Civil Rights/Human Rights

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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

The Wheeler-Outlaw Ordinance Restricting Protest Fails to Get a Vote

Produced for:  Evening News
Mayor Wheeler’s emergency ordinance to restrict Portland protesters failed to get a vote at city hall yesterday afternoon. The Mayor quickly substituted a new ordinance and Council voted to at least hear from the assembled stakeholder. As Mayor Wheeler noted in his opening... Read more

Discussing the Largest Event on Planet Earth

Airs at: Fri, 11/09/2018 at 9:00am
  Having just returned from Iraq for Arbaeen in which over 15 million people from all over the world converged on the Holy City of Karbala, John Shuck discusses his experience and the significance of the world's largest event with Iraqi refugee and Portland resident, Hanan... Read more

Buscando America on 11/06/18

Airs at: Tue, 11/06/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Nueve días sin agua en la gran Tenochtitlán. La caravana migrante llega a la Ciudad de México y desbordó el albergue que fue previsto por autoridades capitalinas. Desde La 72 Hogar Refugio Para Personas Migrantes y hablamos con Ramón Marquez sobre esta nueva crisis de despl... Read more

Zoe Leonard Wants a President

Airs at: Mon, 11/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Zoe Leonard reads and comments on “I Want a President”     Read more

The Covenants of the Prophet with the Christians of the World: A Conversation with John Andrew Morrow (ENCORE)

Airs at: Tue, 11/06/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Why do the powers that be try to convince us that there is a “clash of cultures” or a conflict between Islam and the West or between Islam and Christianity?   To answer that, Dr. John Andrew Morrow discusses his book, The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Chris... Read more

U.S. Interventions in the Middle East: Edward Said

Airs at: Tue, 11/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The current occupant of the White House has said, “The Middle East is a troubled place. There are a lot of bad things happening in that part of the world.” Indeed. But why is it troubled place and why are bad things happening there? There is no mention of Washington’s ro... Read more

Portland Pursues Alternative to Compliance with EPA Lead Levels

Produced for:  Evening News
In Nineteen Ninety One (1991) the United States Environmental Protection Agency published the lead and copper rule, to minimize nurotoxins in water. The rule established a maximum contaminant level goal of zero for lead in drinking water. The Portland Water Bureau has neve... Read more