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Betsy Close Interview

Airs at: Fri, 02/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for Between Us
Betsy Close is a Republican running for re-election in the Oregon Senate.  She talked with Don Merrill about equal pay for Oregon's women, funding for Oregon's schools and Cover Oregon among many topics.  *These interviews are part of a project to invite all Oregon candidat... Read more

Book Mole: the work of Anita Brookner

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2014 at 12:00am
Larry Bowlden surveys the many great works of English novelist, Anita Brookner (available at your public library). Most of her main characters are intellectual middle-class women who are isolated on account of failed love, but she eschews being called a feminist. He praises... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 24 2014

Airs at: Mon, 02/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear a double report from Portland Public School teachers and student activists, a review of the fiction of Anita Brookner, as well as a discussion about the politics of Pete Seeger and his music. Bill Resnick talks with Elizabe... Read more

Spokane Residents Boycott Bar for Its "Date Grape Koolaid"

Airs at: Wed, 02/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for Evening News
The boycott of a Spokane bar has gone national, after the owner, Jamie Pendleton, refused to rename a drink named "Date Grape Koolaid." KBOO's Erin J. Bernard spoke to Taylor Malone, a Spokane resident who organized the boycott. Read more

Movie Moles: Her

Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and Frann Michel review  Spike Jonze new  (quasi science fiction) romantic comedy "Her". Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore, an introverted man who goes through a divorce with his child-hood sweetheart, only to fall curiously in love with his new, hyperintelligent... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 6 January 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
The first Old Mole Variety Hour of 2014 looks back at histories of struggle and forward to the end of alienation. Joe Clement hosts, and we hear segments on class struggle in labor and party politics, anti-capitalist activism in Mexico and globally, the revolutionary reform... Read more

Zapatista Resistance to neoliberalism

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-Read Red Frann Michel considers the twenty years of NAFTA and of Zapatista resistance to NAFTA and neoliberalism. You can read a longer version of this piece, with links to sources, here on her blog. Read more

Wanda Sykes Interview

Airs at: Fri, 01/10/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for Between Us
Wanda Sykes is a comedian, but so much more.  As an actor, she has had two shows on Fox.  She's also been in the hits, "Curb your Enthusiasm" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine".  And her voice has been in several animated hits such as "Ice Age: Continental Drift" and... Read more

Queer Misogyny

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
In a recent blog post, Franvarian explores the stereotypes within the LGBT community that lead to misplaced and oppressive assumptions about femmes and to "femmephobia".  Old Mole Iven Hale reads it for us.   Photo credit: http://geeksdreamgirl.com/ Read more

Ynanna Djehuty on reproductive justice and the maternal health of women of Afro descent

Airs at: Sat, 12/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for Bread and Roses
A conversation with Ynanna Djehuty on reproductive justice and maternal health for women of Afro-descent. We will discuss identity, race, gender, the disparities of our health care system, generational trauma, and the beauty of giving birth! Ynanna Djehuty is an Afro-Domin... Read more