Legislation

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Gun Violence and Gun Control

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Drawing on personal and recent experiences of a fatal shooting and on her own background of owning and enjoying guns, Old Mole Iven Hale reflects on the ambiguities and contradictions in efforts to control guns and gun violence in a society that breeds and provokes violence... Read more

Sonia Faleiro author of "Beautiful Thing" on women's rights in India

Airs at: Fri, 03/01/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Sonia Faleiro, author of Beautiful Thing, explains the culture of Bombay's Dance Bars and the recent social uprising around women's rights in India.Interviewed and produced by Andrew Yeh. Read more

Melanie Davis Interview

Airs at: Wed, 03/20/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Melanie Davis is the owner of the media company Brilliant Media.  Through it, she and her team of nearly 70 employees and staff nationwide operate Su Publico Ad Agency, El Hispanic News and Proud Queer Monthly.  Despite her youth, the road to magnate has been a long one, be... Read more

Illahee 2013 Lecture Series: Broadcast in its entirety on KBOO!

KBOO Community Radio is proud to broadcast all 2013 Illahee lectures. Who influences, controls, and owns other key aspects of our lives:  what we eat, the information we access, the environment, our own finances,  and our politicians? In short, who owns us? And what can we ... Read more

Voting Rights and the Supreme Court

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Justice Anthony Scalia has compared civil rights-era voting legislation to welfare entitlements, as if protecting the right to vote were a "government handout".  Well Read Red Frann Michel looks into the challenge to this legislation that has now reached the Supreme Court. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 25, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Alan Wieder hosts this episode, featuring music from David Rovics as well as an interview with him, a discussion of the economics and politics of mass incarceration, a review of a recent comic novel, and a commentary on the ideology of austerity.  Bill Resnick talks with D... Read more

David Weiman on Mass Incarceration

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with economist David Weiman about the political forces encouraging the growth and maintaining of prisons and punitive policing in the USA. They consider not only media influence and legislators desire to keep jobs in their areas but also the fear-enhanci... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 11th 2013

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts and we hear:   Bill Resnick complete his conversation with Larry Kleinman about immigration reform. Jan Haaken talks with Mary-Liz Thomson, the director of "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" Joe Clement talks with Kristian Williams about community alt... Read more

Larry Kleinman on Immigration Reform Part 2

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Larry Kleinman, Secretary-Tresurer of PCUN, a union for all Oregon's farmworkers. They discuss the potential impact of different kinds of immigration reform. This is the second of a two-part interview. The first can be found here. Read more

Interview with Senator Jeff Merkley

Airs at: Fri, 12/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
 KBOO News Director Jenka Soderberg speaks with Oregon Senator in the US Congress Jeff Merkley on the issues of 'talking filibusters', the fiscal cliff and U.S. aid to Israel. Read more