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The prison at Guantanamo Bay is a lingering blight of Bush's -- and now Obama's -- War on Terror. The latest WikiLeaks dump exposes the flimsy evidence on which some people are still being held, and the apparent indifference with which others were released. And once again, the documents confirm that torture is an accepted instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Abe and Joe sift through the leaks and ponder whether the Bill of Rights will ever again be in vogue.

Vandana Shiva  - War on the Earth  (interview)

Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned voice for sustainable development and social justice. A physicist, scholar, political activist and feminist, she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi . She's the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, the alternative Nobel Prize. Author of many books, her latest are "Earth Democracy" and "Soil Not Oil."

Tune in April 26th at 11am on KBOO 90.7 FM as we push the boundaries and rethink the essence of art. Host/Producer Dmae Roberts talks with Harrell Fletcher and Jen Delos Reyes from Portland State University's Art and Social Practice MFA Program where students create socially engaging art projects. Co-hosting will be Producer Macon Reed who's been examining several "social practice" projects in Portland.

This week we have Jim Neidhardt on Art Focus. He has a show of photographs up at Blackfish. Neidhardt captures the museum ritual of photographing the art experience rather than actually having one. Or maybe the intimate relationship we have with our cameras is deeply imbedded in whatever art experience we have, for better or worse.

Last month's 9.0 earthquake and tsunami breached six Japanese nuclear reactors in Fukushima, releasing radiation into the atmosphere. Stephanie Potter interviews Marcelino Alvarez of Uncorked Studios who was not soothed by the official reports that there was "nothing to worry about." He hit upon the idea of using "citizen scientists" to crowd-source radiation data.  Rdtn.org,  now known as Safecast, was conceived, and up and running within 72 hours, and within the first week had over 150,000 visitors from 130 countries.

Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with two activists from US Uncut, a grassroots movement taking direct action against corporate tax cheats and unnecessary and unfair public service cuts across the U.S.

Washington's proposed budget for the coming year sends a clear message: The wrath of budget cuts will fall upon the shoulders of hard-working Americans. That's unacceptable.

Host Theresa Mitchell speaks with filmmaker Paul Grignon who produced "Money As Debt" and "Money As Debt II," which explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing debt and how we might evolve beyond it to a new era.

http://www.moneyasdebt.net/

The guest is Wayne Pacelle, President of the Humane Society of the United States, and author of the new book, "The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them." Pacelle will discuss the deep links of the human-animal bond as wll as the conflicting implulses that have led us to betray this bond through widespread and systemic cruelty to animals.

Wayne Pacelle has been with the Humane Society of the U.S. for seventeen years. He has taken a special interest in law reform and has been a leading strategist in getting animal protection laws enacted by the direct action of the electorate.

stay tuned for a ONCE IN A LIFETIME opportunity, as we at 'guess who's coming to radio??!!' are bringing PRINCE ROGERS NELSON to you for a spring membership drive special!!!  never let it be said that we don't explore many territories...  because we will be playing for you the reasons why prince is titled 'his royal badness'. 

amongst the b-sides, remixes and album cuts (with some 'favorites' here and there, of course!) we will also be playing tracks from associated artists such as sheila e, mazarati, morris day, jesse johnson, chaka khan and more!