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Volunteers of America Feature

Airs at: Thu, 11/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
There is a jewel buried amongst the businesses and warehouses of SE Portland. Volunteers of America Oregon operates a facility that helps women rise out of addiction into a better life and helps moms improve life for their kids. This is not your parent's VOA. These days... Read more

Dispatches Against Displacement: understanding and resisting gentrification

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with James Tracy, author of "Dispatches Against Displacement: field notes from San Francisco's housing war". They consider what gentrification is as an economic and by extension racialized form of domination, how different cities experience gentrification ... Read more

Well-read Red: Gentrification, Class Domination, and Racism

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reads from an essay by Gavin Mueller in Jacobin, as well as from other sources, to argue that gentrification is not simply a cultural change in a neighborhood, but instead is driven by economic forces and backed by state power.   But those forces can be collect... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 13, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode about public health and our vulnerability to epidemics like Ebola, gentrification as colonialist legacy, and racial perceptions of crime. Musical selections from Hazel Dickens, Leon Rosselson, James Talley, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Bill... Read more

Gentrification and the Right to the City

  The well-read red has been reading about gentrification, as well as seeing plenty of it.    Despite what we often hear in mainstream media, gentrification is not simply a cultural change in a neighborhood, and not simply a matter of individual choices.  Rather, it involve... Read more

Save Saint Francis Park

Airs at: Wed, 09/17/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Saint Francis Park on southeast twelfth avenue in Portland, which has served as a haven for many people in the area, has been sold to Catholic Charities. The non-profit group will bulldoze the park and construct a housing development for low-income Portlanders in its place. ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for 18 August 2014

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts this episode, with segments on police violence in Honduras, Ferguson, and Palestine, and on a local non-profit nourishing bodies and communities in Portland. Musical selections: Sound of da Police by KRS One; Call the Cops by Rob Hustle ft. Liv; Tired ... Read more

Sisters of the Road: nourishing community

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with volunteer and board member Robert Adams and co-manager Kris Soebroto of the non-profit Sisters of the Road Cafe in Old Town, which for nearly 35 years has been serving immediate needs and seeking systemic change. The Cafe offers hot meals in exchange ... Read more

Rami Almeghari - update from Gaza

Airs at: Wed, 07/30/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
On Wednesday July 30th, the Palestinian Ministry of Health voiced outraged at a new massacre of civilians perpetrated during the so-called humanitarian ceasefire this afternoon. Israeli forces said they would stop the bombing that has been constant for the last two days fo... Read more

Portland Police Stop Tracking Use of Force on Transients

Airs at: Thu, 06/26/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Denis Theriault of the Portland Mercury discusses how the Portland Police Bureau has stopped making public their data on use of force against "transients." Read more