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Old Mole Variety Hour for January 26, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 01/26/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Iven Hale hosts this episode of the Old Mole, with segments on Greek elections, the campaign for single-payer health care in Oregon, anarchist poetry, and challenging state legal preemptions of local attempts to raise the minimum wage or demand affordable housing in new d... Read more

Health Care for All Oregon: Organizing for Change

Airs at: Mon, 01/26/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel talks with volunteer activist Hyung Nam of Health Care for All Oregon about health care as a human right,  what's wrong with the Affordable Care Act, why we need single payer (Medicare for all), and the rally coming up February 11 in Salem.  Read more

JoAnn Hardesty Interview

Airs at: Fri, 01/23/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Depending on who you talk to, longtime Portland activist JoAnn Hardesty's installation as president of the Portland NAACP is either a blessing or a nightmare.  This local civil rights icon's assumption to the office was compared by one post to the impact of an incoming arti... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 12, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 01/12/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this episode, with the music of Phil Ochs, and segments on Charlie Hebdo, the Greek left, Teach for America, Studs Terkel, Property and the police state.  Find us on Facebook or Twitter, and friend or follow us for updates and other stuff we like to share... Read more

SYRIZA resistance to Greek Austerity

Airs at: Wed, 01/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick reads from and comments on Andrew Burgin's essay Why we must support a SYRIZA government in Greece on the likelihood that the Greek left will win the upcoming election there and ignite the movement to end Europe's austerity policy. [image from left unity] Read more

Robert Fortner Interviews Cancer Researcher Robert N. Eisenman, Ph.D.

Airs at: Fri, 01/09/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Digital Divide
Robert Fortner Interviews Cancer Researcher Robert N. Eisenman, Ph.D. on The Digital Divide. Breast cancer is the premier biomedical problem in the world and yet survival has not increased since 2000. The Digital Divide explores what science has discovered about why breast... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 5, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 01/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts the first Mole of the new year, which looks back to past activism and forward to new movements and continued struggle.  To hear the whole show, click on the play button below. For individual segments, follow these links:     Bill Resnick talks with Ala... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 29, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 12/29/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken hosts this episode and we hear: In addition to music and spoken word pieces, Jan Haaken comments on the relationship between Kwanzaa's values and socialist struggle in Africa Bill Resnick talks Karen Connelly and Terra O'Neill about the progressive case f... Read more

Sleep Dealer and Work Without Workers

Airs at: Mon, 12/29/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads from Jason Read's review of Sleep Dealer, which he wrote for The Portland Phoenix. Sleep Dealer is a recent sci-fi dystopia in Spanish about a near future where robots are operated from afar by desperate Mexican workers. Jason writes about how he got to ta... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 15, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear:   Bill Resnick interviews Tom Athanasiou following his recent trip to Lima for the international climate change conference Tom Becker reads an article on neoliberal economics. Joe Clement and Frann Michel review a ... Read more