Bill Resnick talks with Portland Association of Teachers president Gwen Sullivan about why Portland Public Schools turned down federal grant money. Although it might have provided funding for further professional development for reading teachers, the one-time grant could not be used to reduce class size, and came with requirements for high-stakes standardized testing with no attention to individual contexts.

Joe Clement and Brad Duncan discuss the shared roots of Rock n Roll and the Civil Rights movement in the deep South and in the mid-to-late 1950s. Segregationists feared the cultural race mixing they saw when Rhythm & Blues broke out of the black community and was rebranded as Rock n Roll for a mixed audience of young people in the post-war era.

This show considers schools, killing, killlings in schools, and civil rights and rock & roll. Hosted by Frann Michel, with music by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and more. For information on our graphics, theme song, or name, see our main show page. 

Frann Michel comments on the latest school shootings.

Bill Resnick talks with Monty Neill of FairTest.org

Bill Resnick Talks wih Gwen Sullivan of the Portland Association of Teachers

The Left and the Law: Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss Oregon's conversations on the death penalty

Brad Duncan and Joe Clement discuss the shared roots of Rock & Roll and the Civil Rights movement

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Hosted by Denise Morris, this episode covers a wide variety of topics: the current situation in Egypt, an imaginary encounter between Nietzsche and Freud in Vienna, an upcoming workshop on surviving and thriving in oppressive times, and how Studs Terkel dealt with agents of McCarthyism in the 1950s.  

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1.  Middle-east expert Stephen Zunes talks with Old Mole Bill Resnick about Egypt and its prospects for democratic change.

2.  Book Mole Larry Bowlden discusses Irving D. Yalom's 1992 novel When Nietzsche Wept.

3.  Fabian Romero and the Old Mole's Joe Clement discuss an upcoming workshop on "Self-Preservation in Times of Oppression"

4.  Studs Terkel's dealings with the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Commitee is recalled for us by Old Mole Alan Wieder.