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Light the Way Home Campaign

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
  This week on Prison Pipeline: Rodney Patrick McNeal was a probation office, a father, a graduate student and a home owner. On March 9, 1997, he came home to find his wife dead. That day changed his life forever and he was wrongly convicted. He has been wrongly convicted... Read more

World Drug Report

Airs at: Sun, 07/01/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week on Century, UN Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Yuri Fedotov answers questions from reporters at a news conference to announce the release of the UN's annual World Drug Report; plus, we look at new research showing how the federal crackdown on pain med... Read more

BEYOND STONEWALL: THE PUSH FOR LGBT CIVIL RIGHTS

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Radiozine
  We go back to the night in June 1969 at the New York City Stonewall Inn that sparked the LGBT rights movement. On today s show we ll hear about the day that galvanized a generation and the continued fight for LGBT civil rights.  The first Pride parades took place in June ... Read more

KBOO Reports live from OCCUPY ICE PDX

Airs at: Fri, 06/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Radiozine
  https://www.facebook.com/kbooradio/videos/10156216474865767/ Transcript of 6/29/18 9:00 am - 10:00 am - Radiozine hosted by Theresa Mitchell and Jenka Soderberg, featuring Danielle of OccupyICEPDX   [00:50] Speaker - This is KBOO, Portland the time now is 9:00 and comi... Read more

#Unfit and Duty to Warn

Airs at: Wed, 06/27/2018 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for Evening News
Duty To Warn (adutytowarn.org) is a whistleblower coalition of mental health professionals sounding the alarm - from an objective, clinical perspective - about Donald Trump’s dangerous psychological disorders and the “imminent threat to public safety” they perceive. Members... Read more

Russian Roulette

Airs at: Thu, 06/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Presswatch
  Theresa Mitchell welcomes David Corn and Michael Isikoff to Presswatch to discuss their new book RUSSIAN ROULETTE and what their take is on Russia's role in influencing American politics.  Call (503) 231-8187 to join the conversation. RUSSIAN ROULETTE is a story of poli... Read more

Sojourner Truth Radio

Airs at: Thu, 06/28/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  Today on Sojourner Truth, we discuss the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold Donald Trump's Muslim ban and the consequences of the ruling. Arab American Institute representative Ryan J. Suto and Council on American Islamic Relations Los Angeles representative Farida Ch... Read more

THE SAVE MOVEMENT

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Voices for the Animals
 Host Dab Steadman talks with two representatives of the local chapter of  "The Save Movement", Jocelyn Cole & Emily Rezentes, about their poignant form of activism:  "Bearing Witness" to the transport of farmed animals en route to the slaughterhouse.    Learn what it means... Read more

Electroshock revisited, with three survivors

Airs at: Wed, 06/27/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
    Host Paul Roland welcomes back Deborah Schartzkopff, anti-electroshock activist based in McMinnville. She hosts the website ectjustice.com and is pursuing a  national class action product liability suit around the devices used in electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) or el... Read more

Who is An American? -- Eric Foner

Airs at: Tue, 06/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  Definitions of who is an American have been constantly shifting for more than two centuries. Parameters expand and contract as the political winds vary. Historically, race and racism have been central factors in determining who is an American. With changing demographic a... Read more