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On the Ground Radio

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  A recurring theme in this show is news, media, information and voice. Who gets to be heard. What stories, narratives, lives are lifted up as worthy, and what lies are lifted up as truth. Gerald Horne is in the house with new books, including "The Rise and Fall of the Ass... Read more

Colombian Indigenous Broadcaster and Activist Killed, US-Made Munitions Involved

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
US-made riot-control munitions were used by authorities in Colombia at a clash that resulted in the death of indigenous broadcaster Efigenia Vasquez Astudillo. She was reporting on clashes between the state’s Mobile Anti-Riot Squadron, or Esmad, and the Kokonuko people in C... Read more

Man Arrested with Gun at Sunday Rally

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Yesterday, right-wing Patriot Prayer demonstrators held a rally in Terry Schrunk plaza in Downtown Portland. A counter-demonstration was organized in a hurry, and both sides drew about fifty people. KBOO reporter Jasmin Moneymaker was on the scene and has this report. ***U... Read more

November 4th....It Begins!

Airs at: Wed, 10/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  CALL (503) 231-8187 to add your voice to the conversation! Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes Carl Dix...one of the founding members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. In 1996, Dix co-founded the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Cr... 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

Why Do Red States Have More Success with Public Defense Reform Than Blue States?

Airs at: Thu, 10/05/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A recent investigation by The Marshall Project and Politico has cast light on a counter-intuitive trend among small-government conservative state lawmakers. Many deep-red states have been successful at reforming their public defender systems. We should probably say, “modera... Read more

KEEP PORTLAND HOUSED

Airs at: Thu, 10/05/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Tune in to Voices from the Edge talk radio today, Lisa Loving is in for JoAnn A Hardesty. Our guests are organizers with Portland Tenants United, speaking on yesterday's City Council meeting. Read more

CAUGHT at Artists Repertory Theatre with Director Shawn Lee

Airs at: Tue, 10/10/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Host James Dixon talks with Shawn Lee - the director for Caught which is being produced at Artist's Repertory Theatre. Caught is a show centered around a Chinese dissident artist that combines visual art and live theatre installations. Caught is presented in partnership wit... Read more

Pacific Underground meets Whitenoise Project and GABRIELA Portland!

Airs at: Fri, 10/06/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
According to Wikipedia, Filipino-American Heritage Month, has been celebrated since 1988.  If it has been around nearly 3 decades, then why don't many people-API-identified or otherwise-- seem to know about it or acknowledge it? This month we're centering Filipinx voices i... Read more

This is a Black Spatial Imaginary: Sharita Towne

Airs at: Tue, 10/03/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  As an artist, Sharita Towne’s interests lie in unpacking the inherited struggles of past burdens and in affording collective catharsis. Through collaboration, stereo-photography, printmaking, video, and community art projects, she’s worked at memorials in Germany; in the... Read more