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March Against Monsanto Portland 2014

Airs at: Tue, 05/27/2014 at 12:00am
Complete (lightly edited) audio from March Against Monsanto rally at Shemanski Park In Portland, May 24, 2014. Includes some music. Read more

Two More Oregon Counties Ban GMOs

Airs at: Wed, 05/21/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Jackson and josephine Counties in southern Oregon successfully passed ballot initiatives yesterday that will ban genetically modified crops. The measures faced a well-funded opposition campaign that was led by agricultural giant Monsanto. At the time of this broadcast, the... Read more

Oregon's New Law on Concealed Firearms

Airs at: Tue, 05/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A new state law will soon allow correctional officers to transport personal firearms in their cars from home to work in Oregon’s prisons.  House Bill 4035 was born after an officer was killed in 2011 because he stopped to help someone having car trouble.  But the new law w... Read more

March on Against Monsanto! Momentum builds against genetically modified organisms in our food.

Airs at: Fri, 05/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
On the heels of Tuesday's local initiative victories against GMO crops and the day before this year's March on Monsanto, host Paul Roland looks at the building grassroots movement for GMO-free food and against corporate behemoths Monsanto and others who are pushing genet... Read more

19 May 2014 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode, which includes a discussion of the fight for the $15/hour minimum wage in Portland and beyond, a report on economics students around the world demanding alternatives to failed neoclassical orthodoxies, a review of a memoir of life in the We... Read more

Title IX and campus rape

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile, Director of the Gender Studies Program at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, regarding the use of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act (which guarantees an equal right to education) to address problems of sexual assault on college ... Read more

Fight for 15 in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with organizer Justin Norton-Kertson about the campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. They discuss the benefits of raising the floor for all workers and preserving social welfare spending for those unable to work, as well as the origins of... Read more

Jason Yates Interview

Airs at: Tue, 05/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Jason Yates is running for US Congress in the 1st District. He talked with Don Merrill about how he has basic faith in the media despite how media professionals may have their own biases, how the Second Amendment assumes the citizenry will have guns not allow them to ha... Read more

Anita Brown Interview

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Anita Brown is a Democrat running for Congress in Oregon's 5th Congressional District. She talked with Don Merrill about how she believes that everyone should have the right to own but not necessarily carry guns into public spaces, how gay marriage is a civil rights issu... Read more

Alissa Keny Guyer Interview

Airs at: Sun, 05/18/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Alissa Keny Guyer is a Democrat running for re-election in Oregon House District 46. She talked with Don Merrill about her eagerness to work on issues related health disparaties for people of color, her concern over the corrupting influence of lobbying groups on her coll... Read more