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Bill Resnick talks with Stephen Zunes about the Iran Negotiations

Airs at: Mon, 04/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Stephen Zunes about the Iran Negotiations, the history of western involvemnt in Iran since the 1953 CIA coup, the current political conflicts in the middle east as about resources and power rather than religious ideology, the strange bedfellows of... Read more

Oregon activists succeed in getting Sodastream labeling changed

Airs at: Thu, 04/02/2015 at 12:00am
A group of Oregon activists have succeeded in forcing an Israeli company to change the labeling on its products. The company is called Sodastream, and it sells a soda-making machine that is popular among do-it-yourselfers. But the Sodastream factory is located on Palestini... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 30, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 03/30/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Mole and features suppressed radical versions of songs that have been turned into patriotic hymns by the mainstream: Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA," "America the Beautiful," and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."   To... Read more

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 P... 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 Vancouv... 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, sh... 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 wor... 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 existi... 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 s... 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... Read more