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Oregon Teachers Union Has a New Agenda

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2023 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Ariana Jacob, newly elected president of the American Federation of Teachers - Oregon and Ted Cooper, newly elected vice president, are ushering in a "Democracy is Power" agenda for their 8,000 member statewide federation.  Read more

Prison Doula Program

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
The walkout by Republican Senators during this 2023 Oregon legislative session leaves hundreds of bills in jeopardy. Two bills in limbo provide support and care for children and their incarcerated mothers. HB2731 would codify the Family Preservation Project of YWCA into Ore... Read more

Premiere - Interview with JoAnn Hardesty, former Portland City Commissioner

Airs at: Thu, 05/18/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
  New weekly morning Public Affairs program, Keeping It Real with Lisa Loving. - Every Thursday at 8:00am - On this first episode, Lisa has a conversation with former Portland City Commissioner JoAnn Hardesty. - Only on KBOO 90.7FM Portland.           Read more

Keeping It Real, with Lisa Loving

  A one-hour morning weekly show, Thursdays at 8:00am Journalist Lisa Loving brings grassroots activists on the air to talk about local issues -- and what YOU can do to plug into community movements, now.          Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 22, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Julian Ankney hosts this week’s show and brings audio from the April 21st and 22nd virtual WSU conference on “Native Sovereignty, Decolonization, Divestment, Reparations, and Environmental Justice: Constructing Coalitions at the Intersections,” interwoven with music from... Read more

Mourning, resilience, and resistance: The Story of the Celilo Wy’am

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Celilo Wyam activist Lana Jack reads from her short memoir, which appears in the Spring edition of Oregon Humanities. Jack recounts stories of growing up fishing with her father and sisters on the Columbia River and speaks to the stakes in the Celilo Wy-am struggle for fede... Read more

Black-Indigenous Solidarity

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Kent Ford, co-founder of the Portland chapter of the Black Panthers, and activist-scholars Sky Wilson, and Danica Brown, enrolled Choctaw of the Watonlak Oshi “White Crane'' clan, discuss solidarity and intersecting struggles against racism, colonialism, and police violence... Read more

Remembering "Salmon Scam”

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In a continuation of the “Fish Wars” of the 1960s and 70s, a 1982 federal sting operation scapegoated and criminalized Columbia fisher people for diminishing salmon runs. Wanapum fishing rights activist David Sohappy, Sr.; his son David Jr.; Bruce Jim, enrolled Warm Springs... Read more

Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The construction and operation of fossil fuel infrastructure is causing expensive physical and economic damages to land, air, water and frontline communities on an almost daily basis. But if, for example, a major earthquake destroys the tank farms comprising Portland’s Crit... Read more

Voices For The Animals: Goldie's Act & The Tragedy Of Puppy Mills

Airs at: Fri, 05/26/2023 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
On this episode of Voices For the Animals, host Michele Coppola speaks with Robert Hensley, Legal Advocacy Senior Counsel for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) about Goldie's Act, a bipartisan bill that, if passed, will require USDA inspe... Read more