Latest Content for Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses welcomes Sabrina Blair, Customer Relations Manager at Sprig Health, and Rebecca Horn, Sprig Health customer. Sabrina Blair was a high-tech executive, wife, and mother who lived at Internet-speed and then suffered a stroke. Sabrina recovered with new awar... Read more

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Hurricane Sandy, Election 2012, and comic relief We'll honor the victims of Hurricane Sandy and hear from you about Election 2012. Call in with your thoughts about  issues our candidates need to address. Also: Pre-election comic relief featuring The Billionaires, Reformed ... Read more

Dr. Gordon Nembhard on African American owned co-ops and the power of community based economic strategies. Dr. Gordon Nembhard is a political economist specializing in community economic development, wealth inequality, Black political economy, popular economic literacy,... Read more

The Chicken Show is Back! Mad about molting? Crazed about eggs? Have a chicken who needs training? This call-in show features expert advice on chicken training, breeds, coops, winter warming and stories from you! Special guests: Urban Farm's Chicken Guy and Avian Medical... Read more

Bread and Roses welcomes Portland author Polina Olsen to discuss her new book, Portland in the 1960's:  Stories From The Counterculture.  "In 1968, Newsweek reported an imminent threat of twenty thousand hippies descending on Portland, Oregon. Although the numbers were ex... Read more

Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep & Enough Wool to Save the Planet We welcome author Catherine Friend. This sometimes reluctant farmer's wife shares the woolly tale of becoming "sheepish", that is "of or belonging to sheep". Her memoir "Sheepish" is a funny and thoughtful j... Read more

Dr. Pamela Sky Jeanne is a naturopathic physician with over 45 years of medical experience and an adjunct faculty at National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR. Her new book Healing Matters: Celebrating Women’s Innate Healing Nature explores the lack of feminin... Read more

Bread and Roses welcomes Portland author, Lidia Yuknavitch. Her new novel, DORA:  a Headcase, is a feminist retelling of Freud’s famous case study, “Dora”—an 18-year-old diagnosed with hysteria. Set in modern-day Seattle, Dora doesn’t take Freud’s theories lying down. w... Read more

Veterans demand: A Right To Heal; Teachers demand: Education For All A Right to Heal: Veterans organizing to combat the widespread trauma of our endless wars continue a campaign demanding A Right To Heal. We'll speak with former soldier Maggie Martin, an organizer with Ira... Read more