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Movie Moles: Detroit

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and Jan Haaken review Kathryn Bigelow's "Detroit", which dramatizes events surrounding the 1967 12th Street Rebellion in Detroit. The consider what the film has to say about black life, black political movements, and the origins of social unrest. They also con... Read more

Book Mole: The Iron Heel

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reviews Jack London's 1908 novel, The Iron Heel (available online for download and through the Multnomah County Library). One of London's most socialist novels, it tells the story of how a failed revolution in the US leads to the centuries long reign of a fasci... Read more

WHITE PRIVILEGE: Michael Eric Dyson

Airs at: Tue, 08/15/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  White privilege. What’s that? Some people have choices and advantages simply because of the color of their skin. Many whites are unaware of it or if they are are quick to say, Hey, I’m cool and beyond that. Yeah, right. Peggy McIntosh, a noted women’s studies scholar in ... Read more

Members of Congress Call Out Nazis and Other Violent Right-wing Extremists

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Numerous members of Congress and other officials joined in condemning Saturday’s racist attack and in calling out Nazis and other violent rightwing extremists.  Many also expressed their disappointment and even outrage at the slow, lackluster response from the current presi... Read more

Say Goodbye to Medical Privacy

Airs at: Sun, 08/13/2017 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
The administration wants to waive the medical privacy rights of people who are prescribed opiates, so the president may be declaring a national emergency over drugs. Read more

The Murder of George Jackson

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  The Struggle Inside: The Murder of George Jackson, a program about the modern anti-prison movement. This year marks the 38th anniversary of Black August, first originated in the California prisons to honor fallen Freedom Fighters, George and Jonathan Jackson, Khatari Gau... Read more

Why Good People Become Silent (Or Worse) About 9/11

Airs at: Tue, 06/19/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Frances Shure is a Licensed Professional Counselor who is now retired from her private practice and from her position as adjunct instructor at Naropa University at Boulder, Colorado. In her 20 years as a psychotherapist, she focused on "depth psychology," which involves bo... Read more

Supporters of Cascade-Siskiyou Monument React to Zinke Visit

Airs at: Thu, 08/10/2017 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was in Oregon last month, and paid a visit to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Southern Oregon. The Monument is "under review," to see if its recent expansion negatively effects economic interests in the area. The review fits in with t... Read more

Council Reacts to Citizen Feedback on Police Oversight Proposals

Airs at: Thu, 08/10/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
On Wednesday, August 9, the Portland City Council reconsidered three police oversight proposals that prompted a long and angry public hearing last Thursday. Council uncharacteristically took a lot of that testimony into consideration in the intervening week: --A proposed P... Read more

Vancouver Oil Terminal Protest

Airs at: Thu, 08/10/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO reporter Tom Flynn spoke with Cher Tso, who was speaking on behalf of an organization known as Shut Down Fossil Fuels. The group staged a demonstration in downtown Vancouver, Washington, on Monday to influence Governor Jay Inslee to reject the proposed Tesoro Savage oi... Read more