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Discussing the Largest Event on Planet Earth

Airs at: Fri, 11/09/2018 at 9:00am
  Having just returned from Iraq for Arbaeen in which over 15 million people from all over the world converged on the Holy City of Karbala, John Shuck discusses his experience and the significance of the world's largest event with Iraqi refugee and Portland resident, Hanan... Read more

Buscando America on 11/06/18

Airs at: Tue, 11/06/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for Buscando America
Nueve días sin agua en la gran Tenochtitlán. La caravana migrante llega a la Ciudad de México y desbordó el albergue que fue previsto por autoridades capitalinas. Desde La 72 Hogar Refugio Para Personas Migrantes y hablamos con Ramón Marquez sobre esta nueva crisis de despl... Read more

Zoe Leonard Wants a President

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
    Zoe Leonard reads and comments on “I Want a President”     Read more

The Covenants of the Prophet with the Christians of the World: A Conversation with John Andrew Morrow (ENCORE)

Airs at: Tue, 11/06/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
  Why do the powers that be try to convince us that there is a “clash of cultures” or a conflict between Islam and the West or between Islam and Christianity?   To answer that, Dr. John Andrew Morrow discusses his book, The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Chris... Read more

U.S. Interventions in the Middle East: Edward Said

Airs at: Tue, 11/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  The current occupant of the White House has said, “The Middle East is a troubled place. There are a lot of bad things happening in that part of the world.” Indeed. But why is it troubled place and why are bad things happening there? There is no mention of Washington’s ro... Read more

Portland Pursues Alternative to Compliance with EPA Lead Levels

Produced for Evening News
In Nineteen Ninety One (1991) the United States Environmental Protection Agency published the lead and copper rule, to minimize nurotoxins in water. The rule established a maximum contaminant level goal of zero for lead in drinking water. The Portland Water Bureau has neve... Read more

Corvallis Renters Crisis - Affordability, Availability, Questionable Practices Part 2

Airs at: Fri, 11/09/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for Valley Views
Andrea Haverkamp is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering and Queer Studies at Oregon State University.  Her personal mission is to advance social justice and gender equity in engineering.  She is the host of Labour Wave, a radical, leftist working class podcast in Cor... Read more

Ball of Confusion (Midterms Edition)

Airs at: Fri, 11/02/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
May you live in interesting times . . .     Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/474274843083366/ Read more

Press**Watch: Last Stand Against Fascism

Airs at: Thu, 11/01/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for Presswatch
Fascistization doesn't happen when everyone turns fascist.  On the contrary, it happens when certain elements are in place so that a minority can rule.  And what are those elements?--a demagogue in power,  enthusiastic support for that demagogue in the courts and police sta... Read more

Kids and Teens Sue the Government Over Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Franklin High School senior and activist Annika Mayne about Juliana vs. United States, a law suit that was supposed to begin in a US District Court on October 29th. In it, the plantiffs (young people from Oregon) charged the federal government with abd... Read more