Wednesday Talk Radio

    On November 20, 1969, dozens of Native American activists led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means (War Jack), and others occupied Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. Around 90 people kept the occupation going for a remarkable 19 months. War Jack (Shoshone Bannock) w... Read more

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    Dine'/Dutch-American speaker, writer and presidential candidate Mark Charles was recently in Portland for Indigenous Peoples' Day and a campaign event. He sat down with host Paul Roland to talk about his campaign, his new book, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumani... Read more

    Today's show will be a taped interview Paul did with Christopher Ryan, who is in town to speak at Powell's, but couldn't stay to be live on the program. Paul will take calls in the last half of the broadcast. Check out Chris's website here. Opening/closing song: Civi... Read more

    This morning our host Paul Roland is joined by Sara and Jon from Portland Assembly to talk about housing horror stories, and the news that’s making us anxious this week. We’ll hear stories about the sweeps from folks who’ve lived them, tell some scary housing stories... Read more

    Like New Orleans' Ninth Ward after Katrina, Houston after Harvey and Puerto Rico after Maria (though clearly on a lesser scale), the Yankton Sioux tribe in southeastern South Dakota has been reeling from the effects of the "bomb cyclone" that hit the region in March, ... Read more

  Wednesday Talk Radio's first Wednesday focus on mental and emotional health and healing, cognitive liberty and neurodiversity. Guests include Jordan Weiss, newly appointed treasurer of the Portland Psychedelic Society, field mycologist and educator and Lydia Lutsyshyna, ... Read more

  Paul talks with Tom O'Neill, whose new book offers an explosive reassessment of the most famous murder case (before O.J. Simpson's) in U.S. history, one which reverberated through American culture and cast a pall over the hippie/counterculture movement. In CHAOS: Charle... Read more

  Jackie Wang is a writer, poet, musician, and academic whose writing has been published by Lies Journal, Semiotext(e), HTML Giant, BOMBlog, along with numerous zines, such as those by the Moonroot collective. Her essay “Against Innocence” provides insightful analysis on p... Read more

Photo by Kate Tomlinson   Don't Feed the #Pretendian Discussion of Johnny Depp's Sauvage Ad with Native journalist and monthly co-host Jacqueline Keeler .  Dior's recent pulling of a Sauvage ad campaign featuring Johnny Depp calls into question a Native American organiza... Read more