KBOO Community Radio

Clayton Morgareidge hosts and talks with Radical Musicologist Brad Duncan about Black Power and Soul music; Bill Resnick talks with media analyst Robert McChesney about the dangers corporate internet monopolies pose for democracy; and movie moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel review the documentary A Place at the Table about food insecurity in the USA.

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Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss the documentary A Place at the Table, currently playing in Portland at the Hollywood Theatre, about the serious problem of food insecurity. The film makes vivid the struggles of some of the 50 million Americans who are food insecure, but provides an incomplete analysis. Although it dispels some myths (e.g., that hungry people will be skinny) it also perpetuates others (e.g., that fat is inherently unhealthy, that this issue mainly affects women of color).

The arsenic contained in fluoridating chemicals costs the United States up to six billion dollars a year in added health costs, according to a recent journal article.

Pascal Sauton is many things; chef, connoisseur, bon vivant, traditionalist, teacher.  And now, sex symbol.  Don Merrill talks with this French transplant about winning the title of America's Hottest Chef and Portland food culture as well as what diners should be able to expect and why casual dining may be killing fine dining.

Melanie Davis is the owner of the media company Brilliant Media.  Through it, she and her team of nearly 70 employees and staff nationwide operate Su Publico Ad Agency, El Hispanic News and Proud Queer Monthly.  Despite her youth, the road to magnate has been a long one, beginning with an iconic grandmother in her childhood New Mexico.  Don Merrill talks with lesbian latina Melanie Davis about what she loves about Portland, the publishing business and why she's OK crashing business meetings in her Harley gear. 

Iven Hale hosts this episode of the Mole dealing with Congressional Budget proposals, drones and filibusters, rape and Native Americans, civilization's fate in the hands of capitalism, and the fight to save the US Postal Service.  

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