Wednesday Talk Radio

    Second Wednesday co-host Jacqueline Keeler has recently launched a podcast in tandem with her online magazine "Pollen Nation." As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread, it has also begun to hit Native communities, and Keeler has been covering that on her podcast, ... Read more

  The Covid-19 pandemic is upping the stress and anxiety levels in all of us, and, like the physical effects of the virus, likely to overburden a mental health care system also suffering from staff shortages and inadequate funding. Bob Nikkel, a former Oregon commissioner ... Read more

    PDX Rent Strike, a newly formed coalition, has called for an April first rent strike in the wake of the economic meltdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Randall, an organizer with the group, join Paul by phone to talk about what a rent strike is and what their group... Read more

  3rd Wednesday co-host Sara from Portland Assembly joins Paul to talk about the PDX Covid-19 Mutual Aid Network and other efforts to provide direct assistance with shopping and other forms of collective self-help. At least two Facebook groups have sprung up recently to pr... Read more

    Host Paul Roland welcomes back  Deborah Schwartzkopf and Jane Rice, along with new guest Sarah Hancock.  Petition to Standardize, Regulate & Audit Shock Treatments: https://www.change.org/p/standardize-regulate-audit-shock-treatments-electroconvulsive-therapy-or-ect?u... Read more

    Yankton Dakota (Sioux) and Dineh (Navajo) writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler joins regular Wednesday Talk Radio host Paul Roland to have a conversation about what makes someone Native American and what it means to be a settler-colonial-immigrant (like Paul) and how... Read more

    Braunwynn Franklin has been a peer specialist and advocate for more than 10 years. She has a heart for social justice change in the prison/justice system and supporting people to gain a better quality of life mentally, spiritually and physically. She has a Bachelors D... Read more