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The Old Mole Variety Hour for April 29, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Mole celebrating May Day, International Workers Day, and we hear:  Laurie speaks with Lane Windham, who worked for twenty years in the labor movement and is now Associate Director of Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiativ... Read more

Filmmaker Josh Tucker discusses Alaska's proposed pebble mine: Part 2

Airs at: Wed, 04/24/2019 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Part 2 of KBOO reporter Emily Gresham Beamer’s in-depth interview with Filmmaker Josh Tucker about the Pebble mine proposed in southwest Alaska, and his documentary ‘We can’t eat gold’.   The proposed open-pit gold mine, located in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed, would be t... Read more

Stopping Tar Sands Oil Trains in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Last year, Zenith Energy in NW Portland, quietly began exporting tar sands oil from its Willamette River facility. Now Zenith Energy is expanding its facility so that it can handle more than three times the number of oil train cars that currently pass through the city.This ... Read more

The Importance of Historical Memory for Social Movements

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  From the Old Mole archive, The Importance of Historical Memory for Social Movements. Tod Sloan interviews Sandy Polishuk, oral historian and long-time activist, on the importance of historical memory in social movements, both for inspiration and for the lessons that can... Read more

350PDX and the Necessity of Climate Organizing

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
             Jan Haaken talks with Anais Tuepker of 350PDX about current climate actions, the need to connect local and global, the role of indigenous leadership on climate, the politics of allyship, and a 4/22 film screening event. Anaïs Tuepker is the Lead for Organizati... Read more

DSA and Chicago City Politics

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick interviews Joanna Misnik about Chicago and the DSA's success in their recent election winning six seats in the 50 person city council. These seats won in campaigns not based in personality or resume but on issues and movements. Joanna Misnik is a life-long a... Read more

Buscando America on 04/23/19

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En esta emisión hablamos con Albar Acántar vocalista de la banda de rock Apolo agrupación originaria de Chihuahua. Javier Sierra habla sobre el Nuevo Pacto Verde y el lanzamiento  del cortometraje "Campeones de Energía Limpia" el cual esta centrado en South Tucson Arizona, ... Read more

Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon: APANO

Airs at: Fri, 05/03/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  For Asian/Pacific-Islander American Heritage Day on KBOO, we talk to Simeon Jacob of the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO) to discuss the organization's work around community building, addressing oppression, and growing as an organization.  KBOO is recog... Read more

Portland poet Nastashia Minto, author of "Naked"; and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll be talking with Nastashia Minto, author of the new poetry collection, 'Naked': I never truly understood the beauty of another being until I began to find and love myself. Minto is a Georgia-born African American woman living and working in Portland. Reema Zaman call... Read more

Out-Organizing Racists: ROAR Conference 2019 + Spencer Sunshine on Fascism

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 04/12/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
ROAR Conference 2019 + Spencer Sunshine on Fascism [Sean Swain at 2m40s] This week on the show, we feature two segments. First up, an organizer with the Revolutionary Organizing Against Racism, or ROAR Conference shares perspectives on the upcoming conference, May 18 & 19,... Read more