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Remembering Paul Robeson Senior & Junior

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier remembers the life and work of Paul Robeson Junior, an activist and archivist, but also the son of world-famous black-listed radical singer Paul Robeson Senior. She looks at how Robeson Senior influenced Robeson Junior, but also how Robeson Junior. She reads ... Read more

Arun Gupta on The Walmart Working-Class

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about an article Arun wrote for The Socialist Register about "the Walmart working-class". They discuss the difficulties that both workers face in the low-wage service economy face trying to organize and that unions face in trying to organi... Read more

Johanna Brenner on Revolutionary Socialist Feminism for the 21st Century

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reads from an article written by Johanna Brenner for the webzine of Solidarity-US. Brenner starts by arguing that "Socialist-feminists start where most feminists begin: the emancipation of women must come from women ourselves, but cannot be achieved by ourselve... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 28 April 2014

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode on Politics, Poetry, and Prisons. Bill Resnick interviews Mike Parker of the Richmond Progressive Alliance about Chevron and city government. Joe Clement talks with Tamara Lynne and Daisy Montague of Living Stages about their upcoming working-c... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Mike Parker of the Richmond (CA) Progressive Alliance

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Mike Parker, Progressive Alliance candidate for Mayor of Richmond, California. They discuss Richmond's battles with Chevron over its Richmond refinery, the corporation's failure to pay taxes, the pollution the refinery causes, and the company's attem... Read more

Living Stages Presents Working-Class Poetry Open Mike

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Tamara Lynne and Daisy Montague of Living Stages, a branch of the Theatre of the Oppressed, which will be hosting a Working-Class Poets Open Mike on May 2nd. Theater of the Oppressed was founded by Augusto Boal in Brazil during the dictatorship there ... Read more

KBOO Interviews Hamas' lawyer Stanley Cohen

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Stanley Cohen is a NY based civil rights lawyer, currently facing 18 months in jail for 'obstructing the IRS'. More info available on Stanley Cohen's website Read more

Jerry Greenfield Interview

Airs at: Sat, 04/19/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Jerry Greenfield is one-half of the famous Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.  He was in Portland as part of Ben and Jerry's "Free Ice Cream Day", an event the company holds once a year to thank customers.  He talked with Don Merrill about company subsidaries operating in Israeli s... Read more

Jerry of Ben & Jerry's: "I'm happy they're protesting" company involvement in Israeli settlements

Airs at: Thu, 04/17/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Jerry Greenfield of Ben and Jerry ice cream came to Portland last week for ‘free ice cream day’. But in addition to the line of people who wanted a free ice cream at Pioneer square, Jerry also faced some protesters, who challenged the company’s decision to maintain stores ... Read more

Investigative journalist Michael Ruppert found dead of apparent suicide

Airs at: Tue, 04/15/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Long time investigative journalist and former Los Angeles police officer Michael Ruppert has died of an apparent suicide at the age of sixty three. Ruppert first gained notoriety in 1996 when he showed up at a contentious meeting with C-I-A director John Deutsch.   The ... Read more