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Jeff Shantz on Especifismo and Anarchist Organizing

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Jeff Shantz about anarchist organizing, particularly Especifismo in South America. He explains the origins of anarchist organizing and "platformism", relating those to innovations brought by the especifista, namely social insertion. Jeff Shantz is ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 07/29/13

Airs at: Mon, 07/29/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Israel and Palestine: New Talks

Airs at: Mon, 07/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The US is again promoting peace talks between the Israeli government and Palestinian leaders.  Is there a way beyond the current impasse?  Roane Carey is the author of The New Intifada and The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent, and he talks here with the Old Mo... Read more

The New Jim Crow

Airs at: Mon, 07/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What can we in Portland do to end the continuing forms of racism identified by Michele Alexander in her book The New Jim Crow?  Cara Dugas reports on last week's meeting  sponsored by the Portland International Socialist Organization and The Portland Campaign to End the ... Read more

Power of Community Radio

Airs at: Mon, 07/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The history of community radio in the US has a long history going back to the late 1940s, and is woven into the political context of its changing times -- from the Cold War and McCarthyism to Berkeley Free Speech Movement,  the anti-nuke movement of the 1970s and the Occ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 29, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 07/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts this episode of the Mole, dealing with the upcoming US sponsored Israeli-Palistinian talks, what's happening in Portland to confront "the new Jim Crow," and some history of community radio including KBOO.To hear the whole show, use the play button below. ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 07/22/13

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Frann Michel hosts the July 22, 2013 episode of the Mole, and we hear fromBill Resnick talking with an expert on Egypt and left responsesBook mole Larry Bowlden reviewing Susanna Moore's novel, The Life of Objects (first published in 2012)Joe Clement interviewing wobblie... Read more

Putting the Pub in Public and the Public in the Pub: A Worker-Controlled Venture

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement discusses a movie mole review of the documentary Shift Change on worker-owned cooperatives, and talks with Adam and Daisy about their plans for a collectively-owned and -run pub in Portland.For more information or to make suggestions, attend a potluck in Laur... Read more

Book Mole: The Life of Objects

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Susanna Moore's novel The Life of Objects. It's about WWII seen through the eyes of a poor young Irish woman who is invited to the home of a wealthy German family to make lace. It begins in 1938. The family (though previously politically i... Read more

Yasmin Nair on ENDA

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and its limits. They discuss changes in the current version of the law and its assumptions about the innate nature of sexual identity and the kinds of trans* presentation it would protect. N... Read more