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The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 25, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this show and this is what it covers: 1.  Desiree Hellegers talks with Cowlitz Tribal members about the threat to their ancentral lands from a mining company. 2. Laurie Mercier and Joe Clement discuss the purpose, strategy and actions of the Portland Te... Read more

Water, Pesticides, and Flint, Michigan

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Dangerous water -- dangerous to our health -- has been in the news lately because of what happened in Flint, Michigan. Major polutants of water include pesticides from industrial agriculture. Jeremy Olsen is Assistant Director at the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pes... Read more

Protecting Cowlitz Tribal Lands from Mining

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers speaks with Cowlitz tribal leadership about the battle to stop the Canadian mining company Ascot Resources, Ltd., from developing a copper, gold, and molybdenum mine in the Green River Valley, northeast of Mount St. Helens. The proposed mine would be on an... Read more

Nine New York Activists call Necessity Defense on behalf of the Environment

Airs at: Thu, 01/21/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  News In Depth
          Here in the Northwest we know about the Delta Five—the five Washington activists who in September blocked a mile-long oil train calling attention to the danger extraction industries have on the environment.  They invoked the Necessity Defense claiming that their a... Read more

Cliff Thomason Interview

Airs at: Thu, 01/14/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Cliff Thomason is a gubenatorial candidate from Oregon's Independent Party. He strongly believes in Oregon agriculture and agricultural based solutions for some of Oregon's financial problems. Among them, he thinks the hemp and marijuana industries need access to legitima... Read more

The Necessity of Disobedience, with guest Tim DeChristopher

Airs at: Wed, 01/13/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
While a group of armed antigovernment militants casually tears down fences and accesses personal and official files in their second week of occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge offices in Eastern Oregon, another group of protestors in Seattle goes on trial for blocking a m... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 11, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom hosts this episode, with music by Bob Dylan and Creedence Clearwater Revival, and discussions of China, Malheur, and Portland. Like us on Facebook!  To listen to the whole show, use the play or download buttons below.  To hear individual segments and find out more, foll... Read more

China's Eco Apocalypse

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with China scholar Richard Smith regarding China's economic and environmental problems. Smith's writing is available on Truthout , including his article on China's Communist-Capitalist Ecological Apocalypse. They discuss the recent crisis in China's eco... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 4, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 01/04/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this edition of the Old Mole. On it we hear  1.  Part Two of Bill Resnick's interview with Mike Houck and Kaitlin Lovell about Portland's Climate Action Plan; 2.  Medea Benjamin's list of ten really good things that happened in 2015 (read by Tom Becker); ... Read more

Deregulatory Bills Pass House of Representatives

Airs at: Thu, 01/07/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Two anti-regulatory bills were approved in House yesterday and today along strongly bipartisan lines. The HB 1155, known as the SCRUB Act, and HB 712, known as the Sunshine for Deregulatory Decrees and Settlements Act, were approved by the Republican majority en-route to a ... Read more