Immigration

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Inauguration Day Special Coverage

Airs at: Fri, 01/20/2017 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
  VOICES OF A NATION: A CALL TO ACTION: Reports from protests, rallies, walk-outs across the country and around the world, including: Austin, Chicago, Denver, Lansing, London, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco and the local communities of Pacifica affiliates around the coun... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 16, 2017

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this edition of the Old Mole. Here's your Table of Contents: 1. Bill Resnick talks with two Portland activists about the Bunk Bus and traveling to Standing Rock. 2. Norm Diamond reads from and comments on the late John Berger's essay “The Nature of Mass De... Read more

DEATH AND SUFFERING IN THE BORDERLANDS

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Sophie Smith, an activist and humanitarian worker with No More Deaths--an organization in Southern Arizona that works to stop the death and suffering in the borderlands, much of which is the direct result of US Homeland Security policies.  They talk ab... Read more

Author Isabel Wilkerson and "The Warmth of Other Suns"

Airs at: Thu, 01/05/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O.B. Hill  and Patricia Hill Welch talk with Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson in this rebroadcast of their November 2010 interview.  Wilkerson discusses “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” a New Yor... Read more

Migrations Art Special

Airs at: Tue, 01/03/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae presents profiles of West African guitarist and singer Parfait Bassale, Bhutanese poet Dilip Sunar with interpreter Suprina Koirala and the Tongan Sewing Circle led by  Kato Kakala Kavapalu and Kolini Fusitua. All were featured in Dmae's special yearlong project Migrat... Read more

Defending Immigrant Workers under Trump

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2016 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Romeo Sosa, director of Voz Workers' Rights Education Project, and Marco Mejia, leader of the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition discuss local efforts to defend immigrant workers and communities from harassment, detention and deportation in the coming Trump era. Read more

Tibet and China: Spirituality vs. Materialism

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Host John Shuck of KBOO in Portland, Oregon speaks with Penpa Tsering, the new Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Office of Tibet, based in Washington DC. He was elected to this post in May. Previously he was a member of the Tibetan Parliament in exile whe... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 12, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 12/12/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode of the Old Mole, and presents the following segments: 1. Ashlee Ailes of the National Lawyers' Guild discusses how the Guild will defend the right to protest. 2. JoDe Goudy, chair of the Yakama Tribal Council,  speaks to the recent d... Read more

Immigrant of the Year Som Subedi

Airs at: Mon, 12/05/2016 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The City of Portland’s Parks and Recreation Bureau works with immigrant and refugee communities in a big way. That’s why it’s no surprise that The City of Portland’s Immigrant of the Year, named last week, is Som Subedi, the Park Bureau’s Community Engagement Coordinator. ... Read more

The Aftermath . . .

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am
The Aftermath . . . Read more