Circle A Radio
Circle A covers local, national and international issues, focusing on the voices of communities who, for political reasons, are not allowed a voice in the mainstream media.
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Circle A Radio is also currently broadcast on KRFP, 92.5 fm in Moscow, Idaho at 11:30 am Saturdays (http://www.radiofreemoscow.org), and also on WPRR 1680 AM a Pacifica affiliate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We broadcast Saturdays at noon, 8pm and over night Sunday at 4am. (http://www.
Audio
The House of Sound
Tonight we hear about the House of Sound and it’s vibrant history as a community and cultural space from community members, and former employees and customers: Clifford Walker, Mel Renfro, Ken Dickson, David Dawson, Yugen Rashad, Cleo Smith, Billy Holt, Woodrow Wilson, Jr., Keedah Giannetti, and Wone.
Special thanks to those who helped make this show possible, including Yugen Rashad, Vanessa Renwick, and Charles Bedford.
- Title: The House of Sound
- Producer: Circle A Radio
- Length: 57:00 minutes (22.83 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Signs of Change
Tonight on Circle A Radio, we’ll take you on an audio tour through the art exhibition: Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to
Now. Hundreds of posters, photographs, video, and audio representing more than forty years of activism, political protest, and social
justice campaigns curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, are on display until March 19th at the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s
Feldman Gallery + Project Space, at 1214 NW Johnson in Portland.
Thanks to Alec Dunn, tour guide, Mack McFarland, and Claude Marks.
Audio of the full curators talk:
http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/news/776/multimedia-signs-of-change-curator...
More information about Signs of Change:
http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2010/02/signs_of_change_in_portland_or.html
- Length: 58:03 minutes (53.15 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Right 2 Survive & Circle A Radio Go to San Francisco to protest for Affordable Housing and Civil Rights
Tonight you’ll hear from some of the Portlanders who participated in the movement building trip to San Francisco to protest for Affordable Housing and Civil Rights, as well as some of the people they met along the way. We’ll also update you on the current situation in the Rose City.
This show is a collaboration between Right 2 Survive (R2S), an organization led by homeless and formerly homeless human rights advocates and Circle A Radio.
- Length: 58:00 minutes (53.1 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Clifford Walker
Clifford Walker has been asking for several years "why don't we remove the symbols of racial oppression from our currency?".
"I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery." - Marquis de Lafayette
Clifford Walker can be reached at negusstudio@aol.com, or at (503) 287-3591. more information about the campaign can be found at www.noslavetraders.com.
- Length: 58:51 minutes (53.88 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Squatting Ban in the Netherlands
For the last three years a ban on squatting has been in preparation in Dutch politics. A new act that is to ban squatting in the Netherlands passed through parliament on October 15th, 2009. Despite strong critique from the High Court, the union of city councils and even the Amsterdam police force, the christian/rightwing majority in The Hague is pushing this law through.
Having suffered from an immense housing shortage ever since the sixties, squatting has a long history in the Netherlands and has always been a legal means for thousands of people to acquire a roof over their heads.
Tonight on Circle A Radio we speak with Sanne, a squatter in Amsterdam about the current and historical conditions for squatting, the role critical awareness and neighborhood involvement plays in the lives of squatters, and how the upcoming ban will change their world.
- Length: 53:50 minutes (49.29 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Lakota Nation: Two Years of Secession
December 21, 2009 marks the second anniversary of the announcement that the Lakotah Nation was unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States.
Garry Rowland from Wounded Knee was one of the delegates that made the trip to Washington DC. He said, at the time quote "Today is a historic day and our forefathers speak through us. Our Forefathers made the treaties in good faith with the sacred Canupa and with the knowledge of the Great Spirit. They never honored the treaties, that's the reason we are here today."
Tonight on Circle A Radio we learn more about the secession, and about what has happened in the two years since secession. We will hear from Canupa Gluha Mani, and Russel Means. Stay Tuned.
- Length: 57:31 minutes (39.5 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 22kHz 96Kbps (CBR)
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, 10 years after Seattle...
Monday, November 30th, marked the tenth anniversary of the “Battle of Seattle”, when tens of thousands of social justice advocates, rank and file labor, and environmentalists came together to shut down the World Trade Organization’s ministerial meetings in Seattle, Washington, and succeeded!
We’ll bring you inspiration from some of the organizers and activists who took to the streets of Seattle ten years ago, and later went on to form the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance.
Our guests tonight are Tammy Bang Luu from the Labor and Community Strategy Center, Ruben Solis of the Southwest Workers Union, and Colin Rajah with the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. We’ll also hear from Cindy Weisner, Political Coordinator for the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance.
- Title: Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, 10 years after Seattle...
- Length: 57:03 minutes (39.18 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 22kHz 96Kbps (CBR)
Max Rameau and the Take Back The Land Movement
Max Rameau is the founder of the Miami-based organization Take Back the Land. In 2006, the organization seized control of a vacant lot and built a shantytown called Umoja Village. Take Back the Land then began a campaign of taking over bank-owned foreclosed homes and moving
homeless families into them.
Max Rameau just completed a North West tour from November 12 through the 17th. We recorded his speech at Portland State University on Friday November 13th.
Tonight on Circle A Radio we will listen to Max Rameau’s speech, and hear about the struggle for land and housing in Portland.
- Length: 55:35 minutes (22.26 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Appalshop Celebrates their 40th Anniversary!
Appalshop, a non-profit multi-disciplinary arts and education center, located in Whitesburg Kentucky, has just celebrated it’s 40th year of existence in the heart of Appalachia.
Appalshop is dedicated to the proposition that the world is immeasurably enriched when local cultures garner the resources, including new technologies, to tell their own stories and to listen to the unique stories of others.
Tonight on Circle A Radio, we talk to Art Menius , The Director of Appalshop. We will also listen to excerpts from their documentary film work, their record releases, the programs on their community radio station WMMT, and more.
- Length: 57:51 minutes (23.17 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Homelessness in Portland
As the number of people living on the streets continues to increase during this recession, many cities are passing ordinances restricting survival activities such as sleeping, sitting down, and asking for spare change. The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty released a report in July called Homes Not Handcuffs.
The 190 page report says that city ordinances frequently serve as a tool for criminalizing homelessness. 
The report also examines violations of the US Constitution and human rights law within these measures. Here in Portland, the Sit-Lie Ordinance has been declared unconstitutional twice. Still, it looks like Mayor Sam Adams is intent on finding a replacement for the defunct ordinance.
Tonight on Circle A Radio you'll hear mostly from people who are currently homeless in Portland.
We recorded this with the help of Heather Mosher and Wendy Kohn of Kwamba Productions, and Ibrahim Mubarek, one of the founders of Dignity Village. We visited several sites in Portland where homeless folks gather so we could talk to them first hand about their experiences.
- Title: Homelessness in Portland
- Date: 09/02
- Year: 2009
- Producer: Circle A Radio
- Length: 55:12 minutes (22.11 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Playlists
Circle A Radio playlist for 04/02/2009
As a country, we tend to forget the dangers of current methods of processing coal. We focus on the myth of “clean coal” and don’t pay much attention to stories such as the December 22nd Coal Ash Disaster in Kingston, Tenn.,
The 65 foot tall pile of 1.6 billion gallons of coal ash created by years of burning coal for electricity broke the dam that separated it from the nearby Emory river, spilling into the river and burying 400 acres of land.
Tonight on Circle a Radio we talk with Matt Landon of United Mountain Defense about the aftermath of the disaster, and we talk to Patricia Feeney and Joe Stanley of the Sludge Saftey Project in West Virginia about their community and legislative fight against storage of the toxic byproducts .
How connected you are to coal mining?
http://www.ilovemountains.org/myconnection/, and type in your zip code, and they’ll tell you where your coal is coming from
Sludgesafety.org – citizens report on underground injection and community action toolkit
Ohio valley environmental coalition ovec.org
DVD’s
Burning the future
Mountain mourning
info@sludgesafety.org
Circle A Radio playlist for 03/18/2009
Stop Joe Arpaio! Stop 287gs! Stop the ICE Raids!
On tonight's show we focus on the human and civil rights abuses against people of color, the misuse of 287g agreements, and the need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. We are talking with immigrant rights advocates in Maricopa County (AZ), where the worst examples of this abuse are happening at the hands of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. We talk with Silvia Herrera of the Puente Movement, Jason Odhner, and Antonio Bustamante. We also bring you short interviews from the National Convergence and Protest in Phoenix on February 27th & 28th, 2009.
For more information:
www.puenteaz.org
www.ndlon.org
Locally, you can get in touch with the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee at 503-236-7916 for more information.
Circle A Radio playlist for 03/04/2009
The 14th annual San Francisco Anarchist bookfair takes place this year on March 14th and 15th in Golden Gate Park, in lovely San Francisco California.
The bookfair began in 1996 to celebrate an the 20th anniversary of San Francisco’s anarchist collective bookstore Bound Together Books. Over the years, they’ve hosted many speakers, while showcasing anarchist and alternative book and magazine publishers
Tonight on Circle A Radio we’ll be listening to a variety of speakers featured over the years at the San Francisco Anarchist book fair, recorded and released by AK Press on the CD "Mob Action Against the State" and also hear from participants, and attendees.
Circle A Radio playlist for 02/18/2009
Dlycia Pagan
Dlycia Pagan, Puerto Rican Activist, Filmmaker, and Artist talks about her life as an Activist/Organizer, the nearly 20 years she spent in prison on charges of seditious conspiracy, her presidential pardon, and her advice to the younger generation.
Circle A Radio playlist for 02/04/2009
Dicentra Collective
The Dicentra Collective is based in Portland, OR. They are 7 individuals who are collectively committed to create radical communities of care, networks of support, and movements based on relationship building. We talk with the members of Dicentra Collective about their beginnings, their workshops, their ideas for radical caregiving, and include excerpts from a cronic pain zine, and other media they’ve produced.
Circle A Radio playlist for 01/21/2009
David Bacon
David Bacon is a writer and photojournalist on issues of labor, immigration and international trade. He will soon be coming to Portland to discuss these issues, and tonight on Circle A Radio, we hear from him about his life, his beginnings as a journalist and artist, and about immigration and popular struggles all over the world.
Circle A Radio playlist for 01/07/2009
Hawaiian Sovereignty
Queen Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian islands. She was deposed by opposition forces who called themselves the Committee of Safety, with the help of the U.S. Marines. On January 17, 1893, Queen lileo kulani yielded her authority:
. . . Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the Constitutional Sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.
Tonight, we discuss Hawaiian Sovereignty with Portland Author Elinor Langer, and Dr. Kekuni Blazedell, convenor of the Pro-Hawaiian Sovereignty Working Group.
Circle A Radio playlist for 12/17/2008
Studs Terkel, RIP
We visit the work and life of Studs Terkel, who died October 31, 2008 at the age of ninety-six.
Circle A Radio playlist for 12/03/2008
Proposition 8 and the fight for Marriage Equality
Proposition 8 was passed this November in California. It changed the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman and eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry .
We explore the issues of marriage equality, people of color and the LGBT movement. with Thomas Wheatley, Organizing Director of Basic Rights Oregon, and Bonnie Tinker and The Rev. Cecil Charles Prescod from Love Makes a Family.
Circle A Radio playlist for 11/19/2008
Teaching Rebellion - Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca
Tonite on Circle A Radio we’ll be featuring an interview with Melissa Mundt and Gustavo Vilchis, recorded on Oct. 28th. They joined us at the KBOO studios during their West Coast tour for “Teaching Rebellion”, a book that features first hand stories, and photography from the popular uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico. Many of the voices on tonight’s show were recorded in Spanish, with side by side translation.