Wednesday Talk Radio

  “Writing in mainstream media allows me to put a Native perspective on newsworthy events in front of Americans who have never considered that point of view. It also allows me to intellectually address the issues Native people face and help our people process these experie... Read more

    Does “self-care” feel like a co-opted concept to make us feel better about our trauma-inducing society? According to Audre Lorde, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” Molly DuMars, of the group ... Read more

    Ted Wheeler, Portland’s Millionaire Mayor, has his fingers in a surprising number of pies involving Oregon’s public resources, funding, and policy. As State Treasurer he oversaw the investment of almost a billion dollars of PERS funds into the volatile and exploitativ... Read more

Sunday, May 5th was National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls. Host Jacqueline Keeler speaks to Deborah Maytubee Denton-Shipman the founder of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA, which assists MMIW families, and tries to locate missing... Read more

Wednesday Talk Radio is off for the week. Instead we have a special presentation of Final Straw Radio feauring Tom Tanuki, front man of the group Yelling At Racist Dogs (Y.A.R.D.), a performance anti-fascist group that directs insulting yells at far-right, xenophobic events... Read more

Guest host Linda Olsen-Osterlund takes a look at Facebook and social media's usage of personal data, its discriminatory practices, and all the other things that make people question the future and definition of privacy. Call in with your comments 503-231-8187. Read more

    In the Company of Rebels: A Generational Memoir of Bohemians, Deep Heads, and History Makers, due out next month on New Village Press, is Chellis Glendinning's seventh book of non-fiction. From New Village Press: "American social change movements dominated the 1960s... Read more

Journalist Jacqueline Keeler talks to Tiffany Midge, Lakota poet from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and author of "The Woman Who Married a Bear" winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry. Midge's (a contributor to McSweeney's) forthcoming book "Bury... Read more