August 17th 2025:
Prayer and Persecution
Broadcasting with gratitude, sorrow, and love from the rightful lands of Cowlitz, Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, Tualatin Kalapuya, Wasco, Molalla, Ita'xluit, Watlala, and other original peoples of the big river
On this episode of Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee we’re considering different ways people pray while Jeremy keeps you company with a variety of perspectives on this moment and a variety of good music
Join us to hear tracks from Portland artists John Craigie, Emmett Wheatfall, and Katherine Paul
Harlan Avondale Sanders tells us what it's like to be so low that giving up is too high to reach, Olivia Morreale gets real, Jens Lekman let's us listen in on his evening prayers as do Edson Cordeiro and Ginger Johnson
We give thanks to the Ponca people of the Niobrara river for sharing a precious prayersong and remember how their chief Standing Bear used a writ of Habeus Corpus and powerful words from his soul to establish the legal personhood of all human beings
Then it's a happy birthday to helper and Portlander Kurt Steven Swensen, poet Wilfrid Blunt, De La Soul's Kelvin Mercer, as well as celebrating the births of beloved elders Belinda Carlisle and Stephan Eicher
We'll confront the injustice of China's persecution of the Uyghur people, in particular the theft of scholar Rahile Dawut and singer Ablajan Awut Ayup with a poignant track by Erkin Abdulla
And we'll revisit the cold case of Jeremy Doland Bright who was stolen at the coos county fair in 1986.
Completing the show we give gratitude with Fishmans as well as an early one from USMC Lance Corporal Shaggy
so checkiton out!
- KBOO