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Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by Joe Clement, this show covers recent developments in Italian politics, experiences in public healthcare, challenges to voting rights laws in the Supreme Court, and why economic justice is an issue for LGBT activists.  To hear the whole show, use the play button be... Read more

Being a Public Healthcare Worker

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
in this personal account, Old Mole Iven Hale recounts some harrowing experiences as a community healthcare worker trying to help folks who are doubly challenged with both serious illness and poverty. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 18th 2013

Airs at: Mon, 02/18/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Iven Hale hosts this President's Day episode. Please note that an unforseen glitch in the recording clipped the first 30 or so seconds from the beginning. Once it can be recovered it will be re-inserted. All that was lost was the intro-music and some of Iven's opening rem... Read more

Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival

Airs at: Mon, 02/18/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Alan Wieder talks with Marcia Meyers, founder of Rethinking Psychiatry. They discuss the organization and it's mission to educate people about the diversity of ways to deal with emotional disturbances, as well as interrogate the money-making and exploitive motivations behin... Read more

Big Pharma = Bad Science

Airs at: Mon, 02/18/2013 at 12:00am
 Bill Resnick talks with Ben Goldacre about the pharmaceutical industry's influence on science research. He points out that because clinical trials don't have to be published, there's a remarkable bias in favor of pharmeceutical manufacturers. He talks about the deleterious... Read more

Dr. Yolanda Whyte Speaks on the Effects of Fluoridated Water on Children

Airs at: Tue, 02/12/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Lecture Room
Yolanda Whyte, MD, is a pediatrician from Atlanta, Georgia, who has given several speeches characterizing fluoride as a health risk to children, African-American and Hispanic communities, and people with diabetes and kidney disease.Here is her lecture at Portland State Univ... Read more

comments on young white men with guns

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel offers some comments on recent gun violence, with links here. Read more

Living with Suicidal Feelings

Airs at: Wed, 12/12/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Guest host Will Hall takes listener calls on the topic of  living with suicidal feelings and the effect of the holidays. Read more

December 12th HEARING FOR COAL TRAINS THROUGH COLUMBIA GORGE AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON

HEARING FOR COAL TRAINS THROUGH COLUMBIA GORGE AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON--Peabody and SSAMarine’s Gateway Pacific (Bellingham) proposal: 54 million tons of coal per year. Wednesday, December 12th, Rally at 3pm, Hearing 4-7 pm; Clark College Gaiser Student Center, 1933 Fort V... Read more

Spokane Residents Protest Coal Export Terminal

Airs at: Wed, 12/05/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 Close to a thousand activists opposing coal exports turned out at a public hearing in Spokane yesterday to voice concerns to the Army Corps of Engineers. Another public hearing in Boardman Oregon last night brought in over two hundred coal opponents. They c... Read more