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The Old Mole Variety Hour for July 17, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 07/17/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which includes these segments: Bill Resnick talks with economist Mary King about irregular work schedules. Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. Joe & Raisa share a profile of punk musician Poly Styrene Desiree He... Read more

Can China Save Civilization?

Airs at: Mon, 07/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with Richard Smith about the future and China's role in shaping it, specifically the environmental impact of China's explosive economic growth and the government's productivist policies. The problem is not just with China though. Richard argues for ... Read more

Larry Kleinman, Part 2 on Immigrant Action

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick concludes his two-part interview with Larry Kleinman, co-founder of PCUN, Oregon’s farmworker organization, who discusses the politics of immigration, how unsettled they are, and how states are resisting the anti-immigrant forces. Part One is available h... Read more

Stopping Fascism: Chris Hedges

Airs at: Tue, 07/04/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Recorded at the Aladdin Theater, Chris Hedges visited Portland and spoke as a guest of KBOO community radio. Chris Hedges is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America. He writes a weekly column for Truthdig.o... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for July 3, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier hosts this week’s Old Mole Variety Hour, where Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker discuss Trump's travel ban and the Supreme Court decision last week, federal proposed anti-immigration bills, and politics around barring refugees and asylum seekers; Bill Resni... Read more

Movie Moles: _Antz_ (1998)

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  (trigger warning: Woody Allen)  The cgi-animated adventure-comedy Antz (1998),  available from the Multnomah County Library, shows viewers of all ages that when you are confronted with the threat of a fascist takeover, the appropriate response is to organize the worke... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 26, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which includes these segments:  Bill Resnick interviews Larry Kleinman, co-founder of PCUN, about current immigration issues; Movie Moles Joe Clement & Frann Michel discuss Antz (1998),  a cartoon for workers of all ages; Jan Haaken i... Read more

Food Workers Resist: Storytelling About Race, Food and Identity

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome Will Fain of Handsome Pizza and Douglas Tsoi of PUGS, organizers of the upcoming Food Workers Resist: Storytelling about Race, Food & Identity... Is food a political and moral topic? Who gets to eat what, who makes it, and how it's delivered... Read more

Noam Chomsky on Neoliberalism: An Accounting

Airs at: Tue, 06/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Neoliberalism is an odd term when you think about it. It is hardly new and it is not particularly liberal. It has been a great economic success story-for the 1%. The detritus of neoliberalism litters the landscape from smashed unions to shredded safety nets, and dereg... Read more

The F-Word: Gar Alperovitz on Creating Another World

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Gar Alperovitz discusses his new free handbook, Principals of a Pluralist Commonwealth" and outlines the possibilities of local, collective and co-op ownership that can be a model for a real democracy and not a future economy that is corporate capitalism, fascism or t... Read more