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Wheeler, Police Budget and Portland BLM

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers talks with Pedro Anglada Cordero and Susan Anglada Bartley, members of Portland's Black Lives Matter resistance community, about how they turned a phone call from Mayor Ted Wheeler's reelection campaign headquarters into a youtube video calling for Wheeler... Read more

IP44-Drug Addiction Treatment & Recovery Act

Airs at: Mon, 08/10/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Karen James speaks with Anthony Johnson, Chief Petitioner for IP44, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act which has just qualified for the November 2020 ballot. Oregon ranks nearly last in the nation for access to drug treatment, yet about one in 11 people in Oregon... Read more

Stone & Sjursen Part 2 - Ep 72

Airs at: Sat, 08/01/2020 at 6:30am - Sat, 08/08/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
Part 2 of Danny's discussion with Oliver Stone is here!!!  Danny and Oliver discuss differences between their combat experiences, the unabashed hero worship of modern military movies, the productions of Platoon and Salvador, the all volunteer force, and much, much more.  A ... Read more

Press**Watch for July 30th, 2020

Airs at: Thu, 07/30/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Henry Niman, Ph.D. returns for a fourth interview since the outbreak of the Great Pestilence.  Henry Niman is an internationally renowned virus researcher, whose lifesaving work has appeared on major radio and television broadcasts from coast to coast.  Once again he will b... Read more

Stone & Sjursen: The Unbearable Violence of Being American - Ep 71

Airs at: Tue, 07/28/2020 at 5:45pm - Tue, 08/04/2020 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
(click here to see the video version of this episode.) America's military industrial complex and multiple presidential administrations have funnelled several generations of soldiers through unwinnable wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq seemingly without qualms. What... Read more

COVID-19 and the next pandemics

Airs at: Mon, 07/27/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick interviews Mike Friedman, a microbiologist and epidemiologist, on COVID-19 and what would be needed in a public health system that could save the country. Dr. Michael Friedman researches, writes, and teaches at the University of Antigua & Barbuda.  He talked... Read more

Hugh Palcic Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Hugh Palcic is a democrat running for the Senate district 28.  He talks with Don Merrill about how he thinks the non affiliated voters will be important to help him win what has historically been a Republican seat,  why he says the five counties his district covers are "adr... Read more

Wyden's Union Problem

Airs at: Mon, 07/27/2020 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Oregon's multi-millionaire senator Ron Wyden and his wife Nancy Bass-Wyden own the Strand Bookstore, an iconic independent retailer in New York City.  Host Jamie Partridge interviews Melissa Guzy, shop steward at the bookstore, who explains how the Wydens raked in Covid-19 ... Read more

IPR Director Ross Caldwell

Airs at: Fri, 07/24/2020 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
  Portland’s primary police oversight system is overseen by the City Auditor’s Independent Police Review Division (IPR). IPR was founded in 2001 after a citizen-led initiative to overhaul the twenty-year old system then in place. Since then, it has both been touted as one ... Read more

Fighting Ventilation Shutdown industry mass animal killing with Matt Johnson

Airs at: Fri, 07/24/2020 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
Today we welcome to the show Matt Johnson, Press Coordinator for Direct Action Everywhere (DxE). Direct Action Everywhere is a global network of activists working to achieve animal liberation in one generation. DxE employs a wide variety of tactics in pursuit of this goal, ... Read more