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Old Mole Variety Hour for August 9, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 08/09/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Photo by Bette Lee (see below) Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Everyday Democracy: Bill speaks with Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerit... Read more

Everyday Democracy

Airs at: Mon, 08/09/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill speaks with Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita, who wrote the book Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life.  Together they explore everyday democracy,  neighborly as well as the libe... Read more

What About Simone?

Airs at: Mon, 08/09/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Our Well Read Red Sharon Grant shares an article about sport as a business and how Black women athletes in particular get the short end of the stick. The article by Kurt Streeter was published July 23 in the New York Times.   Photo by Susie Butler/Flickr: Read more

Take What You Can Carry

Airs at: Mon, 08/09/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In 1979, an aspiring photojournalist accompanies her Kurdish boyfriend to Iraq and soon finds herself involved in events she is totally unprepared for: arrests and imprisonments, attacks in the night by government forces, and no one to turn to for relief. Book Mole Larry... Read more

Thirty Years in the Streets of Portland! Bette Lee on Her Activist Photography

Airs at: Mon, 08/09/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Photo by Bette Lee If you’ve been to a protest during the past three decades, you’ve probably seen her, the short, slight woman behind the camera, always in the thick of things, documenting the resistance that Portland is famous for. From the 1990 march to condemn the m... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 2, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 08/02/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: End Clean and Safe Bill Resnick talks with Kaitlyn Dey, a community organizer challenging the city's policies of sweeping, harassing and criminalizing the homeless, including the current campaign "End Clean and Save" that wo... Read more

Doughnut Workers United Picket Reportback

Airs at: Mon, 08/02/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Samantha Bryce returns to KBOO to talk with Joe Clement about the 7/29 picket at Voodoo Doughnuts they attended, organized under the banner of Doughnut Workers United. They both report back a good turnout, the sense of solidarity they had, and how receptive people were t... Read more

Stop The Sweeps and End Clean and Safe

Airs at: Mon, 08/02/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with Kaitlyn Dey, a community Organizer now challenging the city's policy of sweeping, harassing and criminalizing the homeless. Kaitlyn recently did her thesis at Portland State University titled "Fighting Back Against Criminalization of Home... Read more

Left and the Law: Climate Lawsuits

Airs at: Mon, 08/02/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In their Left and the Law segment today, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker take up the recent wave of lawsuits filed by cities and states against the oil industry in the US based on the industry's damage to communities and covering up their own scientific data on the lethal t... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 26, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 07/26/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Portland Police on the 100th Night of BLM Protest: Photo by Bette Lee (see below) Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following segments: The Abuse of Outer Space: Bill Resnick interviews Bruce Gagnon, co-founder and coordinator of the... Read more