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Folk Espresso - Gales of November

Airs at: Mon, 11/14/2022 at 5:30am - 7:00am
Produced for Folk Espresso
Join hosts Jack Bohl, Gordy Euler and Jonathan lay for the annual Gales of November program. The show features songs of storms and shipwrecks, ranging from the Pacific Northwest, to Newfoundland and beyond, and of course the Great Lakes. Oregon coastal stories in song inclu... Read more

Are more Black books being challenged?

Airs at: Thu, 11/03/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Black Book Talk
The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones (2019)  - Banned as part of broad efforts to stamp out "critical race theory” in schools.  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (1969)  -  Challenged frequently and banned, ostensibly for vulgarity and sexually explicit materi... Read more

Full Interview | Co-Chairs of the Police Accountability Commission

Airs at: Tue, 10/25/2022 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
  This is the full interview with PAC Co-Chairs Faythe Aiken, Lovisa Lloyd and Seemab Hussaini. It was recorded Sunday, October 23, and the edited air date version (with more background information) can be found here.   ### Read more

October 25, 2022 | Interview with Police Accountability Commission Co-Chairs

Airs at: Tue, 10/25/2022 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
  This month we spoke with the co-chairs of the Portland Police Accountability Commission's fact-finding phase. The PAC is a 20-member all-volunteer group that is tasked with creating the new police accountability system demanded by voters in 2020. The fact-finding phase i... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 24, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 10/24/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Coverage in mainstream media of the in the so-called crisis of immigration at our southern border rarely mentions the history behind the latest surge of migrants from Central America. Historian Aviva Chomsky notes that with the passage of time, some things are remembered... Read more

Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee on 10/16/22

Airs at: Sun, 10/16/2022 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee
  Today, October 16th is Oscar Wilde's birthday, as well as Marie Antoinette's. Here's what the former said of the latter:   "To the thinker, the most tragic fact in the whole of the French Revolution is not that Marie Antoinette was killed for being a queen, but that th... Read more

A Cartoon Arts Museum in the Pacific Northwest

Airs at: Thu, 10/13/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  San Francisco has one, New York has one, Brussels has one, and now Portland may be home to a cartoon arts museum, if a group of academics, activists and industry artists get their way. Dr Mike Rosen, Sean Wynn, Michael Ring, and Katie Pryde are four of the board members... Read more

Prisons Have a Long Memory: Bridgeworks Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 10/31/2022 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews folks from Bridgeworks Oregon about their most recent book project "Prisons Have a Long Memory."   Sterling Cunio is a spoken word poet and author who dedicated life to the service of others while inside the Oregon Department of Corrections where ... Read more