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Old Mole Variety Hour May 20th 2013

Airs at: Mon, 05/20/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this episode and we hear:Bill Resnick talks with Bruce Popdobnik about climate change activismAlan Wieder comments on the Rovina Raids and nonviolent struggle in South AfricaClayton Morgareidge comments on waking up to the amazing existence of this... Read more

Bruce Podobnik on Climate Change Activism

Airs at: Wed, 05/01/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Bruce Podobnik about climate change activism and his research into where people are engaging in it. He notes that protests are increasing globally, radical, and coordinated. They also talk about local, dispersed energy systems.Bruce Podobnik is a soc... Read more

Jennifer Kemp interviews Peace Activist Jim Albertini about RIMPAC Naval Trainings in Hawaii

Airs at: Fri, 05/17/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Jennifer Kemp spoke with Hawaiian peace activist Jim Albertini about RIMPAC naval trainings being conducted in Hawaii. His organizatinon is protesting the naval trainings, because they contaminate Hawaii's oceans with depleted uranium, and because he thinks the money... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 13, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode, which includes:Bill Resnick talks with Megan Hise and Shamus Cooke about the People's Budget Project for Portland.Larry Bowlden reviews Elizabeth Strout's new novel The Burgess Boys.Well-read Red Cara Dugas discusses Oregon bills that would r... Read more

Criminalizing Environmental Activism

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Two bills which impose increased penalties on those who take direct action to save trees and endangered species have passed the Oregon House and are on their way to the Senate -- HB 2595 and HB 2596.  Well-read Red Cara Dugas explains what's in them, what's wrong with them,... Read more

New information could have impact on May 21 fluoridation vote

Airs at: Thu, 05/02/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
New information has come out this week that could have an impact on the upcoming May twenty-first vote on water fluoridation in Portland.A lab test of the fluoridation compound proposed for Portland’s water supply found high levels of arsenic in the compound. The test was c... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 29, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Mole, featuring discussions of consumerism and freedom, Syria, gun violence, and a conference on Labor History in the Pacific Northwest.  To keep up with the Old Mole, become our friend on Facebook.To hear the whole show, use th... Read more

Getting Over Consumerism

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Rob Dietz, co-author with Dan O'Neill of Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resoures, talks with Old Mole Bill Resnick about building a political movement for moving beyond the pleasures of consumerism to other ways of enjoying life. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 22, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On this special Earth Day Old Mole Variety Hour, Joe Clement hosts, and we hear- Joe talks with Jeff Shantz about Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red / Green Vision- Bill Resnick talks with Robert Dietz about Advancing a Steady State Economy- Tom Becker reads from David ... Read more

Graeber on the Coming Collapse

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from David Graeber's "Work it Out, Slow it Down," exerpted from his Practical Utopians Guide to the Coming Collapse, on the dangers of overproduction and the need to respond differently to economic and environmental crisis. Read more