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"Plastic Free: How I kicked the Plastic Habit and How You can Too" with author Beth Terry

Airs at: Wed, 11/28/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
Millions of us consider our use of plastic a perfectly normal part of everyday life. We purchase and toss out our plastic products and packaging without giving it a second thought. But Beth Terry began thinking about it in 2007, and when she learned about the toxicity and e... Read more

Bernadette Barton "Pray the Gay Away" full interview

Airs at: Tue, 11/13/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Out Loud
Listen here to the full interview with author Bernadette Barton and her book, "Pray the Gay Away." Available now in stores and online. Read more

Terry Tempest Williams on her book "When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice"

Airs at: Wed, 11/07/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Unedited and uninterrupted version of host Kathleen Stephenson speaking with Terry Tempest Williams, naturalist, author and fierce advocate for freedom of speech. Terry Tempest Williams shows us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters o... Read more

News story on Solidarity against Austerity protest in Portland

Airs at: Wed, 10/31/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Paul Roland interviews Mike Losier of Portland Action Lab on Saturday's "Solidarity Against Austerity" march, rally and actions. Read more

Book Mole: The Marriage Plot

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Larry Bowlden reviews Jeffery Eugenides' "The Marriage Plot", which follows the trajectories of three college seniors. Larry explores how Eugenides expresses in the voices of his key characters the influence of Charles Dickens, Edith Warton, Henry James, Anthony Trollope, ... Read more

MEANING OF LIFE: Zoe interviews Dani Dennenburg from HEART

Airs at: Wed, 09/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Underground
Zoe Loranger interviews Dani Dennenberg, the Portland Program Director of HEART, Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers. Their services are specially designed to provide a combined focus on human rights, animal protection and environmental ethics.  Their mission is to... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour September 17th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Iven Hale hosts this show and we hear about the Chicago Teachers Strike, Cuban reform and policies, a book review of Barbara King Solver's "Lacuna" and a movie-review of Branded. Bill Resnick talks with Samuel Farber about top-down and bottom-up socialism in Cuba ... Read more

Well-read Red: Chicago Teachers Strike

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 With a brief introduction by Iven Hale, Well-read Red Frann Michel offers an array of analyses about the real stakes of the Chicago Teacher's Strike. She presents arguments that defend the teachers union as fighting a rank-and-file organized campaign against neoliberal edu... Read more

On the Chicago Teacher's Strike

For the Old Mole Variety Hour 17 Sept 2012 Joanne Barkan in Dissent Magazine notes that, Yes, schoolchildren in Chicago are victims, but not of their teachers. They are victims of a nationwide education “reform” movement geared to undermine teachers’ unions and shift publi... Read more

Out Loud on 08/14/12

Airs at: Tue, 09/11/2012 at 12:00am
Interview with local business owner of Funhouse lounge Trenton Shine. http://funhouselounge.com/ Interview with Marsha and Brianna of the Ingersoll Gender Center http://www.ingersollcenter.org/ Musical guest Logan Lynn featured music from his discography. http://www.loganlynnm... Read more