Education

Douglas County Residents Respond to Roseburg Shooting

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

On the morning of October 1, a gunman entered Umpqua Community College in Roseburg and killed at least ten people and injured twenty before being killed by law enforcement. Residents of Douglas County are still in shock over today’s events but they are pulling together. ... Read more

Movie Moles on Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss the new documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. The film opens in Portland next week at the Hollywood theatre with a benefit event for the NAACP. Noting the impossibility of fully addressing all the ma... Read more

Report: Stifling Dissent: How Israel’s Defenders Use False Charges of Anti-Semitism to Limit the Debate over Israel on Campus

Airs at: Wed, 09/30/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

Two new reports were released today documenting a widespread campaign on college campuses across the U-S to stifle free speech on the issue of Israel and Palestine. The first report, co-authored by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the group Palestine Legal, exam... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 21, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick hosts this show featuring music about love and a better world by Michael Jackson. The segments of the show are these: Journalist Arun Gupta talks with Bill Resnick about gentrification and the role of teachers' unions in resisting it. Jan Haaken expla... Read more

Changing Cities and Teachers' Unions

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about how Portland, along with many other cities, is changing as it gentrifies the core and pushes poorer people out to the periphery. They also discuss the leading role that teachers' unions can have in organizing against these changes... Read more

Upside Downtrodden - episode 121

Airs at: Tue, 09/01/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Upside Downtrodden

EPISODE 121 TOPIC: COMMUNICATION EPISODE 121 SEGMENTS: JUSTWORTHY CAUSE - IAMFC.ORG, WORDS TO LIVE BY EPISODE 121 GUEST: ISAAK EGGE We live in a world of make-believe, instituti... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 24, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this episode with segments featuring Jeremy Brecher on Climate Insurgency, Denise & Joe on Housing Justice, and readings on the cost of low wages and the radical promise of Reconstruction. Bill talks with Jeremy Brecher about Climate Insurgency. Tom read... Read more

Radical Reconstruction

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge reads from a piece by Alex Gourevitch in the current issue of Jacobin "Our Forgotten Labor Revolution" arguing that the Reconstruction of the South following the Civil War was ended because its promise of freedom was threatening to go beyond the aboli... Read more

A People Curriculum for the Earth

Airs at: Mon, 08/17/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick interviews Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart on their new book *A People's Curriculum for the Earth*—a project focused on teaching students about the environmental crisis and climate justice. This edited volume features some of the best articles from *Rethinki... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 17, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 08/17/2015 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick interviews Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart on their new book "A People's Curriculum for the Earth". Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile about the controversy over Planned Parenthood clinics and the sale of fet... Read more