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The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 2, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Thom Becker hosts this episode, which includes these segments:  Bill Resnick interviews Paul Street about regarding the significance of NFL athletes' recent protests  Discussion after the film First Daughter and the Black Snake about a proposed oil pipe line on sacred N... Read more

October Social Justice Events

  Here's what we know about, as we know about it.  Updated Sunday, 10/29/2017 Links here go to pdxactivist.org, "a collaborative community calendar ... to move information about activism and resistance in Portland out of corporate silos like Facebook. This is a place to sh... Read more

September 29 Portland Resistance Calendar

Airs at: Fri, 09/29/2017 at 5:00pm - Fri, 10/06/2017 at 5:00pm
  80 events this week. (+ err, lost count. But who's counting?) Updated Wednesday, October 3. Thanks so very much for listening and reading, and thank you, KBOO members & contributors, for your support. It both allows this blogcast to happen, and keeps my enthusiasm from ... Read more

Dramatic Increase in Hate Crimes, Southern Poverty Law Center Reports

Airs at: Fri, 09/29/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The Southern Poverty Law Center has recently documented a dramatic increase in hate and bias crimes nationwide. It's also very surprising that the Pacific Northwest has seen some of the more crazy increases in the U.S. A December article in the Statesman Journal noted that ... Read more

The Administration's Push for Deregulation

Airs at: Thu, 09/28/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
On Monday, the President will deliver a speech on deregulation. Whether it will be a serious policy proposal or another collection of applause points is anyone’s guess, but the president’s favorable view of deregulation is no secret. His administration has focused on disma... Read more

"You in Midair" with Danna Schaeffer

Airs at: Tue, 10/03/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Host James Dixon talks with Writer, teacher, therapist, lobbyist and actor Danna Schaeffer will present her one-woman show, You in Midair, from October 5th through 15th, at New Expressive Works. You in Midair is directed by Julie Akers. Previously titled My Little Jezebel, ... Read more

Sojourner Truth Radio

Airs at: Fri, 09/29/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  In the United States, we are now getting little to no information from main stream media "or even U.S.-based alternative media "on the devastating impact of Hurricanes Maria and Irma on Saint Croix, Saint John, and St Thomas, all three part of the US Virgin Islands; or o... Read more

Thresholds of Hearing: The world beyond our senses

Airs at: Fri, 09/29/2017 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
Today we are actually going to explore our own thresholds of hearing, more specifically, we have an opportunity to experience what we usually CAN'T hear. The average human can perceive sounds between 20 Hz and 20 kHz, everything below that range is, for us, infrasound—this ... Read more

Charlie vs Goliath

Airs at: Thu, 09/28/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  For this special membership-drive edition of The Film Show, we're joined by Charlie Hardy — onetime priest and senatorial candidate — and filmmaker Reed Lindsay.  Charlie's quixotic fight against big money in politics is immortalized in Reed's documentary Charlie vs Goli... Read more

Bonus Episode: Sounds of Endangered Species and Human Activity

Airs at: Tue, 09/26/2017 at 9:00pm - 9:15pm
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
So indeed listners, I promised you some bonus material. To get you ready for Epsidode 3 this Friday I'm sharing a little spectrograph compliments of bioacoustican, Ashakur Rahaman, at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. For full disclosure, I participated in the Cornell Lab or ... Read more