Activism

Sounds of Awareness on 05/24/10

Airs at: Mon, 05/24/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Sounds of Awareness

Sounds of Awareness is off this month. Instead we'll hear Health and Wellness for Women with Disabilities: Access This! Kym King interviews Dr. Peg Nosek, the founder of CROWD (Center for Research On Women With Disabilities), about aspects of her life with a severe disab... Read more

Kiana Karimi and Rees Erlich on Iranian Activism

Airs at: Fri, 01/08/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Voices of the Middle East

Two talks: Kiana Karimi and Rees Erlich. Kiana Karimi is a women's rights activist and a member of One Million Signatures Campaign, a peaceful grassroots movement for gender equality that has sprung from the efforts of Iranian women inside Iran. The Campaign officially la... Read more

One Land Many Voices on 04/23/10

Airs at: Fri, 04/23/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: One Land Many Voices

Electronic Intifada co-founder, Ali Abunimah, talks about BOYCOTT-DIVESTMENT-SANCTIONS: Strategies for a Just Peace in Palestine-Israel. This is an encore-broadcast of Ali Abunimah's March 5th lecture in Portland at the First Unitarian Church. Ali Abunimah is author of On... Read more

Diane Hess and The law, your Rights and Special Activities marking the Fair Housing Council’s 20th Anniversary

Airs at: Wed, 03/31/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

Hosted by Lisa Loving Thousands of Oregonians are denied housing on the basis of race, class and religion every year. If it happens to you – what can you do? Host Lisa Loving and her guest Diane Hess of the Fair Housing Council of Oregon speak about the law, your rights a... Read more

PDX Walk for Water event to aid families in Sub-Saharan Africa

Airs at: Wed, 03/10/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Host Crystal Leighty interviews Eric Mwarabu, an intern from Tanzania who is working to increase awareness of Walk for Water on Sunday, March 21, 2010. Drawing attention to the plight of millions of people whose access to safe drinking water is severely limited, Walk for... Read more

More Talk Radio on 2/15/10

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Tre Arrow is a green anarchist who gained prominence in the U.S. state of Oregon in the late 1990s and early 2000s for his environmental activism, bid for Congress as a Pacific Green Party candidate, and then for his arrest and later conviction for committing acts of arson ... Read more

Political Perspectives on 2/10/10

Airs at: Wed, 02/10/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

In part one of the Feb 10, 2010 Political Perspectives, Michelle Schroeder Fletcher interviews blogger Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog about the case of rightwing activist James O'Keefe, his federal felony arrest late last month, and his infamous secretly taped video intervi... Read more

Roy Bourgeois: Protesting the School of the Americas

Airs at: Fri, 02/05/2010 at 12:00am

Produced for: Special Programming: Public Affairs

Roy Bourgeois spoke in Portland on 11-19-08 about his involvemnt in protesting the School of the Americas. This is an excerpt from that talk. CD-1529 Read more

More Talk Radio on 01/18/10

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Guest host Marianne Barisonek interviews author and activist Raj Patel about his new book, "The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy." Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved, is an activist and academic who has been hailed as "a visi... Read more