Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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Left and the Law: First Amendment Rights

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Climate activists preparing for direct action in September need to know their rights under the First Amendment. But what are those rights and how do the fascists also enlist the First Amendment in defense of their hate campaigns? Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken talk abou... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 26, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Clayton Morgareidge will host this episode of the Mole which includes these segments: Bill Resnick interviews a local housing activist Margo Black about rents, evictions, and homelessness Desiree Hellegers brings voices in protest of closing the Columbia Pool and oth... Read more

Housing, Rents, Evictions, Homelessness

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with Margot Black of Tenants United about how rents go up as wages go down and what that means for middle and low-income families.  Photo: 24Housing Read more

Book Review "Other Men's Daughters"

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Larry Bowlden reviews a newly republished novel by Richard Stern that is beautifully written in spite of its sexist assumptions. More of Larry's reviews can be found here. Read more

With Black Portlanders Already at Higher Risk of Drowning, Portland Moves to Close Columbia Pool Amid Cuts to Parks and Recreation.

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Is Portland is poised to begin privatizing pools, parks and recreation centers? Field Mole Desiree Hellegers talks with union organizers, activists and community members--including actor and jazz and Gospel singer  Marilyn Keller-- about the pending loss of 70 union jobs... Read more

Closing the Columbia Pool

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Field Mole Desiree Hellegers talks with union organizers, activists and community members about the city wide impacts of cuts to Portland Parks and Recreation, and about what activists are doing to push back against the slated closure of Columbia Pool in North Portland. ... Read more

The Meaningless Life

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Clayton Morgareidge elaborates on Chloe Watlington's remark that deaths of despair are really "capital punishment for those who fall down in the race for success in a winners-take-all society." Clayton's conclusion is nevertheless a hopeful one. You can read this piece h... Read more

Reparations Psychodynamics

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Jan Haaken talks with Christine Schmidt, a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst from Brooklyn and a member of Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility. They discuss psychological dynamics in the movement for Raparations. Schmidt participated in the first National ... Read more

The Fascists in Town

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta, who reported from within the alt right gathering in Portland and here discusses why the right is targeting Portland and using the whitest city in the nation as a recruiting ground.  He discusses the collusion of the Portland Police ... Read more

Parenti on Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Bill Resnick talks with Christian Parenti about climate change.   Image by Dann8977 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], cropped. Read more