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Gerry Pollet of Heart of America NW joins Abe to discuss the latest on the Hanford nuclear site

Airs at: Tue, 07/26/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is on vacation.   Since its birth during the Manhattan Project, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has left a toxic legacy in its wake, from displaced populations to groundwater contamination to radiation in the Columbia River. Now, the U.S ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 07/26/11

Airs at: Tue, 07/26/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Stephen Bezruchka - Dying Younger Than We Should (lecture) Over and over U.S. citizens are told, "We have the best health care system in the world." That would be great if it were true but the facts, baldly stated, don’t support the claim. Not only is it far and away the mo... Read more

Gala Miller from the Columbia Springs Environmental Resource Center

Airs at: Mon, 07/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Hosted by Paul Van Dyck Today, Paul talks to Gala Miller from the Columbia Springs Environmental Resource Center       Read more

Bo Rinaldi on a Plant Based Lifestyle

Airs at: Fri, 07/22/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Host Robyn Shanti welcomes guest Bo Rinaldi, who calls himself a “bloodless revolutionary” and believes that the only way out of this matrix of Corporatocracy we find ourselves in, is by adopting a plant based lifestyle. Bo is one of the pioneers of the organic movement in ... Read more

Conservatism: the gnawing fear that someone, somewhere, might be having a good time.

Airs at: Tue, 07/19/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is still on vacation.   In the 2010 elections, the GOP snatched up statehouses and state legislatures across the country. Predictably, an onslaught of regressive legislation has ensued -- againstwomen, against minorities, against the envi... Read more

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
What is the cost of eating foods out of season?  Host David Naimon interviews award-winning journalist Barry Estabrook about his new book Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit.   Learn how the winter tomato industry in Florida affec... Read more

As the Republic is delivered into the hands of the plutocrats, Abe surveys the wreckage.

Airs at: Tue, 07/12/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is off for the summer.   We truly have passed through the looking glass. With unemployment near 10 percentfor the third straight year, the patricians in Washington haggle over whether corporate jets deserve special tax consideration. In th... Read more

Marc Agronin and How We Age: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
 Hosted by Dr. David Naimon Today, Dr. Naimon speaks with Geriactric Psychiatrist,  Dr. Marc Agronin, author of the book How We Age: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old Read more

Ron Coleman, teacher and trainer with the Hearing Voices Movement

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Madness Radio
 Hosted by Will Hall Are voices real -- or are they just auditory hallucinations and sign of mental illness? Is it best to try to control and get rid of voices -- or listen and discover their meaning? After being sexually abused by a priest and in grief at the death of his ... Read more

Food-Stamps: an effective program that we can't afford to cut

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe talks with Jessica Chanay of Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon about the food-stamps program, its importance for recipients and society at large, and what it would mean if we applied 1996 Welfare Reform type cuts to it, as current legislators want to.   Read more