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9/11/73 in Chile

Airs at: Mon, 09/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Laurie Mercier talks with Marian Schlotterbeck about the legacies of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (or MIR), both before and after the Sept 11, 1973, military coup that overthrew the democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Schlotterbeck i... Read more

Ep.9 Pea(ce) Soup

Airs at: Tue, 09/19/2017 at 10:30pm - 11:15pm

Produced for: Peace, Love and Soup

Sept. 2017 - International Peace Day falls on September 21st, therefore this month we will be emphasizing the Peace - in Peace, Love & Soup. We're going to talk to Wintry Whit Smith who is spreading peace education worldwide with her Peace Village Global curriculum! Sh... Read more

The Hollywood Murders Special

Airs at: Fri, 09/22/2017 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: News and Public Affairs Day

KBOO Evening News Reporter Tom Flynn speaks frankly with those affected and at the center of the tragic stabbings that brought Portland, Oregon into national attention as a city that is grappling with a long history of white supremacy and terrorism. By speaking with Mic... Read more

We Will Shoot Back!

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Cecil and Celeste welcome Professor Akinyele Umoja to discuss the history of armed resistance in the struggle for civil and human rights. They'll also discuss the current climate of violence and intimidation by armed groups that are being aimed at anti-racist protesters... Read more

THE F-WORD: RICHARD WOLFF ON THE ECONOMICS OF FASCISM

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

We have a new episode of "The F-Word,' our series on fascism. And we are excited to have as our guest today for an extended discussion professor and author Richard Wolff, co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of the nationally syndicated program 'Economic Update.' O... Read more

STAYING ROOTED & STAMPED FROM THE BEGINING

Airs at: Fri, 09/15/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Community Focused Economic Models, Cooperative Housing, and the New Economy Coalition Collective housing, cultural co-ops, land trusts, community banks are community-rooted enterprises that empower those that have been excluded from traditional economic institutions. S... Read more

First Impressions

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am

Produced for: Locus Focus

The American Southwest is a land that echoes with mystery, stark beauty, and a history of brutality. On this arid landscape civilizations have risen and fallen for thousands of years. Some were wiped out by changing climatic conditions, others by the brutality of Spanish Co... Read more

Capitalism vs. Socialism: Richard Wolff

Airs at: Tue, 09/12/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

The great radical historian Howard Zinn once told me, half in jest, that one of the greatest disasters to befall socialism was when the Soviet Union put it in the official name of the country: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. I asked him to explain and he said, T... Read more

Brzezinski’s Brilliant Idea

Airs at: Thu, 09/07/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: Fight the Empire

The United States backed Afghan Islamists in order to give the Soviet Union their own Vietnam. Now the Soviet Union is gone and the US is still bogged down in Afghanistan. And Islamic fundamentalism has spread throughout the world. Read more