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How to Lose Your Virginity?

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
This is a Bread and Roses web exclusive. Delphine Criscenzo speaks with Therese Shechter, the producer of the new documentary “How to Lose Your Virginity? What if all we had to lose were our virginity myths?” A local organization, A Fourth Act is bringing the film to Por... Read more

Alice Eve Cohen Interview

Airs at: Thu, 05/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Author Alice Eve Cohen has told two stories of personal upheaval that have visited her family in the last six years; "What I Thought I Knew" in 2009, and her most recent memoir, "The Year My Mother Came Back".  She talks with Don Merrill about what those two different st... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 4, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 05/04/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this edition of the Old Mole and here is what's on offer: 1. Dave Finkel and Bill Resnick discuss the latest US moves in the middle east. 2.  Book Mole Larry Bowlde reviews Fay Weldon's dystopian novel Chalcot Crescent. 3.  The Left and the Law: Medi... Read more

Book Review: "Chalcot Crescent"

Airs at: Mon, 05/04/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larrry Bowlden reviews Fay Weldon's 2010 novel, Chalcot Crescent,; it describes a dystopian possible future of capitalism. The books is partly prophetic, partly cynical satire, and partly a kind of memoir. Although still obviously a feminist author, she pokes fun at many... Read more

Progressive Spirit

Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Progressive Spirit talks intelligently about spirituality and social justice. Listen to interviews with top scholars, authors, social justice activists, and spiritual leaders from around the world.  Download or subscribe via iTunes! Read more

Deaf Activists Fight Government Interference in India

Airs at: Thu, 04/30/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
In the nation of India, deaf activists are organizing to challenge the discrimination they face. In March, a deaf teenager was raped and killed, and just this week, a deaf child was badly beaten by a teacher in India for failing to understand an assignment. KBOO’s Sarika... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 30, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 03/30/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Mole and features suppressed radical versions of songs that have been turned into patriotic hymns by the mainstream: Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA," "America the Beautiful," and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."   To... Read more

Democratic Movements in Mexico and Syria

Airs at: Mon, 03/30/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Radically democratic, anti-capitalist, and women-friendly movements have taken shape in parts of Mexico where the Zapatistas rule, and in the Kurdish region of the Middle East. Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Charlotte María Saenz of Other Worlds. Her article on this to... Read more

Oregon Senate Hears Testimony on Right to Rest

Airs at: Thu, 03/12/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  News In Depth
Today, the Oregon Senate Committee on Human Services and Early Childhood held a public hearing on the Right to Rest bill, which would override local bans on camping, sleeping on sidewalks, and sleeping in cars by people experiencing homelessness. Read more

Feminist Film: Sisterhood of Night

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2015 at 12:00am
Jan Haaken talks with film director, Caryn Waechter, about Sisterhood of Night---a feminist-inspired mystery drama where a group of girls form a secret society. From the film's website: "When a teenage girl says she's the victim of a secret network called The Sisterhood ... Read more