Focus is a weekly thirty minute radio interview program featuring discussions about holistic (whole systems) approaches to issues affecting the quality of life in Seattle and other communities in the Pacific Northwest. It airs on KING-FM 98.1 and KBLE-AM 1050 Saturday mornings at 6:30 in Seattle, Sunday nights at Midnight, and in Portland on KFXX-AM 1520 - Sunday mornings at 5:30 and KGON-FM 92.3 Sunday mornings at 5AM. Programs on KBLE-AM may differ from the listed show here.

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Subject: The Makah Whaling Controversy, Part Two
Guests: Brenda Peterson & Will Anderson
Length: 22:00
Contact: (206) 787-2500 x 890 http://www.paws.org/whalesinperil or http://www.oceanmammalinstitute.com or http://www.dreamweaving.com
Date Aired: 8/3/98
Summary: Brenda Peterson is an environmental writer, journalist and co-editor of: "Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals." Will Anderson is with PAWS, the Progressive Animal Welfare Society. In the last part of a two part interview they discussed the renewed effort by the Makah Tribal Council to hunt whales off the Northwest Coast of Washington, the intelligence of whales and other sea mammals and the protest that will happen off the Northwest Coast if the tribe does attempt to renew whaling.

Subject: The Makah Whaling Controversy, Part One
Guests: Brenda Peterson & Will Anderson
Length: 22:00
Contact: (206) 787-2500 x 890 http://www.paws.org/whalesinperil or http://www.oceanmammalinstitute.com or http://www.dreamweaving.com
Date Aired: 7/27/98
Summary: Brenda Peterson is an environmental writer, journalist and co-editor of: "Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals." Will Anderson is with PAWS, the Progressive Animal Welfare Society. They discussed the renewed effort by the Makah Tribal Council to hunt whales off the Northwest Coast of Washington, the opposition in the environmental and animal rights communities and the history of the tribal connection to the Gray whales.

Subject: Ending Domestic Violence, Pt. 2
Guest: Neil Jacobson, Ph.D.
Length: 22:00
Contact: 1-800-799-7233 for the National Domestic Violence Hotline
Date Aired: 7/20/98
Summary: Dr. Jacobson, along with Dr. John Gottman, are the lead researchers of a breakthrough study at the University of Washington on the nature of Domestic Violence. They are also co-authors of: "When Men Batter Women: New Insights into Ending Abusive Relationships." In part two of a two part interview, he discussed the two basic types of batterers, Cobras and Pit Bulls and the emotional abuse that often forces women to leave their abusive partners.

Subject: Ending Domestic Violence, Pt. 1
Guest: Neil Jacobson, Ph.D.
Length: 22:00
Contact: 1-800-799-7233 for the National Domestic Violence Hotline
Date Aired: 7/13/98
Summary: Dr. Jacobson, along with Dr. John Gottman, are the lead researchers of a breakthrough study at the University of Washington on the nature of Domestic Violence. They are also co-authors of: "When Men Batter Women: New Insights into Ending Abusive Relationships. He discussed why he has dedicated so much of his life to this project, the definition of "battering" as used in the study and the study itself.

Subject: Rehabilitating Prisoners with Vipassana Meditation
Guests: Rick Crutcher and Lucia Meijer
Length: 22:00
Contact: (206) 296-6826 for the jail or (360) 978-5434 or
http://www.dhamma.org for the Vipassana Center
Date Aired: 7/6/98 Summary: Rick Crutcher is a teacher of Vipassana meditation and Lucia Meijer is the Administrator of the North Seattle Rehabilitation Facility of the King County Jail System. They discussed the use of Vipassana meditation to rehabilitate criminals and how history has shown that criminals do NOT become productive human beings out of fear of punishment.

Subject: The Poetry of Joanne Kyger
Guest: Joanne Kyger
Length: 22:00
Contact: N.A.
Date Aired: 6/29/98
Summary: Joanne Kyger is an internationally-known author and a teacher at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. She discussed her work, poetry, the life of Madame Blavatsky (the founder of Theosophy), the life of her friend Allen Ginsberg and she also read some poems.