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Rosemary Gladstar Interview

Airs at: Thu, 10/15/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Rosemary Gladstar founded the California School of Herbal Studies in 1978. Later, she and her family established Sage Mountain Retreat Center and Native Plant Reserve in Vermont. She's also an author and she's written a new book, "Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide". For h... Read more

Upside Downtrodden - episode 124

Airs at: Thu, 10/15/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Upside Downtrodden
EPISODE 124 TOPIC: FEAR EPISODE 124 SEGMENTS: JUSTWORTHY CAUSE - FREEDOMFROMFEAR.ORG, BOLD PREDICTIONS, WORDS TO LIVE BY We live in a world of make-believe, institutionalized by man-made systems of control... Read more

Exorcise Monsanto with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir

Airs at: Wed, 10/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Listen to the glorious birdsong of The Stop Shopping Choir. Join the citizen weed pulling brigade. Exorcise the devil Monsanto from Portland's public parks. Invite your friends to hear our sultry-singing-activists. Watch what happened when we exorcised Monsanto from Chicag... Read more

First Day of Retail Pot Sales in Oregon

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Today was the first day of legal retail pot sales in Oregon, and spirits were high at dispensaries across the Portland area. In this piece, KBOO reporter Jim Thompson speaks with customers lines up outside Shango's, a dispensary in Hillsboro, followed by KBOO reporter Doug ... Read more

The Psychology of Mass Shootings

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
After a mass shooting claimed ten lives this morning at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, President Obama adressed the nation with visible frustration, saying, "[Thoughts and prayers do] not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel, and it does noth... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 28, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode on documentaries, dictatorships, the Middle East, and Marx. These are the individual segments:  Bill Resnick talks with Ismael Hossein-zadeh about events in the Middle East. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentary ... Read more

Gaining Ground Farming Doc

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Elaine Velazquez and Barbara Bernstein about their new documentary: Gaining Ground tells the stories of two rural farms in Oregon and an urban farm in inner city Richmond, California, resisting the systems of agribusiness and changing their farming pra... Read more

Eric Laursen on Social Security

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Eric Laursen, author of The People’s Pension: The War Against Social Security, from Reagan to Obama, available from AK Press. They discuss how and why Social Security survived in the face of elite attacks since its inception. Laursen is part of the m... Read more

Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy

Airs at: Mon, 06/05/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine. As Tweedy transforms from student to practicing physician, he discovers how often race influences h... Read more

Taxpayers will pay KBR $30 million in legal fees after lawsuit from poisoned vets

Airs at: Fri, 09/04/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
U.S. taxpayers will have to pay at least $30 million to cover attorney fees incurred by defense contractor K-B-R.  The company, a subcontractor of the infamous Halliburton corporation, was found guilty of wrongly exposing U.S. and British soldiers to toxic chemicals while s... Read more