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The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 11, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Republican Tax Plan: Bill Resnick talks to Hunter Blair of The Economic Policy Institute about the potential impacts of the Republican tax plan. Understanding Trump Supporters: Clayton Morgareidge recommends that leftists try to rein in their moral outrage at Trump supp... Read more

Immigrant Life on the Texas Border

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Mike Snedeker discusses Debbie Nathan's work as an investigative reporter for The ACLU of Texas. Nathan just published an article on December 9th for the Intercept titled “They’re taking everybody.” Videos show Texas troopers ripping apart immigrant families during traffic ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for November 27, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this week's issue of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. John Miller of Dollars & Sense discusses the Republican tax plan with Bill Resnick; 2. Desiree Hellegers and Frann Michel explain the budget battle at Washingto State University; 3. Attorneys Mike Snedeke... Read more

Trump at the Border

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Mike Snedeker of the Old Mole’s Left and the Law Series interviews Jim Smith, founder of the first immigration law clinic in the country at UC Davis. He now litigates on behalf of Central American refugees who will be killed if sent back to where they came from. They discus... Read more

Deportations, Ice raids, DACA & Oregon's Drivers Licencing

Airs at: Wed, 11/22/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Linda Olson-Osterlund welcomes Andrea Williams, the Executive Director of Causa....Oregon's Immigrant Rights Organization founded in 1995 by farmworkers, Latinos, immigrants, and allies in order to defeat ballot measures that would have negatively impacted the lives of L... Read more

The Broken Country

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  The Broken Country is a book-length essay on cultural trauma and the inter-generational legacies of war. In 2012, a young Vietnamese man named Kiet Thanh Ly walked into a downtown Salt Lake City megastore, purchased a knife, and began stabbing white male passersby in the... Read more

Hillsboro "Dreamers" Adjust to Life after DACA

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
When President Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, it threw the futures of 800,000 young people in the US into uncertainty. The program was instituted in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama by executive order. It was based on provisi... Read more

Sex4Sale: Episode 1, Introduction

Airs at: Tue, 11/07/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This is the first episode of Sex4Sale, a 10-part series about the business of sex in Portland, OR--what we know, what we don't know, and what we think we know. In this episode, we'll take an overhead view of the project--future episodes will zoom in on more specific topics.... Read more

KBOO Visiting Journalist Natalia Messer Visits the Day of the Dead Celebration in Cornelius

Produced for:  Evening News
Natalia Messer is a freelance journalist visiting KBOO from Chile, who will be reporting from the Portland area until November 10th. Her most recent work focuses on the struggles of the Mapuche people in Chile, though she has reported from around the world, including German... Read more

What Trump/Pence Regime Has Already Done…

Airs at: Fri, 11/03/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
  What they have done to Women & LGBTQ: Promised to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion; appointed Neil Gorsuch. Signed a law giving states the option to deny funding for Planned Parenthood and other organizatio... Read more