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Old Mole Variety Hour on 05/13/13

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
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A People's Budget for Portland

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
While the Mayor and the City Council make plans for cutting services, other members of the community are planning a budget that would increase the services that make for a civilized city.  Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with two activists involved in the People's Budget Pro... Read more

Book Mole: "The Burgess Boys"

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Elizabeth Strout's new novel The Burgess Boys concerns two brothers who must return to their home town to deal with issues they thought they'd left behind.  The novel shows how extraordinary are the lives of ordinary people living ordinary lives when seen through the eye... Read more

Criminalizing Environmental Activism

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Two bills which impose increased penalties on those who take direct action to save trees and endangered species have passed the Oregon House and are on their way to the Senate -- HB 2595 and HB 2596.  Well-read Red Cara Dugas explains what's in them, what's wrong with th... Read more

Queer Documentary Film Festival

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Film maker Deb Tullman, co-director of Born This Way, talks with the Old Mole's Denise Morris about her film and Q-Doc -- Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival which is happening this weekend.  Here is all the relelvant festival info.  Born This Way  takes place in Ca... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 13, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode, which includes:Bill Resnick talks with Megan Hise and Shamus Cooke about the People's Budget Project for Portland.Larry Bowlden reviews Elizabeth Strout's new novel The Burgess Boys.Well-read Red Cara Dugas discusses Oregon bills that woul... Read more

Jason Collins and coming out in the NBA: a discussion with Yasmin Nair

Airs at: Wed, 05/08/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair about NBA player Jason Collins coming out. They use the situation as an opportunity to relfect on what it means to come out and the particular expectations built into this process, about who can come out about what.   Yasmin Nair is a... Read more

Movie Moles: Shift Change

Airs at: Wed, 05/08/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel and Joe Clement review the documentary "Shift Change", directed/produced by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young. The documentary surveys several cooperatively owned and managed businesses, mostly in the United States but also Spain's famous Mondragon. We hear fro... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 05/06/13

Airs at: Mon, 05/06/2013 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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The Vagina Monologues: whose monologues?

Airs at: Mon, 05/06/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale reads from different blog-posts on the Eve Ensler, famous producer of The Vagina Monologues. They are critical of the way that Eve represents other women's voices in her monologues and draw attention to the ways they advance colonialism within feminism. The fea... Read more