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It Calls You Back

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Carlos Chavez interviews author, poet and activist Luis J Rodriguez. They discuss his new memoir, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing. Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country with f... Read more

Navajo elder Perry Charley talks about effects of uranium mining on the Navajo people

Airs at: Mon, 11/28/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Roberta Hall hosts Navajo elder Perry Charley, Program Manager at the Uranium Education Program of the Dine Environmental Institute at Dine College in New Mexico. He talks about the effects of uranium mining on the Navajo people and issues of environmental justice. Dine C... Read more

Talk Radio on 11/24/11

Airs at: Thu, 11/24/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Red Willow, co-host of KBOO's Tillicum Wawa show, guest hosts Talk Radio. Read more

This Thanksgiving, Abe and Joe give thanks for an awakened American people.

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2011 at 12:00am
  This Thanksgiving, there is so much to be thankful for, even in this time of hungry ghosts. The American people have awakened, and a Movement is afoot. Abe and Joe give thanks for the Occupaction, and take your calls. A Listener recommended reading From Dictatorship to De... Read more

Pachucas, Pachucos and their Culture

Airs at: Fri, 11/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Carlos Chavez interviews Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Gerardo "Lalo" Licon. Lalo studied history at the University of Southern California and wrote his dissertation on the Pachuco Culture. Many recognize the Pachucos as the so ... Read more

Dispatches from the War on Sex: Mississippi's 'personhood' initiative

Airs at: Tue, 11/08/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Voters in Mississippi will decide tomorrow on a 'personhood' initiative which, if passed, would confer legal personhood upon a fertilized ovum. This would of course render abortion illegal, and any other act that interfered with said ovum... Read more

City complains about code violations

Airs at: Mon, 11/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Portland area residents, property and business owners are at odds with the Portland City Bureau of Development Services complaint based program of enforcement regarding city code violations. Many argue that there is an overwhelming inconsistency in the way that violation ar... Read more

Manvee Vaid on Indian Folk Art

Airs at: Fri, 11/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Manvee Vaid is a practicing artist and curator of Indian Art based out of Chicago, Illinois. She experiments with various art media ranging from acrylic, oils, gold gilding and faux finishing to murals. She has a bachelors in fine arts from Sir JJ school of Arts, Mumbai Ind... Read more

Chiapas Photography Project is hosting 2 Mayan women photographers and Project Director

Airs at: Mon, 10/24/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 The guests are members of the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP) which currently hosts 2 Maya women photographers and the director of the project in the Portland area for lectures and workshops.  Their photos offer a privileged look at family, home and village life today. T... Read more

Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart on his new Smithsonian Collection of the world's music

Airs at: Sat, 10/15/2011 at 12:00am
Most of you are familiar with Mickey Hart for his decades of work as one of The Grateful Dead's drummers.  But did you know about his work with the Smithsonian Institution, specifically with their Smithsonian Folkways music label? Well earlier this week, the Smithsonian rele... Read more