Environment/Climate

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Tar Sands Megaload Blockade at Port of Umatilla Oregon on December 1

Airs at: Mon, 12/02/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Tar Sands Megaload Blockade at Port of Umatilla, Oregon on 12-02-2013 from KBOO PM News Climate activists blocked a controversial shipment last night, forcing contractors to reschedule the Megaload’s departure from the Port of Umatilla in Oregon. The equipment, a nine-hu... Read more

Malaya Pinas, Filipino Activist on Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda

Airs at: Fri, 11/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Three weeks after Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda hits the Philippines, we talk with Malaya Pinas about the damages it caused and the rebuilding efforts in her community. Malaya is an activist engaged in environmental advocacy and dedicated to the rights of underprivileged women... Read more

Malaya Pinas, Filipino Activist on Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda

Airs at: Fri, 11/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Three weeks after Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda hits the Philippines, we talk with Malaya Pinas about the damages it caused and the rebuilding efforts in her community. Malaya is an activist engaged in environmental advocacy and dedicated to the rights of underprivileged women... Read more

Climate Summit Corruption at the COP-19

Airs at: Mon, 11/25/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from an article about the corrupt failure of the United Nations COP-19 Climate Summit, where industry interests controlled the conference and civil society groups hassled. It is titled "The Government Scandal That Shows The People Have to Take Radical Ac... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 18, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale is our host for this show, and here is what we hear: 1.      Brian Tokar, author of several books on climate activism, talks with Bill Resnick about strategies for the left on climate.   2.      Alan Wieder reviews Eric Mann's Playbook for Progressives about th... Read more

Green Strategies

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What is the best path towards climate justice?  Will market solutions work?  Can global warming be effectively halted as long as capital rules the world?  Author and environmental activist Brian Tokar talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about these issues.   Brian Tok... Read more

Thomas Linzey speech at Community Rights PDX anti-GMO campaign event in Portland, Sept. 2013

Airs at: Fri, 10/18/2013 at 12:00am
The speaker is one of the main proponents of a growing movement to curtail the "rights" and destructive practices of corporations at a local, grassroots level. Linzey started the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in Pennsylvania working for clients trying to sto... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 21 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts this two-hour membership-drive special that focuses on the environment and various social struggles that link up with it (note that pitch-breaks accounts for about 40 minutes of the programming otherwise excised).  Mark Hertsgaard talks about his new boo... Read more

Working in the Environmental Movement

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Part 5 of the Old Mole's two-hour special on climate change features labor historian and political activist Norm Diamond in a round table discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. They focus on how those whose political vision radical social change can best work withi... Read more

Labor Environmentalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In Part 4 of the Old Mole's special two-hour program on climate change, host Iven Hale talks with labor historian and long-time Portland writer, activist, and Old Mole contributor Norm Diamond about work that Norm did to develop the field of labor environmentalism at a t... Read more