is in Islamabad

Hello Portland, Hood River and Beyond! I am blogging from the Beautiful Serena Hotel in Islamabad. After leaving Portland on Wednesday morning I met with the rest of my fellow fellows at a hotel in Washington DC, from there we spent a few days learning about the Internatio... 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

The White Donkey - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 09/08/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

In this extended version of our interview with Oregon artist Maximilian Uriarte, we talk more about his graphic novel The White Donkey, which has been hailed for its frank depictions of post-traumatic stress disorder in young veterans. Max hopes to adapt the graphic nov... Read more

The White Donkey - Maximilian Uriarte

Airs at: Thu, 09/08/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Oregon artist Maximilian Uriarte signed up with the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of nineteen and served as a gunner in the Iraq War. His early comic strip Terminal Lance offered a sardonic view of military life in an occupied land, but his new graphic novel The White Do... Read more

The World is Churning Still

Airs at: Fri, 09/09/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

We are so pleased to have with us again renowned author, storyteller, scholar of mthyology and psychology , Michael Meade combines relevant and spellbinding story telling with street-savvy perspectives and a deep knowleedge of cross cultural tales and rituals. He has two n... Read more

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