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Old Mole Variety Hour June 2 2014

Airs at: Mon, 06/02/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Phyllis Bennis about US Foreign Policy, both criticizing the Obama administration's two-faced approach and offering a Do No Harm alternative. Iven Hale offers a commentary by way of personal story about communit... Read more

May 28th is International Menstrual Hygiene Day

Airs at: Fri, 05/23/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Urmila Chanam, Indian activist has organized a campaign to raise awareness about the situation rural women and girls face in India around menstrual hygiene. Her campaign "Celebrate the Red Droplets" invites all of us to break the silence, to banish taboos, myths and shame a... Read more

19 May 2014 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode, which includes a discussion of the fight for the $15/hour minimum wage in Portland and beyond, a report on economics students around the world demanding alternatives to failed neoclassical orthodoxies, a review of a memoir of life in the West,... Read more

Title IX and campus rape

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile, Director of the Gender Studies Program at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, regarding the use of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act (which guarantees an equal right to education) to address problems of sexual assault on college cam... Read more

La Grande Domestic Violence Shelter Faces Demolition

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A domestic violence shelter in La Grande Oregon is facing closure to make way for a new county courthouse in Union county. Shelter From The Storm filed a litigation suit in April to seek resolutions that would minimize the impact of construction on the group’s facility. ... Read more

Andrew Geller interviews Ralph Nader on his latest book, Unstoppable

Airs at: Fri, 05/09/2014 at 12:00am
Andrew Geller speaks with long-time political activist, lecturer and author Ralph Nader about his latest book, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour May 5 2014

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts (and Kate Welch engineers) this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour (foreshortened because of membership-drive). We hear about socialist feminism for revolutionary change in the 21st Century, organizing within what Arun Gupta calls "the Walmart working-cl... Read more

Johanna Brenner on Revolutionary Socialist Feminism for the 21st Century

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reads from an article written by Johanna Brenner for the webzine of Solidarity-US. Brenner starts by arguing that "Socialist-feminists start where most feminists begin: the emancipation of women must come from women ourselves, but cannot be achieved by ourselve... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 28 April 2014

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode on Politics, Poetry, and Prisons. Bill Resnick interviews Mike Parker of the Richmond Progressive Alliance about Chevron and city government. Joe Clement talks with Tamara Lynne and Daisy Montague of Living Stages about their upcoming working-c... Read more

Increasing Incarceration of Women and Girls in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale and Frann Michel report on a Partnership for Safety and Justice panel discussion about the increasing incarceration of women and girls in Oregon. Panelists included Piper Kerman of Orange is the New Black fame; Fariborz Pakseresht, Director of the Oregon Youth Au... Read more