Legislation

Mental Health, Disabilities and the Affordable Care Act

Airs at: Mon, 11/25/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Jan Haaken talks with Bob Joondepth, Director of Disabilities Rights Oregon, about the promises and pitfalls of the Affordable Care Act for those with mental health needs. They talk about the nuts and bolts of services people may receive, but also raise political questions ... 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

Produced for: Special Programming: Public Affairs

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 stop f... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 28 2013

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Fight for $15 labor activist, Trisha Kahle, about the movement and its political contexts Larry Bowlden reviews Portland-area author Whitney Otto's "Eight Girls Taking Pictures". Well-re... Read more

Well-read Red: Class War, Bourgeois Strategy, and Obamacare

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge brings us the Well-read Red. Today he considers resistance to the Affordable Care Act and the strategically mysterious though potentially disastrous empowerment of the radical right by capitalists. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 14th

Airs at: Mon, 10/14/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts this episode, which is about a third shorter than usual because of membership drive. We have taken the pitching segments out, but we encourage you to click the "donate today" button in the upper right hand corner and become a member today if you are not al... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 26 August 2013

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which addresses popular deceptions and misconceptions about Social Security, money in politics, safety and policing, and climate change.Bill Resnick talks with Max Richtman about Social SecurityClayton Morgareidge reads from an... Read more

Bribery a k a Lobbying: Clayton Morgareidge on David Graeber on capitalist democracy

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge reads from and comments on David Graeber's The Democracy Project, which argues that our whole political system functions by bribery, and that the corruption of government entails the corruption of language through euphemism. For instance, rape, torture, ... Read more

Max Richtman on defending and extending Social Security

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Max Richtman, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare , who clarifies that Social Security is an earned benefit, and the program is not broke or breaking. The current program can continue paying full benefits for... Read more