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The End Of An Error (The W Years - Redux)

Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2025 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  Vinyl Pajama Party
  This Show was first broadcast January 20, 2009. We felt that on this day, January, 21st,  2025,  the day after this "Inauguration" it might be fun, and maybe a  little helpful, to recall a "simpler" time. Stay strong - and keep vigilant, this too will pass.  Meanwhil... Read more

Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Eco-Disasters in Japanese Film. Japan has rich traditions of filmmaking and of approaching films as commentary on daily life. But Japanese cinema also offers rich commentary on ecological crises. Jan Haaken talks with University of Oregon professor Rachel DiNitto about h... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 20, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Public domain image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King,_Jr_.svg Patricia Kullberg hosts this Martin Luther King Day episode of the Old Mole, featuring the following segments: Whites Would Not Like the Real MLK: Our Well-Read Red, Patricia Kull... Read more

The Fort Showalter Blues

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Birdsong is a man perpetually out of place. He’s at once too Black and not Black enough. His skin is too dark and his hair too kinky. But he is also teased for talking like a White man. He’s at once color blind and acutely aware of color in a way that penetrates to h... Read more

Whites Would Not Like the Real MLK

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Our Well-Read Red, Patricia Kullberg, reads excerpts from an article by Michael Harriot in which he argues that the real Martin Luther King Jr. made White people uncomfortable and intended to do so. And if MLK were not white-washed, White folks wouldn’t like him today. T... Read more

New Beginnings

Airs at: Wed, 01/22/2025 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  The Underground
The Underground takes a look forward and discusses new beginnings to kick off 2025! Read more

Ali Fitzgerald - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  As Syria struggles to emerge from decades of conflict, we revisit our November 2018 conversation with Drawn to Berlin author Ali Fitgerald. Drawn to Berlin follows Ali's encounters with Syrian youth, as she teaches comics workshops at a makeshift refugee center in Germ... Read more

Drug War in the Amazon Basin

Airs at: Wed, 01/08/2025 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Drug War in the Amazon Basin. The Amazon basin and the tri-border region of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru have been particularly hard hit and transformed by the drug war. The Global Initiative on Transnational Organized Crime released a new repo... Read more

Beginnings 2025

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
This is our first show of the new year, 2025, a year many of us are approaching with some trepidation, if not outright dread. When I sat down to plan the episode, I was feeling uninspired and rudderless, not knowing how to continue, or even if I should continue. But in t... Read more

Criminalizing Solidarity

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Historian Rachel Ida Buff talks with Frann Michel about connections between attacks on encampments in support of Palestine and encampments of houseless people, as well as attacks on other forms of collective solidarity and the commons, including migrant caravans and w... Read more