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What is Welfare?

Airs at: Mon, 11/21/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Host Denise Morris talks with Johnanna Brenner about welfare -- its history and meaning.  Is welfare something to be demeaned, as it is when we call the subsidies and tax breaks for corporations "welfare for the rich"? Doesn't that play into the right-wing idea that welfare... Read more

Book Mole: "The Little Bride"

Airs at: Mon, 11/21/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews The Little Bride, a first novel by Anna Solomon about a mail order bride coming from Odessa to live in a sod house on the prairie in the 19th Century. Read more

This Thanksgiving, Abe and Joe give thanks for an awakened American people.

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2011 at 12:00am
  This Thanksgiving, there is so much to be thankful for, even in this time of hungry ghosts. The American people have awakened, and a Movement is afoot. Abe and Joe give thanks for the Occupaction, and take your calls. A Listener recommended reading From Dictatorship to De... Read more

Women on War Part 2

Airs at: Fri, 11/18/2011 at 12:00am
Today's show features Part 2 of "Woman on War," a panel discussion from the Veterans' Voice archive. This program was initially broadcast in the early 90's. Carolyn Mills interviews women who have been affected by war. Read more

Dispatches from the War on Sex: Mississippi's 'personhood' initiative

Airs at: Tue, 11/08/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Voters in Mississippi will decide tomorrow on a 'personhood' initiative which, if passed, would confer legal personhood upon a fertilized ovum. This would of course render abortion illegal, and any other act that interfered with said ovum... Read more

An interview with Punk Pioneer and Hero, Alice Bag

Airs at: Mon, 10/31/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Life During Wartime
Alicia Velasquez was known as Alice Bag in the late 70's when she was one of the main figures in the Los Angeles first wave punk scene. Her new book Violence Girl was just released on Feral House Books. She will be in Portland this Thursday November Third at Green Noise Rec... Read more

Christopher Ryan, co-author of "Sex at Dawn" talks about Human Sexuality

Airs at: Mon, 10/31/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Radiozine
 Joe Meyer Hosts. My guest is Christopher Ryan, co author with Cacilda Jetha of Sex at Dawn - the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality.  The standard narrative of modern human sexuality features a male-dominated ruling class supported by nuclear families each founded on ... Read more

Occupy Wall Street comes to Portland -- and it's the real deal.

Airs at: Tue, 10/11/2011 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   The Occupy Wall Street movement has come to Portland. Much has been made aboutwhat the movement is, what the occupiers want, and what their message is. It's really pretty simple -- it's about economic injustice. And it's the real dea... Read more

Journalist Carole Simpson's memoir, "Newslady"

Airs at: Thu, 10/06/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Black Book Talk
Newslady is the memoir of Carole Simpson a trailblazing African American woman journalist. Simpson was the first woman the first African American woman national network television correspondent, the first African American woman to anchor a national network newscast and the ... Read more

Queer Culture Radio

Airs at: Tue, 10/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for Out Loud
Tonight we welcome a mix of art, wellness and celebrations from the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, queer and questioning community. We also celebrate our allies! Starting off the show is a music sample from La Pump titled 'Magnet'. This artist is performing as part ... Read more