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People versus Chevron in Richmond

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with with Steve Early about his new book about Richmond, California: Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City. They’ll discuss how the Progressive Alliance has worked over the years to get a majority on the city council, and... Read more

Believing in a Better World

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge argues that a life dedicated to working for a world free of capitalism and wage labor is the best life even though we cannot be sure that such a world is possible.  The argument follows the logic of Pascal's wager, but to a purely secular conclusion.  Read more

Old Mole Action Calendar

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The weekly Old Mole Action calendar.  For a complete list see KBOO's Portland Resistance Calendar  Read more

Reducing Risk and Minimizing Harm

Airs at: Wed, 03/15/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
According to the Harm Reduction Coalition, harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. Harm Reduction is also a movement for social justice built on a belief in, and respect for, the rights of p... Read more

"Russia Did It!" and the new McCarthyism

Airs at: Thu, 03/16/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  Per Fagereng welcomes back Robert Parry to discuss the ongoing Russia obsession in the U.S. media. -from Consortium News: When ‘Disinformation’ Is Truth.....The anti-Russian McCarthyism that has spread out from the United States to encompass the European Union, Canada a... Read more

No, sir, I will not yield!

Airs at: Tue, 03/14/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
  Joe welcomes Portland State University History Professor David A. Horowitz to KBOO to put this whole thing in perspective.  Where do we stand when looking through the long lens of U.S. history?  Have we been here before or is this uncharted territory?  Show up fed and we... Read more

An Indigenous Economic Model: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 03/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The existing economic system in most countries is a kind of state capitalism. It produces enormous inequalities. Its extraction practices are environmentally destructive. Perhaps indigenous models provide a viable alternative. Chief Seattle was a Susquamish chief in what... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 13, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 03/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge will be our host and we will hear -- More about the impact of ICE raids in Woodburn and how US foreign policy drives immigration How to overcome disempowering skepticism about a better world Providing medical help to marginalized communities How prog... Read more

Conflict is Not Abuse, on Preference Radio, March 14th

Airs at: Tue, 03/14/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
.   In 2016, author Sarah Schulman released her book 'Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair,' in which she attempts to re-work understandings of the difference between conflict and abuse, and how communities should be ca... Read more

Creating Communities of Conscience

Airs at: Mon, 03/20/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Progressive Spirit is now one hour!  (Technically 54 minutes to accommodate top of the hour news).    Both the 54 minute and 29 minute versions are distributed to stations each week.  The longer version will go to podcast.  Ask your local public radio station to carry Progr... Read more