Legislation

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Voting No Confidence

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2016 at 9:45am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
      Frann Michel reports on faculty votes of no confidence at the University of Wisconsin and many other places, and some of the issues to which these votes are responding.   Just as workers have risen up to demand fifteen dollars an hour and a union, just as resid... Read more

Mother's Day Special

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Incarceration separates families. Holidays like Mother's Day can bring this separation into sharp relief for mothers whose children are in prison and for mothers who are in prison without their children. This separation from social life is one of the aims of incarceration. ... Read more

Who Owns the "O"? A KBOO News Special Report

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A deep dive into the corporate roots of Advance Publishing, Inc., owners of Oregon's once-daily newspaper Many people are frustrated and angry at the downsizing of Oregon's biggest newspaper, The Oregonian.  But where are the real decisions on Oregonian management being ma... Read more

Intelligence Transparency Policies May Change--But How?

Airs at: Fri, 04/08/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Transparency advocates in the nation’s capital published a letter this morning asking intelligence agency leadership to halt revisions of a 35-year-old executive order issued during the first year of the Reagan administration. Open the Government is among the 30 groups call... Read more

Portland Tenants United Protest Outside County Board

Airs at: Thu, 04/07/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Portland Tenants United protested outside the Multnomah County Board of Supervisors Thursday morning, demanding that the County act to reverse an affordable housing emergency in Portland. KBOO reporter Geoff Henderson was on the scene and spoke with an organizer about enact... Read more

Linking Climate Justice and Other Movements

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier talks with Cindy Wiesner, National Coordinator of Grassroots Global Justice about GGJA and its work, the Our Power campaign, and in particular linking climate justice organizing with other movements, and why this is important. Wiesner will speak in Vancouver ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 28, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick and Harvey Wasserman talk about America's Astounding Human Rights Hypocrisy in light of Obama's recent visit to Cuba. Jan Haaken talks with Abdul Fofanah and Issa Kamara about the politics of Kendrick Lamar's work as a hi... Read more

Apache fight against Resolution Copper land grab at sacred site

Airs at: Wed, 03/16/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
In a midnight rider in December, 2014, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) forced a provision in the must-pass Defense authorization bill, which transferred the sacred Oak Flat area southeast of Phoenix to a foreign-owned mining corporation for the largest copper-mining project in N... Read more

Documentary: Targeted Regulations at Abortion Providers

Airs at: Mon, 03/14/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken interviews Dawn Porter, Director of the documentary film, TRAPPED, that will be playing at Cinema 21 for five days, opening on Friday March 18th.  In “Trapped,” documentarian Dawn Porter chronicles the lives of medical professionals who work at clinics in the South... Read more

Bob Neimeyer Interview

Airs at: Sun, 02/28/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Robert Neimeyer is a Republican who wants to fill the seat that was vacated by former Governor Kitzhaber. He's critical of what he calls "stupidity" on the part of Democrats both locally and federally, and he had some strong ideas about how to bring balance to government. ... Read more