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Racial Disparity in the Oregon Prison System

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Wed, 01/09/2008

Host Carlos Chavez explores the topics of racial justice and racial disparity in the Oregon Prison System with Caylor Rolin of the Portland-based Partnership for Safety and Justice, a group seeking to unite people convicted of crime, survivors of crime, and the families of both to redirect policies away from an over-reliance on incarceration to effective strategies that reduce violence and increase safety.

22:37 minutes (20.72 MB)
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Real ID Part 1

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27:38 minutes (37.96 MB)
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The Black Struggle on the Waterfront

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Labor Radio
program date: 
Sun, 08/23/2009

Host Jamie Partridge talks with Deborah Stringfellow and Jerry Lawrence, founding members of the African American Longshore Coalition and rank-and-file leaders of Portland’s Longshore and Warehouse Union – ILWU

29:22 minutes (40.34 MB)
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I Found a Sound: A Brief History of Sampling and Appropriation

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program date: 
Wed, 09/30/2009

I Found a Sound: A Brief History of Sampling and Appropriation in Music

Monday October 5th 8 pm - Midnight

Dr. Zomb and DJ ManRich present a chronological look at sampling, from it's roots in Musique Concrete and Avant Garde, to the pioneering lp by Brian Eno and David Byrne, and on to culture jamming artists such as Negativland, John Oswald, Evolution Control Committee, as well as turntablism in Hip Hop and finally, recent Mashup masterpieces.    Plunder Radio!!!

0:53 minutes (1.22 MB)
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Mad as Hell Doctors Cross-Country Media Blitz

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Evening News
program date: 
Mon, 10/05/2009

Oregon’s homegrown Mad As Hell Doctors were met by Congressman Dennis Kucinich in Washington DC on the final days of their cross-country media blitz.  KBOO reporter David Rosenfeld filed this report from the nation's capitol.
 

4:36 minutes (4.22 MB)
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Qi Dao -Tibetan Shamanic Qigong

program: 
Pathways
program date: 
Sun, 01/17/2010

Qigong, an ancient energy art integrating Qi (or Chi – energy awareness) and Gong (or Kung – the practice of mastering it), is a system of self-realization that has been practiced for over five thousand years. Qi Dao is a unique style of Tibetan Shamanic Qigong, whose long lineage preserved its core practices for thousands years In Tibet, China and Mongolia. Qi Dao teaches awareness of Qi through spontaneous movement. This awareness comes naturally and spontaneously when we are totally in the moment. Indeed, the teachings of Qi Dao were discovered through ancient Shamans’ experiences of being in the moment. The heart of Qi Dao is not learning a fixed set of skills but encouragement in letting go.

28:28 minutes (26.07 MB)
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Food Production in a Resource-Challenged Future

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Talk Radio
program date: 
Fri, 06/25/2010

Exploring issues related to feeding ourselves in a world facing several, possibly overlapping and synergistic resource peaks:  phosphorus (1, 2, 3), soil (1, 2, 3), water (1, 57:34 minutes (26.35 MB)

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THE PENTAGON, PETRAEUS & THE MEDIA: INTERVIEW, NORMAN SOLOMON

program: 
A Deeper Look
program date: 
Thu, 08/26/2010

The Obama administration and the U.S. Military have launched a multi-faceted propaganda offensive to sell a long- term presence in Afghanistan. Author and activist,  Norman Solomon, joins host, Linda Olson-Osterlund to talk about the Petraeus media blitz. He'll put it in context and fill in the picture.

30:30 minutes (27.92 MB)
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The Tiki Cha Cha Club

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Tiki Cha Cha Club
program date: 
Sat, 10/02/2010

Tristan Anderson Returns Home

program: 
Evening News
program date: 
Tue, 12/07/2010

Tristan Anderson is a long time peace activist and justice activist from Berkley, California. Last year. while attending a peaceful protest in Palestine, Tristan was shot in the head with a tear-gas canister fired by Israeli troops. On December 4th, he returned home to Berkley where he was welcomed by his activist family.

From Berkley, Jenna Sodeberg brings us the story.

 

4:23 minutes (4.02 MB)
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Celebrating Queer Talent with Homomentum

program: 
Out Loud
program date: 
Tue, 01/04/2011

Happy New Year from KBOO's queer culture radio show!

57:02 minutes (22.85 MB)
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Streetwise Spirituality

program: 
Pathways
program date: 
Sun, 06/12/2011

Today on Pathways we are visiting with Carol Marleigh Kline, author of Streetwise Spirituality: 28 days to inner fitness and everyday enlightenment. Carol is an author, workshop facilitator, radio host, and editor of JACA Online, the American Chiropractic Association’s journal. Formerly a TV anchor and producer, she began attending New Age lectures at the age of 13. She developed programming for the Smithsonian Institute’s Resident Associates, earned a Master’s in Japanese philosophy at Columbia University, and is listed in Who’s Who of American Women.

27:57 minutes (25.59 MB)
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Old Mole Variety Hour July 25th

program date: 
Mon, 07/25/2011

 

Denise Morris hosts today show and we hear:

57:45 minutes (26.44 MB)
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Book Mole: The Hand That First Held Mine

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program date: 
Mon, 07/25/2011

 Larry Bowlden reviews and reads from Irish author Maggie O'Farrell's "The Hand That First Held Mine".

6:53 minutes (3.15 MB)
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The Enemy is Washington: The Economy Crashed

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Mon, 07/25/2011

If you want to talk about wasteful Federal spending, you're have to look at where the money actually goes. Tom Becker reads Paul Craig-Roberts' essay, "The Enemy is Washington: the economy destroyed".

7:33 minutes (3.46 MB)
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Old Mole Variety Hour Labor Day 2011

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Mon, 09/05/2011

Joe Clement hosts this labor day special and we hear:

 

55:56 minutes (38.41 MB)
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A Brief Commentary on Paid and Unpaid Work

program date: 
Mon, 09/05/2011

Joe briefly remarks on the biases we have for paid work and against unpaid work. He suggests we overlook the possibility for useful and needed contributions when our solutions to unemployment assume wage-labor as the only legitimate form of work we can do while still making demands for a decent livelihood.

4:03 minutes (2.78 MB)
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Building a Working-Class Environmental Movement

program date: 
Mon, 09/05/2011

Daniel Randall, a supporter of the Workers Climate Action Network and a writer for the journal "Solidarity" in England, talks with Bill Resnick about how the environment (and not just jobs or wages) is a working-class issue. Daniel starts out by offering a few examples of working-class solutions to environmental problems and the need for sustainable technology production processes, such as the Lucas plan.

18:47 minutes (12.91 MB)
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Verizon Strike and Beyond

program date: 
Mon, 09/05/2011

Speaking with Denise Morris, Mark Brenner of Director of Labor Notes talks a bit about what Labor Notes is and how it involves itself in the labor movement. They spend most of the interview talking about the relevance of 45,000 verizon workers going on strike. Mark explains how this strike and what it was about underscores what is so wrong with our economy today: when corporate profits break records and shareholders receive big bonus dividends, workers are told "there isn't enough". Mark points out why unions can't remain islands in seas of union-hostility and competition from non-union companies.

13:29 minutes (9.27 MB)
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Left and the Law: West Memphis Three

program date: 
Mon, 09/05/2011

Mike Snedeker, who has written a book on the recurrance of "satanic ritual abuse" cases, talks with Jan Haaken and about the West Memphis Three was and the ways it exemplifies so much of what's broken in our judicial system: plea-bargins, hasty police invetigations and false confessions. They also spend some time talking about the phenomenon of popular hysteria around satanic ritual abuse of children and the  circumstances surrounding it.

14:26 minutes (9.91 MB)
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Democratic Energy Production

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program date: 
Mon, 09/12/2011

Bill Resnick and John Farrell talk about the importance of decentralization to realizing the potential and sustainability of alternative energy sources like wind and solar.

20:05 minutes (13.79 MB)
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Old Mole Variety Hour October 17th

program date: 
Mon, 10/17/2011

      

 Bill Resnick hosts this Old Mole and we hear:

37:06 minutes (33.97 MB)
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Democratic Energy and Occupy Wall Steet

program date: 
Mon, 10/17/2011

 Bill Resnick and Harvey Wasserman talk about the need, the possibility and the way for developing wind and solar energy systems that emphasize distributed, democratic production. Recently, Harvey spoke at Occupy Wall Street. They agree that this should be part of the Wall Street occupiers' demands and Harvey explains why. Since this was during our membership drive, there was a break in the middle for a pitch-break, which we decided to omit.

5:37 minutes (5.15 MB)
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Movie Moles: We Were Here - voices from the AIDS years in San Francisco

program date: 
Mon, 10/17/2011

Jan Haaken and Frann Michel discuss "We Were Here - voices from the AIDS years in San Francisco" directed by David Weismann and Bill Weber. The film profiles five people living in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis in the late '70s and 1980s. Frann and Jan note the power of the story-telling on the level of individual and collective suffering, the celebration of sexual liberation before the crisis struck, and the role of community and family in supporting those affected by the crisis. They also note the lack of selfish reactions within the gay community to AIDS, class differences in infection and questions of public healthcare.

 
10:09 minutes (9.29 MB)
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Left & the Law: right of assembly in the occupy movement.

program date: 
Mon, 11/07/2011

Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about the right of assembly and how it comes into play for the Occupy movement. They consider the role of elected leaders to make discretionary calls in managing assemblies and the importance of protecting First Amendment rights, but also the potential limits on the place, time and manner of people's assemblies. 

 
15:34 minutes (14.25 MB)
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The People's Budget vs. The Congressional Super-Committee

program date: 
Mon, 11/07/2011

Bill Resnick talks with John Miller about how the US and other countries have been handling the debt-crisis. They cover the congressional super-committee  formed in the US and the austerity measures they are considering. John describes the People's Budget , which calls for relatively high taxes on the rich, with tax-loopholes closed, medicare for all, massive public investment and reducing military expenditure. 

18:46 minutes (17.18 MB)
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Movie Moles: They Live

program date: 
Mon, 11/07/2011

Joe Clement and Frann Michel turn to this film because of its obviously critical message about late capitalism, and the way some of its complaints, seemingly new and unprescedented at the time, resonate with the Occupy Wall Street movement today. But they have mixed feelings about how far John Carpenter's portrayal of society hijacked by otherwise unseen aliens through psychological manipulation can go as a social analysis of the real actors and sources of inequality, injustice, and social and environmental destruction.

Watch the movie online for free through google video.

13:31 minutes (12.39 MB)
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Well Read Red: What Occupiers Need To Understand About Homelessness

program date: 
Mon, 11/07/2011

Clayton Morgareidge reads various responses to the concern some have expressed about the involvement of homeless people in the Occupy Wall Street movement. He offers a positive assessment that sees the movement benefiting from the homeless involvement. He suggests that learning how to get along with and work with each other is exactly what the movement is about and what it will take to integrate the homeless who aren't and shouldn't go away.

Check out his blog-post for a written version with links.

7:57 minutes (7.28 MB)
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Portland nurse travels to the Gaza Strip

program: 
Radiozine
program date: 
Mon, 12/05/2011

On October 18th, 2011, health care workers from Washington and Oregon left for a medical delegation to Gaza, hosted by the Gaza Community Mental Health Program. The purpose of the trip is to learn more about the effects of ongoing war and occupation on the health of the citizens of Gaza. Maxine Fookson, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner from Portland, is the Oregon PSR representative of this group.

Maxine Fookson will join KBOO host Jenka Soderberg at 11 am on Monday December 5th to report back on her trip to Gaza.

Maxine's blog post from October 22nd, begins:

28:53 minutes (26.44 MB)
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Old Mole Variety Hour December 26th

program date: 
Mon, 12/26/2011

 

Denise Morris hosts and we hear: 

55:50 minutes (38.34 MB)
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We Are Oregon and Unsettle Portland

program date: 
Mon, 12/26/2011

Bill Resnick talks with Angela McWhinney, an organizer with We Are Oregon, and Terran Connolly, with Unsettle Portland. Earlier this month Angela and Terran's organizations helped stand up to foreclosures with homeowners. They articulate a vision of community control over housing and land, and an economy not dominated by financial prorities.

24:08 minutes (16.57 MB)
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Well-read Red: what's next for the new people power?

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program date: 
Mon, 12/26/2011

Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay from Yes Magazine by world-systems theorist, Immanuel Wallerstein, about "what's next for the new people power?" Wallerstein stresses the over-all success, from re-occupation to other direct actions, and for an understanding that this is a long revolution.

 
8:09 minutes (5.6 MB)
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The Music and Future of Occupy

program date: 
Mon, 01/02/2012

 Clayton Morgareidge talks with our radical musicologist, Brad Duncan, about the music and future of Occupy. As the cold months drive people indoors, the music helps keep the movement alive, but also as Brad points out by the end the re-surgence in small-scale printing and pamphlet-making.

The songs you heard during this segment can be found by going to the following links:

Rebel Diaz - 99%

Garfunkel and Oates - Save the Rich

Ry Cooder - Wall Street Part of Town

16:12 minutes (11.13 MB)
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Book Mole: The Steal, a cultural history of shop-lifting

program date: 
Mon, 01/02/2012

 Iven Hale reviews Rachel Schteir's "The Steal: a cultural history of shop-lifting". Schteir considers theivery across the ages, but especially in the modern era and in terms of sureptitiously lifting goods from stores and vendors. Iven remarks on the social forces that compel people to shop-lift, and which also shield some but not others from punishment, but also how criminologists explain shop-lifting in terms of pathology.

7:38 minutes (5.24 MB)
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Movie Moles: Take Shelter

program date: 
Mon, 01/02/2012

 Joe Clement and Frann Michel review the apocalyptic psycho-thriller Take Shelter, staring Michael Shannon as a blue-collared man in rural Ohio who becomes deeply disturbed by terrifying dreams involving mega-storms, attacks by dogs and neighbors, and even faceless intruders kidnapping his deaf daughter. When he begins building-out a storm-shelter in his backyard without consulting his wife, played by Jessica Chastain, he alienates her and ultimately his community. All the while he struggles with the possibility that he has his mother's schizophrenia and yet is certain that "a storm is coming".

11:44 minutes (8.06 MB)
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Bill Resnick and Malik Miah

program date: 
Mon, 01/16/2012

 Bill Resnick talks with Malik Miah about the Occupy movement, how race figures into the economic crisis,  mobilizing in the black community and what the Occupy movement could learn from their history of organizing against the 1%.

 
Malik Mia is an airplane mechanic, but also one of the editors of Against the Current, a writer for GreenLeft Weekly, and a long-time civil rights and union activist.
19:25 minutes (13.33 MB)
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Well-read Red: vulture capitalism and the contradictions of investment

program date: 
Mon, 01/16/2012

Well-read Red, Clayton Morgareidge, reads an excerpt from Gary Weiss' article from Salon on Mitt Romney and vulture-capitalism. The article reviews how Romney's former investment firm bought out companies and destroyed rather than created jobs, while turning a tidy profit, and how Romney's Republican opponents have even cricized him for it (drawing their own criticism for questioning capitalism).

9:04 minutes (6.23 MB)
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Movie Moles: The Iron Lady

program date: 
Mon, 01/16/2012

Movie Moles, Joe Clement and Jan Haaken, talk about the new drama-documentary "The Iron Lady", which looks at the life and political career of Margaret Thatcher (played by Meryl Streep) through her own nostalgic memories. They talk about her status as a powerful women against the backdrop of the women's movement, about her conservative politics and the way the film at best avoids them and at worst normalizes them.

 
15:47 minutes (10.84 MB)
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State of the Dream 2012

program date: 
Mon, 01/16/2012
Tom Becker reads the State of the Dream 2012 report from United For a Fair Economy: "The report examines trends across a variety of indicators including income, wealth, education, employment, health and incarceration. It finds that when the U.S. becomes a minority-majority country, the racial economic divide will remain disastrously large and will threaten the stability of the entire economy ... The report proposes policy solutions to significantly reduce the racial divide.
5:50 minutes (4 MB)
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Michael Moore on Kitzhaber's healthcare plan

program date: 
Mon, 03/19/2012

 Bill Resnick talks with local activist Michael Moore (not the documentary film-maker) about Governor Kitzhaber's new healthcare plan, community care organizations (CCOs) and the on-going struggle for single-payer or something like it.

Michael Moore works with Sisters of the Road Cafe

20:47 minutes (19.04 MB)
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Well-read Red: 15 Ways the Bible is Used to Control and Malign Women

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program date: 
Mon, 03/19/2012

Tom Becker reads Valerie Tarico's Alter-Net article "15 Ways the Bible is Used by Christians and the GOP to Control and Malign Women". Tarico examines over a dozen ways that the Bible subtends a misogynistic and patriarchical rationale that conservatives are using to fuel a war against women at every political level.

7:43 minutes (7.06 MB)
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Book Mole: How It All Began

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program date: 
Mon, 03/19/2012

 Larry Bowlden, our Book Mole, reviews Penelope Lively's new book, "How It All Began.". Larry focuses on the web of causation triggered by a chance mugging of one of the characters and the way these developments eschew any independent force or directive guiding our lives, but finishes with a word about her representation of teaching.

7:25 minutes (6.8 MB)
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Mind-Zone: a documentary about psychology and therapy in the military

program date: 
Mon, 03/19/2012

 Denise Morris interviews fellow Mole, Jan Haaken. In addition to working with the Old Mole, Jan is a clinical psychologist and documentary film-maker. Her most recent film, "Mind Zone: therapists behind the front lines", has received national attention and she's appeared recently on CNN (transcript) and Democracy Now (audio). They talk about Robert Bales and the questions about PTSD in the massacre he recently committed in Afganistan.

13:32 minutes (12.4 MB)
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Old Mole Variety Hour March 19th 2012

program date: 
Mon, 03/19/2012

  

 

Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear:

56:47 minutes (52 MB)
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Kristian Williams on Treyvon Martin, Capitalism and the Culture of Fear

program date: 
Mon, 04/02/2012

Bill Resnick talks with Kristian Williams, Portland-resident and renknown scholar of policing and police history, about the murder of Treyvon Martin. Kristian re-caps the case and those like it, but also comments on the nature of the "stand your ground" laws that have been invoked to shield George Zimmerman. He contends that simply attacking those laws misses deeper problems, namely how these laws arise out of already racialized understandings of crime, law and order. They end on a note about this culture of fear, which Kristian thinks we can overcome if we see that people's needs are met, so they don't feel there are "others" out there trying to take them.

18:18 minutes (16.75 MB)
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Adrienne Rich, psychoanalytic feminism and motherhood

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program date: 
Mon, 04/02/2012

Joe Clement talks with fellow Mole Jan Haaken about the significance of Adrienne Rich's prose writing about motherhood for the feminist movement in the 1970s.

6:23 minutes (5.85 MB)
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Movie Moles: Finally Got The News

program date: 
Mon, 04/02/2012

 Laurie Mercier and Denise Morris talk about the 1970 documentary "Finally Got The News" (re-released and available to view for free online HERE), produced in association with the League for Revolutionary Black Workers. The League was wary of the film at first, worried it would compromise their organizing efforts in Detroit, but the film-makers promised to make it education and not journalistic. It directs its marxist message to black workers and not white college kids, and to that end focuses on the role and power of the black worker in the American economy.

12:19 minutes (11.27 MB)
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Radical Musicology: Alix Dobkin

program date: 
Mon, 04/02/2012

Tom Becker talks with our radical musicologist, Brad Duncan, about Alix Dobkin. They reflect on her "red-diaper" up-bringing, her recent autobiography "My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement", and her impact on feminism and women's music through her politically infused folk-music.

The following links are to music of hers we heard on the show:

9:02 minutes (8.27 MB)
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