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Multnomah County Commissioners hold public hearing on energy goals; Pacific Power criticized by activists for doing too little

Airs at: Thu, 10/17/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  This week the Multnomah County Commissioners held a public hearing on the progress towards the county’s 100 percent clean energy goal. The county a major energy consumer, and at the hearing, Portland General Electric, Northwest Natural and Pacific Power gave presentation... Read more

"When in Doubt, Make Music."

Airs at: Wed, 10/23/2019 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  The RadioActivist
Suzanne LaGrande talks to award-winning composer, singer, performance artist and founder of the Big Mouth Society, Emily Lau. Big Mouth Society is a community-supported collective of musicians that that celebrates a diversity of viewpoints and furthers social discourse by ... Read more

Positive Charge! PDX: Organizing for a Kinder World

Airs at: Wed, 10/23/2019 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  The RadioActivist
Today on The Radio Activist, Suzanne LaGrande talks to Rhona Feldman, Ruthie Matinko-Wald, and Bonnie Berg, members of Positive Charge! PDX about their efforts to create the peace and kindness they want to see in the world. Positive Charge! PDX is a local volunteer group, o... Read more

Positive Charge! Pdx: Organizing for a Kinder World

Airs at: Wed, 10/23/2019 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  The RadioActivist
Today on The Radio Activist, Suzanne LaGrande talks to Rhona Feldman, Ruthie Matinko-Wald, Ruthie Matinko-Wald, members of Positive Charge! PDX about their efforts to create the peace and kindness they want to see in the world. Positive Charge! Pdx is a local volunteer grou... Read more

Rahab's Sisters benefit promises laughs

Airs at: Thu, 10/17/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Rahab’s Sisters is a nonprofit which works to serve those marginalized by poverty, houselessness, sex work, violence or substance use. Every Friday, they open their doors to women and people whose gender identity makes them vulnerable, offering a hot meal, a safe space a... Read more

Cider Riot owner stresses the importance of a safe haven for advocacy groups

Airs at: Thu, 10/17/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Following the recent death of activist and Cider Riot Cider-house patron, Sean Kealiher, and a tumultuous summer of clashes with far-right extremist groups, Cider Riot owner Abram Goldman- Armstrong has weathered on.  He’s stressing the importance of providing a safe hav... Read more

A Talk with Joshua Wright of Liberation Literacy

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Join host Isabelle Sinclair for a discussion with Joshua Wright of Liberation Literacy, who, while still incarcerated in Columbia River Correctional Institution (CRCI), helped found their inside/out reading group in 2016. Joshua has also worked with numerous other organizat... Read more

Activist block Port of Vancouver in protest of Trans Mountain Pipeline

Airs at: Thu, 10/17/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Activist have shut down the Port of Vancouver today to protest the import of Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion infrastructure through Washington State. The Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion would transport tar sands oil across Canada, from the Alberta Tar Sands to the sh... Read more

The Overstory

Airs at: Thu, 10/31/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel ... Read more

Andrea (Part One)

Airs at: Wed, 10/16/2019 at 8:00pm - 9:45pm
Produced for:  LoveSexGodTalk
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