Civil Liberties

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Vivian McPeak of Seattle Hempfest on Marijuana Legalization

Airs at: Wed, 12/04/2013 at 12:00am
Ross Freeman Levin interviews Seattle Hempfest Executive Director Vivian McPeak about Washington State's process of legalizing and regulating marijuana. They also discuss the history of Seattle Hempfest and what the impact of the world's largest marijuana advocacy event ... Read more

APA Compass on 10/4/2013: Congressional Gold Medal, Amy Uyeki, Vivek Bald, heart2heart

Airs at: Fri, 10/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Japanese-American World War II Nisei Soldiers of the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service were recently celebrated in Portland, Oregon.  This tribute included bringing together the honored veterans from Oregon ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour November 11 2013

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this Veterans Day episode and we hear: BIll Resnick and Goudarz Eghtedari talk about Iranian politics Iven Hale shares stories of sexual trauma in the military Tom Becker shares a piece by George Monbiot about global capital undermining democrac... Read more

Well-read Red: PPS/PAT contracts talks, what they are and aren't about

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reports on Portland Public School and Portland Association of Teachers contract talks. Teachers are not fighting for wages, so much as work and ultimately learning conditions -- including class size, standardized testing, and prep-time during the day. She sh... Read more

Women Under Siege

Airs at: Fri, 05/17/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Syria is undergoing a crisis, a civil war some call it, but Syria is also having a rape crisis. Jackie Blachman-Forshay is an epidemiologist graduate student at the School of Public Health at Columbia University. She is the lead researcher for Women Media Center's Women ... Read more

Disability Awareness

  Every fourth Friday from 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM.   A monthly show about issues affecting people with disabilities and their communities. Read more

Well-read Red: Class War, Bourgeois Strategy, and Obamacare

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge brings us the Well-read Red. Today he considers resistance to the Affordable Care Act and the strategically mysterious though potentially disastrous empowerment of the radical right by capitalists. Read more

Michael Cox on the Affordable Care Act: Cover Oregon Edition

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Bill Resnick talks with Michael Cox of Cover Oregon about how the Affordable Care Act can be utilized by "various classes of people". Michael explains what Cover Oregon is (the "healthcare exchange" created by the ACA) and what may qualify for under the ACA and how to en... Read more

John James on hospital errors, profit-driven healthcare, and the 100,000s of deaths they cause

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am
Bill Resnick talks with government toxicologist, John James, and author of A Sea of Broken Hearts, which tells the story of how his son died due to a hospital error. The event made James interested in hospital errors and ultimately in advocating against the way the profi... Read more

PLEDGE DRIVE SPECIAL: Peter Pincetl & Prison Pipeline

Produced for:  Experience Points
Host Ren Green interviewed Peter Pincetl of KBOO's Prison Pipeline Collective on his experience with our Criminal Justice System, the challenges parolees face when they reintegrate into society, and what Prison Pipeline offers listeners. (Music: "Advil Confirmed" by JD... Read more