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Heist and other movies about the financial crisis

On the 6 August 2012 Old Mole Variety Hour, Hyung Nam and I discuss Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?, a documentary directed by Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher, narrated by Thom Hartmann, and based in part on the book The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan ... Read more

Syria

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Host Per Fagereng talks about Syria and takes listener calls Read more

David McNally on Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance

Airs at: Wed, 07/25/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Host Jay Thiemeyer speaks with David McNally about his book Global Slump, which analyzes the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. McNally argues that – far from having ended – the crisis has ushered in a whole per... Read more

Cameron Whitten Ends Hunger Strike

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 Housing Rights activist and Former Mayoral Candidate Cameron Whitten announced the end to his hunger strike today, after fifty-five days of abstaining from solid foods. The strike will officially end tomorrow morning at ten o’clock, when he will hold a press con... Read more

Movie Moles on The Dark Knight Rises

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The Dark Knight Ruses: Joe Clement and Iven Hale discuss the failure of Christopher Nolan's latest Batman film to live up to the rumors about its representation of the Occupy Movement, and how the film instead rationalizes a police state, and bears closer comparison to ... Read more

Jules Boykoff on Corporatizing the Olympics

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with Jules Boykoff, a former Olympic athlete, current Associate Professor of Political Science at Pacific University, and author of the forthcoming book Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London (Rutgers University Press).... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 23, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode features Bill Resnick talking with Don McIntosh about Trimet and with Ellen Brown about Public Banking, as well as Denise Morris talking with Catherine Sameh about the Scholar and Feminist Online. Music by Django Reinhardt.   Bill Resni... Read more

neoliberalism and queer resistance

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reads comments on neoliberalism from two essays from The Scholar and Feminist Online: Robert McRuer on Cripping Queer Politics and Lisa Duggan on After Neoliberalism. Read more

Vigil to end homelessness marks 50th day of hunger strike

Airs at: Fri, 07/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Vigil to end homelessness marks 50th day of hunger strike.   Joe Meyer speaks with activists outside of city hall. Read more

Positively Revolting on 07-20-12 Peace & Justice Works / Portland Copwatch celebrate their 20th Anniversary

Airs at: Fri, 07/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Hosts ani and Lyn talk with Portland Peace and Justice Works / Portland Cop Watch organizer Dan Handelman, and long-time peace activist Ann Huntwork, how things have evolved in the movement over the last two decades. Since 1992, these groups have organized events that have ... Read more