Civil Rights/Human Rights

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Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence Survivor's Stories – Part Two

Airs at: Tue, 07/05/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Transpositive PDX
Please join us for Transpositive PDX on Tuesday, July 5th on KBOO Community Radio as we finish our conversations with Marci Grace Frederic, Nicolette Sandra James, Carer Lee and therpaist Shannon Batts about the topic of sexual abuse and domestic violence in the trans and n... Read more

Decriminalizing People Who Use Drugs

Airs at: Wed, 07/06/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Part two of my conversation with Judy Chang, Executive Director of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD); plus, we talk with Tera Hurst, Executive Director of the Oregon Health Justice Recovery Alliance, about decriminalizat... Read more

What is Democracy?

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel review the Film "What Is Democracy," which played at the Portland International Film Festival in March of 2019. Director Astra Taylor uses interviews and an examination of the politics of immigration in the US and Europe to illuminate... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 4, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this July 4 episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Despair: Disappointed? Disgruntled? Depressed? Demoralized? Despairing? By the Supreme Court decisions? By Trump remaining a viable candidate in 2024? By the police regaining pu... Read more

Balancing The Scales

Airs at: Wed, 06/29/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century: Balancing the Scales - A conversation with Judy Chang, Executive Director of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD). Read more

Oregon Dept. of Corrections: Agency In Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 06/27/2022 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On this edition of Prison Pipeline, part one of an interview with Justin Low, Investigative Research Associate with the Oregon Justice Resource Center and author of a new report from the OJRC entitled "ODOC: Agency In Crisis." Plus we hear from Tera Hurst, Executive Directo... Read more

Election Workers, the Big Lie, and Trump's Hollowing Out of Democracy

Airs at: Thu, 06/23/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
On Tuesday, Georgia election workers, Wandrea "Shay" Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, delivered emotional testimony detailing how a mob of Donald Trump supporters came after them following the 2020 presidential election. This was after then-President Donald Trump and Rudy... Read more

Exploitation, Abuse, and the Substance Use Treatment Industry

Airs at: Wed, 06/22/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
Alexandra Plante, Director of Communications at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, and Professor Carmen Albizu, MD, from the Evaluation and Evaluation Research master’s program at the Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Pue... Read more

In Memoriam, Delores Loann Winston

Airs at: Mon, 06/20/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers memorializes — and we hear excerpts of archival audio of—Delores Loann Winston, a formerly homeless activist with Seattle's WHEEL-Women in Black , and a teenage volunteer in the 1970s with Seattle's Black Panther Breakfast program, who died in May, and who... Read more

Big Pharma and Covid Vaccines

Airs at: Mon, 06/20/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick discusses Big Pharma’s refusal to share the patents for successful Covid vaccines with drug makers across the world, indeed promise to enforce the patents and destroy any company that tries to use the patented production methods. This refusal will surely enhanc... Read more