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A program of favorite songs and stories are on the menu today. Featured, will be former KBOO News Director Robert Jefferson reading "The Railway Guide" by Christopher Morely, A rememberance of the many railroad lines that connected the towns and cities of America. Listen fo... Read more

For seven years Portland community members have been trying to shut down Zenith Energy, a Houston-based oil company that sneaked into Portland in 2017. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality just opened the public comment period for Zenith’s draft Air Contaminant Di... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Palestine Exception: After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As stud... Read more

Joe Hill was a beloved member of the IWW, a songwriter and activist who is known for such labor classics as “The Preacher and the Slave,” “There is Power in a Union,” and “Rebel Girl.” In 1914 he was convicted of a murder the evidence suggests he did not commit. Tomorrow ma... Read more

What role might be played in political struggle by cultural creations? A new novel, Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, raises this question doubly: both as a novel set in current struggles and in the story it recounts about the contested effort to mount a theatre production in... Read more

After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism o... Read more

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Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations… Playlists available at www.some-assembly-required.net  Read more

This month, we’re exploring queer protest songs. The Invitation, Mary Oliver Rid of Me by PJ Harvey. Uprising of Love by Melissa Etheridge. Inspired by the Russian governments’s violent abuse toward the LGBTQ community, which was only highlighted by the 2014 Winter Olympi... Read more

  Before I share what's on this month's show, I want to address why I'm not presenting a show this month honoring the musical legacy of Phil Lesh, both in and after The Grateful Dead.  I've repeatedly announced this two-part quinquagenary would occur, and I'd feel weird ca... Read more