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Old Mole Variety Hour for November 18, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 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: 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

In Tribute to Joe Hill

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
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

Palestinian Novel

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
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

Will Trump try to re-colonize Indian country? With co-host Jacqueline Keeler

Airs at: Wed, 11/13/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Amongst all the other depredations a Trump administration is likely to inflict on us, he threatens to roll back a half-century of Native self-determination. From declaring that he will abolish the Interior Department, which includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs and has b... Read more

Pioneering Portland indie filmmaker Penny Allen

Airs at: Thu, 11/14/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Penny Allen, author of the new novel This Rescue Thing. Penny is best known as a filmmaker, whose roots as a Portland activist led to her writing, directing, and producing her first two features: Property, a Sundance Festival prize winner, in ... Read more

Decolonizing Coca

Airs at: Wed, 11/20/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Decolonizing Coca. The nations of Colombia and Bolivia held an event at the United Nations in New York on November 7th to challenge the negative connotation attributed to the coca plant. The event was entitled "Beyond Declassification:... Read more

Getting Deep On the History of Games and Play with Stephen Jacobs

Airs at: Tue, 11/19/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Winner's Bias
James and Nate talk with Stephen Jacobs, a Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Interactive Games and Media and Scholar in Residence at The Strong National Museum of Play. We talk about how one finds themself as a scholar of games and play, the origina... Read more

Unpacking November 5

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
 What the hell just happened? The guests are Ani Haines and Teresa Mitchell. We’re unpacking the future. Read more

Who Goes There? with Lady Voltaire on 11/07/24

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2024 at 3:00am - 5:30am
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS, A NOVEL, by Sidney Morrison

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
     Author Sidney Morrison joins us to discuss his book, Frederick Douglass:  a Novel, about the man considered the most prominent African American of the 19th century.  Frederick Douglass was instrumental in ending the institution of slavery from which he escaped to becom... Read more