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Old Mole Variety Hour 23 September 2013

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Iven Hale hosts this show, which features Bill Resnick talking with Barbara Harvey about the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement to end the Israeli occupation of PalestineMovie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discussing the documentary Free Angela and All Politica... Read more

Movie Moles on Free Angela and all political prisoners

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, a documentary about the 1970-72 indictment and trial of the philosophy professor, communist party member, and Black activist Angela Davis, accused of complicity in a failed and fata... Read more

D'Norgia Taylor, "If By Chance"

Airs at: Thu, 09/05/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

D'Norgia Taylor writes science fiction for all ages and all kinds of people. "A lot of it is about escape -- getting away from whatever the issues...that you want to escape from -- or to." Her latest work, If By Chance, deals with a generational curse that besets a sma... Read more

Special Programming: Public Affairs on 8/23/2013

Airs at: Fri, 08/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Special Programming: Public Affairs

Part 3 of a special program hosted by Joann Hardesty with elders of Portland's civil rights movement, talking about the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Read more

Special Programming: Public Affairs 8/23/2013

Airs at: Fri, 08/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Special Programming: Public Affairs

Part 2 of a special program hosted by Joann Hardesty with elders of Portland's civil rights movement, talking about the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 26 August 2013

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2013 at 12:00am

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Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which addresses popular deceptions and misconceptions about Social Security, money in politics, safety and policing, and climate change.Bill Resnick talks with Max Richtman about Social SecurityClayton Morgareidge reads from... Read more

Movie Moles on Fruitvale Station

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss Fruitvale Station, the dramatization of Oscar Grant's killing by Bay Area Rapid Transit guard Johannes Mehserle on New Years Eve 2008. They discuss some of the complexities of fictional films about real events, and suggest... Read more

South African politics and the legacy of the war against apartheid

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken and Alan Wieder talk about South African politics and his recent tour there promoting his book "Ruth First and Joe Slovo: the war against apartheid". Jan asks Alan how he took it upon himself to tell the story of a contested history of political struggle. He t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 5th 2013

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and hear:Bill Resnick talks with Peter Bratsis about human nature caught between self-interest and democracyIven Hale reflects on the origins and legacy of political slogan "the personal is political."Joe talks with Jeff Shantz about Espec... Read more

Dr. Earl Bracy,c "The Making of a Psychologist"

Airs at: Thu, 08/01/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Dr. Earl Bracy -- a Vietnam War era combat medic, practicing clinical psychologist, and author of Too Young to Die: Inner-City Adolescent Homicides and The Making of a Psychologist -- has endured prejudice and discrimination the likes of which many Americans, black and w... Read more