Housing/Homelessness

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Operation Homestead: liberating housing in 1990s Seattle

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers interviews Seattle housing justice activists Ginger Segel and Bob Kubiniec about their work in the 1980s and 1990s with  Operation Homestead, breaking into and liberating abandoned or unused buildings for people to live in. image by Dana Schuerholz via ... Read more

Brief Update on The Portland Renters Assembly

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris interviews Old Mole and organizer, Joe Clement, about the Portland Renters Assembly. They talk briefly about what the assemblies have been about, what issues have been coming up, and how people can get involved.  The Portland Renters Assembly has its planning ... Read more

Brief Update on The Portland Renters Assembly

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris interviews Old Mole and organizer, Joe Clement, about the Portland Renters Assembly. They talk briefly about what the assemblies have been about, what issues have been coming up, and how people can get involved.  The Portland Renters Assembly has its planning ... Read more

Tenants Union: Fight Your Landlord And Win!

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads a pamphlet produced by Buffalo Class Action (a Buffalo, New York area anarchist political organization) about the political situation of the for-profit housing system and the power that tenants have to challenge and ultimately transform it, if and when the... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for July 6, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 07/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this Old Mole and we hear: Norm Diamond interview the Low Tide Drifters, who also perform live in studio. Joe talks with Ryan Wisnor, of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association, about remembering "Blood Wednesday" Joe also talks with S... Read more

Glenn Waco on the Last Thursday Shooting and Gentrification

Airs at: Thu, 06/04/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The Last Thursday shooting on NE 20th and Alberta St. has led to a police response that may do more harm than good.           After people were seen taking selfies near the crime scene, two black men were arrested while helping one of the three shooting victims.          In... Read more

There is a war.....on the houseless, going on right now in Portland

Airs at: Wed, 05/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Host Paul Roland talks about the "homeless sweeps" currently underway by the Portland Police in inner Southeast Portland, in the context of the endless social war. After the opening song by Leonard Cohen, he reads from The Invisible Committee's "To Our Friends" comunique of... 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

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

Memorial for homeless man who burned to death in St. Johns

Airs at: Wed, 05/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
In Saint John’s today, around fifty people gathered for a memorial service for a houseless man who was burned to death in April.  Bruce McAdie was apparently trying to warm himself at a McMenamin’s outdoor fire pit late at night on April first when he fell in to the fire. ... Read more