Environment/Climate

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David Walker Interview

Airs at: Tue, 09/30/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
David Walker is a non-affiliated candidate running for the US House in Oregon's 3rd District. He talked with Don Merrill about his proposal to create 10 million jobs a year, why infrastructure needs may not always be as urgent as they are portrayed and why he says if Mea... Read more

Eric Holder's terrible tenure

Airs at: Mon, 09/29/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads Dave Lindorf's biting critique of Eric Holder's role in serving the ruling elite as Attorney General, a post which he is resigning from to go back to serving as a corporate lawyer. Read more

Jason Levin Interview

Airs at: Tue, 09/30/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Jason Levin is a Pacific Green candidate vying for Oregon's Governor. He talked with Don Merrill about why he believes politics is a mud pit, how he says Oregon media and corporate interests are excluding him from debates by not donating to his campaign and why he says ... Read more

Aelea Christofferson Interview

Airs at: Tue, 09/30/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Aelea Christofferson is a Democrat running for the US House in Oregon's 2nd District. She talked with Don Merrill about how Cover Oregon's problems really lay with the Oregon Health Authority, how she as a white woman would've never suffered the same police injustices ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 22, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
As "world leaders" meet at the UN to discuss climate change and 400 thousand march for action in New York and here in Portland, today's Old Mole, hosted by Tom Becker, discuss the prospects for change the leaders ignore: action from the grass roots.  Here are links to th... Read more

A People's Movement Assembly in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Inspired by the World Social Forum in Port Alegre, Brazil in 2005, community organizing movements have formed around the world and throughout the US.  One of them is the Pacific Nortwest Social Forum which will be holding a People's Movement Assembly here in Portland thi... Read more

Climate and the Logic of Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Some liberal economists have suggested that stopping climate change is an easy fix: it would be good for the economy, and we have the technology.  But that ignores the political question of who controls the policy making institutions, as Rob Urie argues in this article f... Read more

Report from Flood Wall Street

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sunday's big Climate Change March was followed up on Monday with a more militant action, Flood Wall Street at which a hundred arrests were made.  In this Old Mole exclusive, Jan Haaken talks in real time with Diana Rempe, a Portland community psychologist, as she walks i... Read more

Climate Change and the United Nations

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What are governments doing, and not doing, about climate change, and what can we expect from the UN Summit Conference on Climate Change this week?  Janet Redman, who studies and writes about climate policy at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks with the Old Mole's Bi... Read more

Paul Evans Interview

Airs at: Sun, 09/21/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Paul Evans is a Working Families and Democratic candidate. He is running for Oregon State Representative in District 20. He talks with Don Merrill about how as a candidate for both parties he has to sometimes walk the line between ideologies, the need to return the pol... Read more