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Big Hunger, Big Chicken, Big Moment

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

This week my guests discuss big problems regarding food. How can we work toward healthy food and enough food for everyone? Maryn McKenna is a journalist who writes about science, food, and disease. Like Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA. But that’s not the end of it. We’v... Read more

Lincoln County Aerial Spray Ban in Court

Airs at: Thu, 10/12/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm

Produced for: Evening News

In May, voters in Lincoln County, Oregon, which stretches along the coast from Lincoln City to Yachats, approved a measure banning the aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides. The new ordinance was almost immediately the subject of a lawsuit brought against the county... Read more

Up & Over

Airs at: Thu, 10/12/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Voices from the Edge

What can you personally do to help vulnerable people during the harsh winter months? Our guest is Up and Over founder Javonnie Shearn, who was this year appointed by the governor to the Board of Directors at the Oregon State Hospital. We'll be talking about Up and Over's... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 9, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear these segments: 1. Margot Black and Bill Resnick on Portland Tenants United and the housing crisis. 2. Tod Sloan talks in Nicaragua with Brian Willson, Portland peace activist. 3. Denise Morris reviews th... Read more

Madness of Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Drawing in part on Rob Tweedy's piece in Red Pepper "A mad world: capitalism and the rise of mental illness," Clayton Morgareidge traces some ways in which life in the capitalist world order makes us crazy. You can read this piece on his blog here. Read more

Psychoanalyzing Mother! Earth

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst Bob Samuels about Darren Aronofsky's new film Mother! Aronofsky describes the film as a dreamscape as well as an allegorical story of destructive male narcissism. Haaken and Samuels discuss the images in the film and how we might thi... Read more

Fannie Lou Hamer

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, spoke words that are all too relevant today. Mrs Hamer would have turned 100 years old on October 6th 2017. Today on Making Contact, youll hear archival recordings, and excerpts from a powerful new film featuring Fannie Lou Hamers co... Read more

Sangoma Healing Through the Ways of the Ancestors

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Madness Radio

How can seeing visions and hearing voices be transformed into a spiritual gift for healing? What does the initiation ordeal into becoming a shaman involve? Gogo Ekhaya Esima was diagnosed with psychosis and confined in psychiatric hospitals before she became an initiated... Read more

The Administration's Push for Deregulation

Airs at: Thu, 09/28/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Evening News

On Monday, the President will deliver a speech on deregulation. Whether it will be a serious policy proposal or another collection of applause points is anyone’s guess, but the president’s favorable view of deregulation is no secret. His administration has focused on disma... Read more

Winona LaDuke: FIRST DAUGHTER AND THE BLACK SNAKE

Airs at: Wed, 09/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Paul Roland is joined by Winona LaDuke and filmmaker Keri Pickett to discuss the new film First Daughter and the Black Snake, screening on Thursday, Sept 28th at 7:00 pm at the Hollywood Theatre. The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to... Read more