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Memorial Day Poem: "Sweet and Fitting..."

Airs at: Mon, 05/26/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
"Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country," wrote the Roman poet Horace.  World War I poet Wilfrid Owen overturns this sentiment in the light of his experiences of war in this poem read for us here by Tom Becker.   Read more

Ali Abunimah on "The Battle for Justice in Palestine" at Portland State, May 13, 2014

Airs at: Tue, 05/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian-American journalist and leader of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli apartheid, speaks to an overflow audience at Portland State University on May 13th, 2014.  Abunimah has been described as the leading Americ... Read more

Andrew Geller interviews Ralph Nader on his latest book, Unstoppable

Airs at: Fri, 05/09/2014 at 12:00am
Andrew Geller speaks with long-time political activist, lecturer and author Ralph Nader about his latest book, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. Read more

KBOO Interviews Hamas' lawyer Stanley Cohen

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Stanley Cohen is a NY based civil rights lawyer, currently facing 18 months in jail for 'obstructing the IRS'. More info available on Stanley Cohen's website Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 21, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 04/21/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Earth Day special edition of the Old Mole.  It includes discussions of climate change and what must be done about it, the dangers of copper mining, a review of the big new flood movie "Noah", and a poem by the late Vern Rutsala about lookin... Read more

Vern Rutsala, "Surfaces"

Airs at: Tue, 04/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Oregon poet Vern Rutsala, who died at the age of 80 this month, appreared on the Old Mole Variety Hour in 1992 to read and discuss his poem "Surfaces" about touring the H.M.S. Victory.  Here Clayton Morgareidge remembers that occasion and reads the poem.   Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 14 2014

Airs at: Tue, 04/15/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with John Feffer about the relationship between divestment in infrastructure and ecological collapse Jan Haaken talk with Sophie Smith of People Helping People about the militarization of our borders an... Read more

People Helping People: humanitarian aid for immigrants and ending border checkpoints

Airs at: Mon, 04/14/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken interviews Sophie Smith about the risks immigrants face crossing the border with Mexico and how people in Arivaca, Arizona are fighting back against the militarization of the border with the help of People Helping People. Sophie describes how southern borderl... Read more

Bear Witness: LARA MESSERSMITH-GLAVIN

Airs at: Thu, 03/20/2014 at 12:00am
The spellbinding Lara Messersmith-Glavin was recorded on Thursday, March 20th as part of the story telling night BEAR WITNESS. Seasoned adventurers spin yarns of their encounters with Bear. Grizzlies, black bears, spirit bears–humans have a long and fascinating relationsh... Read more

New Court Cases Target Guantanamo Force-Feeding

Airs at: Thu, 03/27/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Sam Bouman spoke with Alka Pradhan, Counter-Terrorism Counsel with Reprieve US, who is representing Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ahmed Rabbani in the Washington DC Court of Appeals, in one of the first court cases related to conditions of detention at the controversial... Read more