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Queer Health and Fierceness

Airs at: Wed, 03/28/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Out Loud
On today's show we will discuss Queer Health and Fierceness (a topic all us Queers and Allies must know). From the Center for American Progress we have Kellan Baker. With his amazing work as a health policy analyst and LGBTQ Health researcher, the CAP has been instrument... Read more

Prison Pipeline 3/12/12 "Struggles of Transgender People in Prison" Hosted by Megan Vosk

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On this evening's Prison Pipeline, host Megan Vosk explores issues surrounding trans-people in prison. She interviews a NY attorney, Adam Pulver, about a recent case involving a trans-woman at Rikers Island who sued her guards for harrassment and abuse. The episode also fea... Read more

Is Big Brother watching? Oh, yes he is. Abe and Joe look at the NSA's massive new spy center.

Airs at: Tue, 03/27/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   There's a lot of information flying around these days, more so than ever before, in fact. Keeping tabs on all of it would seem to be an impossible task. Not to worry, though -- Big Brother is up to the job. Abe and Joe take a look at... Read more

The Economy and President Obama's recent executive order.

Airs at: Thu, 03/22/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Today we are talking about the economy and the recent executive order President Obama just signed. Read more

The latest dispatches from the War on Women.

Airs at: Tue, 03/20/2012 at 12:00am
 Relax, vagina-having Americans, it's for your own good. Since taking power in statehouses across the country, not to mention the U.S. House, the GOP has wasted no time in addressing the most serious problem confronting the United States -- uppity women. Whether it's by wa... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 19th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
     Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with local healthcare activist and worker at Sisters of the Road Michael Moore about Governor Kitzhaber's recently enacted healthcare plan. Tom Becker reads an article about how the B... Read more

Michael Moore on Kitzhaber's healthcare plan

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick talks with local activist Michael Moore (not the documentary film-maker) about Governor Kitzhaber's new healthcare plan, community care organizations (CCOs) and the on-going struggle for single-payer or something like it. Michael Moore works with Sisters of th... Read more

Positively Revolting on 03-16-12

Airs at: Fri, 03/16/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Ani and Lyn look at the current fog of sexism blanketing the political scene. Women who want contraceptive care conisidered to be part of basic health coverage called sluts and prostitutes....  Legislation is written to mollify religious organizations and business owners th... Read more

FBI Spied On Anarchists, Feminists, Nature Walks and Farmer's Markets

Airs at: Wed, 03/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 According to newly released Freedom of Information Act Requests, the FBI spent three years conducting surveillance out of their Portland office on peaceful activists. John Cook, a senior writer at the website Gawker, came across the name "Seizing Thunder" while ... Read more

Prison Pipeline 12/26/12 w/ Brian Lindstrom, Hosted by Jay Thiemeyer

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Jay Thiemeyer, host for PrisonPipeline, talks with Brian Lindstrom about his movie 'AlienBoy', which gives a human face and history to James 'JimJim' Chasse, the mentally ill man brutalized by the Portland police several years ago. He died en route to the hospital from i... Read more