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Musician's Union Goes Solar

Airs at: Mon, 08/11/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

The Musicians' Union has installed solar panels on its building, and to celebrate, they are throwing a party with music, food, and drink this Sunday, August 17, 3-7 pm, 325 NE 20th Ave. We hear Bill Resnick talking with Pat Oherron, a Portland surgeon and emergency room ph... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour August 4 2014`

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this episode. Musical selections were from: Dead Prez "Police State", Mischief Brew "Free Radical Radio Fever", Killing Capitalism with Kindness "Lost Train", and Beastie Boys "Sabotage". The following links are to the individual segments. The whole show c... Read more

Book Talk: Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut

Airs at: Mon, 08/04/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement and Peter Frase talk about Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano, originally published in 1952. The story of Player Piano is set not too long after WWII, and is about social anxieties and alienation in class society in the shadow of the machines that replace... Read more

Grassroots Campaign Workers Organize for Respect

Airs at: Sat, 08/02/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

Campaign Workers United are fighting for respect at Grassroots Campaign Incorporated. GCI, a national for-profit fundraiser in eighteen cities, contracts with progressive organizations to raise money on the street. All the canvassers at the Portland GCI branch have organi... Read more

ASOTRECOL on the eve of the 3rd anniversary in the tents: interview with Jorge Parra

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Labor Radio

August 1st will mark 3 years of occupation in front of the US embassy in Bogotá for ASOTRECOL, the association of injured autoworkers illegally fired by General Motors in Colombia. Jorge Parra, president of ASOTRECOL, spoke with Labor Radio by phone from Bogotá. For more ba... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 28 July 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

This episode of the Old Mole is hosted by Frann Michel, and features discussions of uses and misuses of media representations--of Gaza (including failures of the mainstream media and the power of visual images), of public education (including misleading stories about charte... Read more

Portland Teachers Improving Education

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick continues his conversation with Gwen Sullivan and Elizabeth Thiel of the Portland Association of Teachers. They discuss the importance of teachers' academic freedom to design classes tailored to the needs of their diverse students, as well as the importance of ... Read more

A Win for Portland Teachers and Students

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Portland's teachers recently won a contract with the School Board enabling them to turn more of their attention to their work. Two leaders of the Portland Association of Teachers Gwen Sullivan and Elizabeth Thiel talk with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how this came a... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 14 July 2014

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

This episode is hosted by Frann Michel, and explores debates over left strategies. The show includes some musical selections from Bitch Magazine's mixtape of American Protest Music, and the individual segments linked below: Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond discuss left perspec... Read more