Listen Up! Northwest Program 3 features issues of motherhood and birthing. Segments include:

• Why some people choose home birth (Julie Sabatier/Destination DIY)
• Canadian government sterilization practices of First Nations people (Kevin Annett/Vancouver Coop Radio)
• When is the right time to have a child? (Julia Donk & Sasha Summer Cousineau/KBCS)
• Your mom: she's a real person too. (Sandi Billings/KRFP)

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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 is a collaboratively produced radio magazine featuring stories of communities in action throughout the Northwest. Each broadcast highlights the work of skilled community radio producers and artists from our region, including Alaska, British Columbia, Washingon, Idaho, Montana and Oregon.

Program 2 features the following stories:
• African-American authors share experiences in Seattle (Julia Donk/KBCS)
• Portland's Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center turns 10 (Carla R./KBOO)
• Growing up Haida in Canadian residential schools (Kevin Annett/Vancouver Coop Radio)
• Bridging the cultures of Mexico and the US (Bing Bingham/KWSO)
• Dear Tyra Banks: spoken-word poetry from Hollis Wong-Wear

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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 is a collaboratively produced radio magazine featuring stories of communities in action throughout the Northwest. Each broadcast highlights the work of skilled community radio producers and artists from our region, including Alaska, British Columbia, Washingon, Idaho, Montana and Oregon.

Program 1 features the following stories:
• an environmental initiative of the Samish Nation (Robin Carneen/KSVR)
• homelessness in Seattle (Adam Vaughn/KBCS)
• arts and empowerment in women's prisons (Julie Sabatier/Destination DIY), and
• remembering Japanese internment (Marianne Gutteridge/KSER)

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• general promo spot (Mp3)

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

Critical scholar, author, educator, media activist

Submitted by Craig Schroeder, Columbus OH: Bill Moyers described Bob McChesney as today's Paul Revere. More than anyone, it seems to me, McChesney has boiled his huge, scholarly understanding of the media we have today, and how it affects us, and how we got here, into certain key messages. Those key messages -- such as the idea that our media is a system created by policymakers and rich media owners, and it can be changed through democratic pressure -- are crucial to understanding power, media and democracy.

Founder of Women's Institute for Freedom the Press

Submitted by Martha Allen, Washington, DC: Donna Allen was an activist (economist advocating disarmament, anti-war leader, civil rights activist) who turned her attention to media issues speaking and writing about media consolidation and control in the late sixties. She founded the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP) in 1972, and founded and edited Media Report to Women, covering media democracy and what women were doing to change the communications media. WIFP still publishes the Directory of Women's Media and works for media democracy & justice.

Reclaim the Media is headed to Minneapolis this coming week for the fourth National Conference on Media Reform, and so are a bunch of other NW community media movers and shakers. Throughout the weekend, RTM will be working closely with our friends in the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), our nationwide coalition of regional, grassroots groups working together for media justice. We'll be sharing table space with MAG-Net, so come and see us! We'll be giving away RTM and MAG-Net stuff (including our cool media justice fans), and selling RTM t-shirts, DVDs and Media Heroes trading cards. Read on for Northwest and MAG-Net-related schedule details!

The Grassroots Radio Conference is coming to Portland this July - and organizers have issued a call for workshop and discussion proposals. This is the first time the GRC has taken place in the Northwest, and it will be a great opportunity for regional community radio makers to get together and scheme with colleagues from around the country. Visit KBOO's conference page for details, or read on for the call for proposals (due June 15).

A coalition of nonprofit groups in Portland has been granted a license for a new non-commercial FM station providing coverage to east Portland. Here's the announcement:

MetroEast Community Media, in collaboration with a coalition of community groups, received word this week that its application for a non-commercial educational (NCE) radio station has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission. With its transmitter located on Mt. Hood, the signal of the new station - 91.1 on the FM dial - will reach most of the East Metro area as well as much of Portland east of the Willamette.

Feminist; anti-racist organizer; attorney; media activist

With righteous anger matched by a sharp and often foul-mouthed wit, Flo Kennedy modeled creative, radical resistance for generations of feminists. As a young attorney, Kennedy handled the estates of Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker, exposing record companies’ racist exploitation of successful black artists. In 1966, while most progressive activists were focused on the Vietnam War, Kennedy set up The Media Workshop to expose and fight racism and oppression in the American media.

Journalist; labor organizer; founder of the Newspaper Guild

From 1912 until his death in 1939, Heywood Broun was an immensely popular newspaper columnist, writing news, commentary, sports and literary criticism for a number of New York newspapers and wire services. Married to feminist writer Ruth Hale, Broun believed that journalists had both the power and the responsibility to combat social injustices. His crusading articles often championed the causes of working people, and railed against bigotry and racial prejudice. Hoping to improve journalists’ working conditions, pay and sense of professional dignity, Broun founded the first union for journalists in 1933.