Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses is a collective of women identified radio activists. We offer feminist public affairs programming. We give voice to those working for social justice and equity, globally and locally. We strive to challenge systems of oppression. All this, and we have fun!

Tune in this Friday as we celebrate International Mother Language Day with Bangladeshi Journalist, Monica Islam. UNESCO and the UN have recognized February 21st as a worldwide opportunity to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The date represents the day in 1952 when students from different higher education institutions in Bangladesh demonstrated for recognition of their language, Bengali, as one of the national languages of the then Pakistan, were shot and killed by police in Dhaka.

We will talk with Monica about the history of her country, the celebrations that will take place on International Mother Language Day, which is a holiday in Bangladesh and the importance of promoting tolerance and acceptance.

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Join host Ashley Thirstrup as she hosts instructors and girls of GirlStrength, a free community strengthening program offered through the Family Services Division of the Portland Police Bureau that primarily focuses on violence prevention. It’s designed to meet the developmental needs of girls 10-17 years of age by providing real life tools to learn assertiveness, develop intuition and recognize the dynamics of unhealthy relationships.

This Friday on Bread and Roses we talk about the real impact of diesel pollution in our city of Portland. A petition created last year by Neighbors For Clean Air, a local non-profit working for air quality, declared “One of the most serious current threats to public health from air pollution comes from the burning of diesel oil… The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that diesel exhaust in Oregon causes some 468 premature deaths a year – which means more Oregonians die from diesel exhaust than from murder and drunken driving combined.”

Host Ashley Thirstrup interviews Christine Dupres about her new book, Being Cowlitz - How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity. It covers the history of her tribe's struggle for federal recognition and her own personal story of understanding and coming to embrace her Native identity.

Later in the show, she will speak with Wambui Machua, a local woman organizing an African Dance and Dinner fundraiser to raise money for educational materials for her hometown in Kenya.

Tune in this Friday for a round table discussion about dating in the age of social media from the perspective of straight, professional women in their 30s. We will talk about the challenges of dating online, the difficulties of establishing deeper, long lasting connections, and the future of love in a world that so desperately needs it!

This is a call in show and we encourage your participation. Call us, during the show to share your input and perspectives at 503. 231. 8187. Please make sure your comment is on topic and delivered in a respectful manner. Thank you.

Tonight on Bread and Roses we take a look back at 2014. We talk about the National and local news and events that made 2014 as well as the amazing shows that the Bread and Roses collective has brought to you Friday after Friday in 2014, like we have since 1978. For 36 years, the KBOO community has made preserving this space for women identified folks a priority and it is with pride that the current collective members are carrying the torch into 2015.

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Recent scientific data suggests that low birthweight babies have a 5 times higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease later in life. In light of these discoveries, many politicians are still pushing to cut programs promoting maternal health, such as WIC - Women, Infants and Children program. Bread and Roses host Ashley Thirstrup brings you a special lecture by Annie Murphy Paul, author of Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives. She'll tell us how she ventures into the laboratories of fetal researchers, interviews experts from around the world, and delves into the rich history of ideas about how we are shaped before birth.

Quite a few white men are having more than a bad day... Is ridiculing them the best we can do? A conversation with Dr. Randy Blazak on the crisis of white masculinity and on responding to it in other ways than from a position of intellectual superiority.

Dr. Blazak is an associate Professor of Sociology at Portland State University and Director of the Hate Crime Research Network. He is a prolific writer and works with white supremacists in prison settings.

We also spoke with Barbara McCullough Jones, Executive Director at the Q Center, about efforts to enter into a dialogue with pastors from the Evangelical Mars Hill Church, an anti-Gay outfit which recently moved to SE Portland, a predominantly liberal neighborhood of Portland, OR.

Host Ashley Thirstrup interviews Ted Rutherford from the Texas Association Against Sexual Violence about his work as the Youth Outreach Specialist. He provides training and technical assistance to participants in the Texas PEACE Project, a program to engage and support youth activists and their adult allies who are working for equality and social change to prevent sexual and dating violence.

More information about the project can be found here, including how to get a similar project started in your area!

Women are creating, building and leading some of the most innovative businesses in the world. Along the way, often at great risk and against the odds, they have shattered glass ceilings and entrenched stereotypes and have redefined the meaning of leadership and success.

She also interviews Christina Aleckson and Julia Bauman Sarver about the networking group Women With Moxie www.womenwithmoxie.com/cities/index.php about how women can learn, educate and support each other, as they all build their businesses together.

Everyone listening will learn some tips for starting a business and making it successful.

A conversation about the challenges faced by families, particularly those that are young and poor. Learn about efforts to address these issues and to change the public discourse on what it means to be a strong family.With Amanda Wake, Youth Organizing Manager for Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice in Oakland, CA. ACRJ promotes and protects reproductive justice through organizing, building leadership capacity, developing alliances and by educating to achieve community and systemic change. Also: Aimee Santos Lyons, who is the Strong Families Northwest Program Manager for Western States Center here in Portland. WSC is helping to build a progressive movement in eight western states, from Alaska to Wyoming and down to Nevada. Western States Center and Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice have been collaborating over the last several years on several projects, most recently they launch of the Strong Families Initiative.Hosted by Gabriele Ross

It's your chance to ask local experts everything you ever wanted to know about raising backyard hens. Also: how to train your chicken! The only show in the country devoted to all things chicken--only on KBOO!

Mothers battle for Mother Earth: How 'ordinary women' are saving the planet: Arrested more than 50 times-most recently at BP's London headquarters- Texas mom Diane Wilson shares her journey from quiet fisherwoman to unstoppable activist willing to chain herself to Union Carbide's smokestacks. Her new book is 'Diary of an Eco-Outlaw'www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/diary_of_an_ecooutlaw Also: For 38 years Jane Swanson has called attention to the dangers of California's Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. She's a member of mothersforpeace.org which has joined a coaltion petitioning the NRC to stop licensing nuclear power plants.

A conversation with Zari Khodaparast Santner, the only female Director of Portland's Bureau of Parks & Recreation. She is retiring after nearly 30 years. She began her studies in her native Iran and concluded them at Harvard. In addition to her paid work she is also well known for her community engagement.She says: “I saw how parks could become manifestations of democracy, where people from all walks of life could enjoy public space, regardless of wealth and background.”

Japan's nuclear crisis has galvanized anti-nuclear sentiment around the world. But the anti-nuke movement isn't new. What became of the music, the protests, the art of activism of years' past? What does/did activism achieve? Where do we go from here? The musicians of Emma's Revolution Emmasrevolution.com discuss musical-activist empowerment. Also: we step back in time with Ronald Reagan and Dr. Helen Caldicott, and hear comments from listeners.

We will discuss current issues in Brazil that are relevant to women, such as the election of Worker’s Party candidate Dilma Rousseff, a grandmother and former guerrilla, who was at one point imprisoned by the military dictatorship. We will also listen to a sample of Brazilian women’s music.Our guest is Vanessa Neves Giacometti, a Brazilian surgeon, who worked with burn victims and reconstructive surgery in poor areas and favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her parents were persecuted as student leaders during the dictatorship.She has lived in France and Switzerland, and came to the USA to study arts after life in Rio de Janeiro became too stressful. She now creates children’s illustrations and teaches Medical Terminology at PCC. Hosted by Gabriele Ross