Listen Up! Northwest program 16 looks at the gaps in access to healthy food for all.

Segments include:
* 98% of Alaska's food is shipped in from outside. Listen to a discussion on the future of Alaska's food security (Sparks, KWMD Kasilof, AK)
* What choices do the poor often make when buying food? An interview on the cost of food for the poor in British Columbia. (Lorraine Chisholm, Vancouver Coop Radio)
* Urban planners are discussing how to make healthy food more accessible to people in low income neighborhoods. (Martha Baskin, KBCS Seattle)
* Pre-packaged foods are very accessible to people throughout the world. We look at one company that produces packaged foods and their business practices (Jonathan Steinman, CJLY Nelson, BC)

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Listen Up! NW is produced by Yuko Kodama at KBCS for Reclaim the Media, and distributed by the Northwest Community Radio Network.

Listen Up! Northwest Program 15 explores life behind bars in the Northwest.

Segments include:
* One young woman navigates life with an absent dad and a mom in prison. (Sandi Billings, KRFP Moscow, ID)
* An inmate's mother discusses the latest Oregon ballot measures regarding prisons. (Ruth Kovacs, KBOO Portland)
* The racial disparity in prisons in Oregon and nationwide. (Carlos Chavez, KBOO Portland)
* An ICE spokesperson looks at the legal rights of undocumented immigrants (Patrick Kilpatrick and Linda Olson-Osterlund, KBOO Portland)
* A Commentary on some ways that the police and media can help lessen police
brutality incidents (Logic Amen, KBCS Seattle)

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Listen Up! NW is produced by Yuko Kodama at KBCS for Reclaim the Media, and distributed by the Northwest Community Radio Network.

Listen Up! Northwest Program 14 explores how gender colors our personal, social and work experiences.

Segments include:

* People on the street in Portland share their take on male privilege. (Rebecca Nay and Jacob Anderson Minchall, KBOO Portland)
* A mother takes on a job as a prison guard at a male compound. (Sandi Billings, KRFP, Moscow, ID)
* A reporter challenges her own values on gender dynamics when she covers a story on prostitution in India. (Jessica Partnow, Common Language Project Seattle)
* What kind of rights do prostitutes have? What had Portland done in the past to minimize prostitution activity in specific neighborhoods? (Old Mole Variety Hour, KBOO Portland)

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Yesterday, convicted rapist, Tom Wenning, joined other racists from OFIR and the Oregon Minute Men, to protest hard working folks at the Portland Day Labor Center. Below is commentary on this vile man, who has been featured in the Oregonian.

Listen Up! Northwest Program 13 dives into stories on trash, garbage, waste and "stuff."

Segments include:

* Marine researchers are finding that a lot of the world's plastic trash is collecting in a giant swath of sea 1,000 miles off of the west coast. (Don Wolfe, KBOO Portland)
* The Seattle City Council passed an initiative to charge for disposable bags in supermarkets - but the bag industry is fighting back. (Orli Cotel, Sierra Club Radio)
* What can you do with construction debris? Learn from a someone who's in the business of de-construction as opposed to demolition. (Ryan White, KBOO Portland)
* Don't let food that's perfectly edible go to waste. A look at food rescue (Martha Baskin, KBCS Seattle)
* Annie Leonard on the dubious correlation between stuff and happiness. (Daphne Wysham, Earthbeats)

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Listen Up! Northwest Program 12 features stories on the media, and its role in our community and our democracy.

Segments include:

* High school girls discuss negative women's images in the media and learn how to make film to break down stereotypes. (Reel Grrls, Seattle)
* Canadian Parliament is discussing a new media and digital rights bill this fall. (Charlotte Bourne, CJSF-Burnaby, BC)
* The ACLU of Washington is tracking the intersection of technology and civil rights. (Peter Marshall, KBCS-Seattle)
* Adrian Valladares Carranza speaks to the FCC about the importance of media for his Oregon community of immigrant farmworkers (KBCS Public Affairs Team, Seattle)
* A demonstrator in the 1999 WTO protests shares his exposure to media coverage of the event (Jill Bolduc, KBCS-Seattle)
* Michael Franti gives commentary on the importance of communities "becoming the media". (Reclaim the Media)

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Listen Up! Northwest Program 11 features stories on cycling and safety. Segments include:

* A bicycle commuting newbie shares her audio diary of her frist two weeks on the road. (Julie Sabatier, Destination DIY-Portland)
* A bicycle advocate and mom shares how she teaches her children to ride their two wheels on the streets safely. (Wes Brain, KSKQ-Ashland)
* A fight broke out at Seattle's Critical Mass last month which resulted in injuries and damaged personal property. Some in Seattle discuss what happened and what the increasing tensions between Bicylists and drivers may mean. (Tara Hayes, KBCS-Bellevue/Seattle)
* John Pucher, professor of public policy at Rutgers University spoke at Simon Frasier university in British Columbia. He speaks about how policies can affect bicycle safety in our cities (Redeye Radio Cooperative, CFRO-Vancouver, BC)
* The Portland Bicycle Ensemble plays instruments which happen to be their transportation mode of choice. (Portland Bike Ensemble-Portland)

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Listen Up! NW is produced by Yuko Kodama at KBCS for Reclaim the Media, and distributed by the Northwest Community Radio Network.

Listen Up! Northwest Program 10 features stories on our region's wildlife. Segments include:

* Nature writer Richard Nelson is our guide on the Arctic Coast as we share the ice with 13 polar bears feasting on whale carcasses. (Lisa Busch, KCAW-Sitka)
* Alaskan Native Larry Merculieff has spent half his life in the Pribilov Islands. He explains how wildlife and humans in Northern Alaska are feeling the effects of global warming now. (Robin Carneen, KSVR-Mt Vernon)
* How would it affect environmental policy if wildlife, forests and rivers had rights of their own? We interview author Cormac Cullinan on the rights of nature. (Brad Reed, KYRS-Spokane)

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Listen Up! NW is produced by Yuko Kodama at KBCS for Reclaim the Media, and distributed by the Northwest Community Radio Network.

Listen Up! Northwest Program 9 features stories on our region's Japanese American experience before and after World War II. Segments include:

* A Japanese American elder shares an account of her family's experiences through the internment and how the events have affected her (Sandi Billings, KRFP-Moscow)
* A poem on how one remembers an internment camp though he was an infant (Larry Matsuda, Seattle)
* Japanese American communities throughout our region celebrate the Obon. (Yuko Kodama, KBCS-Seattle)

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