Latest Content for Bread and Roses

Counter Clockwise,My Year of Hypnosis, Hormones, Dark Chocolate, and Other Adventures in the World of Anti-aging is Lauren Kessler's new book. "Lauren Kessler is an intrepid reporter, immersion journalist, and mid-life woman on a quest to turn back the hands of time as s... Read more

Bread and Roses welcomes the women behind The Concertina Wire, a weekly radio program on KWVA Eugene 88.1FM and kwvaradio.org.  The show highlights the written work and narrative stories of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals–particularly women and minorit... Read more

Genocide Declassified!  National Security Archive Director Kate Doyle has uncovered and catalogued government secrets that have helped convict dictators, most recently Guatemala's Rios Montt.  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.htmlCall in: 503-231-8187 Read more

There were over 190,000 people aged 65 and older living in the PDX metro area as of the 2010 census according to the Greater Portland Pulse. By 2030 that number is expected to grow to almost 395,000.  Villages NW is a new nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon ... Read more

"WHAT KIND OF HOUSE DOES A MAN WHO HAS LIVED IN A 6' X9' BOX FOR OVER 30 YEARS DREAM OF?" This is the question that artist and activist Jackie Sumell asked Herman Wallace in 2003. Herman has been in solitary confinement or Closed Cell Restriction [CCR] for over 40 years... Read more

In 1993, KBOO AM News Director Kathleen Stephenson interviewed Susan Dobrof about the Bread and Roses Collective and its creation in 1978. Read more

Bread and Roses celebrates 35 years on the KBOO airwaves, the longest-running feminist radio show in the country! We welcome Bread and Roses founder, Susan Dobrof, and 90's collective member, Pamlin Pegg.  We'll discuss the early days of the collective, play clips from t... Read more

Syria is undergoing a crisis, a civil war some call it, but Syria is also having a rape crisis. Jackie Blachman-Forshay is an epidemiologist graduate student at the School of Public Health at Columbia University. She is the lead researcher for Women Media Center's Women ... Read more

Lucia Pena, Faith Mayhew and Pina Williams talk about Racism in Oregon and organizing that they are involved with. Native American, Chicana and Balck groups that people could support are also discussed.Hosted by Margot FaegreRecorded in 1978 on Reel tape. Read more

Speech by Gloria Martin, one of the founders of Radical Women given at the 1983 Seattle International Women's Day's Forum on "Racism in the Women's Movement".Recorded on Reel tape in 1983Produced by LC Earnest Read more