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Intelligence Transparency Policies May Change--But How?

Airs at: Fri, 04/08/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Transparency advocates in the nation’s capital published a letter this morning asking intelligence agency leadership to halt revisions of a 35-year-old executive order issued during the first year of the Reagan administration. Open the Government is among the 30 groups call... Read more

Fire Consumes Tents Under I-5 Bridge

Airs at: Thu, 04/07/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
This afternoon a fire consumed at least one person’s tent in a houseless settlement under the I-5 bridge near OMSI and the Portland Fire Department location on the Willamette river. KBOO's Kristin Yount was on the scene. Read more

The Social and Political Significance of Kendrick Lamar's Music

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Abdul Fofanah and Issa Kamara about the politics of Kendrick Lamar's work as a hip-hop artist and the power of his music in the Black Lives Matter movement.  Fofanah is co-director of the documentary, "Moving to the Beat"--a documentary about hip-hop a... Read more

Book Review: "The Other Typist"

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews The Other Typist, a debut novel by Suzanne Rindell. It is about a young woman hired as a typist by the New York Police Dept. in the 1920s. Riddell has much to say about the expectations on women of that time, and how the typewriter brought women into a... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 8, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 02/08/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear: Tod Sloan interviews Mary Watkins, liberation psychologist and co-author of Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the US-Mexico Border.   Bill Resnick talks to Maria Svart, national director of the Democratic Socialists of... Read more

Sex Workers: what hurts, what helps?

Airs at: Tue, 02/09/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Left and the Law with Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker examine sex work, and whether prosecuting sex workers and shutting down websites increases the dangers of sex work. [Image Credit: www.hivgaps.org] Read more

Lisa Haynes Fights To Demand Police Accountablity

Airs at: Wed, 12/30/2015 at 12:00am
A Northeast Portland resident, Lisa Haynes, is urging for community to get involved in holding the city responsible for police accountability. Miss Haynes was inappropriately profiled by Portland police in Southeast Portland on February 17th, 2012 . Miss Haynes insist that ... Read more

Journalist Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald and Police Reform in Chicago

Airs at: Thu, 12/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  News In Depth
Independent Chicago journalist Jamie Kalven has been a voice calling for police reform in Chicago for years, and it was his lawsuit against the city of Chicago that brought the autopsy of Laquan McDonald into the light. McDonald, a 17-year-old black man, was shot to death by... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 14, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this edition of the Mole focusing on progressive organizing and assessing the outcome of the COP21 Climate Conference just concluded in Paris. To hear the whole show, use the play button below. For individual segments, follow these links.  1.  Shena Elri... Read more

Making Local Progressive Reforms

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks with Shena Elrington, Director of Immigrant Rights & Racial Justice at the Center for Popular Democracy. They discuss how communities, cities and states can lead progressive reforms on immigrant rights and create alternative and humane environments for ... Read more