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The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
More than a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions produced around the world today come from the simple steps of growing, catching, processing, transporting, and cooking food—and then dealing with leftovers. This alarming statistic motivated ecologist Mark J. Easter to dra... Read more

Criminalizing Solidarity

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Historian Rachel Ida Buff talks with Frann Michel about connections between attacks on encampments in support of Palestine and encampments of houseless people, as well as attacks on other forms of collective solidarity and the commons, including migrant caravans and wate... Read more

Oil For Kisses ep 44 - VOICE YOUR DISGUST

Airs at: Sat, 01/04/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Oil For Kisses
With this month's presidential administration taking charge yet again, I saw it fit to thematically address this worrisome scenario with the show this month. For OFK #44, I'm joined by longtime friend Jesse Novak to explore protest music of varying sorts over the past sever... Read more

Criminalizing Misfortune

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Karen James speaks with Kerry, Leon and Andrés who are currently receiving services at the Beaverton Shelter. They discuss the challenges that led them to homelessness, substance abuse and ultimately to find support to help them achieve their goals. They express their ... Read more

Embrace 2025 with DJ Ellie D on The Sacred Circle "TEMENOS"

Airs at: Fri, 01/03/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
“Take a deep a deep breath and think about the best way ground yourself in this moment and to present for what is come in this year of Wood Snake . . . ” -El DJ Ellie D.  Eleanor Kiyoko Rose Nakayama Read more

The Best, the Worst & Most Interesting of Times

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
It's the time of year again when we look back at the past year and ahead to the new with Eric de Place, with Salish Strategies in Seattle. As the impending next Trump administration looms ever nearer, we talk about productive ways we can prepare for that unknown, and look a... Read more

Providence Caregivers Ready to Strike

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Richard Botterill and Kim Martin, rank-and-file leaders in the Oregon Nurses Association, give us a blow-by-blow lead up to the biggest-yet, possible Providence Health strike, involving over 5,000 caregivers in eight hospitals and six clinics across Oregon. Read more

Radio Tales for the Road

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Today, January 20, is a day that many of us have been dreading since the election. As we hurtle into the unknown Trumpian future, we really don’t know what’s in store, just how much we should be afraid, or how to muster a movement that will stand up to everything we fear fr... Read more

The Corporate Roots of Climate Change

Airs at: Thu, 12/26/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
New documents show how a deceptive PR strategy pioneered in 1950s California first exposed the risk of climate change and then helped the industry deny it.  Read more

Oregon's New Drug Policies

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Join Prison Pipeline hosts Emma Lugo, Karen James, Doug McVay & Adam Carpinelli, as they discuss this past year’s decision by Oregon legislators to overturn Ballot Measure 110 which was overwhelmingly approved by Oregonians in 2020. Legislators passed HB4002 which recrimina... Read more