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The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 5, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Labor Day Old Mole, with segments on work, writing, activism, food and climate, and music including "Erosion" by science teacher David Newman. Clayton comments on what it means to be a worker in a capitalist economy. Tod Sloan comments o... Read more

Labor Day in Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Workers               On this Labor Day, let’s stop and think a little about what we’re supposed to be celebrating. It’s a national holiday, so perhaps we should start by seeing what the federal Department of Labor says. On its website, we find this: Labor Day, the... Read more

Old Mole Variety August 29th 2016

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Denise Morris host this episode of the Old Mole which includes Laurie Mercier talks with Michael Shannon Executive Director Oregon Fair Trade Campaign. Shannon joins the Old Mole to talk about Fair trade and the Campaign to stop the TPP. Bill Resnick interviews Jose... Read more

Oregon Fair Trade and the TPP

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Laurie Mercier talks with Michael Shannon Executive Director Oregon Fair Trade Campaign. Shannon joins the Old Mole to talk about Fair trade and the Campaign to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest free-trade deal in history. Read more

Building A Broad Independent Left

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Bill Resnick interviews Joseph Schwartz who teaches at Temple University, political science. His published books include The Future of Democratic Equality: Reconstructing Social Solidarity in a Fragmented United States. Schwartz worked in both of Jesse Jackson presidenti... Read more

Left and the Law: women who murder their children

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Mike Snedeker and Jan Haaken discuss the sentecing of Jessica Smith in Clatsop County Oregon on August 25th, and the history of public and legal responses to women who murder their children. Smith was sentenced to life in prison for drugging and killing her two-year old ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 29, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Denise Morris hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Laurie Mercier talks with Michael Shannon of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Bill Resnick talks with Joseph Schwartz about building an independent left after the Sanders camp... Read more

Policing in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 08/22/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Portland’s Dan Handleman directs and is a major activist in Portland Copwatch and Peace and Justice Works. He talks here with Bill Resnick about why police shootings have decreased over the past 25 years, now averaging 5 per year when it was once about 10. Does Portland ... Read more

Homeless in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 08/22/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Clayton Morgareidge comments on what we learn about the control of space in Portland from how the city is dealing with unhoused people living along the Springwater Corridor and from the plan to house them in a warehouse at Terminal One.  Photo Credit: northparkblocks.or... Read more

Author Interview: Alan Wieder on Studs Terkel

Airs at: Mon, 08/22/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Desiree Hellegers interviews Alan Wieder about his new book Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation. Wieder will be reading from his new book at Broadway Books in Portland on August 30th at 7 p.m.  Read more