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Earth Day Fifty Years Later

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On April 22, 1970, millions of people around the world mobilized to celebrate the first Earth Day, helping to kickstart the modern environmental movement. On this episode of Locus Focus, we talk with Denis Hayes, who coordinated the first Earth Day – as once again, all ar... Read more

America: The Farewell Tour w/ Chris Hedges - Ep 60

Airs at: Wed, 04/15/2020 at 6:30am - Wed, 04/22/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
Chris Hedges is a columnist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New Jersey state prisoners by Rutgers University, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written 12 books, ... Read more

Buscando America on 04/14/20

Airs at: Tue, 04/14/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En esta emisión escucharás unas conversación con la cantante Audry Funk desde NYC, epicentro de la pandemia de CIVID19.  En la Sesión  9  de Voces ke Luxan,  Karen Torrente habló con Pabla san Martin escritora y partera tradicional sobre la  situacion social que  se vive... Read more

Ripples in all directions: Basic Rights Oregon, hope as a practice, Youth HIV Awareness Day

Airs at: Tue, 04/14/2020 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
‘People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a... Read more

Pandemic opens up conversation about the Rights of Nature and protecting the environment

Airs at: Thu, 04/09/2020 at 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  The coronavirus pandemic has opened up different avenues of thinking, including about the environment. KBOO's Jenka Soderberg interviews a regional representative from the CELDF about how this pandemic has managed to open up the conversation about the Rights of Nature... Read more

They Feed They Lion

Airs at: Mon, 04/13/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In honor of National Poetry Month, Patricia Kullberg discusses the 1968 poem, “They Feed They Lion,” by former US Poet Laureate, Philip Levine and what the poem might mean for us today as we grapple with the devastation of climate change and pandemic disease. Aerial vie... Read more

Calla Felicity Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Calla Felicity is a running for Oregon's 1st House District seat.  She talked with Don Merrill about how shoveling sulphur opened her eyes to the plight of women in blue collar work, how she has reshaped the anger she felt in her teenage years into the steadfast determin... Read more

Presswatch on 04/09/20

Airs at: Thu, 04/09/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
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Policy Making in a Pandemic

Airs at: Mon, 04/13/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Now that everyone on the planet is facing the all-consuming threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to seriously face not only the need to innovate our medical and social systems, but also how we make policy. If we can figure out how to swiftly limit the deadly virus’s ... Read more

We Are All In This Together, But We're Not All In the Same Boat

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
  "We don't always communicate well with our neighbors and with the people in the places we frequent on a daily basis, whether it's schools or stores. I don't think we can assume right now that everyone's connected to the same websites or internet pages, and we're certa... Read more