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Re-Imagining the US-Mexico Border

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tod Sloan interviews Mary Watkins, liberation psychologist and co-author of Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the US-Mexico Border.     Mary Watkins teaches at Pacific Graduate Institute.   [Image Credit: www.wikipedia.org] Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 1, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick and David Finkle, talking about a recent Syrian Peace Summit. Clayton Morgareidge offers a reading about "snow days under socialism" Larry Bowlden reviews Terra Konklins, "The House Girl". Norm offers s... Read more

Book Mole: The House Girl

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bolden reviews Tara Conklin's "The House Girl", a story split between the present day and the days of slavery. Larry commends it for not just being a cleverly constructed story, but deeply researched and informative about the realities of abolitionist struggle. Read more

Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Takes Effect Tomorrow

Airs at: Tue, 12/22/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
On January first a law will go into place assigning certain protections and benefits to domestic workers in the State of Oregon, called the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.  For more KBOO reporter Jared Dancler spoke with Tom Breedlove, an expert on household labor and taxe... Read more

Journalist Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald and Police Reform in Chicago

Airs at: Thu, 12/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  News In Depth
Independent Chicago journalist Jamie Kalven has been a voice calling for police reform in Chicago for years, and it was his lawsuit against the city of Chicago that brought the autopsy of Laquan McDonald into the light. McDonald, a 17-year-old black man, was shot to death by... Read more

Charlie Brown Xmas Politics

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and special guest Dennis Gravy review the classic Christmas-time cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas. They consider anti-commercialism, alienation, cultural appropriation, white supremacy, and why the "workers revolution" that seems to promise an answer to Charli... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 30, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and it includes these segments: 1. Laurence Shoup and Bill Resnick discuss debates about US foreign policy towards China. 2.  Mass shootings in Colorado and in Paris are discussed by Jan Haaken and Kathryn Farr. 3.  Frann Mi... Read more

Migration and Climate in Paris Talks

Airs at: Mon, 11/30/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel discusses the relations between climate and migration crises, drawing mostly from Harsha Walia's recent comments on "Why Migration Should Be Central to Paris COP21 Climate Talks."  Her comments highlight the ways that climate change causes displacement both dir... Read more

KBOO Noon News 112715

Airs at: Fri, 11/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Tune in every weekday at five for more local, national and international news produced by volunteer reporters in our Portland studios. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 23, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks about war in Syria and the clash of barbarisms, with Stephen Zunes Desiree Hellegers talks about the xenophobic backlash against refugees, with Kayse Jama Denise Morris reads some media commenta... Read more