Education

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Alyssa Pagan on Fight for 15, #BlackLivesMatter, and Armed PSU Security

Airs at: Wed, 08/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  News In Depth
KBOO's Mic Crenshaw speaks with Alyssa Pagan, an organizer with Don't Shoot Portland, 15 Now, and the PSU Student Union, about the fight for a $15 minimum wage, #BlackLivesMatter, the controversial arming of PSU's security guards, and this weekend's upcoming events to mark ... Read more

Democracy Rising against Capitalism in Greece

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Recently back from the "Democracy Rising" conference in Athens, Frann Michel and Hyung Nam discuss democracy and its contradictions in Greece. (scroll down for the audio link) (Image via GCAS) Here are links to sources for some of the points they mention: Democracy Rising... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for July 20, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan of the Portland Association of Teachers about how things have been going since they won their latest contract Joe Clement reads a pamphlet about organizing a citywide tenants union ... Read more

Portland Association of Teachers: building the schools students deserve

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan of the Portland Association of Teachers, the union representing the teachers of Portland Public Schools. They discuss developments and implementation of their latest contract, settled last year after the union voted to go on strike with... Read more

Itoco Gracia: the Intrepid Principal of Cherryland Elementary

At the United States justice forum in San Jose California this year I had the oppertunity to see Itoco Garcia speak at the Rap Academy PMA. Garcia came from  bi-ricaial parents and spent time in the highlands of Scotland when he was a youngster. Landing in 3rd grade in the ... Read more

Education: No Cure for Poverty

Airs at: Mon, 07/13/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Gordon Lafer talks with the Old Mole’s Bill Resnick about why education and training programs will not put a dent in the unemployment rate.  Lafer is a political economist at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center and the author of The Job Training C... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 8, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 06/08/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this episode and it includes the following, together with music about being poor. 1.  Bill Resnick talks with Tyler Macguiness of the Oregon Center for Public Policy about the extent of child poverty in Oregon and what business leaders are willing, and... Read more

Child Poverty in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 06/08/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Tyler MacGuiness of the Oregon Center for Public Policy explore Child poverty in Oregon. Twenty-five percent of Oregon kids live in destitution, 50% are in ordinary poverty, and 75% of those are in working families. The "business community" has become conce... Read more

Debt as Art

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Cassie Thornton about her use of debt for the last 7 years as a subject for her art-work. She describes how she's sought to concretize debt, explore debt through hypnotherapeutic visualization exercises with others, and in the end how she's gotten inv... Read more

Theory & Practice

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tod Sloan talks with Lara Messersmith-Glavin of the Institute for Anarchist Studies about theory and practice. They consider how theory helps illuminate individually lived experiences as part of larger systems, while also stressing the priority of lived experience in genera... Read more