Race

Remembering the Freedom Riders

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Faye Powell lived in Georgia in the 1960s and participated in picketting and sit-ins against segregation.  She talks here with Denise Morris about her experiences, and they discuss the film Freedom Riders which will be shown at In Other Words Women's Bookstore on Tuesday, ... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 01/19/12 Stories from Survivors of the Sex Trade

Airs at: Thu, 01/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Stories from Survivors of the Sex Trade Portland prides itself on an open attitude about personal choice. A dark side of the city's libertarian bent has been a long-thriving sex trade. Until last year, the city held the dubious honor of second pla... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 01-12-12 Police accountability and remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Airs at: Thu, 01/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  A look at where we are with police accountability and remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. How to make police more accountable to the community remains a hot-button issue in Portland. While the number of fatal police shootings was down ... Read more

Abe and Joe marvel at "Beyond Vietnam," one of MLK's greatest speeches.

Airs at: Tue, 01/17/2012 at 12:00am
 Great oratory speaks to universal and self-evident human truths, and thus remains timeless. Nearly 45 years on, Abe and Joe revisit "Beyond Vietnam," one of Dr. Martin Luther King's most powerful and prescient speeches. In it, he expresses the concept that the movements ag... Read more

Presswatch on 12/29/11

Airs at: Thu, 12/29/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
The news you're not suppposed to know from 1811, a review of 2011 and listener calls. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour January 16th

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear:   Bill Resnick Talk with Malik Miah, a black working-class intellectual. Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay about Mitt Romney and vulture capitalism Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review "The Iron Lady", the drama-docu... Read more

State of the Dream 2012

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads the State of the Dream 2012 report from United For a Fair Economy: "The report examines trends across a variety of indicators including income, wealth, education, employment, health and incarceration. It finds that when the U.S. becomes a minority-majority ... Read more

Bill Resnick and Malik Miah

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick talks with Malik Miah about the Occupy movement, how race figures into the economic crisis,  mobilizing in the black community and what the Occupy movement could learn from their history of organizing against the 1%.   Malik Mia is an airplane mechanic, but al... Read more

Do we really have a choice? Abe sizes up the 2012 presidential election.

Airs at: Tue, 01/10/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor   It's the mating call of the Naderites: there's no difference between the Democrats and Republicans. They're both corporate parties; the only difference lies in how far right-of-center they lie. But there is a difference. It's not as stark as most pro... Read more

APA Compass: Best of 2011

Airs at: Fri, 01/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
APA Compass presents our "Best of 2011" show. We feature interviews with YouTube phenomeon Jimmy Wong, 200m world champion and paralympic ambassador Anjali Forber-Pratt, and visual artist Sharon Inahara. Local youth share reflections on Vincent Chin in a segment from our re... Read more