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Aurora Levins-Morales, nationally known Puerto Rican-Jewish feminist, author and activist

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Host Dennis Bernstein devotes the entire show to an interview with Aurora Levins-Morales, nationally known Puerto Rican-Jewish feminist, author and activist, who is planning to travel the US in her mobile radio station, talking about the confluence of ecology, health and... Read more

The White Donkey - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 09/08/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended version of our interview with Oregon artist Maximilian Uriarte, we talk more about his graphic novel The White Donkey, which has been hailed for its frank depictions of post-traumatic stress disorder in young veterans.  Max hopes to adapt the graphic nov... Read more

The White Donkey - Maximilian Uriarte

Airs at: Thu, 09/08/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Oregon artist Maximilian Uriarte signed up with the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of nineteen and served as a gunner in the Iraq War.  His early comic strip Terminal Lance offered a sardonic view of military life in an occupied land, but his new graphic novel The White Do... Read more

The World is Churning Still

Airs at: Fri, 09/09/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
 We are so pleased to have with us again renowned author, storyteller, scholar of mthyology and psychology , Michael Meade combines relevant and spellbinding story telling with street-savvy perspectives and a deep knowleedge of cross cultural tales and rituals. He has two n... Read more

Michael Beer of Nonviolence International on the War in Syria (Between the Lines)

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2016 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Air Cascadia
  Air Cascadia is off today. Instead we'll hear an excerpt from the series Between the Lines featuring Michael Beer of Nonviolence International on the War in Syria. Read more

Ali Sharif on Permaculture in Latin America and Africa and Maurice Carney and Harvey Wasserman on Racism, Environmentalism, and Ending War

Airs at: Fri, 09/02/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  We speak with permaculture expert Ali Sharif who has thirty years of permaculture field experience in 6 countries.  After taking his Permaculture Design course in the USA in 1984, Bill Mollison, the "father of permaculture," instructed Ali Sharif to take permaculture to... Read more

Ali Sharif on Permaculture in Latin America and Africa

Airs at: Fri, 09/02/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  We speak with Ali Sharif, founder of IPERMO, an organization promoting permaculture in Mozambique. Ali Sharif, has 30 years of field experience in 6 countries.  After taking his Permaculture Design course in the USA in 1984, Bill Mollison, the "father of permaculture", i... Read more

Winona LaDuke on Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline; Also the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and Armed Struggle in the Philippines

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Today on a Flashpoints...indigenous activist Winona Laduke provides an update of the ongoing protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline on the land of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, then we go to the situation in Brazil where president Dilma Rousseff was impeached today... Read more

Syria and Hillary Clinton

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2016 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Host Per Fagereng asks, "When did the U.S. first become involved in the Syrian Rebellion? Was the U.S. actually involved prior to the first protests against the Assad government?  Read more

Vigil commemorating two year anniversary of Gaza invasion

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2016 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Two years ago, the Israeli army began one of its bloodiest attacks on Palestinians in Gaza. That fighting went on for fifty-one days, lasting from July 8 through August 27. Well over two thousand Gazans were killed, upwards of seventy percent of them civilians. Sixty-six... Read more