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OSAC Inclusive Leadership Summit 2023

Airs at: Fri, 10/06/2023 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Oregon Self-Advocacy Coalition (OSAC) held their Inclusive Leadership Summit on September 19, 2023 in Salem, Oregon to bring together Oregon's Self-Advocates, family members, professionals and state leaders to learn, celebrate and collaborate.  John Griffiths interviewed Ke... Read more

Hanford's Horrors

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Before the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was created, since time immemorial this extraordinary bend in the Columbia River was a vital and sacred place to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakama Nation, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Nez Pe... Read more

TRIPP-P 23 with Eric Garrity & Britta Olsen of Bend Equity Project

Airs at: Mon, 09/04/2023 at 12:15am - Thu, 12/31/2026 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
In the long-awaited, first episode of 2023, we talk to two member of the Bend Equity Project about an ongoing Juniper Ridge encampment situation in Bend, Oregon. Eric Garrity and Britta Olson have been a part of the Bend Equity Project, since November 2020.   The guests s... Read more

Drug Decriminalization and Overdose Deaths

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Drug Decriminalization and Overdose Deaths. Professor Spruha Joshi, PhD, MPH is one of the co-authors of a research article published September 27 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry entitled “One-Year Association of Drug Possession Law Chang... Read more

Revolution Now? Ani Haines on Paganism, Wicca and Navigating a Collapsing Society

Airs at: Thu, 09/28/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Former longtime KBOO volunteer coordinator Ani Haines returns to the airwaves in a KBOO Membership Drive Special Edition, to chat about mental+physical health, and how to process all of this (waves hands around) to build towards a common future.  Show your support for this... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 2, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole which features a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. What is the relationship between things held in Common — from rivers and forests, to traditions of sharing and mutual aid — and communism? How should we understand th... Read more

Our Shrinking Urban Canopy

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For years Portland has been renowned for its vast urban canopy but in recent years that canopy is shrinking. As the climate crisis tightens its noose around our communities, trees are one of the most important allies we have to stave off the worst impacts from a heating pla... Read more

Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson

Airs at: Thu, 09/28/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In 2013, award-winning political cartoonist Matt Bors founded the website The Nib, dedicated to comics journalism.  After a decade of publishing non-fiction comics from around the globe, Matt is saying goodbye to The Nib. S.W. Conser talks with Matt about the history of ... Read more

Where's it all going to end? Two guests from Code Pink address forever war and the climate apocalypse

Airs at: Wed, 09/27/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  We welcome back Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-imperialist peace organization Code Pink, to talk about next week's days of advocacy and action for peace in Ukraine (www.peaceinukraine.org). To lead off the show, we'll have her fellow Code Pink activist Melissa Ga... Read more

A Change Is Gonna Come

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Dramatic changes are taking place locally and nationally in politics and labor. In November 2022, an overwhelming majority of voters chose to create a new form of city government that changes how city commissioners are elected and redefines their responsibilities, expandin... Read more