The podcast of Roadside Bomb’s June 22nd KBOO pilot show is now uploaded to our audio blog, Elohi Gadugi Radio.
You can also get the first pilot of our anti-war poetry show, which was aired in April. Roadside Bomb performs live with open mic every second Thursday at Valentines (across from Berbatis Pan on SW Ankeny [...]

(This was written before the Indonesian earchquake toll went up to 6,000)
So, 2,700, no 4,000, people died in an earthquake in Indonesia. And besides that there’s a volcano.
Lady on the bus says she was born in 1932. Makes her 73. I wonder if she has been speaking her mind all this time.
I wonder why the [...]

This is our second pilot which ran on June 22 at 9:30 am on KBOO 90.7 FM in Portland, Oregon.

As I’ve said before, I owe a debt to coffee houses which provide free wi-fi and allow me to sit for hours, sometimes, and work on my website. In that spirit I dedicate this column to those establishments, and provide a small review of each.

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The Gold Rush Coffee Bar2601 NE MLK Jr. Blvd, Portland, Oregon [...]

I have learned from the open publishing newswire on Portland Indymedia that the South Central farmers in Los Angeles are now under assault by local police agencies. Oregonians, and others on the west coast should support this movement for local, sustainable agriculture in the heart of the nations second largest city.
In a press release [...]

We decided we wanted a new look for Elohi Gadugi Journal that was clean and simple. Our new layout is based on a Wordpress theme by Harry Rutherford called “Macaws.” We moved the columns around and put in our new graphics.
Let us know what you think. We would love to have some feedback.

This is a quite good analysis of the changing political-economic landscape in America, from The Nation:
The Future Is Now

Sunday, June 18th at the Multnomah County Central Library, at 3pm in the Community Room, we will have our official release party for Marginal Notes. Poet Jay Thiemeyer will be there to read and talk with guests (that’s you!) There will also be light refreshments, and we will have chapbooks on sale. [...]

In October of 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1461, The Federal Housing Finance Reform Act. This bill contained a Low Income Housing Fund, which would assist local agencies in providing much-needed housing for low income families. This bill, however, contained a rider saying, in effect, that any agency which does any [...]