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Interview with Portland Copwatch's Dan Handleman about Portland cops using racial profiling

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Wed, 07/18/2012

KBOO's Jennifer Kemp spoke with Portland Copwatch's Dan Handleman about racial profiling by the Portland Police. Handleman says that the Portland Police search African American and Hispanic people at disproportinately high rates, despite statistics showing that white people are more likely to be in position of drugs. The Portland Police admitted for the first time that racism has played a role in police actions.

5:38 minutes (5.16 MB)

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Fort Meade-ia: Why the Most Classified Thing About Manning is his Pre-trial Hearing

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Air Cascadia

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Thu, 05/23/2013

http://vbc.cityrepair.org/

The Bradley Manning Support Network reports today that a coalition of journalists is challenging the Manning trial secrecy in civilian court; And the Nobel Peace Prize petition continues to draw signatures, 50,000+ at last count. Signed it yet?

29:00 minutes (26.54 MB)

Old Mole Variety Hour May 20th 2013

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 05/20/2013

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode and we hear:

54:58 minutes (50.32 MB)

Well-read Red: Assata Shakur and the Law

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 05/20/2013

Well-read Red, Frann Michel, reads an article from the website of Solidarity, a socialist-feminist-antiracist organization, and adds some comments at the end. The article is about Assata Shakur and the government's recent campaign to smear her as a terrorist by naming her one of the FBI's most wanted. The situation bears an uncanny similarity to what Cara Dugas was saying just a couple weeks earlier about labeling environmentalists as eco-terrorists.

8:08 minutes (7.45 MB)

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Commentary: It's A Wonderful World

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 05/20/2013

Clayton Morgareidge reflects on just what there is to find so wonderful about this world and why being open to the world in this way is its own radical gesture.

9:29 minutes (8.68 MB)

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Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 05/20/2013

Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. These two groups, from which Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo came, were against the apartheid government.

10:21 minutes (9.49 MB)

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Bruce Podobnik on Climate Change Activism

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Wed, 05/01/2013

Bill Resnick talks with Bruce Podobnik about climate change activism and his research into where people are engaging in it. He notes that protests are increasing globally, radical, and coordinated. They also talk about local, dispersed energy systems.

Bruce Podobnik is a sociology professor at Lewis and Clark College and author of the book "Global Energy Shifts: fostering sustainability in a turbulent age".

20:12 minutes (18.5 MB)

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Jonathan Schuppe Interview

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Between Us

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Wed, 05/22/2013

Jonathan Schuppe is a crime and government reporter who has spent much of his reporting life in and around Newark, NJ. In that time, he's seen first hand the results of shattered lives and their effects on children. But he tells a different story in his new book, "A Chance to Win." Don Merrill talks with Mr. Schuppe about a special man who got a bunch of inner city kids interested in forming a sports team. And not basketball or football.

27:07 minutes (24.82 MB)

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Whistling in the Dark...

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Air Cascadia

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Wed, 05/22/2013

11:55 minutes (10.91 MB)

Bread and Roses Founder Susan Dobrof in 1993

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Womens issues

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Bread and Roses

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Tue, 05/21/2013

In 1993, KBOO AM News Director Kathleen Stephenson interviewed Susan Dobrof about the Bread and Roses Collective and its creation in 1978.

18:44 minutes (42.88 MB)

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Voters React To Multnomah County Mid-Elections

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Evening News

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Tue, 05/21/2013

Today is election day for Multnomah County voters. If you haven’t handed in your ballot, you have until eight p-m to drop it off at the county elections office or one of the drop-off sites at libraries around town.

You can no longer mail your ballot – if you do, it will not be counted.

12:16 minutes (11.23 MB)

The American Governmment, Inc.

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Air Cascadia

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Tue, 05/21/2013

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/05/12112/dissent-or-terror-how-arizonas-counter-terrorism-apparatus-partnership-corporate-

32:49 minutes (30.05 MB)

Activist Protests Tigard Walmart

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Evening News

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Wed, 05/15/2013

Last week a group of ten people led by Occupy Lake Oswego held a protest at the Walmart store in Tigard. Today KBOO’s Audrey Davis spoke with Jennifer Vasicek, a woman who participated in the protest.