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The Stop Shopping Choir ... Amen

Airs at: Fri, 10/06/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Positively Revolting
The Environmental Movement needs humor and music, and activists ready to risk arrest. Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir brings all of that.  This band of Earth-Lovers sang at Standing Rock in North Dakota, in Ferguson, during the early days of black lives matter, ... Read more

KEEP PORTLAND HOUSED

Airs at: Thu, 10/05/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  Tune in to Voices from the Edge talk radio today, Lisa Loving is in for JoAnn A Hardesty. Our guests are organizers with Portland Tenants United, speaking on yesterday's City Council meeting. Read more

CAUGHT at Artists Repertory Theatre with Director Shawn Lee

Airs at: Tue, 10/10/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Stage and Studio
Host James Dixon talks with Shawn Lee - the director for Caught which is being produced at Artist's Repertory Theatre. Caught is a show centered around a Chinese dissident artist that combines visual art and live theatre installations. Caught is presented in partnership wit... Read more

Trump Oversees Puerto Rican Recovery Efforts, Insensitive Throughout 'Praises'

Airs at: Wed, 10/04/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:45pm
Produced for Evening News
Trump had recently visited Puerto Rico to oversee recovery efforts from the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. However, he had made relatively insensitive comments. One of which included him saying that the people 'didn't need flashlights' despite nearly 90% of the island was st... Read more

World on Fire

Airs at: Thu, 10/05/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for Fight the Empire
  This week FTE covers the Rohingya, Catalonia, Russia and Puerto Rico. Plus a solution for North Korea. Read more

Hip Hop and Mass Incarceration: Continued

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Yen, Oregonian Hip Hop artist based out of Salem, Oregon.  Yen's music talks about the realities of life and his experience being formerly incarcerated as well as having several close friends currently incarcerated.  This show furthers the discuss... Read more

Pacific Underground meets Whitenoise Project and GABRIELA Portland!

Airs at: Fri, 10/06/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Pacific Underground
According to Wikipedia, Filipino-American Heritage Month, has been celebrated since 1988.  If it has been around nearly 3 decades, then why don't many people-API-identified or otherwise-- seem to know about it or acknowledge it? This month we're centering Filipinx voices i... Read more

Red October: The Russian Revolution

Airs at: Tue, 10/03/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  The upheaval and regime change in Russia in 1917 “shook the world” in the words of journalist John Reed. In place of the feudal czarist monarchy came radical revolutionaries. A civil war ensued pitting former regime elements against the communists. In addition, a number ... Read more

Las Vegas Shooting Kills 58, Injures Hundreds

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2017 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for Evening News
A mass shooting occurred Sunday evening during a concert on the Las Vegas Strip, killing at least 58 people and injuring 515 additional people from either gunfire or people's flight to safety. Witnesses report thinking that the gunfire was fireworks at first, but they soon ... Read more

The Politics of Living - Episode 8

Airs at: Wed, 10/04/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for The Politics of Living
  October 4, 2017 Sharon "Shay" Knorr - actor, writer, producer, director and storyteller - talks about her latest project, entitled "Solo Speak" with Inessa Anderson.  Sharon is developing a monthly story show called "Nevertheless, We Persist - Stories By Women".  Ines... Read more