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Police Accountability

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Hyung Nam about recent developments in the campaign to defund the Portland Police Bureau and the national campaign calling for a People’s Budget and alternatives to policing. Nam is a teacher with the Portland Public Schools and served on the citizen’... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 12, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 10/12/2020 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 Economy: Bill Resnick interviews Yeva Nersisyan, who teaches economics at Franklin and Marshall College. They discuss the deepening economic crisis in this richest of countr... Read more

PopMob

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks to Effi Baum, with PopMobPdx, a mutual aid group supporting the month's of protest in Portland. They discuss Portland’s protests of police killings and impunity here and around the country; challenging Trump’s sending Federal troops to Portland; Trump’s u... Read more

Local Folks Podcast Season 4: Episode 2

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2020 at 6:30pm - Fri, 10/01/2021 at 6:30pm
Produced for:  Local Folks
Howdy, my names Zeke and I’m the guest host of Local Folks Podcast for Episode 2. The last few years have been a mite hard to stomach, and a whole passel of things has got me a tad het up. Bob don’t usually let me intrude into his consciousness, but this here election has m... Read more

Buscando America on 09/29/20

Airs at: Tue, 09/29/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
  En esta emisión hablamos de las 113 noches de resistencia en Portland y la movilización antifascista del fin de semana. Se cumplieron seis años de la desaparición de 43 estudiantes en Ayotzinapa  Iguala y hablamos con Víctor Caballero del Colectivo Aequs. En Corazón del ... Read more

19 TRIPP-P 30Aug2020

Airs at: Sun, 08/30/2020 at 12:00am - Sat, 09/30/2023 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
The TRIPP-P co-hosts sit down with Mac Smiff, a local Portlander turned activist turned journalist.   Smiff discusses protest culture, experiences at protests and with police, and living as a Black man living in modern Portland. Have a listen.   Read more

Hempfest Preview

Airs at: Wed, 09/02/2020 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century: Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt and Oregon Justice Resource Center Executive Director Bobbin Singh on recent events in the city of Portland, Oregon. Plus, Virtual Hempfest will be October 10 and 11! To whet everyone's appetite we look b... Read more

Labor for Black Lives, Labor against Fascism

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2020 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Labor unions are trying to unite with the Black Lives Matter uprising.  We interview two labor activists, Laura Wadlin of the American Federation of Teachers and Jad Ziade of the Unemployed Workers Council who are in the midst of this struggle. Read more

Yes for Police Accountability Campaign launch outlines benefits of new oversight system

Airs at: Wed, 09/23/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  On this edition of KBOO News in Depth, we listen in to the launch of the Yes for Police Accountability Campaign. The campaign is about 26-217, and if passed, the ballot measure would create a new police oversight body by amending the City Charter. The new oversight boar... Read more

Steve Poikonen, cohost of Slow News Day / the Free Assange online vigil series - Ep 79

Airs at: Wed, 09/23/2020 at 6:30am - Wed, 09/30/2020 at 6:30am
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
Steve Poikonen, host of Slow News Day and co-host of the Free Assange online vigil series, joins us for a discussion on all things Julian Assange (FYI: this was recorded before the recent hearings on Julian’s extradition from the U.K.)  We discuss Steve’s view of NAFTA-driv... Read more