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Hope, Healing, and Drug Policy Revolution

Airs at: Wed, 10/13/2021 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies, safe supply, safe consumption spaces, and decriminalizing people who use drugs: a conversation with Petra Schulz, a co-founder of Moms Stop The Harm. Moms Stop The Harm Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 27, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 09/27/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  To thank the generous supporters of community radio in Portland, the Old Mole Variety Hour is sponsoring gift prints of one of Bette Lee’s photos to 10 lucky listeners who contribute during KBOO’s 2021 fall membership drive. To view Bette’s photos and learn details about... Read more

Songbirds

Airs at: Mon, 09/27/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Songbirds, a beautiful, awful book about women who leave their homes to travel to foreign lands for work. Like the songbirds that are captured in mist nets or on lime sticks and eaten as a delicacy, these women leave their own children behind... Read more

Home, on Folk Espresso

Airs at: Mon, 09/13/2021 at 5:30am - 7:00am
Produced for:  Folk Espresso
Home is our point of arrival and departure. It is the place of our family and the center of our personal history. This episode of Folk Espresso features songs of going home, being home, leaving home, and thinking of home. Hosted by Jonathan Lay. Contemporary and eclectic fo... Read more

PMPC & Municipal Broadband

Airs at: Mon, 09/06/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Desiree Hellegers talks with Hyung Nam, an organizer with the Portland Metro People's Coalition, a coalition of 24 organizations, about their organizing platform, including their support for municipal broadband, which is critical not only to bridge the digital divide in ... Read more

Everyday Resistance

Airs at: Mon, 09/06/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick interviews Kevin Van Meter who wrote the book Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on the Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible. He is now working as union organizer. In his books and articles Van Meter challenges those who contend that cap... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour 8/29/21

Airs at: Sun, 08/29/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Tune in this Sunday for more High Holyday music!!! Read more

Art for the Ladylike by Whitney Otto

Airs at: Thu, 08/19/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between the Covers
On this special edition of Between the Covers, we talk with Whitney Otto, author of the new book Art for the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives, from Ohio State University Press. Whitney is the author of five novels: How To Make an American Quilt -- a New York ... Read more

Thirty Years in the Streets of Portland! The Activist Photography of Bette Lee

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bette Lee Photo Giveaway!   If you’ve been to a protest during the past three decades, you’ve probably seen Bette Lee, the short, slight woman behind the camera, always in the thick of things, documenting the resistance that Portland is famous for. From the 1990 march to... Read more

The Other Side of Summer on Folk Espresso

Airs at: Mon, 08/09/2021 at 5:30am - 7:00am
Produced for:  Folk Espresso
Ripe, juicy songs for the second half of summer. This episode of Folk Espresso brings you an assorted mix of contemporary and heirloom folk music, ranging from sweet to savory. You’ll hear of dewy mornings, ripe tomatoes, grandma’s canning, wildfire, moonlight, and harvest.... Read more