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Single Payer Success in Vermont

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Vermont has become the first state to enact a law leading to a single payer health care system.   Vermont activist Traven talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what the law says, what kind of organizing led to the success, and the obstacles  that still remain.   Read more

Outside In: Youth Advocacy

Airs at: Wed, 06/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Underground
KBOO has hosted a Youth Radio Intensive with Outside In this week, and we are proud to present the audio produced by this fabulous group of young people! Juicy answers the most faq she gets about youth advocacy and interviews Jodi from Queerzone, and Nili from Outside In. Read more

Outside In: Options for Youth

Airs at: Wed, 06/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Underground
KBOO has hosted a Youth Radio Intensive with Outside In this week, and we are proud to present the audio produced by this fabulous group of young people! Taber talks about options for youth to live a healthier lifestyle, and also interviews Rachel Crump from Outside In. Read more

Outside In: Interview with Juliana Scholl

Airs at: Wed, 06/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Underground
KBOO has hosted a Youth Radio Intensive with Outside In this week, and we are proud to present the audio produced by this fabulous group of young people! Here, Spence has an interview with Juliana Scholl, a case manager at Outside In. Read more

Social Security: Beyond the Doom and Gloom

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Host Celeste Carey interviews Max Richtman, Executive VP/Acting CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. Richtman says, “It’s important that Americans understand the [just-released] 2011 Trustees Report which confirms that Social Security and ... Read more

Will Oregon be first to end prohibition of cannabis?

Airs at: Wed, 05/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
 Host Stephanie Potter speaks Paul Stanford and Jennifer Alexander who are working to put the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012 on the November, 2012 ballot. If passed this initiative would legalize the purchase of marijuana (through state licensed stores), license Oregon farmer... Read more

The 11th annual Village Building Convergence!

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   The City Repair Projects's Mark Lakeman joins Abe and Joe to discuss the upcoming 11th annual Village Building Convergence, set for May 27-June 5 at more than 40 sites throughout the city. Portlanders will come together to create benc... Read more

Defending Disability and Social Security

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Against the efforts of right-wing pundits and politicians to ridicule and delegitimize programs that help the least well-off among us, our Well-read Red Frann Michel cuts a wide, debunking swathe throught their noxious, weedy field of myths and deceptions.  You can read th... Read more

Marc Freedman and his book, THE BIG SHIFT: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife.

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Host Crystal Leighty speaks with Marc Freedman about his book THE BIG SHIFT: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife. Marc Freedman is founder and CEO of Civic Ventures. An award-winning social entrepreneur, frequent commentator in the national media, and the author of Enc... Read more

Albert J Bernstein and How To Deal With Emotionally Explosive People

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Hosted by Dick Van Dyck   ALBERT J. BERNSTEIN, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, author of How To Deal With Emotionally Explosive People, Dinosaur Brains, Emotional Vampires, Neanderthals at Work, and Sacred Bull, specialist in solving psychological problems at work and at home... Read more