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Low Tide Drifters: underdog folk music

Airs at: Mon, 07/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond talks with the Low Tide Drifters, whose "music for the rest of us" draws on growing up in coastal oregon, wobbly didacticism, environmental as well as socially conscious themes, and phenomenal performances all around. They talk about their backgrounds and the i... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 15, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode, which reflects on the value of history, the limits of old views, and the need for new visions. Bill Resnick talks with Leo Panitch about the situation of Greece's Syriza and the Eurozone. Tom Becker reads from Pete Dolack about why Keynesiani... Read more

Looking back with Pride, forward with visionary hope

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel discusses the film Pride (2014) and the value of visionary fiction. For the text of her remarks with links to more information, go here. Read more

Keynesianism will not save us

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from Pete Dolack about why Keynesianism will not save the world. Image at left by Edwardx. Read more

solidarity: looking back with pride & forward with hope & vision

For the Old Mole Variety Hour 15 June 2015 This past weekend Portland Pride Northwest coordinated a series of events--including the trans and dyke marches, the pride parade, a festival at waterfront park, and more. As KBOO listeners probably know, pride celebrations usuall... Read more

Theory & Practice

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tod Sloan talks with Lara Messersmith-Glavin of the Institute for Anarchist Studies about theory and practice. They consider how theory helps illuminate individually lived experiences as part of larger systems, while also stressing the priority of lived experience in genera... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 1, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement hosts! We hear music from Blind Boy Paxon and Blue Scholars! The show includes... Bill Resnick talks with Al Bradbury, a former KBOO Labor Radio host, who now works for the monthly labor magazine, Labor Notes. Larry Bowlden reviews "Intrusions", by ... Read more

Kaiser Sunnyside Nurses Win Safe Staffing Ratios

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO news volunteer interviews Abigail Hall, a nurse at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center and member of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals about their new staffing agreement at the hospital that includes landmark nurse to patient staffing ratios. Read more

Richard Rothstein Interview

Airs at: Wed, 05/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Richard Rothstein is a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute.  He has written extensively on the effect of inequitable education on black and minority children in the US.  His latest piece for the EPI, focuses on the complicity of the Federal government in c... Read more

Fighting Back Against Fast Track's More of the Same

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
ROBYN GOTTLIEB OF THE OREGON FAIR TRADE CAMPAIGN GIVES US THE LOWDOWN ON "FAST TRACK," THE PROPOSAL NOW BEFORE CONGRESS THAT WOULD IMPOSE MORE OF THE SAME MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE MODEL FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE ON PEOPLE IN THE U.S. AND AROUND THE WORLD. Read more