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February Garden Tasks, Siting a New Vegetable Garden and More

Airs at: Wed, 02/08/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for The Dirtbag
Host Glen Andresen and guest Jim Gilbert tackle timely February garden tasks, including siting a new vegetable garden or fruit orchard, soil preparation, timing and more. Plus a new Garden Stumper quiz; a new Plant of the Month: Cornelian cherry; what's going on in the hon... Read more

Let's look back on a good couple of weeks for women.

Airs at: Tue, 02/07/2012 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor. It's been a good couple of weeks for women. First, there was the ruling that nonprofitsmust cover contraception in their employees' health plans, even if doing so runs counter to church doctrine. Then there was the stunning betrayal -- and equally st... Read more

Bill Bigelow on banning Rethinking Columbus and critical pedagogy in Arizona

Airs at: Mon, 02/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with writer and Portland-area teacher, Bill Bigelow, about how his book "Rethinking Columbus" was removed from Tuscon-area schools because it violates Arizona Law concerning teaching ethnic studies in Public Schools. Bill Bigelow explains how the crack-do... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 6th

Airs at: Mon, 02/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole, which because of membership drive breaks shows up as being about30% shorter than normal. We hear about the crack-down on ethnic studies in Arizona, about what's going on in Jobs with Justice, and a review of The Intuitionist. In the middle... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 01-26-12 Life in and after a cult

Airs at: Thu, 01/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
Life in and after a cult: A conversation with a former member of "The Move" Sam Fife began offering his vision of divine rule on earth in his small New Orleans church in the 1960s. By 1979, when Fife died in an airplane crash, The Move of the Spirit had grown into an intern... Read more

Literacy programs at Multnomah County Library

Airs at: Wed, 01/25/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving It used to be that literacy was a question of: can you read or can't you? Today literacy experts look at the levels of reading ability -- reading a medicine bottle, a newspaper, or a ballot all require different levels of literacy. Our guests today, ... Read more

Robert Applebaum, founder of ForgiveStudentLoanDebt.com on forgiving student loan debt

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
  Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey interview Robert Applebaum, founder of Founder of ForgiveStudentLoanDebt.com, a grassroots movement that began as a proposal entitled "Forgive Student Loan Debt to Stimulate the Economy" which he posted to a Facebook group by the sa... Read more

Abe and Joe discuss SOPA and the future of online censorship.

Airs at: Tue, 01/24/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris For now, it seems, the Internet will remain the radical experiment in free information exchange that we have come to know and love. Abe and Joe dissect the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and discuss the future of online censorship. Plus... Read more

African People's Socialist Party - 40 Years of Resistance

Airs at: Wed, 01/18/2012 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Circle A Radio
This year, marks the 40th anniversary of the African People's Socialist Party - USA.  The Party's National Plenary will be held from February 18th-21st in St. Petersburg Florida at the Uhuru House. www.asiuhuru.org/ontheground/apsp-usa/plenary2012/index.shtml On this progr... Read more

Interview with Youth Film Makers from Outside In about their screening on Jan. 30th.

Airs at: Thu, 01/19/2012 at 12:00am
For the second year in a row Outside In's Guerilla Theatre youth have created films about issues that are important to them. Young filmmakers, who have experienced homelessness, participated in an intensive film internship in an effort to inspire and educate their peers and... Read more