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The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 28, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2015 at 12:00am
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  Frann Michel hosts the last Old Mole episode of 2015, which features segments on climate, economy, housing, insanity, and music by Helly Luv, Nina Simone, and the Pretenders, as well as poetry by Marge Piercy. This week the theme song is performed by Jerron Blind Boy P... Read more

Portland Needs a Rent Strike

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2015 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement reads an opinion piece from December 23rd's Portland Observer  by Lew Church of Tenant Rights Project and Portland Tenants United, that suggests a city-wide rent strike is worth considering. [image from wikipedia] Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 21st 2015

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Desiree Hellegers hosts a round table discussion on the climate impacts of the Transpacific Partnership, featuring Miya Reback, development and campaign coordinator for 350.org Portland, Kristen Sheeran, ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 21, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2015 at 12:00am
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Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes Christmas songs by Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as segments on the climate impacts of the TPP,  the politics of the Peanuts' Christmas cartoon, and the impacts of the women's movement on family l... Read more

Charlie Brown Xmas Politics

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2015 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement and special guest Dennis Gravy review the classic Christmas-time cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas. They consider anti-commercialism, alienation, cultural appropriation, white supremacy, and why the "workers revolution" that seems to promise an answer to Cha... Read more

Climate Impacts of the TPP

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2015 at 12:00am
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Desiree Hellegers hosts a round table discussion on the climate impacts of the Transpacific Partnership, featuring Miya Reback, development and campaign coordinator for 350.org Portland, Kristen Sheeran, Oregon Director for Climate Solutions, and Michael Shannon, Executi... Read more

Kathleen Gerson on the Unfinished Women's Movement

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2015 at 12:00am
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Bill Resnick interviews Kathleen Gerson. Gerson teaches at NYU in the Department of Sociology, and is the author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work and Family. They discuss the revolution in US life triggered by the women’s movement. Read more

Making Local Progressive Reforms

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2015 at 12:00am
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Laurie Mercier speaks with Shena Elrington, Director of Immigrant Rights & Racial Justice at the Center for Popular Democracy. They discuss how communities, cities and states can lead progressive reforms on immigrant rights and create alternative and humane environments fo... Read more

What Was Achieved in Paris on Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2015 at 12:00am
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Tom Athanasiou’s book Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor has been called "The single most accessible presentation of what is known as 'social ecology' that has yet been written” (The Nation). Here he talks with the Old Mole’s Bill Resnick about the achievements... Read more

Organizing Collective Liberation

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2015 at 12:00am
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Tod Sloan  shares key principles for movement organizing from Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy, a book for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for... Read more