Immigration

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Patriotism Versus Nationalism

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2008 at 5:00pm
Host Abe Proctor goes solo today, leading a discussion on Patriotism versus Nationalism, plus whatever else our callers bring to the table. Read more

Adelina Anthony

Airs at: Sun, 07/06/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Adelina Anthony is a Xicana-Indigena lesbian multi-disciplinary artist who has won many awards for her work addressing colonization, feminism, trauma, memory, gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, in/migration, health, land/environment, and other issues affecting the lesbian/... Read more

Portland's Haitian Community

Airs at: Thu, 06/19/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Kayse Jama and Leigh Anne Kranz interview Judith Gelin of Portland's Society for Haitian Arts and Culture. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 9, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 06/08/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Today's show features, for the second time, the music of Portland band Pink Martini and concludes with a discussion of the implicit politics of their work.   Also discussed on the show are world hunger and the cost of food, the relations between being queer and being an imm... Read more

Immigration and LGBT

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2008 at 5:00pm
Today's Well-read Red is Frann Michel's discussion of the relations between  queer and immigrant groups.  There are more  connections that you might have guessed, as they face parallel and overlapping obstacles.  One writer recommends as a principle governing the treatment ... Read more

ICE Raids and Community Resistance

Airs at: Wed, 06/04/2008 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
On June 12th, 2007, as workers at the Del Monte processing plant in North Portland, neared the end of their work shift, agents from the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE, raided the plant, detaining 167 people, separating families, ... Read more

Recovery Zone: Footsteps to Freedom!

Airs at: Sat, 06/07/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
For the June 5th Recovery Zone, host Stephanie Potter visited with people helping refugees to resettle in Portland.  Interviews with Abdul Fofanah and  Arika Makena Bunyoli of the African Women's Coalition Youth Programs; and Megan Schaefer at Lutheran Community Services No... Read more

Anti-immigrant ballot measures

Airs at: Thu, 05/29/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Hosts Leigh Anne Kranz and Kayse Jama, Executive Director of the Center for Intercultural Organizing, speak with Kayse's mentor Eric Ward, of the Center for New Community, about two looming anti-immigrant ballot initiatives in Oregon, Measures #19 and #122. He also discusse... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 2, 2008

Airs at: Sun, 06/01/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
This program, hosted by Denise Morris, has musical breaks from Pink Martini and features a  discussion with Thomas Lauderdale, the band's co-founder.   We also hear from widely-published writer Michael T. Klare about oil and its potential to provoke wars in the future; a re... Read more

Theater of the Oppressed

Airs at: Sun, 06/01/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris interviews Tamara Wallace of Teatro Cambio (Theater for Change) and Emilia Katz of Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC).  They discuss how theater can be used in political action, especially in opposition to anti-immigration legislation.  Read more