Government/Politics

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Old Mole Variety Hour July 18th 2022

Airs at: Mon, 07/18/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole This week on the Old Mole we launch the first re-broadcast of alternative radio from Against the Grain hosted by Sasha Lilley and C.S Soong on KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkley, California. ATG is a program of ideas, in-depth... Read more

Oath Keepers, the Bundys, and the Capitol Insurrection

Airs at: Thu, 07/14/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
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Organizing for Philippine solidarity

Airs at: Wed, 07/13/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Today's guests are Copeland Downs and Gabe Penk. Downs is a member of the Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (PCHRP), a grassroots organization committed to defending human rights and building a just and lasting peace in the Philippines.  Penk is ... Read more

Why I Don't Celebrate July 4th & the SCOTUS Attack on Tribal Sovereignty

Airs at: Thu, 07/07/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
The Supreme Court upended two hundred years of settled law regarding criminal jurisdiction in Indian country last week in Castro-Huerta v. Oklahoma. In an opinion stemming from the McGirt case, the shocking decision asserted that there is a presumption of state criminal jur... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 11, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Artwork by Kellen Trenal. Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following segments: Land and Language in Indian Country: Nimiipuu/Nez Perce Mole Julian Ankney, coming to you from Lapwai, Idaho reads a poem by C. Marie Fuhrman on land a... Read more

No More Gun Violence

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Want to reduce gun violence to stop mass shootings? Things can be done. Cesar Chelala offers a list of actions to reduce gun violence, but concludes with the observation: We need to move from a culture of violence to a culture of peace. Stranger things have happened. Chelal... Read more

Jan 6 and the Left

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss the January 6th Committee's investigation of Trump and his cronies and the implications of the Committee hearings for the Left, including in assessing the impact of riveting televised January 6th hearin... Read more

Does Portland Need More Industrial Land?

Airs at: Mon, 07/11/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Portland and other Oregon municipalities are required to inventory their employment land periodically as part of the comprehensive planning process.  For decades the city has decided during each inventory process that it needs more industrial land. In the past, Portland ann... Read more

Investigation finds many Portland homeless camps are posted twice or more before a sweep

Airs at: Wed, 06/22/2022 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  A new investigation from Street Roots found that many homeless camps in Portland that are posted for a sweep are actually posted two to three times before the sweep actually happens.  It makes it difficult for unhoused folks to know what to expect, and it makes it diffi... 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