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This week, a look at some of the women who fought hard for women's rights and how women's roles continue to evolve. Anne Marie Roke brings us a new take on the suffragettes and Jessica Hawkinson fights fires side-by-side with her father and brothers. She shares her unique perspective about working on the fire line.

A look at how the "greening of jobs" is going in the Northwest. We revisit Van Jones'  testimony before a Congressional committee on energy independence and global warming and check in on Washington State efforts to ensure that green job opportunities benefit those who need them.

What do soldiers and their families go through after they come home from war?  Evan Kanter, a Washington physician, explains post traumatic stress disorder. A Veterans Resource Center on Whidbey Island is providing help to veterans making the transition from war to civilian life and Richard Lawson, a veteran who turned uniform into an expression of his complex emotions after his service.

This week a look at some unusual local competitions and a discussion of the impact of sports on our communities. You’ll hear a roller derby practice session in Idaho. You’ll visit a practice session of “Rollo,” which is adults playing polo on kiddie bicycles. Plus, soccer is more than a game to some refugees and a commentary about sports and social justice.

An interview with leaders of several groups in the Pacific Northwest who are speaking out against the war in light of President Obama’s decision not to pull U.S. forces out of Iraq immediately.

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This week, we take to the streets of Portland to ask people if they think certain jobs are gender specific. Then, you’ll hear the experiences of a Portland bus driver who transitioned to a woman. Finally, a look at how being transgendered influences earnings.

This week, we look at two local farming operations in British Columbia. Take a walk with “Seaweed Lady” Diane Bernard along the seashore to learn about harvesting seaweed off the coast of Vancouver Island and tour a small-scale organic dairy and hear about the challenges of running a sustainable farm and cheese making facility.

Hear a tattoo artist as she works with clients to bring their inner selves to the surface of their skin. An Alaska teen ponders the tattoo she'd like and what it may mean to her mom and a report on The Guerilla Girls who take on the names of dead women artists and appear in public wearing gorilla masks.

LISTEN UP! NORTHWEST THIS WEEK: Politics & Sports, Dave Zirin speaks on the good & bad of prganized sports. 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, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon.

A critical look at the Olympic Games and their effect on Vancouver and BC communities. Indigenous groups are protesting the construction of Olympic venues on unceded territory. Planned protests are running into strict message control exercised by Olympics organizers and the media. And the Vancouver Olympics will bring out the largest military and police presence on Canada's west coast since the end of the World War II. Some wonder what will happen to these security systems once the Olympics end.

This week we look at how arts, music and strategic thinking transform the lives of students and teachers alike. From Seattle we learn about the Young Playwrights Program and Festival giving youth the chance to write plays and see them performed. Also, the nationally recognized Garfield Jazz Program is profiled and the Village Free School in Portland offers students the opportunity to create their own program and enter into contracts for performance with educators.

How would things be different if, like corporations, nature had the same rights as humans? Cormac Cullinan talks about the rights of wildlife, forests and rivers. Also, share the polar ice with 13 polar bears feasting on whale carcasses and nature writer Richard Nelson and Alaskan Native Larry Merculieff, who has spent half his life in the Pribilov Islands, explains how wildlife and humans in Northern Alaska are feeling the effects of global warming and, How would it affect environmental policy if wildlife, forests and rivers had rights of their own?

This week, a special encore presentation of a documentary report on hate crimes in Seattle and what some are doing to stop the rising trend.  (Seattle Crisis Resource Directory).

Spiritual Headdress: The Hijab and the Sikh Turban

In this edition of Listen Up! Northwest, we hear the perspectives and experiences of two Portland women who wear the Sikh turban and one who wears the hijab.

Maria Gilardin talks with Native American or First Nations people who have managed and maintained the forests of the Northwest long before the white settlers arrived. Also, Nag Champa tells how Forest Canopies are an important ecosystem which is often overlooked and Mordecai Briemberg updates us on the tar sands project in Alberta and the environmental concerns it has raised.

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. The Seattle City Council passed an initiative to charge for disposable bags in supermarkets, but the bag industry is fighting back. And, what can you do with construction debris? Learn from a someone who's in the business of de-construction as opposed to demolition.

Stories about the elders who live among us. David Greenberger interviewed seniors in the Northwest and created monologues based on his conversations. Hear how octogenarian Virginia Beavert is working on her doctorate at University of Oregon while passing on the stories and language of her tribe to the next generation and a parent imparts a subtle gift to his son hoping to improve his son’s ability to survive World War II.

A look at Seattle’s WTO demonstrations, 10 years later, including lessons learned and how the protest influenced social movements today. Also, how the WTO has changed our ideas about world trade policy and its lasting influence on the culture of social movements.

This week, a look at our addiction to lush lifestyles and then at what life might be like with an electric vehicle. Paul Scott is a co-founder of Plug-In-America and Chairperson of the Electrical Vehicle Association of California, and proud owner of a solar panel powered Toyota Rav 4. He never buys gas nor changes the oil. Hear what it’s like to go 63,000 miles in 6 years without a breakdown.

A deeply discounted public transit program offered by Metro Vancouver may be changing the transportation choices of students after they graduate. A commitment to bicycling as a transportation alternative leads to some innovative businesses in Vancouver. And, coping with bicycle and automobile collisions on city streets.

Listen to poems about home written by a number of high school students at Foster High School in Seattle. Plus, Guy Hand, a writer in Idaho discovered that the sagebrush of his hometown kept calling him back, Lacy Roberts, a native of Montana, recalls fondly the culture she grew up in as she leads her life on the East Coast and a group of Somali-Buntu refugees near Boise, Idaho try to recreate the landscape and the lifestyle they left behind.

BIOTECHNOLOGY 

Listen as both sides of the genetically modified foods debate argue their case. You’ll hear from conservative agribusiness advocates and anti-GMO activists in a program recorded in Canada.

In Washington and British Columbia, some people are using a new, collective name for the waters now known as the Strait of Georgia, Juan de Fuca Strait and Puget Sound. Salish Sea is the name created to honor the area's original inhabitants. The piece features Ode to the Salish Sea. Plus, Roger Muggli is the third generation Muggli to run the irrigation district near Miles City, Montana. During a 2007, he was forced to face some tough decisions and a look at what it takes to build bridges over the treacherous waters of Puget Sound.

 
This week, Listen Up! Northwest speaks with energy experts Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl, authors of the book "Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil." The authors share their research and views on 'peak oil' and transportation.

Listen Up! Northwest takes a timely look at healthcare. In Salem, Oregon, an unlikely group of Northwest residents share their thoughts on healthcare coverage. Hear how women and transgender people struggle with the healthcare system and a look at why Canadians need to pay attention to healthcare reform in the United States.

THIS WEEK: The Slave Next Door An interview with Kevin Bales of Free the Slaves, co-author of the Pulitzer prize-nominated book The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking in America Today.

This week, the experiences of Hmong veterans who fought in the CIA's Secret War in Laos, and how the Hmong people arrived in the Pacific Northwest.

THIS WEEK: Nature writer Richard Nelson takes us to Denali National Park to observe gray wolves at the foot of Mount McKinley. THURSDAY 6:30pm

Listen Up! Northwest looks at issues facing young people growing up in Alaska, with several pieces from the Alaska Teen Media Institute in Anchorage. A high school senior goes on a quest to find out what love is; some teens give their views on marriage right out of school; and teens talk about the silly house rules set by their parents.

LISTEN UP! NORTHWEST - Focuses on ravens, in the natural world and in myths and stories. Depending on your culture or point of view, ravens are seen as gods or bad omens. This week, we observe ravens in Alaska.

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, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon.

LISTEN UP! NORTHWEST - features Brent Warner, Director of Farmers' Markets Canada, speaking out about the future of small farms in Canada. Brent Warner says food safety issues, product recalls and health concerns are driving consumers to want better choices in the food they eat at home and in restaurants. He says small farms and small farmers have been losing to huge industrial farms for years, but that is changing. His remarks were recorded in 2008 at the Canadian farm writers conference.

For more information on Farmers' Markets Canada visit http://www.farmersmarketscanada.ca/

LISTEN UP! NORTHWEST- How are children affected by media? We hear from a Spokane resident and specialist in child development.

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, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon.

An audio snapshot of the inauguration of President Obama with glimpses of the sights, sounds and enthusiasm shared by ticketholders. 

Plus, Roberto Maestas, a veteran community organizer speaks about what it may be like to have a fellow community organizer in the White and a Seattle woman speaks about how President Obama represents more than politics.

Listen Up! Northwest tells stories shared by youth about their experiences as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. 

First, an audio collage of people in GLBT communities throughout the world who were victims of hate crimes produced by Rebecca Nay and Jacob Anderson Minschall of Portland, Oregon. 

Then, gay youth talk about their experiences coming out at school and at home, and the issues faced by the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community from Joaquin Uy of Seattle.

Produced for Northwest Community Radio Network

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THIS WEEK: Listen Up! explores health issues in the Northwest and what some people are doing to take better care of themselves. The First Nations community in Alberta is concerned about how the effort to claim oil from tar sand may impact their health and a look into racial and ethnic bias in health care. Plus, what some people are doing to find culturally appropriate medical services.

Listen Up Northwest - Youth are looking critically at the media and many are not happy with how they are portrayed in the media. Today, voices of Washington youth speak about what they would like to see and how they would like to change media representation.

Listen Up Northwest - Food Gaps: A look at the gaps in access to healthy food for all.
98% of Alaska's food is shipped in from outside, what is the future of Alaska's food security? What choices do the poor often make when buying food?