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Educators in Oklahoma are rising up!

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
As educators enter their second week of  historic walkouts in Oklahoma, we talk with Matt Miller.  Matt is a 4th year teacher in Oklahoma and speaks with us about what it's been like to be a teacher leading up to and during the walkout. Read more

An Idiot's Field Guide to US Public and Tribal Land Management

Airs at: Sat, 03/31/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Threshold Shift
  To make some of this information easier to get to (less scrolling than on the episode page) here it is in a hopefully more digestible format. You can hear a somewhat impromptu interview about these topics here. All opinions expressed were my own. For clarification, there... Read more

Liberation Literacy

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Paul Grice, Executive Director of Liberation Literacy.  The mission of Liberation Literacy is to build social justice literacy in prisons in order to re-imagine and re-articulate the relationship between incarceration, our community, and ourselves... Read more

Not Your Granddad’s Library

Airs at: Fri, 04/06/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for Valley Views
The Corvallis-Benton County Public Library is located in Corvallis, Oregon. The library's motto is "Bringing people and information together." It is part of a city-county system with branches in Alsea, Monroe, and Philomath as well as a bookmobile. On this show, Ashlee tal... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 19, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Thom Becker hosts this show containing these segments: 1. Bill Resnick talks with Treyven Layshon about gun violence and how to respond to it, 2. Book Mole Larry Bowlden explains the underestimated value of "women's" literature. 3. Tom Becker reads Thor Benson's piece fro... Read more

Music and Politics

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bil Resnick talks with Jeff Hunt, a millennial generation radical who keeps up with grass roots music and its resistant qualities. We discuss how many inspirational songs are two-edged, sometimes backfiring:  They may promote ideas that America is the land of opportunity f... Read more

Fascism Exported to the Caribbean and Africa

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Radiozine
  On this show, our first 2018 episode of The F-Word, when we talk about fascism. Professor Margaret Stevens, author of the new book 'Red International and Black Caribbean' joins us for a discussion that you don't want to miss. And one million students marching around the ... Read more

West Virginia Teachers' Strike

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
Join us as we discuss the 9 day West Virginia teachers' strike.  We'll be joined by teachers from West Virginia.  Hear what their experience was like and learn what lessons we can apply elsewhere around the country. Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Suzy Vitello

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for News In Depth
Suzy Vitello is the coordinator, and one of the founders, of a long-running writing workshop that has its roots in Tom Spanbauer’s Dangerous Writing seminar. Suzy’s workshop colleagues include a who’s who of authors, including Chuck Palahniuk, Cheryl Strayed, Chelsea Cain, ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 5, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Thom Becker hosts and we hear-- Two organizers discuss plans and purposes for the International Women's Day March and Strike happening in Portland on Thursday, March 8. Bill Resnick and Joe Clement fill us in on the West Virginia Teachers' Strike and its significance. T... Read more