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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Portland writer Heidi V. Durrow's first novel The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.  It's about being neither black or white in a world  that thinks in black and white. An archive of Larry's reviews can be found  here. Read more

Clifford Walker

Airs at: Wed, 01/20/2010 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
Clifford Walker has been asking for several years "why don't we remove the symbols of racial oppression from our currency?". "I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery." - Marquis de L... Read more

S. Renee Mitchell on Healing the Wounds of Racism

Airs at: Wed, 01/20/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving   Does racism make you physically ill? Is depression different for communities of color? Can the trauma of slavery be handed down through the generations? Join Lisa Loving and S. Renee Mitchell Wednesday morning at 8 for talk radio about the upcomin... Read more

A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Bridget B. here, I'm co-anchoring the live KBOO 90.7FM broadcast from the Highland Christian Center on Monday, January 18. Join us at A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which takes place from 11:00am to 6:30pm at 7600 NE Glisa... Read more

Life & Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King

Airs at: Thu, 01/14/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
About the program…Join co-hosts Jo Ann Bowman and Dave Mazza every Thursday morning as they bring you informative guests and lively discussions about the issues that are important to you and your community. Every week, Voices from the Edge provides KBOO listeners a place to... Read more

Looking beyond the rhetoric: the arguments for (and against) Measures 66 & 67

Airs at: Thu, 01/07/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
On January 26, Oregonians will be asked to decide how the latest chapter in the state's long-running tax wars will turn out. Opponents of two tax increases approved by the legislature in 2009 succeeded in collecting enough signatures for a referendum on what are now Measure... Read more

January 11, 2010 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this show discusses Oregon tax measures with Steve Novick; the blockbuster movie "Avatar," making the power grid democratic, and the latest in political rap music.  For information about our theme music and our graphics, go to our main page. ... Read more

Political Hip Hop

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Radical musicologist Brad Duncan talks with Bill Resnick about the political rap artists The Welfare Poets,  Chosan, and Black Skeptik.   We hear samples of their music followed by a discussion of  their music as the poetry and the politics of everyday life.  Here are links... Read more

Movie Moles: "Avatar"

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 James Cameron's new blockbuster movie Avatar has been widely debated: what is it really saying about people with disabilities, the environment, racism, colonialism, and other important social questions?   Our Movie Moles Frann Michel and Denise Morris have a rousing good t... Read more

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On the Old Mole Jan 11, 2010, Denise Morris & I discussed Avatar, the expensive and profitable 3-D blockbuster, written and directed by James Cameron. The movie is set in 2154 on Pandora, the Earth-like moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri system, where the RDA Corp... Read more