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PDX Bike Ride 3/27 for Iraqi Refugees; and their fate in Iraq, the Middle East and the U.S.

Airs at: Wed, 03/24/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Host Tim Calvert interviews Zahra Alkabi, Director of Save Refugees about the Bike Ride for Iraq, a Benefit for Iraq Refugees and Protest Against the Iraqi People. They will also discuss the fate of Iraqi refugees in Iraq, the Middle East and the United States. The Bike RI... Read more

More Talk Radio on 03/22/10

Airs at: Mon, 03/22/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
The guest is Dahr Jamail, Independent Journalist, author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq and The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the keynote speaker for the Physicians for Social... Read more

PDX Walk for Water event to aid families in Sub-Saharan Africa

Airs at: Wed, 03/10/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Host Crystal Leighty interviews Eric Mwarabu, an intern from Tanzania who is working to increase awareness of Walk for Water on Sunday, March 21, 2010. Drawing attention to the plight of millions of people whose access to safe drinking water is severely limited, Walk for... Read more

Shoshana Johnson: "I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen--My Journey Home"

Airs at: Thu, 03/04/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Hosted by: Emma Jackson Ford, Patricia Welch. The guest is Shoshana Johnson, author of I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen--My Journey Home.  In March of 2003 world headlines were made when a U.S. army convoy was attacked in the city of An-Nasiriya... Read more

More Talk Radio on 1/25/10

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Roberto Mangabeira Unger, a leading social and political thinker. Until recently he served as Brazil's Minister for Strategic Affairs in Brazil. He recently returned to teach at Harvard Law School. They discuss his new book, ... Read more

Special Programming: Public Affairs on 01/29/10

Airs at: Fri, 01/29/2010 at 7:00am - 8:30pm
Membership Drive Special: One Year Later – Where Do We Go From Here? It’s been one year since the inauguration of President Barack Obama. How have progressive goals and proposals fared under his administration? Where do progressives go from here? What’s the future of activis... Read more

One Land, Many Voices on 01/22/10

Airs at: Fri, 01/22/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  One Land Many Voices
This week Hala Gores and guest co-host Ned Rosch welcome PSU philosophy student and Gaza Freedom Marcher, Sarah Hassouneh, to One Land, Many Voices to talk about her experiences in Egypt and Gaza earlier this month. Also on the program will be Reverend Dick Toll of Friends ... Read more

More Talk Radio on 1/11/10

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod look at the fate of China, the United States, the Global South, and planet with guest Michael T. Klare, whose recent article on TomDispatch is "The Second Decade, The World in 2020" http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175186/ Michael Kl... Read more

Squatting Ban in the Netherlands

Airs at: Wed, 01/06/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
For the last three years a ban on squatting has been in preparation in Dutch politics. A new act that is to ban squatting in the Netherlands passed through parliament on October 15th, 2009. Despite strong critique from the High Court, the union of city councils and even the... Read more

Special Programming: Public Affairs on 12/29/09

Airs at: Tue, 12/29/2009 at 10:00am - 10:15am
KBOO's Jenka Soderberg interviews members of the Gaza Freedom March, who are scheduled to cross into Gaza on December 30th with over 1400 marchers from around the world. More info on the Gaza Freedom March CODEPINK recently put out a statement: “Citing escalating tensions ... Read more