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Bright Spark #1- On The Ground: An interview with Marilou Gagnon.

Airs at: Fri, 03/09/2018 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Produced for:  Bright Spark
In this episode we interview Marilou Gagnon, a nurse based out of Canada. Marilou is a professor of nursing, a researcher, a writer, and an activist. She was the spokesperson for Overdose Prevention Ottawa's overdose prevention site that ran from August to November of 2017.... Read more

The Politics of Living - Episode 13

Airs at: Wed, 03/07/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  The Politics of Living
March 7, 2018   On the third installment of "Per:mutations: Perspectives on Sex Culture": Leidi Monte interviews sex-doulah Ev’yan Whitney on what it takes to dissect and articulate unseen aspects of our sex culture as a professional. They unpack common narratives whi... Read more

Presswatch on March 1st, 2018

Airs at: Thu, 03/01/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Today we'll be looking at some of the great accomplishments of US society, like infecting beetles with anthrax so that Korean kids will play with them, creating double-headed kids in Iraq with depleted uranium, wiping out whole families with Hotchkiss guns, and aerosol chee... Read more

Inside Armenia: Anna Shahnazaryan

Airs at: Tue, 03/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Land-locked Armenia has had a long history but as a nation state it is rather new. Armenia declared its independence from the USSR in 1991. Left with a legacy of 70 years of Soviet rule, corruption is rampant. The adoption of neoliberalism by elites, as in other countrie... Read more

The First 60 Days of Prop 64

Airs at: Sun, 03/04/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week: the first 60 days of Prop 64. We hear from CA State Senator Mike McGuire, CA State Assembly Member Jim Wood, Tim Ricard with the Sonoma County Economic Development Board, Hezekiah Allen with the California Growers Association, and Amanda Reiman, PhD. Read more

Who Let Dr. Strangelove Write the Nuclear Posture Review?

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In 2016 while on the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump alarmed leaders throughout the world when he said during a Town Hall, that there are several scenarios in which nuclear weapons should be employed by the U.S., including against ISIS. "Somebody hits us within ... Read more

Per v. Graham

Airs at: Thu, 03/01/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Per dives back in to the seemingly endless Russia-gate plus he recounts his run in with the late Billy Graham. Read more

Queer Youth v. U.S. Gun Violence

Airs at: Tue, 02/27/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  This Way Out: The International LGBT Radio Magazine Queer youth take aim at pro-gun lawmakers; a "Rainbow Minute" celebrates Willie Nelsons "gay cowboy song with a twist"; Kenyans challenge their countrys "unnatural" sex law, the British Parliament targets Northern Irel... Read more

Citizens Fight to Save Home of Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  The Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center is a bustling community center that provides multiple services for immigrants, newcomers and citizens in the hometown of Oregon State University. OSU also owns the big buttery-yellow house that the Center calls home, and the sc... Read more

An Indigenous People's History: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 02/27/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The history of the U.S. is one of settler colonialism. The state was established on the basis of white male supremacy, slavery, land theft and genocide. “From sea to shining sea” the Native nations were decimated and dispossessed. The survivors herded into concentration ... Read more