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Reform Moves Forward at the State Level

Airs at: Sun, 09/24/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
The state of California is considering supervised consumption sites, and we speak with Oregon State Senator Lew Frederick about racial profiling, drug possession penalties, and House Bill 2355. Read more

The Arrival: Trump's Travel and Refugee Ban

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  Leading up to the US Supreme Court hearing on Trump's travel ban, we'll hear about the orders impact on people from affected, Muslim-majority countries, and how advocacy groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations are responding. On this edition of Making Conta... Read more

Greg Palast on CROSSCHECK!

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome KBOO's favorite muckraking investigative journalist...Greg Palast. Greg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian and now in Rolling Stone Magazine. (It was Palast who uncovered how ... Read more

Labor Radio on 09/18/17 - Interview w/ Portland City Council candidate

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
  The Candidates Speak Host Michael Cathcart sits down with Julie DeGraw to discuss her campaign for Portland City Council seat #2.   Connect with Michael on Twitter @MichaelBCath (Show begins at timestamp: -28:55) Read more

National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Airs at: Sun, 09/17/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week: The feds release the results of the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health showing that in the time of legalization, use of marijuana and other drugs by young people is declining; Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduces a bill for pharmaceutical research on ... Read more

UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: A Labor Day Special

Airs at: Mon, 09/04/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  A documentary on the idea of universal basic income: what is it, and what effect might it have on society? Using expert interviews, field recordings, street interviews, and lot's of great music.   What if you were paid just for being alive? Just imagine " you are given a... Read more

UN Holds Emergency Meeting After North Korea Fires Missile Over Japan

Airs at: Tue, 08/29/2017 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council will consider possible new sanctions against Kim Jong-un's regime tonight.  This comes after sirens sounded in Japan as North Korea fired a missile over the country early this morning.  Yahoo news reports Tokyo warned citizens... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 28 2017

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with urban design professor Nicco Larco about how technology, from ecommerce to autonomous vehicles, has and might yet affect cities. Desiree Hellegers interviews Portland singer-songwriter Naomi Little Bear Morena about... Read more

Direct Cinema - Part One

Airs at: Thu, 08/24/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  In the early 1960's a revolution in documentary filmmaking took root, inspired by both cultural uprisings and new audio-visual technologies.  The movement known as Direct Cinema rejected authorial voiceovers and other narrative devices, opting instead for immediacy, ambi... Read more

Staying Connected: Incarcerated Moms & Their Children

Airs at: Mon, 08/28/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Karen James interviews Jessica Katz, the director of the Family Preservation Project (FPP) at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, and Nova Sweet, a former participant of the program.  FPP is a program of the YWCA of Greater Portland that uses a holistic, fami... Read more