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Movie Moles: Dear White People

Airs at: Mon, 11/17/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Movie Moles Denise Morris and Frann Michel discuss Dear White People, an independent first feature written and directed by Justin Simien; funded in part via Indiegogo, it has been a big hit at Sundance and with critics. It's currently playing in Portland at Cinema 21. Dear ... Read more

FERGUSON - What really happened? Race & Police Accountability (raw audio)

Airs at: Sat, 11/01/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: All Black Everything

"What Really Happened in Ferguson, MO" -- Race & Police Accountability Forum, sponsored by the Albina MInisterial Alliance for Justice and Police Reform at Maranatha Church on Nov. 1, 2014, featuring Rev. Robert O. White of Ferguson's "Clergy United". This audio is the ent... Read more

Arresting Power - A Documentary Film about Police violence and resistance in Portland OR

Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon uses archival materials, documentary footage and interviews with community members, activists and organizers to uncover Portland’s unique history of policing and race relations, emphasizing its rich history of r... Read more

Hands up don't shoot action - Portland Oct. 22

Airs at: Fri, 10/24/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

Several dozen Portlanders gathered Wednesday night in outer southeast Portland for a protest march in solidarity with the people of Ferguson Missouri. Yesterday, October 22nd, marked a national day of action to end police brutality. In Portland, protesters walked around... Read more

Portland in Missouri for Ferguson October

Airs at: Thu, 10/16/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

Protests continued today in Ferguson Missouri, as youth leaders met with the Mayor of Saint Louis to try to address concerns about police treatment of demonstrators. On Monday, over thirty faith leaders were arrested in an act of civil disobedience to call for justice for M... Read more

Left and the Law: racism, perceptions of crime, and the punitive state

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

On their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss a recent research report by The Sentencing Project, titled "Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Polices." The report describes how deeply embedded racism is in the... Read more

Dispatches Against Displacement: understanding and resisting gentrification

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement talks with James Tracy, author of "Dispatches Against Displacement: field notes from San Francisco's housing war". They consider what gentrification is as an economic and by extension racialized form of domination, how different cities experience gentrification ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 13, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this episode about public health and our vulnerability to epidemics like Ebola, gentrification as colonialist legacy, and racial perceptions of crime. Musical selections from Hazel Dickens, Leon Rosselson, James Talley, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Bill... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: J California Cooper

Airs at: Thu, 02/02/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Described by the Los Angeles Times as "a voice for the struggles of Black women in novels and short stories prized for their folksy wisdom and original voices," J. California Cooper died last week at 82 years old. The Times continued with a quote from Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 8, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 09/08/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Iven Hale hosts this edition of the Old Mole with a focus on the aftermath of the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Also on the show are pieces on agriculture and climate change and liberation from working on the clock. It's all held together with Iv... Read more