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Linda Tamura, author of "Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River"

Airs at: Fri, 07/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Professor Linda Tamura, author of "Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River" explains the national notoriety which Hood River, Oregon received after WWII, and how and why she broke the code of silence surrounding the situation.  Tamura's related exhibit... Read more

Ann Wetherell and the "Flying Tigers: Chinese American Aviators in Oregon, 1918-1945"

Airs at: Fri, 04/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Professor Ann Wetherell tells us why Portland had an unusually large number of Chinese-American pilots in the early 1900s. Professor Wetherell is the curator of “Flying Tigers: Chinese American Aviators in Oregon, 1918-1945″.Interviewed and produced by Andrew Yeh. Read more

Transportation Justice Special

Airs at: Fri, 04/05/2013 at 12:00am
KBOO reporter Jennifer Kemp went out into the community talking to bus riders to see whether Tri Met was well serving low income people in Portland-or catering more to business people and tourists. In collaboration with Envrionmental Justice organization OPAL, the story exp... Read more

Jennifer Kemp interviews ACLU's Becky Strauss about ICE holds

Airs at: Wed, 12/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO reporter Jennifer Kemp spoke to ACLU's Becky Strauss about ACT network members trying bring an end to ICE holds in Multnomah County jails on December 19th 2012. ICE holds, requests from federal immigration departments to hold immigrants in jail until they are deported,... Read more

Melanie Davis Interview

Airs at: Wed, 03/20/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Melanie Davis is the owner of the media company Brilliant Media.  Through it, she and her team of nearly 70 employees and staff nationwide operate Su Publico Ad Agency, El Hispanic News and Proud Queer Monthly.  Despite her youth, the road to magnate has been a long one, be... Read more

Author Jonathan R. Miller discusses mystery thriller, Delivery

Airs at: Thu, 04/04/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Author Jonathan R. Miller writes literary fiction thrillers that include multicultural or biracial characters and themes.  His latest work,  Delivery, features a  biracial Somali man who is blinded while defending his daughter.  Ambojeem, the protagonist, settles in the rel... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 11th 2013

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts and we hear:   Bill Resnick complete his conversation with Larry Kleinman about immigration reform. Jan Haaken talks with Mary-Liz Thomson, the director of "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" Joe Clement talks with Kristian Williams about community alt... Read more

Larry Kleinman on Immigration Reform Part 2

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Larry Kleinman, Secretary-Tresurer of PCUN, a union for all Oregon's farmworkers. They discuss the potential impact of different kinds of immigration reform. This is the second of a two-part interview. The first can be found here. Read more

Politics of Immigration Reform

Airs at: Mon, 02/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 How did serious immigration reform become likely in 2013?  Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Larry Kleinman of Northwest Tree Planters and Farmworkers Union (Piñeros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste -- PCUN) about why Congressional majorities are likely to pass something th... Read more

Hypnophobia

  ---> 2nd and 4th Friday nights/Saturday Mornings from Midnight to 3am. Hypnophobia The Hypnophobia collective presents our dear listeners with a variety of noises including: debate, Japanese d-beat, sound collages, hard core, cascadian metal, and whatever else our tiny... Read more