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Old Mole Variety Hour April 14 2014

Airs at: Tue, 04/15/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with John Feffer about the relationship between divestment in infrastructure and ecological collapse Jan Haaken talk with Sophie Smith of People Helping People about the militarization of our borders and ... Read more

People Helping People: humanitarian aid for immigrants and ending border checkpoints

Airs at: Mon, 04/14/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken interviews Sophie Smith about the risks immigrants face crossing the border with Mexico and how people in Arivaca, Arizona are fighting back against the militarization of the border with the help of People Helping People. Sophie describes how southern borderland... Read more

Bear Witness: LARA MESSERSMITH-GLAVIN

Airs at: Thu, 03/20/2014 at 12:00am
The spellbinding Lara Messersmith-Glavin was recorded on Thursday, March 20th as part of the story telling night BEAR WITNESS. Seasoned adventurers spin yarns of their encounters with Bear. Grizzlies, black bears, spirit bears–humans have a long and fascinating relationship... Read more

New Court Cases Target Guantanamo Force-Feeding

Airs at: Thu, 03/27/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Sam Bouman spoke with Alka Pradhan, Counter-Terrorism Counsel with Reprieve US, who is representing Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ahmed Rabbani in the Washington DC Court of Appeals, in one of the first court cases related to conditions of detention at the controversial mi... Read more

Interview with Professor Francis Boyle about Ukraine/Crimea crisis

Airs at: Thu, 03/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO News interviews Professor Francis Boyle to explore the latest developments in Ukraine and Crimea, and the U-S role in the current situation. Read more

Bill Resnick on making sense of the crisis in Ukraine

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick offers a news analysis on the political crisis in the Ukraine and its reverberation in world politics. Read more

Mark Weisbrot on Venezuela

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Mark Weisbrot about recent upheavals in Ukraine and especially in Venezuela, where the right-wing protesters lack the leverage to oust the recently elected government.   Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Centre for Economic and Policy Research in W... Read more

Radical Musicology: the politics and music of Pete Seeger

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Brad Duncan about Pete Seeger's life growing up as a "red diaper baby", his own communist politics, and vision of a liberatory praxis driven by music. This online version of their conversation contains extra material not aired live because of time con... Read more

APA Compass: Andrew Lam, author of Birds of Paradise Lost

Airs at: Fri, 02/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Award winning author and journalist Andrew Lam tells us why he cofounded New American Media, which is a coalition of thousands of ethnic media outlets.  His fiction and non-fiction writings, including "Birds of Paradise Lost", explore the interactions between the east and t... Read more

In Depth: Joe Meyer Interviews Tung Yin On the One Year Anniversary of the Trial of Mohamed Mohamud

Airs at: Thu, 01/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Joe Meyer speaks with Tung Yin, a professor at Lewis and Clark College, about last year's trial of Mohamed Mohamud, who was accused of plotting to bomb the Portland Christmas tree lighting celebration in Pioneer Square in 2010. Prof. Yin discusses the entrapment defe... Read more