Portland’s Dan Handleman directs and is a major activist in Portland
Copwatch and Peace and Justice Works. He talks here with Bill Resnick about
why police shootings have decreased over the past 25 years, now averaging 5
per year when it was once about 10. Does Portland the...
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Clayton Morgareidge comments on what we learn about the control of space in
Portland from how the city is dealing with unhoused people living along the
Springwater Corridor and from the plan to house them in a warehouse at
Terminal One.
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Desiree Hellegers interviews Alan Wieder about his new book Studs Terkel:
Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation.
Wieder will be reading from his new book at Broadway Books in Portland
on August 30th at 7 p.m.
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William Boyd’s novel Any Human Heart tells, in a series of intimate
journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer,
spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.
More of Larry's book reviews are here.
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Well-read Red Frann Michel gathers arguments from the left against the
insistence from liberals that we must vote for Hillary Clinton in order to
defeat Donald Trump.
The spectacles of the Republican and Democratic national conventions will
have appalled most KBOO liste...
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“The emancipation of a the working classes,” said Marx, “must be
conquered by the working classes themselves.” All his work was aimed at
empowering the working class with the intellectual tools to do carry out that
self-emancipation and self-rule. Marx never intended his w...
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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole that includes these
pieces:
1. Bill Resnick talks with Dean Hubbs about her book Rednecks, Queers, and
Country Music.
2. Well-read Red Frann Michel critiques the call to vote for Clinton as the
"lesser evil".
3. Clay...
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"Anything but country" is a common answer to the question "What music do you
listen to?", reflecting not just a musical taste but a class bias against the
audience for country music. Dean Hubbs, Professor of Music and Women's
Studies at the University of Michigan, is the au...
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