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Indigenous Futurisms

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In recognition of Women's History Month, Jan Haaken talks with Grace Dillon about history and emancipatory visions of the future.  Dillon is Professor of Indigenous Nations at Portland State University and coined the term Indigenous Futurisms, paying homage to Afrofuturism.... Read more

We Should Cover Every War Like the Ukrainian Invasion & the Republican War on Free Elections & Compassion

Airs at: Thu, 03/03/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
In this episode of AMERICAN STANDOFF, we'll take a look at the way colonial white supremacy shapes not only elections and compassion here in the United States but abroad as well, even as we face the threat of World War III. As the world watches in horror at the unprovoked i... Read more

The Earthican Domains

Airs at: Fri, 02/25/2022 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
Join Ender Black on a memory lane discovery journey! On this episode, Ender will delight you with portions from the various fascinating conversations he has had on Squirrels Know during the years 2020 and 2021. The concepts of transcendent thinking and trascendent feeling a... Read more

The American Trucker Convoy, Violence in PDX Against Peaceful BLM Protestors & Trump Stands with Putin

Airs at: Thu, 02/24/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
As Portland reels from tragic shooting and murder in Portland of anti-police violence protestors a large American trucker convoy sets off for DC. Meanwhile, Trump cheers for Putin's "peacekeeping" in Ukraine and may have eluded justice in New York City. All of this poses ... Read more

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

Airs at: Wed, 02/23/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Author Kyle Mays' second book, out last year, is An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2021). The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was I... Read more

Voter Suppression & the Unequal Power of the White Rural Vote

Airs at: Thu, 02/17/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
What does the Supreme Court's decision to allow Alabama to keep a new congressional district map that a lower court said violated the Voting Rights Act? What does it mean in the context of the outsized white rural vote's power in the electoral college?  This is the first r... Read more

Keeping Mt. Hood Wild

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Mount Hood National Forest has been getting more and more overrun in recent years by throngs who are loving it to death and this crush of humanity has only become worse since Covid. On the one hand it's great to see more people getting outdoors and (hopefully) appreciat... Read more

Trump, Canadian Truckers, and the Confederate Flag

Airs at: Thu, 02/10/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
The "Freedom Convoy" of Canadian truckers and their supporters converged on Ottawa on Jan. 29 and clogged the city’s streets with 18-wheelers and demonstrators calling for the end of COVID restrictions.  Trump has extolled the protest saying, "That's through the Canadian tr... Read more

Why Oregon Must Divest from Fossil Fuels

Airs at: Mon, 02/14/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
When it comes to tackling the climate crisis, there are already plenty of reasons for Oregonians to take pride in our state. Earlier this year, the Legislature passed three clean energy bills focused on energy affordability and climate-smart housing. In 2018, Portland also ... Read more

Starseed Presence

Airs at: Fri, 01/28/2022 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
Join Ender Black on a Starseed Healing Journey! For some time now, a movement of great proportions has been stirring all over the world, in the shadows, away from mainstream acceptance: The movement of galactic awareness for a better tomorrow. ---- Millions of people throug... Read more