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Tonight on Prison Pipeline, we turn our focus to hunger, poverty, and state policy in Oregon. Host Emma Lugo speaks with Andrea Williams, President of the Oregon Food Bank, about the release of the organization’s 2026 State of Hunger Report and what the latest data revea... Read more

Join us as we speak with Springfield educators Laura Farrelly, Megan Brown, and Brandon Ferguson. Read more

This legislative session, Senator Sollman is trying for the fifth time to bring 1700 acres of some of the best farmland in the world into the city's urban growth boundary. Each time it's for a different reason, but this time much of the land would likely go to data cente... Read more

  With the federal government being steadily transformed into a pain, death, and detention delivery machine, the taxes we pay are quite literally imperiling us. With Tax Day still a good three months away, Desiree Hellegers explores the case for the strategic power, mor... Read more

  Kate, President of Students for Justice in Palestine at Washington State University Vancouver, discusses campus safety. In remarks from a recent campus event, she explains why abolishing ICE should also entail abolishing the police, and how real public safety means co... Read more

  Recent history is full of examples of humans messing with nature in order to increase profits, only to cause lasting ecological damage that wasn’t taken into account. The mystery novel Thirsty Creek, by Portland lawyer and writer Jennie Bricker, reviewed by writer and... Read more

  Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode includes these segments: African-Americans and the Bomb:   When Dr. Vincent Intondi became interested in the African-American response to atomic weapons, he was told over and over again by various scholars that the Black community h... Read more

When Dr. Vincent Intondi became interested in the African-American response to atomic weapons, he was told over and over again by various scholars that the Black community had no history of protest against the bomb. That, he quickly discovered, was completely false. The ... Read more

This episode of Folk Espresso was originally broadcast in February of 2024. From that cold winter: "With the frozen days of January behind us, the blackbirds are singing and the pipes that broke in the freeze are mostly repaired. So the music in this episode of Folk Esp... Read more

On this episode the Parsing Sound crew dims the lights and shifts the frequency to love. Join the crew from 10pm to Midnight as we pay homage to the legendary "Quiet Storm" legacy.   Read more