Health

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May 28th is International Menstrual Hygiene Day

Airs at: Fri, 05/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Urmila Chanam, Indian activist has organized a campaign to raise awareness about the situation rural women and girls face in India around menstrual hygiene. Her campaign "Celebrate the Red Droplets" invites all of us to break the silence, to banish taboos, myths and shame a... Read more

March on Against Monsanto! Momentum builds against genetically modified organisms in our food.

Airs at: Fri, 05/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
On the heels of Tuesday's local initiative victories against GMO crops and the day before this year's March on Monsanto, host Paul Roland looks at the building grassroots movement for GMO-free food and against corporate behemoths Monsanto and others who are pushing genetic ... Read more

Book Mole: Love and Horror in the American West

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews Love and Terror on the Howling Road to Nowhere by Poe Ballantine, which mixes personal memoir with the mystery of his neighbor's violent death in small-town Nebraska. Read with other recent writing about the American West, Ballantine's book reveals how... Read more

Jackson County GMO-Ban Initiative

Airs at: Wed, 05/14/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
A measure on the ballot in southwest Oregon's Jackson County seeks to ban the cultivation and propagation of genetically modified crops in the county. KBOO's Sam Bouman speaks with Elise Higley of Our Family Farms Coalition, which is leading the initiative, for more informa... Read more

GMO-Labeling Initiative Approved by State Supreme Court

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
After receiving the approval of the Oregon Supreme Court today, a group trying to get a GMO-labeling initiative on the November ballot is poised to begin gathering signatures. For more on the initiative, KBOO’s Sam Bouman spoke to Sandeep Kaushik, a spokesman with Oregon ... Read more

La Grande Domestic Violence Shelter Faces Demolition

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A domestic violence shelter in La Grande Oregon is facing closure to make way for a new county courthouse in Union county. Shelter From The Storm filed a litigation suit in April to seek resolutions that would minimize the impact of construction on the group’s facility. ... Read more

sunlight is the best disinfectant (on Measure 26-156)

The Well-Read red has been reading the voter's pamphlet for Portland, and has done some additional reading about Measure 26-156, which (in the words of the voters's pamphlet) "Amends Charter: Creates Water and Sewer District with Elected Board." The arguments in favor of th... Read more

Andrew Geller interviews Ralph Nader on his latest book, Unstoppable

Airs at: Fri, 05/09/2014 at 12:00am
Andrew Geller speaks with long-time political activist, lecturer and author Ralph Nader about his latest book, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. Read more

Rebecca Kane talks about EFT helping her heal from Cancer and about her new Collapse Your Cravings program

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  New Visions for Peace
  Rebecca has been using various forms of energy work for the last ten years. As a result of an unexpected cancer diagnosis at age 26, She started receiving Reiki treatments and eventually became a Reiki Master herself. Rebecca went on to learn BodyTalk, Jin Shin Jitsu, acu... Read more

Johanna Brenner on Revolutionary Socialist Feminism for the 21st Century

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reads from an article written by Johanna Brenner for the webzine of Solidarity-US. Brenner starts by arguing that "Socialist-feminists start where most feminists begin: the emancipation of women must come from women ourselves, but cannot be achieved by ourselve... Read more