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Old Mole Variety Hour January 7, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier hosts this episode exploring education, environmental news, the monstrosity of capitalism, gun violence, and Idle No More. You can contact the moles at oldmolevarietyhour < at > gmail.com, follow us on Facebook, and find out more about the show on our main pag... Read more

Idle No More: democratic resistance

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Jacob Devaney about Idle No More, started by four indigenous Canadian women in resistance to government and corporate attempts to take land and rights from first nations people to pursue tar sands exploitation and other planet-destroying projects. ... Read more

Eco News of 2012

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier talks with Stefanie Penn Spear of the environmental news website Ecowatch.org about the big stories of the past year. These include increasing recognition of human-caused climate change, toxins in consumer products, the dangers of fracking (including mining... Read more

HURRICANE SANDY, SEA LEVEL RISE AND THE WORLD WE NOW LIVE IN

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The storm surge generated by Hurricane Sandy, flooding significant areas across Greater New York and New Jersey, demonstrated that the specter of climate change and the disasters it will wreak are now upon us. As the Northeast engages in a slow recovery from the storm's dam... Read more

Conservationists Challenge Crater Lake Area Timber Sale

Airs at: Fri, 01/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 Conservationists have challenged a proposed sale of massive log forests bordering crater lake national park. The Forest Service argues that the so-called DBug timber sale is part of a hazard reduction strategy to help preserve umpqua national forest. Activists... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Joe Clement hosts this last show closing out 2012.  We hear an upbeat assessment of socialism's unheralded (by the left)  successes over the long haul; a review of the great short story writer Alice Munro's latest collection; and a discussion of two movies about fracking, ... Read more

Movie Moles: "Promised Land" and "Gasland"

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement discuss two movies about fracking.  One is the new Gus Van Sant film starring Matt Damon "Promised Land."  The other is a documentary Gasland by Josh Fox. You can watch "Gasland" on line.    Read more

"Idle No More" evening news story Part I

Airs at: Thu, 12/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 The “Idle No More” movement for Indigenous rights, sovereignty and environmental justice that has swept across Canada over the past month is taking root in Oregon and Washington as well.   Well over a hundred people participated in a flashmob at Portland’s ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 24th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
           Tom Becker hosts today's Christmas Eve episode. We hear about the Chinese labor movement, the hypocrisy of Obama's mourning at Newtown, the Portland Solidarity Network, and the limits of consumer culture.   Bill Resnick interviews Eli Friedman about the Chin... Read more

Well-read Red: pathological consumption

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads George Monbiot's essay, republished on Alternet, about the insanity of waste hidden in consumerism and the political barriers to questioning it. Monbiot considers how so many trinkets, disposable goods, planned and perceived obsolesence, are forced upon us ... Read more