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Gunned Down: Kids Getting Killed

Airs at: Tue, 01/24/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  Gary Younge is an award-winning columnist for The Guardian and the author of The Speech: The Story Behind Dr Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and Another Day in the Death of America. He writes the “Beneath the Radar” column for The Nation. After the Sandy Hook Elementary ... Read more

No More Czar?

Airs at: Sun, 01/22/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
  This week we take a closer look at the new Acting Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Kemp Chester. We ask the tough questions: are the days of a federal drug czar are numbered, or will the agency transform itself for the Trump era? On Friday, J... Read more

HEALTH ACTION 2017:HEALTH ACTION: UPDATE ON MUMIA AND LATEST ON VIEQUES NAVY POLLUTION

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Disability Awareness
  * Mumia Abu-Jamal on his recent victory in federal court, where a judge ordered him to finally get hepatitis C treatment. * Roberto Rabin, founder of Radio Vieques, describes the ongoing struggle to get the U.S. government to make good on its promise to decontaminate the ... Read more

Criminal Justice in Trump's Amerika

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
  Tonight on Prison Pipeline, host Doug McVay talks with Andy Ko, Executive Director of the Partnership for Safety & Justice, about the upcoming Oregon state legislative session, and about criminal justice reform in the age of Trump. Partnership for Safety & Justice   Read more

Inauguration Protests - Portland and across the country

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2017 at 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Special extended news program focusing on the protests taking place against the Inauguration of Donald Trump. 5pm: Special Headlines 5:15pm: Bread and Roses Presidential Protest Narrative 5:25pm: Miriam Widman in D.C. reporting 5:45pm: Love and Resist- Corvallis 6:00pm: ... Read more

Inauguration Day Special Coverage

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2017 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
  VOICES OF A NATION: A CALL TO ACTION: Reports from protests, rallies, walk-outs across the country and around the world, including: Austin, Chicago, Denver, Lansing, London, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco and the local communities of Pacifica affiliates around the coun... Read more

Drop the Military Industrial Complex

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Marvin and Angie discuss US militarism around the world, and how the next 4 years may affect the lives of veterans and their family members.  Veteran's Voice Radio Show with Northwest Veterans for Peace deals with matters of war and peace. They deal with veterans health ... Read more

INSANE CLOWN PRESIDENT: Matt Taibbi on Presswatch

Airs at: Thu, 01/26/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Presswatch
  “Trained for decades to be little more than good consumers, we had become a nation of reality shoppers, mixing and matching news items to fit our own self-created identities. We rejoiced in the idea that reality was not an absolute but a choice.” —Matt Taibbi, from INSAN... Read more

Brian Covert on the Press and the CIA

Airs at: Wed, 01/18/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
  Peter and Mickey spend the hour with journalist and media scholar Brian Covert, discussing the too-close relationship between the CIA and U.S. media, as well as other issues, including the Obama Administration "pivot" toward Asia.  Brian Covert is an independent journal... Read more

Trump, the CIA & Russia

Airs at: Thu, 01/19/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for Fight the Empire
  Per Fagereng takes your calls to discuss the reported connections between the President Elect and Russia via a leaked intelligence dossier.  The US media, in lock-step, has been ramping up the rhetoric of Russian hacking.  Per discusses the dangers of pushing the two nat... Read more