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The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 23, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear these segments: • Bill Resnick talks with Tarah Demant of Amnesty International about the surprising numbers on support for refugees in the United States. • Frann Michel discusses the history of Vanport, the need for public h... Read more

Public Housing and Community

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Coming up this weekend, May 27th through May 30th, the Vanport Mosaic Festival is a commemoration of the 68th anniversary of the Vanport Flood. KBOO is a supporter of these four days of lectures, performances, screenings, exhibits, and other events. Built during W... Read more

Philip Kan Gotanda - Traveling Master

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features veteran playwright Philip Kan Gotanda. She first talked to him three years ago when he came to do a talk at Reed College. Now he's a Traveling Master for the Dramatists Guild Fund and will be teaching a class called "Challenges of Writing From a Racial and ... Read more

A Shared Sentence: Children of Prisoners

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Karen James interviews Laura Speer, associate director for Policy Reform Advocacy at the Annie E Casey Foundation, the nation’s leading organization for the overall well-being of children. Over 5 million children nationwide have had an incarcerated parent. The loss of a ... Read more

White Man Said Walk

Airs at: Wed, 05/18/2016 at 7:00pm - 8:45pm
  Democracy Here presents: White Man Said Walk: The disorderly conduct trial of Teressa Raiford   Portland Police arrested Ms Raiford on August 9, 2015 at an event marking one-year since the Ferguson Police death of Michael Brown. Her trial ran four days, ending Apr... Read more

Nobody Knows May Is Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Airs at: Wed, 05/18/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
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Cat Winters on "The Steep and Thorny Way"

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Host Bethany Grabow talks with Cat Winters, author of the new book The Steep and Thorny Way. This historical fiction, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, follows protagonist Hanalee as she navigates rural Oregon in the 1920’s as a biracial teen coming to terms with... Read more

The Struggle Inside & Out: Supporting Prisoner Strikes

Airs at: Mon, 05/23/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli will interview activist Ben Turk.  A long term activist supporting all prisoners including Political Prisoners, Turk is connected to several different movements and organizations working around national prisoner strikes.  We will discuss the upcoming Sept... Read more

Vanport Mosaic Festival

Airs at: Tue, 05/17/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features the Vanport Mosaic Festival that celebrates and remembers an important time and community in Portland history. She'll talk  with festival co-artistic directors S. Renee Mitchell, Damaris Webb and Laura Lo Forti.  Damaris is the director/producer of Cottonwo... Read more

Lemonade, Black Womanhood, & Self-Love (A digital roundtable)

Airs at: Fri, 05/13/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Hosts Pamela Santos and Tessara Dudley invited fierce Black artists & writers from diverse gender identities to talk about Beyonce's film and visual album Lemonade and the "thinkpiece" explosion that surrounded the release. Tune in at 6pm to hear this discussion of Lemona... Read more