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Old Mole Variety Hour for February 17, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. Black parents worry about racism’s impact on their children. Jennifer C. Nash is interested in both the nature of racialized anxiety and the way it’s rendered visible to t... Read more

Moussa Sène Absa at the Cascade Festival of African Films

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  This is the 35th year of the Cascade Festival of African Films hosted by Portland Community College with screenings and discussions scheduled Thursday through Saturday throughout the month of February.  Jan Haaken talks with the internationally acclaimed Senegalese filmm... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 10, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode features segments on African films, on public schools in the the making of Black masculinity, and more.   On the Legacy of PATCO 1981 In the aftermath of the midair crash over D.C on January 29, and Trump's racist response, Frann Mi... Read more

On the Legacy of PATCO 1981

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  In the aftermath of the midair crash over D.C on January 29, and Trump's racist response, Frann Michel looks back at the 1981 strike by PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization.  This commentary considers the problems faced then and now by Air Traffic... Read more

Uncovering Surveillance in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  The ACLU of Oregon, in partnership with Don’t Shoot PDX, an arts and education organization that promotes social justice and civic participation, have submitted three public records requests to the City of Portland, the Oregon Department of Justice (ODOJ), and the Federa... Read more

Book Mole: Bad Boys

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Bad Boys: Public education for Black boys is often characterized as a school-to-prison pipeline. Why is it that these kids are so poorly served by our schools? Book Mole, Patricia Kullberg, reviews the ethnography, Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculin... Read more

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Frann Michel recommends the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, directed by Belgian media artist Johan Grimonprez, and available streaming through kanopy via the Multnomah County Library. The film opens with, and returns to, the moment in February 1961 when singer ... Read more

Defending the Resistors

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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On January 23, 2025, Salem Younes, a first-generation Palestinian-American college student, and K Anton, a Lebanese-American human rights activist, were found not guilty by a unanimous trial jury in Lane County Circuit Court in Eugene, Oregon. The two activists faced charge... Read more

Indigenous Voices in Poetry

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Nimiipuu Mole, creative writer, and Director of Native American Programs at Washington State University Vancouver, Julian Ankney reads poems by Natalie Diaz, Mojave, and more. Read more

"Learning to Breathe Through the Apocalypse"

Airs at: Mon, 02/03/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Laurie Mercier interviews Desiree Hellegers about  her web series, a surreal and hallucinogenic monologue set entirely inside their mind during a thirty-day silent Buddhist retreat in the woods of British Columbia during the 2005 winter holiday. While outwardly appearing to... Read more