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Child Poverty in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 06/08/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Tyler MacGuiness of the Oregon Center for Public Policy explore Child poverty in Oregon. Twenty-five percent of Oregon kids live in destitution, 50% are in ordinary poverty, and 75% of those are in working families. The "business community" has become conce... Read more

Debt as Art

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Cassie Thornton about her use of debt for the last 7 years as a subject for her art-work. She describes how she's sought to concretize debt, explore debt through hypnotherapeutic visualization exercises with others, and in the end how she's gotten inv... Read more

Theory & Practice

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Tod Sloan talks with Lara Messersmith-Glavin of the Institute for Anarchist Studies about theory and practice. They consider how theory helps illuminate individually lived experiences as part of larger systems, while also stressing the priority of lived experience in genera... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 1, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement hosts! We hear music from Blind Boy Paxon and Blue Scholars! The show includes... Bill Resnick talks with Al Bradbury, a former KBOO Labor Radio host, who now works for the monthly labor magazine, Labor Notes. Larry Bowlden reviews "Intrusions", by ... Read more

Richard Rothstein Interview

Airs at: Wed, 05/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Between Us
Richard Rothstein is a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute.  He has written extensively on the effect of inequitable education on black and minority children in the US.  His latest piece for the EPI, focuses on the complicity of the Federal government in c... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 25, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel this Memorial Day episode of the Old Mole much of which deals with issues of war and militarization.  To hear the whole show, use the play button. To hear individual pieces follow the links below.  You can like us on Facebook to keep up with the Mole's work. You... Read more

School Militarization in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel shares Sylvia McGauley's reflections in Rethinking Schools on school militarization through JROTC at Reynolds High School, with information on opting out and counter recruitment. http://kboo.fm/rethinkingtheschooltomilitarypipeline Read more

School Militarization in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel shares Sylvia McGauley's reflections in Rethinking Schools on school militarization through JROTC at Reynolds High School, with information on opting out and counter recruitment. http://kboo.fm/rethinkingtheschooltomilitarypipeline Read more

Resisting Corporate School Reform

Airs at: Mon, 05/25/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Jesse Hagopian, a leader in the resistance to corporate school "reform" including high stakes testing, privatization, and rote curriculums for the popular classes. The financial and corporate elites pushing school "reform" would never dream of sendin... Read more

Rethinking the school-to-military pipeline

A version of this is part of the Old Mole Variety Hour  for 25 May 2015 Today is Memorial Day, so we're talking about memory, and the military, as well as about education and labor. All of those institutions arose in their modern disciplinary forms in the 18th century, alon... Read more