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Well-read Red: the contradictions of housing under capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-read Red, Frann Michel, offers a set of short readings* on housing as a human right, the contradictions of human need vs. profit, and the success of direct collective action by tenants in establishing housing as a truly public good. In addition to these readings, she m... Read more

Rent Control Town Hall

Airs at: Thu, 03/05/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The Portland branch of Socialist Alternatives hosted what was billed as a Rent Control Town Hall meeting at First Congregational Church in downtown Portland last night. Activists, public servants, civil rights organizers, and concerned citizens all came to discuss the seri... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 26, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 01/26/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Iven Hale hosts this episode of the Old Mole, with segments on Greek elections, the campaign for single-payer health care in Oregon, anarchist poetry, and challenging state legal preemptions of local attempts to raise the minimum wage or demand affordable housing in new d... Read more

Left and the Law: Preemptive Laws on Wages and Housing

Airs at: Mon, 01/26/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Johanna Brenner joins Mike Snedecker to discuss Oregon's state laws that preempt cities or other localities from raising the minimum wage or passing inclusive zoning laws that would require developers to provide affordable housing. Those interested in raising the minimum wa... Read more

JoAnn Hardesty Interview

Airs at: Fri, 01/23/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Depending on who you talk to, longtime Portland activist JoAnn Hardesty's installation as president of the Portland NAACP is either a blessing or a nightmare.  This local civil rights icon's assumption to the office was compared by one post to the impact of an incoming arti... Read more

Presswatch on 12/18/2014

Airs at: Thu, 12/18/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
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Homeless in Capital

Homeless in Capital Old Mole Variety Hour, December 8, 2014 It would be hard for anyone living in Portland not to be aware of people who live on the streets; we see them everyday, with their belongings packed into shopping carts or bike trailers, collecting bags of returnab... Read more

Volunteers of America Feature

Airs at: Thu, 11/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
There is a jewel buried amongst the businesses and warehouses of SE Portland. Volunteers of America Oregon operates a facility that helps women rise out of addiction into a better life and helps moms improve life for their kids. This is not your parent's VOA. These days... Read more

Dispatches Against Displacement: understanding and resisting gentrification

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with James Tracy, author of "Dispatches Against Displacement: field notes from San Francisco's housing war". They consider what gentrification is as an economic and by extension racialized form of domination, how different cities experience gentrification ... Read more

Well-read Red: Gentrification, Class Domination, and Racism

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reads from an essay by Gavin Mueller in Jacobin, as well as from other sources, to argue that gentrification is not simply a cultural change in a neighborhood, but instead is driven by economic forces and backed by state power.   But those forces can be collect... Read more