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Old Mole Variety Hour for August 22

Airs at: Mon, 08/22/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode and it will include: Dan Handelman of Copwatch talks with Bill Resnick about changes in police behavior in Portland Clayton Morgareidge comments on property, space, and homelessness here in the Rose City Desiree Hellegers inter... Read more

Policing in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 08/22/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
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
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
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

Myths of the Fiscally Conservative, Socially Liberal

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Thom Becker reads from Greta Christina's "7 Things People Who Say They're 'Fiscally Conservative But Socially Liberal' Don't Understand: Social and economic issues are deeply intertwined."  Christina argues fiscal conservatism of low taxes,small government, and reduce... Read more

Corbyn and the UK Left

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with  Hilary Wainwright, currently editor of the UK left magazine Red Pepper, about responses to Corbyn, the Labour Party, left politics in the UK today. They discuss the recent mutiny of the 99%, Corbyn in England, Sanders and Trump in the U.S, and... Read more

Book Mole: Americanah

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
    Larry Bowlden reviews a novel by a Nigerian woman author who came to the U.S. as an academic and who then returned home having acquired American ways, American tastes, and an American-eye view of the world. The book is entitled Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi... Read more

(Not) Implementing the Paris Climate Agreement

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Thom reads from reporting on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and Simon Fischer's recent follow-up article in New Internationalist, "Post-Paris Climate Talks: implementation at any price": The euphoria that surrounded the conclusion to the Paris Climate Conferen... Read more

More about lesser-evil voting

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
A couple of weeks ago here on the Old Mole Variety Hour  I offered a round-up of some left commentary arguing against the project of voting for the presidential candidate who seems to be the lesser evil.  In reply, I've heard many good questions and comments from friends,... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 15, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Thom Becker hosts this episode and Thom reads about not being socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Bill Resnick interviews Hilary Wainwright about the UK left. Frann Michel comments again on lesser evil voting. Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Americanah. Thom re... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 8, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 08/08/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks to Amy Schalet about teen sex and love in the US and Netherlands Jan Haaken talks with Sophie Smith about life in US-Mexico border communities Denise Morris talks with Don't Shoot Portland organizer and f... Read more