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Jason Lutes - Berlin

Airs at: Thu, 01/10/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Jason Lutes is a dogged comics storyteller.  His previous graphic novel Jar of Fools was serialized for years in Seattle's Stranger newspaper before being collected in book form.  Now comes the 600-page magnum opus Berlin, a sprawling tale of urban struggle in Germany du... Read more

Hannah Versus the Tree by Leland de la Durantaye

Airs at: Thu, 01/03/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Leland de la Durantaye, author of the new novel Hannah Versus the Tree from McSweeney’s Press. Leland is a critic, translator, and professor of comparative literature at the Claremont Colleges. His journalism and criticism have appeared in The New ... Read more

Kristian Williams on the Police & Politics (Part One)

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick offers the first part of a three-part interview with Kristian Williams about how to keep police from supporting the far right. Part One focuses on the modern history of police strategies to suppress left insurgent protest, demonstrations, and actions—includi... Read more

How Fascism Works: Jason Stanley

Airs at: Tue, 01/01/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
​ What is fascism? Michael Parenti, author and historian says, “Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the ... Read more

Rebroadcast: "What I'm Reading", October 4, 2018

Airs at: Thu, 01/03/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
   This is a re-broadcast of the October 4 2018 edition of "Black Book Talk".   Guests Perry Gardner and Tamyka Miles of Multnomah County Library shared books on their current reading list.  Among the titles discussed were:   Take You Wherever You Go, a Memoir, by Kenny... Read more

Rebel in the Ranks: A Conversation with Brad Gregory

Airs at: Sun, 12/30/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Martin Luther may very well turn over in his grave if he was able to see what happened to what he started 500 years ago. The Reformation. Studying its effects is not just for religious people. According to Notre Dame Professor of European History, Brad Gregory, the very ... Read more

Rebel in the Ranks: A Conversation with Brad Gregory

Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Martin Luther may very well turn over in his grave if he was able to see what happened to what he started 500 years ago. The Reformation. Studying its effects is not just for religious people. According to Notre Dame Professor of European History, Brad Gregory, the very ... Read more

Hollywood Before the Code

Airs at: Thu, 12/27/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  Putting the Sin in Cinema is the name of film historian Elliot Lavine's course about the early days of sound film, when Hollywood addressed social issues with minimal censorship.  Following a series of celebrity scandals and complaints about lewd content, the studios cre... Read more

The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

Airs at: Thu, 12/20/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our 7-part series on the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, known as SNCC. During Part 2 of the series, you will hear more voices of some of the women who organized with SNCC, including Mary King, who worked in SNCCs Communi... Read more

Speaking the Truth About the Dead

Airs at: Mon, 12/10/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Dismayed by the bipartisan praise for George HW Bush following his death on November 30th, Denise Morris weighs the moral imperative not to speak ill of the dead against the importance and responsibility to speak the truth about the deeds of powerful public figures. For mor... Read more