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The treatment of elders in nursing homes

Airs at: Mon, 11/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Madness Radio
 Hosted by Will Hall   How are our elders treated in nursing homes? Are powerful anti-psychotic medications being used for treatment, or for social control? Does living in a nursing home promote mental health -- or make it worse? Carole Hayes-Collier, psychiatric abuse sur... Read more

Jack Norris and "Vegan For Life"

Airs at: Mon, 11/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
 Host David Naimon interviews Jack Norris, co-founder and president of Vegan Outreach, about his book Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet. "Here is the book I have been waiting for! Now when people ask me all those questi... Read more

Race, slavery, art, Food, and communities today

Airs at: Wed, 10/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Hosted by Lisa Loving Portland Playhouse has extended its epic production of August Wilson’s ‘Gem of the Ocean’ (PDF) through the beginning of November. Find out what drives this deep piece of community history with director Brian Weaver, actor Kevin Jones, and host Lisa L... Read more

The Occupy Wall St. movement marches on. Abe and Joe survey the landscape.

Airs at: Tue, 10/25/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Occupy Wall St. continues in New York, Portland and around the globe. Can this outpouring of economic populism elicit real and lasting change? Abe and Joe take your calls. Wanna Help?  Visit Occupy Portland           Read more

Responding to AIDS Denialism

Airs at: Tue, 10/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Out Loud
Normal 0 On this episode of Out Loud, we looked at a controversial, maligned and explosive topic within the medical and scientific community.  There is actually a small movement of people who question the existence of HIV and AIDS.  Many within the movement refer to th... Read more

Movie Moles: We Were Here - voices from the AIDS years in San Francisco

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss "We Were Here - voices from the AIDS years in San Francisco" directed by David Weismann and Bill Weber. The film profiles five people living in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis in the late '70s and 1980s. Frann and Jan note the power ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 17th

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
        Bill Resnick hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill interview Harvey Wasserman about the relationship between our democratic energy future and Occupy Wall Street. Joe Clement reads an essay by David Graeber about the Radical Imagination set loose by the Wal... Read more

Dr Daniel Amen and "Unchain Your Brain"

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
Hosted by Dr. David Naimon   Are you chained to your addiction to sugar, caffeine, food, smoking, drugs, painkillers, internet porn? Adult and child psychiatrist, brain-imaging specialist, and best-selling author, Dr. Daniel Amen discusses how optimizing your brain is the... Read more

Sandra Steingraber talks about hydro-fracking and how it threatens our air, water and food.

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 The guest is writer and ecologist Sandra Steingraber, author of the groundbreaking book "Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment." Her latest book is "Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis." She... Read more

Lindsey Berkson and her book Healthy Digestion the Natural Way

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
 Hosted by Dr. David Naimon   Author and nutritional consultant Lindsey Berkson discusses her book Healthy Digestion the Natural Way. Learn safe, inexpensive and natural ways to address digestive complaints from heartburn and ulcers, to irritable bowel, gallbladder disease... Read more