Political Perspectives

From the series Sea Change Radio host Alex Wise interviews Richard Heinberg in a program called "After the Burn."  After a two-century-long burning bender, the globe is in for a heck of a hangover. Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio is Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow... Read more

Host Jimmy Tardy speaks with Ivana Horvat and Adrian Hopffgarten about their film, Finding Bosnia, which presents the intimate and personal journey of a Bosnian war refugee raised in the United States who seeks to reclaim her “Bosnian” culture and identity. Ivana Horvat fl... Read more

We hear Jo Ann Hardesty's keynote address at KBOO’s Annual meeting held on Sunday, September 27th, at PSU's Native American Student and Community Center.  Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Caroline Fredrickson about her new book, "Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over." She explains how U.S. labor laws exclude certain workers from protection (mainly women and people of color), and the terrible reasons why tho... Read more

We speak with musician Laurie Dameron about her Multimedia Environmental Concerts tour, which includes an October 4th presentation at Mississippi Pizza in Portland. Laurie's presentation, “What Can I Do?” Spaceship Earth features the photography of John Fielder, Karl Snyder... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Brad Evans about his book Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle, co-authored with Henry GIroux Disposable Futures makes the case that we have not just become desensitized to violence, but rather, that we ... Read more

Host Lisa Loving speaks with Mike Rose, who has made a career of championing the academic potential of the poor and underprivileged. They will discuss his latest book, BACK TO SCHOOL: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education. Recently Harvard University, the weal... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with writer Kate Harding about her new book, "Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It" Sexual violence has been so prominent in recent years that the feminist term "rape culture" has finally entered the ma... Read more

Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher speaks with Kentaro Toyama about his new book, "Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology." Kentaro Toyama is W.K. Kellogg Associate Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information... Read more

We'll hear a program from the series WINGS, the Women's International News Gathering Service on "Digital Ageism." Rose Marie Whalley interviews Kim Sawchuch, Communications Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, who is currently researching aging and mobile tech... Read more