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Rise for Climate Justice

Airs at: Mon, 04/14/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This Saturday afternoon, April 19th, a climate justice rally will be held from 3-5 pm at the Elizabeth Caruthers Park in Portland. The theme of the rally is local and global: From the US to the Philippines: Defend Lands and Land Defenders. Jan Haaken talks with two or... Read more

Eugenics Logic

Airs at: Mon, 04/14/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The current federal government has slashed resources for public health and for people with disabilities, and in doing so has suggested that vulnerable people are social burdens, "waste" to be cut.  In her article "The Eugenics Logic Behind Running a Government Like a ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 14, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 04/14/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Health, care for all or for some? Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode of the Old Mole includes these segments: Healthcare for ALL Oregon:  Oregon is poised to become the first state in the union to enact a single payer health care plan. In June of this year, the Uni... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 7, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 04/07/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Rule of the billionaires: Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast of a show from Against the Grain. The rich have not been so powerful and mind-bogglingly wealthy since the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. Yet their grip on society ha... Read more

The Global Citizen - Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Tue, 04/01/2025 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
"Embrace Russia, Contain China? A Fool's Errand" Read more

Global Citizen International Digest with Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Thu, 03/27/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The main stories in this episode: Another political crisis in Israel leads to renewed Israeli attacks in Gaza; Trump's budget cuts make China happy; and Trump's deportations fight with the courts continues. Read more

The Global Citizen - Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Tue, 03/25/2025 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In this episode, The Coming Failure of the US-Russia Peace Talks. Giving Putin everything he wants won't work. Read more

The Global Citizen - Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Tue, 03/11/2025 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
President Trump displays extraordinary ignorance about the world. His territorial demands, indifference to facts, and bizarre handling of international trade matters are putting America last, not first. As Martin Luther King once said, "sincere ignorance and  conscientio... Read more

LOVE, RITA

Airs at: Thu, 03/06/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
In Love, Rita Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister Rita, a vivacious woman who attended Fisk University at age sixteen, and went on to become a car test driver, an amateur belly dancer, an MBA, and later a popular special ed teacher.  In doing so... Read more

Global Citizen International Digest with Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Thu, 02/27/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Tonight's episode features Germany's election, Zelensky's minerals deal with Trump, and Trump's pro-Russia stance seeps into Congress and the UN Read more