Disability

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Bread and Roses

Airs at: Fri, 07/28/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Founder of the Disability Visibility Project and storytelling fellow from Making Contact, Alice Wong, and I chat not just about bringing the figurative voices of disability into radio and podcasting more, but actual disabled voices. Voices where you can hear that the per... Read more

Transitioning from Prison

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Emma Lugo speaks with Anna Debenham, a counselor and advocate for recently and currently incarcerated persons, and with former insiders and gang members, Karl Armstrong and Brandon Brown, members of Phoenix Rising Transitions who recently paroled after being in pris... Read more

Medicaid Cuts Loom Large Over Disabled Oregonians

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Disability Awareness
  Grace speaks to Ted Wenk of Disabilty Rights Oregon about the proposed cuts to Medicaid and how they would threaten disabled Oregonians. Read more

You Don't Know My Pain

Airs at: Wed, 07/19/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
This week we talk about mental health and psychedelic evangelism with harm reduction and drug policy reform activist Sarah Merrigan. Read more

Domestic Violence and Disability

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Disability Awareness
  For women with disabilities, violence by caregivers is very serious, all too common, and still nearly invisible. Special barriers, both physical and attitudinal, can make it especially hard for them to exit the situation. Activists are determined to make shelters and ... Read more

Unbroken Brain - The Full Monty

Airs at: Wed, 06/21/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
Maia Szalavitz is an award-winning journalist and author who covers addiction and neuroscience. Her latest book, the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction uses her own story of recovery from heroin and cocaine addic... Read more

Full Audio--Forum on Outcomes of Portland Police-DOJ Settlement

Produced for:  Evening News
This is the full audio from the June 14, 2017 Community Forum on the Compliance Officer/Community Liaison (COCL) Outcomes Report, which evaluated the effects of PPB's compliance with the 2012 Department of Justice-City of Portland settlement agreement. DOJ found that PPB... Read more

Community Forum on Outcomes of Police-DoJ Settlement

Airs at: Thu, 06/15/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Last night, June 14, 2017, community stakeholders met at Maranatha Church in NE Portland for a forum on the Outcomes Report issued by the Compliance Officer/Community Liaison (COCL). The report, available here, is the third of its kind since a settlement was reached betw... Read more

Former Army and Air Force Veteran Speaks about Drone Warfare Program

Airs at: Fri, 06/16/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Marvin and Angie interview Army and Air Force veteran Lisa Ling, who worked within the US's drone program. She was featured in the new documentary "National Bird," a film by Sonia Kennebeck. The documentary is available now on Netflix. http://nationalbirdfilm.com Read more

Interrupting Police as First Responders in a Mental Health Crisis / The Fight to Abolish Prison Slavery

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Join co-host Emma Lugo with guests Esther and Buckley of Critical Resistance PDX about strategies to interrupt the police as first responders to people experiencing mental health crisis.  Critical Resistance Portland (CR-PDX) is developing a campaign to interrupt the use... Read more