Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Clayton Morgareidge will host this show and the topics include-- Portlanders working together to improve their neighborhoods: an interview with Mark Lakeman of City Repair; The Greek economic meltdown: Bill Resnick talks with Costas Panayotakis about the battl... Read more

 Costas Panayotakis is an economist, sociologist, ecologist, writer, activist, playwright and actor.  He is the author of Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how austerity policie... Read more

 Here is all you need to know about ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council -- the corporate funded and corporate-run group that writes bills for right-wing legislators to take home and enact into law.  Well-read Red Frann Michel makes it all crystal clear.  You ... Read more

 As the opportunities for paying jobs get fewer as the working-age population grows, more folks are turning to the off-the-books economy.  Clayton Morgareidge reads from this blog post by Laura Flanders about what that might mean for the future of work.   Read more

 Neighbors in Portland are transforming and using the common spaces between homes.  Mark Lakeman, one of the founders of City Repair, talks here with Bill Resnick about the work of his organization and what it means for community life.  They have a wonderful website.   Read more

Many thanks to all you listeners who contributed to KBOO during the Spring Membership Drive!  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole which deals with austerity policies in Greece and around the world, how the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) w... Read more

  Bill Resnick hosts this Membership Drive Special edition of the Old Mole in which he talks with a biologist about what industry, especially agriculture, puts into the air and water we breathe and drink, and what we can do about it. Also on the show, Clayton Morga... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with biologist Lisa Wesal about chemical pollution. Read more

 Joe Clement comments on how KBOO's democratic organization and ownership structure is, as a form of workplace democracy, the true base of progressive social change. Read more

 Bill Resnick reads from a reader-supported news-article by James Hansen, a climate scientist, who argues why the tarsands several groups are looking to extract oil from in Canada will be devestating to the environment. Read more