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Racist Native American 'Mascots' in the Schools: Will the State Ban Them at Last?

Airs at: Wed, 03/28/2012 at 12:00am
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 Hosted by Lisa Loving   The Oregon State Board of Education is getting ready to make a decision on abolishing "Race-Based Native American Mascots" at local schools, and the Oregon Indian Education Association has launched the Mascot Project, asking the Board to ban them ... Read more

Are School Suspensions and Expulsions Driving the Achievement Gap and the Incarceration Rate?

Airs at: Wed, 03/21/2012 at 12:00am
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 Hosted by Lisa Loving What drives the drop out rate, the achievement gap and the incarceration rate? A growing movement says too many kids are getting suspended and expelled from school as a form of punishment, and more black kids are suspended and expelled from school th... Read more

Growing Up Black in 'Lake No Negro'

Airs at: Wed, 03/14/2012 at 12:00am
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 Hosted by Lisa Loving   'Lake Oswego High: Racist Tweets are Only Tip of the Iceberg.' Our guest is journalist Bruce Poinsette, author of a personal essay about growing up Black in Lake Oswego published in The Skanner News and the Oregonian. That's Wednesday, 8-9am on KB... Read more

Fighting a Tar Sands Company's Claims to Private Land

Airs at: Fri, 03/09/2012 at 12:00am
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Julia Trigg Crawford, a Texas landowner and farmer who isn’t letting the foreign tar sands company claim eminent domain rights to her land without putting up a fight. Two weeks ago Ms. Crawford launched a Change.org petition to protect he... Read more

Portlander Judith Gelin on Haiti Relief Efforts

Airs at: Wed, 03/07/2012 at 12:00am
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 Hosted by Lisa Loving   Two years after the devastating Haiti earthquake killed an estimated 300,000 people, activists including our guest, Judith Gelin of the Society for Haitian Arts and Culture, are still raising funds for the needy. But everyone asks: Where did all t... Read more

March and Rally against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - TODAY!!!

Airs at: Wed, 02/29/2012 at 12:00am
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 Host Jay Thiemeyer interviews local activist Kari about the March and Rally focused on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and their role in the corporate corruption of our democracy.  WHEN: Wednesday, February 29th, Rally at 11:30am, March at 1pm WHERE: March... Read more

Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and a 3 Year Anniversary Party

Airs at: Wed, 02/22/2012 at 12:00am
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 Hosted by Lisa Loving   Marriage Equality, Family, and Portland PFLAG's 3rd Anniversary celebration this weekend. Our guests are Khalil and Antoinette Edwards from Portland's chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. Click here for videos, websites, stories a... Read more

Susan Herman on “Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy"

Airs at: Wed, 02/15/2012 at 12:00am
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 Host Lisa Loving speaks with Susan Herman about her new book “Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy” which takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror. A decade after 9/11, it is far from clear that the governmen... Read more

Talk Radio on 02/08/12

Airs at: Wed, 02/08/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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Host Lisa Loving speaks with Maria Armoudian about her new book "Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World," an in-depth examination of the media's power to help or harm. What role do the media have in creating the conditions for atrocities in areas of ... Read more

What's wrong with anti-contraception conservatives?

Airs at: Wed, 02/01/2012 at 12:00am
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 Lisa Loving's guest is Robert Walker, Executive Vice President of the Population Institute. If the current GOP presidential primary campaign is remembered for nothing else, it will be known for the meteoric rise of the "anti-contraception conservatives." • Rick Santorum... Read more

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