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The Gap: Roe on the Rocks Podcast and Holiday Anxieties

Airs at: Fri, 12/17/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  The Gap
  On this episode of The Gap, Tammy and Althea interview KBOO's Claire Rischiotto, the producer of the new podcast 'Roe on the Rocks' which details how the Supreme Court challenge to Roe v. Wade can have a major impact on Oregon and Idaho. We learn about what abortion trig... Read more

Prison Pipeline's Holiday Special

Airs at: Mon, 12/20/2021 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Join hosts Emma Lugo, Adam Carpinelli, Doug McVay and Karen James for Prison Pipeline’s Holiday Special as we broadcast your holiday messages to your loved ones in prison.  We’ll hear music from the Coffee Creek Christmas Choir, shout outs from the Family Preservation Proje... Read more

The Gap: Over-policing doesn't reduce crime with Partnership for Safety & Justice and Gift Giving Strategies

Airs at: Fri, 12/10/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  The Gap
  On this episode of the Gap, Tammy and Althea start the show by interviewing two folks at the Partnership for Safety and Justice, Shannon Wight, the Deputy Director, and Julianne Jackson, the Movement Building Director. A few opinion pieces have been penned in Street Root... Read more

SCOTUS and Reproductive Rights

Airs at: Mon, 12/13/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments this month on the constitutionality of Mississippi’s ban on abortions past 15 weeks in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case. In their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker take up this case and the legal re... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 13, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 12/13/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Time to get it Right: Johanna Brenner interviews Portland Association of Teachers (PAT) President, Elizabeth Thiel, about how their union proposes to solve a staffing crisis... Read more

The Hidden Child

Airs at: Mon, 12/13/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The horrors of the eugenics movement were not restricted to the Nazis. Larry Bowlden reviews Louise Fein’s excellent historical novel, The Hidden Child, about the rise of  eugenics pseudoscience in Europe and America. In the story Fein lays out the attempt to mistakenly app... Read more

Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 12/09/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
Today on Jonesy, we we pay tribute to arguably Oregon’s greatest writer, Ursula K. Le Guin. I’m sure Ken Kesey would have loved to arm wrestle her for the title, but I think he’d lose. Ursula was not only a brilliant and prolific author, but an activist for the environment ... Read more

Buscando America on 11/30/21

Airs at: Tue, 11/30/2021 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este episodio escucharás sobre las actividades de Loud and Strong un evento conmemorativo al Día de la Eliminación de la Violencia a la Mujer que se llevó a cabo en Arizona State University donde presentamos el documental MORADA sobre la Okupa Cuba Monumenta Viva en CDMX... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 29, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 11/29/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour, which includes the following segments: COP 26: Last week on the Old Mole Bill Resnick interviewed Tina Gerhardt, a researcher and environmental journalist who observed this month’s international United Nations C... Read more

Assaults on Reproductive Rights

Airs at: Mon, 11/29/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
One thing we know about the history of abortion in this country is that whether it is prosecuted or tolerated has less to do with the laws that are on the books and much more to do with prevailing social and political forces. The primary effect of anti-abortion laws is not ... Read more