Join us as we speak with Laura Nitti, Phoenix Blickle, and Amanda
Bowman-Mejia about their efforts to get OEA to join the coalition pushing for
humane investing of their PERS and other Oregon treasury investments.
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Bad Boys: Public education for Black boys is often characterized as a
school-to-prison pipeline. Why is it that these kids are so poorly served by
our schools? Book Mole, Patricia Kullberg, reviews the ethnography, Bad
Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculin...
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James and Nate Talk with Bert Hui, one of the founders of Columbia Gorge
Board Games, a group that meets weekly to play board games in Hood River.
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Our guest is poet, filmmaker, educator, retired therapist, and thought leader
– La Toya A. Hampton, MSW ~ The Poet Lady Rose. She is holding Rhymes and
Roots: Celebrating North Portland through Poetry Workshops through Sunday,
February 9.
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Tanner is the co-author, along with Kai Whiting, of the new book, What Is
Stoicism?: A Brief and Accessible Overview. Tanner is an American
philosopher of Stoicism living in the United Kingdom. He is the producer and
host of the Practical Stoicism podcast, which was named n...
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Our guest is Fern Capella Allen of the New Earth School PDX in Southeast
Portland. She’s crowdsourcing knowledge as a mutual aid project. You can
engage with them online, @newearthschoolpdx on Instagram and FB.
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Nate and James welcome Ned Damon, the Portland Local Playtest Organizer with
Break My Game. He gives local board game designers a chance to have their
games played with a critical eye so they can improve their designs. Ned also
has a podcast about the trading card game Star...
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Our guest is Jeff Strang from Common Ground OR/WA, talking about land
ownership, wealth control, and taxes. He’s talking about a policy strategy
for Oregon like in Alaska, where residents get money every year through a tax
on the oil industry – except in Oregon it would be ...
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As Syria struggles to emerge from decades of conflict, we revisit our
November 2018 conversation with Drawn to Berlin author Ali Fitgerald.
Drawn to Berlin follows Ali's encounters with Syrian youth, as
she teaches comics workshops at a makeshift refugee center in German...
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