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Pros & Cons of Obamacare: Organizing Toward Single-Payer

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Chris Lowe, who is an activist with the Portland Jobs with Justice Healthcare Committee , and is chair of the Legislation and Policy Committee of the Health Care for All - Oregon Coalition (which can be reached at 503-256-5573). They discuss the be... Read more

Abe looks at the resurgence of nullification.

Airs at: Tue, 07/03/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is on vacation.   In the decades before the Civil War, the southern states resisted federal authority by way of the doctrine of nullification, which holds that an individual state has the right to invalidate any federal law which it has ... Read more

"Healthism"

For the Old Mole Variety Hour, July 2, 2012 The term "healthism" is used in two different ways. In the more neutral or positive sense, it just refers to self-care, and if you do a web search for "healthism," some of the sites you'll find simply offer information about nutr... Read more

Sexual Trauma and Generative Somatic Healing

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Madness Radio
 Hosted by Will Hall Today's guest is Sexual Abuse Survivor and Generative Somatic Healing Practitioner, Staci Haines,   We'll talk about Healing Sex, and somatic aproaches to healing trauma.  She is also active at Generation Five, whose goal is to elaminate Child Sexual Ab... Read more

Dr. Elson Haas and The Detox Diet

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Healthwatch
Hosted by Dr. David Naimon.  Dr. Elson Haas, the founder and director of one of the first multdiscipline, integrative medical clinics in California, discusses the benefits of fasting, juice-cleansing and other detoxifcation diets.  Whether you are fatigued, consume caffeine... Read more

Author Anthony Swofford on his new memoir HOTELS, HOSPITALS, AND JAILS

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview former Portlander Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead, a memoir of his time in the marines. They'll discuss his new book Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir, a journey of despair and redemption chronicling the years after h... Read more

Portland's first-ever EcoSex Symposium changes "Earth as Mother" to "Earth as Lover"

Airs at: Wed, 06/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Recovery Zone
What is EcoSex? How can it help us to heal ourselves? Heal our planet? What happens when the Earth becomes our lover, rather than our mother? EcoSex Symposium Portland 2012, happening June 29-July 1, will be exploring this new form of earth activism in a venue that includes... Read more

The Challenge to Obamacare & Single Payer Alternative

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Gerald Friedman about the political challenge to Obamacare, but also why something like Medicare-for-all is necessary for the future. He argues that our healthcare system has become financially unsustainable because of exploding administrative costs ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour June 25th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole. We hear about the challenge to Obamacare and the single-payer alternative, the pitfalls of mainstream unionism, a movie review of Spike Lee's 1999  "Summer of Sam", and an update on Julian Assange.   Bill Resnick talks with Gerald Free... Read more

Jerry Flanagan of Consumer Watchdog on the Supreme Court's healthcare decision

Airs at: Tue, 06/26/2012 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor. Joe Uris is on vacation. It's a big week for the Supreme Court. Monday's decisions on Arizona's "Papers, Please" law and mandatory minimum sentences for juveniles are a prelude to the big one -- a decision on the Affordable Care Act, expected later t... Read more