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Fern Capella Allen of the New Earth School PDX

Airs at: Thu, 01/23/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guest is Fern Capella Allen of the New Earth School PDX in Southeast Portland. She’s crowdsourcing knowledge as a mutual aid project. You can engage with them online, @newearthschoolpdx on Instagram and FB. Read more

More Music to Meet the Moment

Airs at: Fri, 01/24/2025 at 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Produced for The Songcircle
This week on The Songcircle: More Music to Meet the Moment (and help us move through it). Highlights: Live and rare versions of fave songs from The Rolling Stones, The Doors, and Joni Mitchell Brand new country music from Ringo Starr Words of wisdom from John Trudell and... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 27, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts this episode, with these segments: Big Tech and Big War: Laurie Mercier speaks to Roberto J. González, a professor of anthropology at San José State University, about how Silicon Valley is transforming the Military-Industrial Complex. Some of Gonzalez’s ... Read more

Bat World Sancturary

Airs at: Fri, 01/24/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for That Vegan Show
Are you curious about bats? You've come to the right place! Amanda Lollar, Founder and President of Bat World Sanctuary, shares with "That Vegan Show" the importance, intelligence, and unique abilities of bats from her vast experience of rescuing and caring for bats. Bat Wo... Read more

Providence Caregivers on Strike

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
Striking nurses and doctors at Providence St. Vincent's, Providence Portland, and Providence Seaside Hospitals talk about working conditions, worker solidarity and community connections on the picket line, on day one, two and three of the open-ended strike involving over 5,... Read more

Paul Susi of PDX ID Assistance

Airs at: Thu, 01/16/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Paul Susi of PDX ID Assistance helps unhoused people who've been swept by the city's law enforcement and lost their crucial personal documents. He's expanding his reach in the local community and has insight on aspects of recovery that are not on the radar of many people.  Read more

The Palestine Exception

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
The Palestine Exception, a Portland-based documentary film directed by PSU faculty Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth, will screen at Cinema 21 on Jan. 26. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around critic... Read more

Former Albina Residents Sue for Compensation

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
In December 2023, a team of civil rights lawyers, including Albies, Stark & Guerriero, LLC, Oregon Law Center and Legal Aid Services of Oregon brought a suit against the City of Portland, Emanuel Hospital, and Prosper Portland on behalf of Emanuel Displaced Persons Associat... Read more

Picking up the work: In the Spirit of Mandela

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Tag, a Harlem based community organizer with many projects such as Spirit of Mandela and The Jericho Movement.  For more information: www.spiritofmandela.org Read more

Resisting Google in the Gorge

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Since the construction of a Google data center in The Dalles, Oregon in 2006, the city has become a magnet for data centers looking for tax breaks, and cheap energy and water to power and cool them. Beginning in 2021, with representation from the Reporters Committee for Fre... Read more