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CymaSpace

Airs at: Fri, 06/15/2018 at 10:15am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
  Chris Balduc is the Special Events Coordinator for CymaSpace and he's engaged in Cymatics....the art of making sound visible.  Founded in 2014 by Myles de Bastion and run by dedicated volunteers, CymaSpace aims to creatively make music and sound more accessible to the de... Read more

Beaverton Oregon DMV Refuses Transgender People Service

Airs at: Fri, 04/20/2018 at 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Oregon became the first state to put a third gender option on its drivers license. The land mark decision was made possible by Jamie Shupe’s efforts as a transgender non binary person to take their case to the courts when the Oregon Department of Motor vehicles refused t... Read more

With co-host Jacqueline Keeler

Airs at: Wed, 06/13/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Regular second-Wednesday co-host joins host Paul Roland to discuss critical issues in Indigenous North America. This week, she'll be talking about her trip to North Dakota, where she attended the sentencing of water protector Little Feather, among other things. She also ... Read more

Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

Airs at: Wed, 06/13/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Today, a special one-hour interview with MIT professor of history, Craig S. Wilder. We discuss his book, "Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities." Professor Wilder reveals the all to hidden relationship between some of the countr... Read more

Inequality, Social Dysfunction and Misery

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from an article in CounterPunch by Graham Peebles entitled Inequality Social Dysfunction and Misery which explores the debilitating consequences of extreme wealth inequality on the well-being of society in general, not only on the poor and disenfranchised. ... Read more

From Asylum to Prison

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Dr. Anne E. Parsons about her forthcoming book, From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945. Dr. Parsons is the Director of Public History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.         Read more

Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War

Airs at: Thu, 06/21/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  A revelatory and necessary read on one of the most destructive wars of our time . . . In great personal detail, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple poignantly capture the tumultuous life in Syria before, after, and during the war—from inside one young man’s consciousness.”... Read more

The Cost of Deportations

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  The Cost of Deportations looks at deportation through the lens of one Central American nation that sends migrants north" Guatemala.  About two million Guatemalans live in the US. But, half of those here lack legal status, and tens of thousands of Guatemalans are deported... Read more

Civilization and Our Discontents

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In a piece called "Civilization and Our Discontents," Clayton Morgareidge shows that the glories of Civilization have always required the coerced labor of forgotten masses, and the same is true of the comforts of modern life: they are manufactured by the poor for the enjoym... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 11, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour with segments on: From Asylum to Prison: Bill Resnick talks with Dr. Anne E. Parsons about her forthcoming work From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945. Inequ... Read more