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Meriweather Lewis Memorial Eisteddfod Foundation discusses Bardic Arts, story telling and poetry competitions — and Welsh cultural festivals called Eisteddfodau, in the Pacific Northwest. 

Duff Conacher co-founder of Democracy Watch News reports on political corruption & open governance in Canada.

OR State Rep Julie Parrish speaking about ethics reform and  WA State Sen Maralyn Chase about sex trafficking of First Nation/Native American women into the USA

Interviews live from the Oregon State Capitol press room and online. Jessica Campbell, Rural Organizing Project www.rop.org and David Delk, Oregon Progressive Party http://progparty.org/. Discussing rural political organizing, voting, what is a progressive?

Alaa Darwish human rights defender and advocate in Bahrain describes the struggles for democracy after three years of continuing protests.

Mark Taylor-Canfield in Seattle reports on the low U.S. ranking for press freedom, gentrification displacing artists and musicians, FCC ruling leaves out mobile web access, & the Seattle big dig.

  Adil Ghaffar reports from London on the violence being directed toward the Muetahida Qumai Movement in Pakistan. Disappearances and murder/tortures. MQM is a large political party with seats in government. Major human rights watch NGO’s are reportedly not paying attention.    http://www.mqm.org/default.aspx

  Katie Singer says many technologies (i.e. cell phones, cell towers, Wi-Fi and smart meters) emit electromagnetic radiation (EMR) that can harm human health and wildlife. http://www.electronicsilentspring.com/ . Produced by Democracy Watch News

  Explore the convergence of podcasting and livestreaming. Democracycast interviews Dave Jackson of the School of Podcasting and Dee Shanger from Occupy Toronto Live. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

  CEO Sanjay Goel, a computer scientist, whose team of engineers have created Oximity.com a global news discovery service that empowers independent news producers anywhere.       Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Manny Aguilar: recent events in Mexico including the student deaths. Jerry Ashton: N.Y. city & Russel Brand promoting his new book "Revolution". Mark Taylor-Canfield: Seattle and Hanford nuclear waste. Seattle now calls Columbus Day "Indigenous People's Day".