Reconstructing Rodney King.

April 30 2012: It's been twenty years since the verdict that sent communities all over the country into spontaneous rage that unexpectedly, spontaneously, disappeared.

I remember that day so well. Berkeley was under curfew and very tense in the general outrage following the King verdict, and for several tortuous days the man in the eye of the storm had been silent.

And then he spoke. Rodney King's simple words aired live as I was driving to KPFA to engineer Mama O'Shea's program. He didn't speak well, and it was a little hard to make out over my crappy car stereo, but when I turned it all the way up, I heard Rodney King ask the perfect question, to which we still have no answer: "Can we all get along?"

Even though this has become a famous question and/or punchline, and maybe even historically important, it's hard to find a full version of his short speech that day. I tried to tell the whole story in this video. This YouTube video has elicited more racist comments than I ever dreamt I could provoke. But I remember how it went down, my friend. This is how I see it. -- Janice Leber

A heavy-metal love song for the Portland bike swarm.

If you don't know what the bike swarm is, this video should tell you what you need to know.

There is something wrong with this joke.*

A liberal, a moderate, and a conservative walk into a bar.

The bartender says, "Hi, Mitt!"

*Mitt would NEVER walk into a bar.

Build your own GOP candidate!
(A Flash game where you can take the parts you like from this year's Republican crop)

Chopped Liver videos about activism:
Walk Like An Egyptian (2011)
Tiananmen Square (China My China, 2009)
Kent State (Flowers and Bullets, 2010)
This Is Why We Fight (2010)

Articles about Occupy Portland from the Daily Censored:
Jan. 30: Portland Police Confiscate Childhood Dream (The story of DiscoTrike)
Nov. 13: The Education and Evolution of Occupy Portland
Nov. 17: Who Are The Occupiers?
Dec. 5: Bikeswarm: Modern Urban Guerilla Tactic

Who Are We?
September 22 2011: Three executions in two days. That seems excessive -- especially when one of those condemned men, Troy Davis, was quite likely innocent. At least there was plenty of room for doubt. But there's no doubt about one thing: He's dead now.

How can you love a country that kills its own citizens? They do this in our name. They make us all accomplices to murder.

I wasn't always against the death penalty. I had to think about it for about 30 years.

Mama O'Shea is BACK, baby!

September 12 2011: We have a complete set of the existing recordings of Mama O'Shea's call-in show from the 70's, 80's and 90's, "Shoutin' Out with Mama O'Shea," and we vowed long ago to make them available to the world via our web site. We've released a few dribs and drabs, but today we are thrilled to announce six complete episodes are now online, and there are plenty more to come now that we've figured out how to do this.

We tried to pick shows that would be relevant to today's world, but that wasn't too hard. Mama and her listeners brought up a lot of issues that still plague us today (only more so). There were solutions then, and some of the suggestions from 20+ years ago are definitely still worth a try.

Check out our Mama O'Shea page for all our Mama cuts. Below are the brand new episodes: