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America's Founding Ideals Were Lies Until Blacks Made Them True

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick introduces Sharon Grant dramatically reading excerpts from Nikole Hannah-Jone's essay, "Our Democracy's Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written; Black Americans Have Fought to Make Them True." Part of the New York Times 1619 Project, this is part one.... Read more

"Building Beyond Policing" Forum with the Care Not Cops Coalition

Airs at: Sat, 02/01/2020 at 11:00am - 1:00pm
    On February 1, 2020, the local activist coalition Care Not Cops held the final event in its "Building Beyond Policing" series of workshops at the PCC Cascade campus. KBOO was there and recorded the first part of the event, a panel discussion focused on alternatives to... Read more

Mark Hass Interview

Airs at: Tue, 02/11/2020 at 6:00pm
Produced for:  Between Us
Senator Mark Hass is running for Oregon Secretary of State.  He seeks to fill the seat vacated by the death of Dennis Richardson.  He talks with Don Merrill about why he thinks the housing crisis and the homelessness crisis are not as connected as people believe, how he'll ... Read more

Voter purges, disinformation and where your vote went: a conversation with Thom Hartmann

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2020 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Why is it that exit polls show one candidate winning, but the results of the election put the opposing candidate in power? This phenomenon, called 'redshift,' is fueled by voter roll purges and provisional ballots, which while seeming to allow for people not on the rolls... Read more

Left and the Law: anti-protest laws

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In this Left & the Law segment, Jan Haaken talks with Laruen Regan, Executive Director and senior staff attorney with the Civil Liberties Defense Center in Eugene. Regan is lead criminal defense attorney in recent and several upcoming trials of climate activists.  They talk... Read more

Alex Krupkin Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Alex Krupkin is registered on the FEC.gov website as a candidate for President of the United States.  He talked with Don Merrill about why self-segregation needs to be the wave of the future, how the US is like a cellular body on the brink of a new evolutionary change, and ... Read more

Serin Bussell Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Serin Bussell is a Democrat running for the Oregon House seat in District 33.  She talked with Don Merrill about her intolerance of intolerance, how she as a prograssive white woman finds dealing with fake woke progressives as being one of her biggest challenges and how she... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 10, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with James Ofsink of the organization Portland Forward about local struggles over the Portland Police contract. Joe shares memories of and a commentary by late Old Mole, Clayton Morgareidge The Left and the Law, with spe... Read more

Bob Niemeyer Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Bob Niemeyer is running for the Oregon House District 35 seat in 2020.  When I last interviewed him in 2016, he was criticizing the Oregon legislature for what he called some of its "stupid" behavior.  Four years later, he now feels that behavior is uncontrollable, like tha... Read more

15 TRIPP-P 24Jan2020

Airs at: Fri, 01/24/2020 at 11:45pm - Tue, 02/28/2023 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
TRIPP-P sits down with a Data Analyst, Research Activist and Global Integrated Systems Engineer named MK, also known as Nerdletta online, to discuss housing and property development both in the local Portland market and globally.   Nerdletta offers insight into the curren... Read more