Special Programming: Public Affairs

Jeffrey Clements: Who Owns Our Government?Live broadcast of the final talk in the 2013 Illahee Lecture Series.AN ATTORNEY AND AUTHOR, Clements is the co-founder of Free Speech for People, a national, non-partisan campaign challenge the creation of Constitutional rights for ... Read more

Live, on location broadcast of the 2013 Illahee Lecture Series. Tonight, hear Catherine Austin Fitts on Who Owns Our Economy?In 2013, the Illahee Lectures are looking into who influences, controls, and owns other key aspects of our lives:  what we eat, the information we ac... Read more

We hear Radio Ecoshock with host Alex SmithCanadian scientist Paul Beckwith explains how the Arctic warming emergency is changing your weather. But first, the story of an anti-pipeline media warrior, John Bolenbaugh in his own words. The leaks, scandals and deaths behind Ta... Read more

Paul Roland interviews John Stauber, long-time activist, investigative reporter and author. They discuss Stauber's beginnings and history as an activist, from protesting the Viet Nam war and organizing a teach-in at his high school on the first Earth Day in 1970, to fightin... Read more

Jimmy Tardy looks at Portland's Celebration of World Environment Day, June 5th, and the six weeks between Earth Day and World Environment Day. Read more

From the series Against the Grain C.S. Soong interviews Steven Vogel, author of Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory. It's a claim that has wide resonance on the left: we humans are alienated from nature, with profound consequences both for the way we t... Read more

Earth Day SpecialJoe Meyer hosts an update on the upcoming vote asking Portlanders to approve a plan to fluoridate the city's water. Joe will be knocking on doors in Southeast Portland before the show to get the views of residents who currently display lawn signs on the iss... Read more

Earth Day special programming continues with an interview with Adam Rome, author of "The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-in Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation." Rome explaines how Senator Gaylord Nelson’s simple idea for a nationwide teach-in about the envir... Read more

EARTH DAY PROGRAMMING: Christine Byl discusses her recent book Dirt Work, An Education in the Woods. After graduating with a degree in philosophy, Byl took a summer job as a "trail dog," maintaining trails in Glacier National Park; and it changed the course of her life. She... Read more

News and Public Affairs Day, Part 3Dr. Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness recorded at Emmanuel Temple on January 16, 2013Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. I... Read more