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Man Arrested with Gun at Sunday Rally

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Yesterday, right-wing Patriot Prayer demonstrators held a rally in Terry Schrunk plaza in Downtown Portland. A counter-demonstration was organized in a hurry, and both sides drew about fifty people. KBOO reporter Jasmin Moneymaker was on the scene and has this report. ***U... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 9, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear these segments: 1. Margot Black and Bill Resnick on Portland Tenants United and the housing crisis. 2. Tod Sloan talks in Nicaragua with Brian Willson, Portland peace activist. 3. Denise Morris reviews th... Read more

Sports and Nationalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Old Mole and sports fan Denise Morris reminds us of how sporting events are venues for political expression, comparing the kneeling of black atheletes during the National Anthem with the unfortunate choice of right wing Republican Steve Scalise to throw out the first pitch ... Read more

Brian Willson in Nicaragua

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tod Sloan interviews long-time peace activist Brian Willson about his recent move to Nicaragua and his plans for a peace education center there. Brian is the author of Blood on the Tracks and is the subject of the documentary "Paying the Price for Peace". Watch for his fort... Read more

New Queer & Trans writing: talking with Tobi Hill-Meyer and Gabby Rivera

Airs at: Tue, 10/10/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll spend time with educator, activist, and writer Tobi Hill-Meyer. She's a founder of the Gender Justicve League, a transgender civil & human rights organization in Washington, as well as an author of two children's books... and her work includes sex worker rights, AIDS ... Read more

Sound Documentation, Preservation and Advocacy

Airs at: Fri, 10/13/2017 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  "What did I have to offer a world that was forgetting? My memory! How could my memory help? By offering comparisons! By telling the young what once was. By considering our losses! I found the more I remembered, the more I could remember! Millions of things." --The Old M... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 9, 2017

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge will host this edition of the Mole, and we will hear about -- The crisis of affordable housing, locally and globally, with Margot Black, co-founder of Tenants United; Long-time peace activist Brian Willson: his recent move to Nicaragua and his plans ... Read more

Native Lives and the Black Snake

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  A recording of the discussion featuring Winona LaDuke following the showing of First Daughter and the Black Snake, a documentary film about a proposed oil pipe line set to invade sacred Native American ground.      Read more

Paul Street on the Athlete's Revolt

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Bill Resnick interviews Paul Street regarding his recent Counterpunch article about the significance of athletes' protests against the criminal justice system, and the space it opens for reaching many who are alienated and withdrawn from politics.   image via wikime... Read more

October 6 Portland Resistance Calendar

Airs at: Fri, 10/06/2017 at 5:00pm - Fri, 10/13/2017 at 5:00pm
  Updated Wednesday, October 11. Thanks so very much for listening and reading, and thank you, KBOO members & contributors, for your support. It allows this blogcast to happen. And thanks to our researcher, Ismoon. Joe Frazier of the Northwest Resistance Photography Proje... Read more