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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 31, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Covid, Polio, and Medical Populism: Norm Diamond speaks with Patricia Kullberg about the ambiguous role of so-called medical populism as it has played out during the Covid epide... Read more

Covid, Polio, and Medical Populism

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond speaks with Patricia Kullberg about the ambiguous role of so-called medical populism as it has played out during the Covid epidemic and earlier during the mid-twentieth century polio epidemic in this country. Medical populism often rises up out of legitimate gr... Read more

Portland International Raceway's Lethal Pollution

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Because of its toxicity, the sale of leaded gasoline in passenger cars was banned by the EPA in 1996. But its use was still allowed for “off-road” vehicles, such as farm machinery, marine engines and race cars. There are more than a dozen major race tracks around the United... Read more

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

Airs at: Fri, 07/28/2023 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

Medea Benjamin on the Ukraine war, U.S. politics and how to build a more effective peace movement

Airs at: Wed, 07/26/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Paul welcomes Code Pink co-founder and peace activist Medea Benjamin to his show seven months after her appearance last December. She'll bring us her perspective on where the Ukraine conflict stands, and then discuss the politics in the White House and Congress, the p... Read more

Blair Bobier on Ranked Choice Voting

Airs at: Thu, 07/20/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guest this week is attorney Blair Bobier of Oregon Ranked Choice Voting. They got the state legislature to put RCV on the ballot! How did ORC do it and how does it affect you? Read more

Radiozine on 07/20/23

Airs at: Thu, 07/20/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Karen James speaks with Larry Turner, co-founder of Fresh Out Community Based Re-Entry Program, and Wilford Johnson, Fresh Out alumni and peer mentor. Individuals who release from prison often return to underserved communities and face many barriers that make successfu... Read more

Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely. Like all elephants, Happy has a complex mind and a deep social, intellectual, and emotional life; she desires to make choices and has a sense of s... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 24, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Left and the Law on the Supreme Court: On June 29th, the Court delivered on the long standing goal of rightwing politicians to overturn affirmative action. In deciding against Harvar... Read more

Then and Now in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 07/24/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Right-wing demagogues in the mold of Donald Trump or the Ku Klux Klan gain traction when there are underlying economic insecurities and cultural resentments they can exploit. That’s true today and it has been true before in the state of Oregon, as historian Jeffrey LaLande ... Read more