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The 'F' Word

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Radiozine
  The F-Word: Ajamu Baraka on the Military-Industrial Complex...The Centennial of Armistice Day...Gerald Horne on Poland's 'White Power' March...And More...  On the Ground is a weekly show from Washington, DC covering social justice activism.  100 years after the end of W... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 19, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick and Larry Klineman talk about local and national immigration politics, including the defeat of Measure 105. Larry Bowlden reviews Barbara Kingsolver's latest novel, Unsheltered. Joe shares special audio and music abo... Read more

Up and Over + StreetBooks: grassroots groups helping vulnerable people today

Airs at: Wed, 12/12/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for The RadioActivist
Today on The Radio Activist, at 9am hosts Suzanne LaGrande and Lisa Loving interview youth educator and mental health advocate Javonnie Shearn about her current winter coat drive for teenagers, her work on the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and as vice chair of the ... Read more

Re-traumatization of Women in Prison

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Host Isabelle Sinclair speaks with Jackie Whitt, a formerly incarcerated person, about her experiences within Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon's only prison for women. Jackie, who comes from a background of intergenerational incarceration, speaks about the retraum... Read more

Focus on Gaza: Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei

Airs at: Fri, 11/16/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Positively Revolting
On today's show, guest hosts Layla Kanaan will be interviewing Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, Psychiatrist & Director of Gaza Community Mental Health Program, who will be able to provide crucial insight into the recent events taking place in Gaza.  Call in and voice your thoughts, ... Read more

Press**Watch: Fascism accelerates

Airs at: Thu, 11/15/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for Presswatch
The demagogue in Chief is not cornered, but he can hear the hounds baying in distance. Now he prepares his defense.  The best defense is a good offense, so he attacks his enemies--POC, Muslims, Judaism, transgender Americans--and we hear words of disparagement against Irani... Read more

Buscando America on 11/13/18

Airs at: Tue, 11/13/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for Buscando America
Hablamos con un pequeño grupo de migrantes centroamericanos miembros de la primera caravana  que aún permanecen en la Ciudad Deportiva Mixuca. Conocimos a Susana Obeja Negra de Batallones femeninos y desde una entrañable pulquería de la ciudad de México denuncia sobre la re... Read more

How Hitler Happened: Benjamin Hett

Airs at: Tue, 11/13/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  The post-WW1 Weimar Republic in Germany was the height of European civilization. Its scientists and scholars led the world. Its Bauhaus architecture was the rage. Its arts featured such luminaries as Fritz Lang, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Thomas Mann. Yet, out of thi... Read more

Nasty Women Get Shit Done

Airs at: Wed, 11/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for The RadioActivist
Nasty Women Get Shit Done PDX (NWGSD) emerged in Portland, Oregon in response to the 2016 presidential election results when friends gathered together to brainstorm ways to help their community and to actively resist the xenophobia, racism, misogyny, ableism, anti-LGBTQ, an... Read more

Jim Belushi

Airs at: Sun, 11/11/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week on Century: Peter Sarosi from the Rights Reporter Foundation in Hungary addresses the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, and we speak with the actor, musician and comedian Jim Belushi, proprietor of Belushi's Farm in Eagle Point, Oregon. Read more