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Cat Winters on "The Steep and Thorny Way"

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Host Bethany Grabow talks with Cat Winters, author of the new book The Steep and Thorny Way. This historical fiction, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, follows protagonist Hanalee as she navigates rural Oregon in the 1920’s as a biracial teen coming to terms with he... Read more

The Struggle Inside & Out: Supporting Prisoner Strikes

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli will interview activist Ben Turk.  A long term activist supporting all prisoners including Political Prisoners, Turk is connected to several different movements and organizations working around national prisoner strikes.  We will discuss the upcoming Septemb... Read more

Vanport Mosaic Festival

Airs at: Tue, 05/17/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features the Vanport Mosaic Festival that celebrates and remembers an important time and community in Portland history. She'll talk  with festival co-artistic directors S. Renee Mitchell, Damaris Webb and Laura Lo Forti.  Damaris is the director/producer of Cottonwood ... Read more

Lemonade, Black Womanhood, & Self-Love (A digital roundtable)

Airs at: Fri, 05/13/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Hosts Pamela Santos and Tessara Dudley invited fierce Black artists & writers from diverse gender identities to talk about Beyonce's film and visual album Lemonade and the "thinkpiece" explosion that surrounded the release. Tune in at 6pm to hear this discussion of Lemonade... Read more

Teressa Raiford's Disorderly Conduct Trial, April 18-21, 2016

  On August 9, 2015 Portland Police arrested Ms Raiford when an event commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Police death of Michael Brown spilled out into the intersection of South East Division and 82nd Avenue.     Is standing in the street disorderly conduct? ... Read more

Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin

Airs at: Sun, 04/17/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Jim Wallis, president and founder of Sojourners, is an evangelical Christian with a social conscience. He speaks and writes about ethics and public policy. His latest book is called America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to A New America. He has bee... Read more

Crossing East Radio Series

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2016 at 10:00am - 6:00pm
Nearly ten years ago, MediaRites Productions debuted Crossing East, (Our Stories, Our History, Our America), the first and to date only Asian American/Pacific Islander history series on public radio. This series produced by Dmae Roberts, Sara Kolbet and producers around the... Read more

defunkt Theatre's The Udmurts

Airs at: Tue, 05/10/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features defunkt Theatre's world premiere production of The Udmurts by David Zellnik. The Udmurt people are a diminishing ethnic group in the Udmurt Republic in Russia. The lead character in defunkt's production meets an Udmurt woman and is changed by her friendship. ... Read more

PART 2: MOTHERS NIGHT! - Oh No! It's our annual all-night marathon of Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention! RUN!

Airs at: Sat, 05/07/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am
That's right...it's time again to honor thy Mothers with our annual all-night marathon celebrating the early recordings of those untamed geniuses, THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION! 8 very short hours from the canon of Frank Zappa, featuring rare Mothers of Invention recordings, u... Read more

The Frisco Five, Climate Emergency, and Imperialism Update

Airs at: Thu, 05/05/2016 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Presswatch
This week's commentary will focus on the courageous hunger strickers, The Frisco Five, who are in the 15th day of their hunger strike to end racial injustice and cop violence.  Theresa will also dicuss the continuing climate emergency, and give an imperialsim update. Read more