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Mourning, resilience, and resistance: The Story of the Celilo Wy’am

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Celilo Wyam activist Lana Jack reads from her short memoir, which appears in the Spring edition of Oregon Humanities. Jack recounts stories of growing up fishing with her father and sisters on the Columbia River and speaks to the stakes in the Celilo Wy-am struggle for fede... Read more

Black-Indigenous Solidarity

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Kent Ford, co-founder of the Portland chapter of the Black Panthers, and activist-scholars Sky Wilson, and Danica Brown, enrolled Choctaw of the Watonlak Oshi “White Crane'' clan, discuss solidarity and intersecting struggles against racism, colonialism, and police violence... Read more

River Sing Me Home

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews, River Sing Me Home, a novel as beautiful as its title. Says the author Eleanor Shearer, “This is a story that does not shy away from the brutality of slavery, but that ultimately still has something uplifting at its heart.”  The emancipation... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 15, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Atomic Days: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south central Washington no longer produces plutonium for nuclear bombs. But its lethal legacy remains.  In his new book, Atomic ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 1, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 05/01/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Civilization and its Future, Part 2: Bill Resnick interviews John Bellamy Foster. They discuss the future as the world continuously warms, wreaking havoc with vast destructive storms, ... Read more

“Anti-Woke” Censorship

Airs at: Mon, 05/01/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In honor of National Teachers’ Day on May 2, Patricia Kullberg reads excerpts from an open letter to US educational authorities by prominent Black educators, writers and activists. They call for resistance to “anti-woke” attacks on curricula, teachers, libraries and educati... Read more

Totality of Circumstances | April 25, 2023

Airs at: Tue, 04/25/2023 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
  This month Sam and Jasmin spoke with the current co-chairs of the Police Accountability Commission, Katherine Macdowell and KC Lewis (the third co-chair, Charlie Michelle-Westley, was unable to attend). They are heading the PAC's Structure and Details phase, during which... Read more

The Soul of Earth Day

Airs at: Sat, 04/22/2023 at 11:00am - 12:30pm
  Welcome to a special edition of LTAR-   We  address climate change and environmental issues that disproportionately impact low-income communities and communities of color.  Nia Gray, Professor Johnson, Althea Billings, and Cecil Prescod on The Soul of Earth Day   “Envi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 10, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Hypocrisy of American Might: On the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, and the 50-year commemoration of the pullout of the last American troops from Vietnam, the U... Read more

Indigenous Rights

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers and Julian Ankney talk about Washington State University's upcoming virtual conference on April 21st and 22nd exploring the intersections of Native Sovereignty, Decolonization, Divestment, Reparations, and Environmental Justice. The conference is free and ... Read more