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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 29, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 12/29/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken hosts this episode and we hear: In addition to music and spoken word pieces, Jan Haaken comments on the relationship between Kwanzaa's values and socialist struggle in Africa Bill Resnick talks Karen Connelly and Terra O'Neill about the progressive case f... Read more

Sleep Dealer and Work Without Workers

Airs at: Mon, 12/29/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads from Jason Read's review of Sleep Dealer, which he wrote for The Portland Phoenix. Sleep Dealer is a recent sci-fi dystopia in Spanish about a near future where robots are operated from afar by desperate Mexican workers. Jason writes about how he got to ta... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 22, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this show dealing with several struggles for freedom and respect against forces of repression and exploitation.  To hear the whole show, click on the play button below. For individual segments, follow these links: 1. Walmart worker and organizer Martha Sell... Read more

Border Patrol North of the Border

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Early in December, residents of Arivaca, Arizona marked the one-year anniversary of their campaign calling for the removal of the inland Border Patrol immigration checkpoints that have come to circle their small rural community. Residents held a 24-hour candlelit vigil at t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 1, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 12/01/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this week's episode of The Old Mole Variety Hour which includes these segments: • Bill Resnick interviews PCUN co-founder Larry Kleinman about immigration politics. • Frann Michel reads an article by Robin D.G. Kelley • Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker ta... Read more

Larry Kleinman on Immigration

Airs at: Mon, 12/01/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Larry Kleinman. Kleinman is co-founder of the Oregon Farm Workers union PCUN and is now working nationally on the immigrants rights struggle and preparing for changes in the law. They talk about Obama's recent very controversial Executive Order as we... Read more

Arresting Power - A Documentary Film about Police violence and resistance in Portland OR

Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon uses archival materials, documentary footage and interviews with community members, activists and organizers to uncover Portland’s unique history of policing and race relations, emphasizing its rich history of r... Read more

Well-read Red: Gentrification, Class Domination, and Racism

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reads from an essay by Gavin Mueller in Jacobin, as well as from other sources, to argue that gentrification is not simply a cultural change in a neighborhood, but instead is driven by economic forces and backed by state power.   But those forces can be collect... Read more

Francisco Aguirre - in sanctuary at Augustana Lutheran Church

Airs at: Fri, 09/26/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A Portland community leader facing deportation has spent the last seven days in sanctuary at a local church. Francisco Aguirre from the Voz worker rights center headed to the Augustana Lutheran church with a group of his supporters after ICE agents showed up at his door. He... Read more

Karamatzoh Père

Airs at: Mon, 09/01/2014 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/02/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Audio Comix
Welcome to another exciting episode of the 1930s radio play, The Brothers Karamatzoh – the story of a mediocre comedy team from New York City.  The Karamatzoh Brothers are to the Ritz Brothers what the Ritz Brothers are to the Marx Brothers.  And, if you've never heard of t... Read more