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Terran Connally on May Day 2012 Events Around Portland

Airs at: Mon, 04/30/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick has Terran Connally of the Portland Liberation Organizing Council, which has grown out of the Occupy movement, to talk about events and expectations for May Day 2012 in Portland. They consider the potential for this May Day to be the single greatest concerted a... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 30th May Day Special

Airs at: Mon, 04/30/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond and Abigail Singer co-host today's special May Day Old Mole, which focuses on the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and events expected for May Day. We hear: Norm talk with labor journalist and historian, Steve Ear... Read more

Steve Early on Lawrence Strike centennial symposium

Airs at: Mon, 04/30/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond talks with Steve Early, who attended a symposium in Lawrence Massechusetts about the Lawrence Strike of 1912 (here's a PDF of the schedule). They talked about why there is renewed interest in the Lawrence Strike, even as it was nearly erased from labor history ... Read more

Bruce Gagnon on Weapons in Space, Military Expansion, War, Climate Change and Corporate Domination

Airs at: Thu, 04/19/2012 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Host Per Fagereng speaks with Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He was a co-founder of the Global Network when it was created in 1992. Between 1983–1998 Bruce was the State Coordinator of the Florida Coalition for Pea... Read more

David Barsamian on "Occupy Capitalism"

Airs at: Wed, 04/18/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Host Per Fagereng speaks with David Barsamian, the award-winning founder and director of Alternative Radio. He is the author of numerous books with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Eqbal Ahmad, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. His latest book is Occupy the Economy: C... Read more

April 23 2012

Airs at: Mon, 04/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 France Elections Interview, Normal 0 OREGON-Bridge Construction continues, Normal 0 Elgin Police Force, Normal 0 Logging Protest, Normal 0 ONS Summer Protests Normal 0 Sinkhole formed on H... Read more

Dr. Paul Gorman on why we need a National Single Payer Health System

Airs at: Tue, 04/17/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris. Today's guest is Dr. Paul Gorman from Oregon Health & Science University. Here in America, we pay some of the Highest Costs for Medical Care, yet reap some of the Worst Results. Why?  We Waste Way Too Much Money on the Private Health Insurance Industry.     Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 16th, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 04/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
                 Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and with musical interludes from Leonard Cohen we hear:   Bill Resnick talk with Chuck Collins about what wealth inequality is doing to us. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel review "The Hunger Game... Read more

Chuck Sheketoff on Corporate Taxes in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 04/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Chuck Sheketoff, executive director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy. They talk about the corporations that don't pay any appreciable taxes in Oregon, how they get away with it, why public services rather than tax-cuts support business, and the... Read more

Chuck Collins on Wealth Inequality

Airs at: Mon, 04/16/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Chuck Collins talks about how inequality is ruining the world. Chuck points out how the concentration of wealth undermines democracy, the economy and our capacity to do anything about large-scale problems. They talk about public campaign finance reform, bre... Read more