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Class and Country Music

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

"Anything but country" is a common answer to the question "What music do you listen to?", reflecting not just a musical taste but a class bias against the audience for country music. Dean Hubbs, Professor of Music and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, is the... Read more

“The Numbers,” Portland’s Forgotten East Side

Airs at: Wed, 07/27/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Profiles, Political Perspectives

This Live episode of Profiles explores the history of East Portland, as well as the impact of the current gentrification process on communities of color in "the Numbers" and highlights the creative efforts of residents to foster East Portland as a place where neighbor... Read more

Only in America: Violence from Stanford to Orlando

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel comments on America's culture of violence, and in particular how it led to the Stanford Rape case of Brock Turner and the recent mass shooting in an Orlando Florida gay nightclub: I had been planning to talk about the Stanford rape case—you know, the one ... Read more

MILES DAVIS' 90th Birthday Special

Airs at: Sat, 05/28/2016 at 12:00am - 6:00am

Produced for: The Outside World

TUNE IN FROM MIDNIGHT TIL 6:00 AM and join COUSIN JIMI, UNCLE AV CLUB, RANGER ROWLF COULSON, CHEF PETER, DR. KIPILMAN and probably other Miles devotees who drop by for our annual birthday celebration. Miles Dewey Davis III was born in Alton, Illinois (just across the Mi... Read more

The Frisco Five, Climate Emergency, and Imperialism Update

Airs at: Thu, 05/05/2016 at 9:00am - 9:30am

Produced for: Presswatch

This week's commentary will focus on the courageous hunger strickers, The Frisco Five, who are in the 15th day of their hunger strike to end racial injustice and cop violence. Theresa will also dicuss the continuing climate emergency, and give an imperialsim update. 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 incarceratio... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE salutes ORNETTE COLEMAN tonight at 8pm

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: A Different Nature

Join the A DIFFERENT NATURE Collective tonight for a kind of radio primer on Ornette Coleman, as some of us share what recordings we still have of his most pivotal and radical music from our collections and reflect on the life and turbulent times of one of modern music's... Read more

May Day - Twining the Green, the Black, and the Red

Airs at: Fri, 04/29/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Positively Revolting

“May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil.” So writes celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh in an e... Read more

Proxies by Brian Blanchfield

Airs at: Thu, 05/19/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey autobiography. Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitt... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 04/11/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick interviews Margot Black of Portland Tenants United about our city's rent crisis. Frann Michel reacts to Trump's declaration the women who have illegal abortions should be punished. Clayton Morgareidge reads and share's his thoughts on the ongoing bombing of ... Read more