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Rupert Kinnard's Cathartic Comics

Airs at: Thu, 06/26/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Rupert Kinnard has been drawing comics for fifty years, while nurturing his side gigs as a designer, art director, and community activist.  His characters The Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé were the first queer African-American superheroes — long before DC and Ma... Read more

Cow Poop Won't Solve the Climate Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on April 7, 2025 Concentrated Animal Feed Operations have been around for a few decades. Basically concentration camps for cattle, pigs and chickens, these factory farms not only torture animals but also are major polluters and a principal... Read more

No Straight Road

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg reviews Rebecca Solnit's  latest collection of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain.  You can find the book at the Multnomah County Library.  You can find more of Solnit's most recent writing at her site, Meditations in... Read more

News In Depth | Women's Shelter Proposed for NW Portland

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2025 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for Evening News

The Palestine Exception: Free Speech & Academic Freedom in the Beaverton Schools

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
Beaverton School Board member, Tammy Carpenter and Beaverton school teachers and union activists, Claire Reneau and Ellen, discuss the recent controversy over "Teaching Palestine", a workshop sponsored by the Beaverton Education Association, and the investigation launche... Read more

The Great White Bear

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
The first evidence of Climate Chaos was felt mainly at the poles, as polar sea ice began to melt. Polar bears served as the first charismatic symbol of climate change but since media attention shifted from melting sea ice to wildfires, floods, heatwaves, and other impact... Read more

PEST

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers speaks with Mike Horner, Harlan Shober, and Ted Dreier of PEST – the Peoples Equipment and Supply Team – about their wide-ranging organizing, from refurbishing a school bus into a mobile medical unit for Standing Rock, to projecting slogans on the sides... Read more

Entertainment

Airs at: Fri, 06/13/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Radiozine

By LA, For LA

Airs at: Wed, 06/11/2025 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
On this edition of Century of Lies: By LA, For LA. On Saturday May 31, the Big Cities Health Coalition and Vital Strategies convened a panel of public health and harm reduction experts to present new national polling data and spotlight the latest stories from the front li... Read more

Zenith Gets Its Hearing

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on May 26, 2025   On May 12, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality held a public hearing, where over 300 people testified against DEQ approving Zenith Energy’s draft Air Contaminant Discharge Permit. This is the last permit Zen... Read more