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Political Music, Folk & Punk

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick and Jeff Huntz discuss the debts of punks like Jello Biafra to radical folk like Phil Ochs. You can hear the original Phil Ochs version of Love Me I'm a Liberal here, and the Jello Biafra / Mojo Nixon cover version here. Image of Phil Ochs By Kenneth Tash... Read more

The Exodus: How It Happened and Why It Matters

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

Many of us have grown up watching The Ten Commandments on television. Each year we would watch Charlton Heston kill an Egyptian, rescue Midianite damsels, confront the Pharaoh with amazing miracles and the lead the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and through the Red Sea.... Read more

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Today we spend the hour with historian, author and activist Gerald Horne and his new critically praised book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. Headlines on... Read more

Richard Gage AIA, The Activist Architect

Airs at: Mon, 02/12/2018 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911truth) now has nearly three thousand professional engineers and architects calling for a new investigation into the destruction of the three World Trade Center towers on 9/11. Founder of AE911Truth, Richard Gage, AIA talks ab... Read more

Against the looting of Africa: Patrick Bond

Airs at: Thu, 02/15/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: Fight the Empire

Fight the Empire's Per Fagereng welcomes Patrick Bond, professor of political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand Wits School of Governance. His research interests include political economy, environment, social policy, and geopolitics. Bond writes in The Chan... Read more

Buscando America on 02/06/18

Airs at: Tue, 02/06/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

Desde la Ciudad de Oaxaca, conoce a Griselda Sámchez Lluvia Obsidiana autora de Coco Dulce, un documento sonoro sobre la resistencia Garífuna en Honduras. Read more

Cutting Corporate Taxes: Richard Wolff

Airs at: Tue, 02/06/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Corporations are riding high in the saddle. With their friends in Washington they are raking it in. That certainly is the case with the tax law passed by Congress in late 2017. If you look at the details it is warmed over trickle-down economics. While most workers will g... Read more

Animator Gail Noonan

Airs at: Thu, 02/15/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Gail Noonan's short films celebrate human relations and the natural world with a sweeping range of artistic techniques, from collage to stop-motion animation. Her work cuts against the grain with humor and heart, tackling themes of justice and liberation, poetry and sex... Read more

Winter Festival Lineup

Airs at: Thu, 02/08/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: The Film Show

As winter drizzles on, there are two golden opportunities this month to get out and see the world without leaving Oregon: the Cascade Festival of African Films and the Portland International Film Festival. Ben Popp has been gathering together regional filmmakers for the ... Read more

Celebrating Black Voices in Country Music

Airs at: Sat, 02/03/2018 at 6:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: Swing 'n' Country

February is Black History Month so here at Swing'n'Country we're celebrating the many contributions African-American musicians have made to country music. Hear Leadbelly's early country blues, Chuck Berry's rockabilly sounds, and Stoney Edwards' 1970's hit "She's My Rock".... Read more