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Old Mole Variety Hour for March 23, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 03/23/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts and we hear:   Bill Resnick and Robert Naimon talk about Israel and Palestine Desiree Hellegers talks with Dan Serres about the environmental and safety risks of oil-by-train facilities Joe Clement reads a tongue-in-cheeck commentary about the Po... Read more

Dan Serres on oil-by-train dangers

Airs at: Mon, 03/23/2015 at 12:00am
Desiree Hellegers interviews Dan Serres, Conservation Director of the Columbia River Keeper, about the potential environmental and safety impacts of a proposal to site the largest oil-by-rail storage facility in the United States right here in our own backyard in Vancouver,... Read more

Well-read Red: the contradictions of housing under capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-read Red, Frann Michel, offers a set of short readings* on housing as a human right, the contradictions of human need vs. profit, and the success of direct collective action by tenants in establishing housing as a truly public good. In addition to these readings, she m... Read more

Studs Turkel Documentary: working-class intellectuals & third-party politics

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Every second Monday of the month, Alan Wieder presents a short documentary on the life and times of radical radio commentator and oral historian Studs Turkel, including clips of his work or else of him speaking. This month looks at the influence of wobblies and other workin... Read more

Al Weinrub on Clean Energy Part 2

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
This is the second half of Bill Resnick's talk with clean energy activist, Al Weinrub. The first half played last week. They discussed community energy, which are networks of small scale networked solar and wind installations all over the city and connected by the existing ... Read more

Washington County Board Votes to Close Clinics

Airs at: Thu, 02/26/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
On Tuesday, February 24, the Washington County Board of Commissioners votes unanimously to proceed with a plan to close the last two public health clinics in the county and move those services to non-governmental providers. Health and Human Services director Marni Kuyl says... Read more

Stop the TPP! protest outside Senator Ron Wyden's house

Airs at: Fri, 02/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Labor, environmental, and community rights groups across the country, including here in Portland, are in the midst of a week of activism to bring attention to efforts by some U.S. senators to fast-track the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership through Congress. The Trans-Pa... Read more

Climate Change and Social Dislocation

Airs at: Mon, 02/16/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Christian Parenti talks with Bill Resnick about his latest book Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence.  It traces ·       the collapse of many countries under the pressures of neo-colonialism and neo-liberalism that extract resources and   keep t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 9, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode dealing with the crushing debt owed by poor nations to wealthy financial institutions; a new novel about a Chinese-American girl; and how ideas of child rearing intersect with ideas about social welfare. We also hear a discussion of KBOO's ... Read more

Debt and the Exploitation of Poor Countries

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jubilee USA is an organization working to expose and reverse the debt loads that cripple the economies of many poor nations. The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with Jubilee's director Eric LeCompte about how this debt was incurred and how Jubilee works to challenge the big l... Read more