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Nina Simone and Being Free

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Mon, 04/29/2013

Two songs from Richie Havens and Nina Simone make a powerful statement of the kind of freedom that does not fit the "free market" -- according to this commentary from Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge.

10:44 minutes (6.15 MB)

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Gun Violence and Gun Control

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Legislation

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Old Mole Variety Hour

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Mon, 04/29/2013

Drawing on personal and recent experiences of a fatal shooting and on her own background of owning and enjoying guns, Old Mole Iven Hale reflects on the ambiguities and contradictions in efforts to control guns and gun violence in a society that breeds and provokes violence in so many ways.

9:16 minutes (5.3 MB)

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Palestine, Imperialism and the New Middle East (Opening Plenary)

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Economic imperialism

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One Land Many Voices

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Sat, 04/27/2013

Heidi and Sarah Levy of Students United for Palestinian Rights kick off this two day conference at Portland State University (April 27, 2013) followed by a resistance poem by Remi Kanazi, a NY Palestinian activist.

25:03 minutes (34.41 MB)

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America's Shifting Imperial Strategy (at Palestine/Middle East conference)

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Economic imperialism

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Fight the Empire

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Sat, 04/27/2013

Ashley Smith, author of "Obama's Pivot to Asia" in the current International Socialist Review, addresses the April 27, 2013 conference at Portland State University on "Palestine, Imperialism and the New Middle East" sponsored by Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER)

49:51 minutes (68.47 MB)

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Next Steps for the Arab Uprisings

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Protest and action

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Fight the Empire

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Sat, 04/27/2013

Todd Cretien, a long time Palestine solidarity activist from the Bay Area, writes for the International Socialist Review and SocialistWorker.org. This talk was given at the Portland State University conference "Palestine, Imperialism and the New Middle East", sponsored by Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights on April 27, 2013.

40:35 minutes (55.74 MB)

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Building International Solidarity with the Arab Uprisings (Plenary)

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Protest and action

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Fight the Empire

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Sat, 04/27/2013

A panel at the evening plenary session of the "Palestine, Imperialism, and the New Middle East", a conference sponsored by Students United for Palestinian Human Rights at Portland State University on April 27, 2013. Speakers are Todd Chretien, Palestine activist and journalist with the International Socialist Review; Suzan Boulad, a Syrian-American involved in support to the revolutionary civilian councils in Aleppo and Idlib; Sarah Farahat, an interdisciplinary Egyptian-American artist whose works have been exhibited worldwide; and Kelly L, an activist with SUPER and the Portland Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.

28:00 minutes (38.44 MB)

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Youth Silent Film Festival and QDoc

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The Film Show

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Thu, 04/25/2013

Spring brings offbeat film festivals to Oregon, and what could be more unconventional than the Youth Silent Film Festival? Festival creator Jon Palanuk talks with Jenn Chavez about inspiring teenage filmmakers to reinvent a classic art form. Then, S.W. Conser is joined by grown-up film director Eric Slade, whose new documentary Big Joy, a profile of trailblazing poet, playwright, and experimental filmmaker James Broughton premieres at this year's QDoc Festival.

33:37 minutes (13.47 MB)

Local Peace Groups Protest US Drone Strikes

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War & Peace

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Evening News

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Thu, 04/25/2013

Several local peace groups will hold an action in Pioneer Courthouse Square at noon on Friday to protest the US military's drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere in the region.

The Obama administration's drone campaign was on the national stage earlier this week, when a Yemeni activist whose village was bombed in a drone attack testified in an unprecedented public Senate Judiciary hearing.

Drone attacks have severely strained US-Pakistani relations, and courted much controversy stateside, particularly for the prevalence of civilian casualties.

Members of CODEPINK, one of the groups behind tomorrow's action, call the drone deaths "unlawful."