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Portland Black Panther Kent Ford

Airs at: Tue, 02/06/2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  The People's Dinner Party: Kent Ford on the Black Panther Party and Palestine       || Host: Suncere Ali Shakur        || ----- "Sting Like A Bee": Kent Ford and the Portland Black Panthers: Portland Black Panthers founding member Kent Ford shares his memories of lif... Read more

Shani Harris Bagwell from Portland Backpack

Airs at: Thu, 02/01/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Lisa's guest is Shani Harris Bagwell from Portland Backpack, which packs and distributes more than 1,200 Portland schoolchildren sack lunches for the weekend. They make sure the kids we see everyday–eat every day. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 5, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Legal Case for Genocide: In December 2023, residents of Gaza and two nongovernmental human rights organizations filed a lawsuit in a federal court in California arguing that the... Read more

Climate Justice and the Portland City Council Elections

Airs at: Mon, 02/05/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
This November Portland voters have the historic opportunity to elect a new city council that actually reflects the diversity of its constituents. In 2022 voters overwhelmingly supported a city charter change that transforms the structure of the city government, dividing ... Read more

We Are Each Other's Harvest by Natalie Baszile

Airs at: Thu, 02/01/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
 In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000.  "We Are Each Other's Harvest" explores this crisis, through the farmers’ personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to f... Read more

Winter Tent Drive

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
It has been nearly a year since Portland City Commissioner and Mayoral Candidate Rene Gonzalez ordered Portland to stop offering tents to homeless people.  During the third week of January Portland experienced a historic deep freeze in which at least fifteen people died ... Read more

ShaToyia Bentley, The Ebony Collective

Airs at: Thu, 01/25/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Lisa's guests are ShaToyia Bentley and her toddler from The Ebony Collective, a Community Development Corporation and Coalition. The Ebony Collective is a culturally-specific nonprofit whose mission is to build power in Oregon’s Black communities by providing workforce/li... Read more

Secrets of a Successful Organizer, Lesson #3

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The Labor Notes book, "Secrets of a Successful Organizer" (available, in whole or in part, at labornotes.org), distills generations of workplace organizing knowledge.  Lesson #3, read by Jamie Partridge, called "Map Your Workplace and Its Leaders" takes up these challeng... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 29, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Silhouette of Godzilla looming over silhouette of Broadway bridge against a rainbow background. Image by Mark Nerys. Used with permission. Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Zionism Was Not the Only Alternative! The... Read more

Plutocrats for Portland

Airs at: Mon, 01/29/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Why do we hear so much about the supposed failures of recent progressive reforms in Portland?  Why does there seem to be so much panic about downtown?  Local organizer and activist Hyung Nam explains how Trump-era tax breaks have further incentivized the wealthiest de... Read more