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This Land is Our Land

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  For those who missed the Friday night airing of Threshold Shift, the audio is now streaming. Hear the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and perspectives from... Read more

Buscando America on 04/03/18

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este programa, desde la Cd. de México Jose Luis Santillan entrevistó a Areli quien es parte de la campaña Luis Fernando Libre. También trasnmitimos un paisaje sonoro de Griselda Sánchez Lluvia Obsidiana, elaborado por los niños y niñas del taller Voces del Tren en la Sa... Read more

The Real Black Panther: Bobby Seale

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Black Panther is a blockbuster superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character. But back in the 1960s the Black Panther Party represented an African-American political and social welfare organization. Why the name? As Huey Newton, one of its leaders said, because the... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 2, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole, and we will hear: Israel's War Against Gaza: Why the Israelis are attacking Gaza again; Founding Myths—Founding Crimes: What might happen when a nation's founding myths turn into founding crimes Climate Change Activ... Read more

Counternarratives

Airs at: Thu, 04/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “In Counternarratives, John Keene undertakes a kind of literary counterarchaeology, a series of fictions that challenge our notion of what constitutes “real” or “accurate” history. His writing is at turns playful and erudite, lyric and coldly diagnostic, but always compl... Read more

The Seekers, Pt. 1: Freedom from Violence

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  The Seekers, is the first in a two-part documentary series that examines the experiences of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the US. El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala are among the most dangerous countries in the world for women. Each year, thousands of wom... Read more

SuperButch!

Airs at: Thu, 04/12/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Portland alt-comics heavyweights Barry Deutsch (Hereville) and Becky Hawkins (French Toast Comix) have teamed up to create SuperButch, the adventures of a lesbian superhero and the citizens whose lives she transforms.  Set in the 1940's when many gay Americans led double... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 26, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole and presents these pieces: Bill Resnick interviews Phyllis Bennis about U.S. entanglements with Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia, and the proxy wars in the Middle East. Larry Bowlden reviews Rene Denfeld’s novel, The Child Fin... Read more

King Killed 50 Years Ago

Airs at: Wed, 04/04/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Fifty years ago Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. William Pepper, a lawyer and peace activist, was a colleague and friend of King. He came to understand that government figures carried out the killing, and spent many years seeking the truth. Friday, Ma... Read more

Democracy: Michael Parenti

Airs at: Tue, 03/27/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Discussions about democracy probably start in Athens about 2500 years ago. A truism is society is democratic to the extent that its citizens play a meaningful role in managing public affairs. Democracy is located within the capitalist economic system infamous for produci... Read more