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Queer Documentary Film Festival

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Mon, 05/13/2013

Film maker Deb Tullman, co-director of Born This Way, talks with the Old Mole's Denise Morris about her film and Q-Doc -- Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival which is happening this weekend. Here is all the relelvant festival info. Born This Way takes place in Camaroon, and "explores the underground gay and lesbian culture in an intensely homophobic society that is taking its first steps towards greater acceptance."

13:21 minutes (7.64 MB)

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Criminalizing Environmental Activism

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 05/13/2013

Two bills which impose increased penalties on those who take direct action to save trees and endangered species have passed the Oregon House and are on their way to the Senate -- HB 2595 and HB 2596. Well-read Red Cara Dugas explains what's in them, what's wrong with them, and reads from Will Potter's book Green is the New Red which explores the threat to free speech in calling those who block environmental destruction "terrorists".

These bills have not passed the Oregon Senate. To call your state senator, go here to find his/her contact info.

9:02 minutes (5.17 MB)

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Book Mole: "The Burgess Boys"

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Culture/Arts

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 05/13/2013

Elizabeth Strout's new novel The Burgess Boys concerns two brothers who must return to their home town to deal with issues they thought they'd left behind. The novel shows how extraordinary are the lives of ordinary people living ordinary lives when seen through the eyes of "a compassionate and wise story teller." Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden compares it with Strout's earlier novel, the Pulitzer Prize winning best seller Olive Kitteridge, which Larry also reviewed on the Old Mole.

6:29 minutes (3.72 MB)

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A People's Budget for Portland

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 05/13/2013

While the Mayor and the City Council make plans for cutting services, other members of the community are planning a budget that would increase the services that make for a civilized city. Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with two activists involved in the People's Budget Project, Megan Hise and Shamus Cooke.

18:11 minutes (10.41 MB)

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Environmentalists and Timber Barons; It's like being Forced to Marry Your Rapist

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Air Cascadia

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Tue, 05/14/2013

15:32 minutes (14.22 MB)

Memoirs From the Psych Ward, Day 3

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Sub-Human Intellect Theater

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Mon, 04/08/2013

The forth installment of this multi-part series detailing a week spent in the psych ward.

Cast: Jason, Kristin, Kirsten & Noah

Writer: Kirsten Liden

Director: Noah Madrano

Produced by Power T Productions

9:09 minutes (20.96 MB)

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My Own Private Entropy

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Air Cascadia

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Fri, 05/10/2013

Today in History...

You may not know a lot about Pattern Recognition…

but Pattern Recognition knows all about you…What do Santa Clara County, the Southern Pacific Railroad and today relate to one another? Think fast or it will be tomorrow... Think slow and it will be Pattern Recognition. Don’t think at all and it will be next stop Santa Clara.

15:44 minutes (14.4 MB)

Oregon State Senate Repasses Tanning Bill

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Legislation

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Evening News

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Thu, 05/09/2013

Earlier today, The Oregon state Senate repassed House Bill 2896, which prohibits teenagers under the age of eighteen from using tanning bed facilities without a note from a physician.
The bill was sponsored by senator Elizabeth Steiner Hayward.
In Early March, the Oregon House passed the bill.
But later the Senate decided to allow seveteen-year-olds to use commercial tanning beds with parental consent.
The House did not concur with this amendment, and brought the bill back in its original form to the senate this morning, where it passed.
KBOO’s Audrey Davis has more:

3:12 minutes (2.93 MB)

Tom McCall Centennial

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Words and Pictures

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Thu, 05/09/2013

Renowned Oregon Governor Tom McCall would have turned 100 years old this year. To commemorate this larger-than-life figure, Know Your City (formerly the Dill Pickle Club) commissioned a comic book about McCall's controversial decision to fund the Vortex I rock festival in 1970, which drew anti-war activists away from an American Legion convention in Portland. Author Sarah Mirk, who created the comic with artist Daniel Duford, joins Kick-Ass Oregon History founder Doug Kenck-Crispin to regale listeners with the history they didn't learn in school. Sarah will also share details about how to participate in the newest Know Your City project, Comics for Change.

30:01 minutes (12.03 MB)

At the Crossroads: Aggro-Culture After the Last of Hunter-Gatherers

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Air Cascadia

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Thu, 05/09/2013

The 2013 Village Building Convergence, another crossroads in time, and Succession, the ecosystem’s millichambered hourglass, keeping track of time. Ticking off tracks in time running scalar sand through lacy finders; Pattern reflected on pattern, rain falling on infinite isinglass winter morning

At the Crossroads…Go ask Robert Johnson…10, 15, 20 thousand years ago, our hunting/gathering ancestors at the spot where their paths met, exchanged food, weaponry, seeds, sperm and perhaps,

Words.