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Movie Moles: "Albert Nobbs"

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel criticize some critics of Albert Nobbs, a film about gender-switching to get ahead in 19th Century Dublin. Read more

The War on Women and Their Reproductive Rights!

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
The War on Women and Their Reproductive Rights! From the recent Planned Parenthood victory over the Komen Foundation to Obama and the Bishops the war against a women's rights to reproductive freedom is heating up! Join Kboo host Linda Olson-Osterlund and her guest David... Read more

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Interview with Peggy Orenstein

Airs at: Thu, 02/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with jounalist and author Peggy Orenstein about her book "Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture." In writing this book Orenstein set out to discover the origins and ramifications of the c... Read more

Joan Southgate and the Underground Railroad

Airs at: Fri, 02/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
In 2002, at age 73, Joan Southgate undertook a 519-mile walk from southern Ohio to Canada to draw attention to the Underground Railroad. She wanted to honor a moment in history when people came together across color, creed, and class to do freedom’s work. Later Joan foun... Read more

PCC Women's Resource Center dedication to end oppression!

Airs at: Fri, 02/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Listen as Del Criscenzo interviews Samantha Taylor and Megan Snelling. Samantha Taylor is a student advocate working for the Women’s Resource Center at Portland Community College Sylvania campus. Samantha started by discussing the Women’s Resource Center and the services... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, this show has good news and bad news from the economic justice front.  The good news: according to Gar Alperowitz, more people than ever are working for and being served by non-capitalistic enterprises, from worker-owned coops to publical... Read more

Komen, Cancer, and Reproductive Rights

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-read Red Frann Michel locates the recent news about the Komen Foundation and Planned Parenthood in the "larger wave of neoliberalism."  You can read her comments with links to her soures here.     Read more

Anything goes for the U.S. military these days; plus more on the Great Birth Control Fracas of 2012.

Airs at: Tue, 02/14/2012 at 12:00am
  It's the Winter Membership Drive! Abe and Joe take your contributions, your phone calls, and hold forth on the newly-unaccountable U.S. military. Plus, the latest in the Great Birth Control Fracas of 2012.           Read more

let's race for the revolution, instead

[audio here] The Komen Foundation's recent decision to pull its funding from Planned Parenthood was not an aberration, and not unrelated to the recent conflict over the need for health insurance plans to cover contraception. Both, of course, constitute attacks on women'... Read more

Let's look back on a good couple of weeks for women.

Airs at: Tue, 02/07/2012 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor. It's been a good couple of weeks for women. First, there was the ruling that nonprofitsmust cover contraception in their employees' health plans, even if doing so runs counter to church doctrine. Then there was the stunning betrayal -- and equally... Read more