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The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 21, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show featuring music about love and a better world by Michael Jackson. The segments of the show are these: Journalist Arun Gupta talks with Bill Resnick about gentrification and the role of teachers' unions in resisting it. Jan Haaken explain... Read more

Why Save the Postal Service

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Long time postal worker and activist Jamie Partridge talks with Bill Resnick about political threats to the postal service and why it's important to save it. People wishing to support the postal workers will be gathering between 7 and 9 am on Wednesday, September 23 at the ... Read more

Changing Cities and Teachers' Unions

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about how Portland, along with many other cities, is changing as it gentrifies the core and pushes poorer people out to the periphery. They also discuss the leading role that teachers' unions can have in organizing against these changes.  ... Read more

Renters Emergency (press conference)

Airs at: Tue, 09/15/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Labor Radio
A Renters Emergency was declared by the Community Alliance of Tenants at a press conference and rally held Tuesday, September 15th at Penninsula Park in North Portland.  Across the street from the rally, attended by about two hundred people, were two empty apartment complex... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 14, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this membership drive episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour, with segments on Social Security, historical fiction and reproductive justice, and rights of workers in sexual services. Bill Resnick talks with Eric Laursen about Social Security. This version ... Read more

Decriminalizing Sex Work

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Red, an activist and representative with SWOP USA--Sex Workers Outreach Project. She is active with the Portland SWOP Chapter and also director of the new program in Portland, STROLL: Sex Traders Radical Outreach & Liberation Lobby.  They talk about th... Read more

Girl in the River

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Patsy Kullberg (also an Old Mole), about her new novel, Girl in the River. The novel--a work of historical fiction--centers on the struggles of a fictional working class young woman, finding her way in the actual world of corruption, vice squads, and a... Read more

Eric Laursen on Social Security

Airs at: Mon, 09/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Eric Laursen, author of The People’s Pension: The War Against Social Security, from Reagan to Obama, available from AK Press. They discuss how and why Social Security survived in the face of elite attacks since its inception. Laursen is part of the m... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 7, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: The Movie Moles review two documentaries about female musicians. The first is about Amy Winehouse, the second is about Nina Simone. Bill Resnick talks with Mark Jacobson about scaling up renewable energies to meet real-wor... Read more

Labor Day's Radical Roots

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reflects on Labor Day's radical roots. All too often pitted against celebrations of International Workers Day, Labor Day was born of the same international-tending workers movement that also gave birth to May Day. To help tell this story, Joe reads from Eugene R... Read more