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Ted Roe Interview

Airs at: Wed, 05/07/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Ted Roe is a Democrat who is running for the seat in Oregon House District 41.  He talked with Don Merrill about why he is a student of Thomas Jefferson regarding public service, why he doesn't want schools to be simply about teaching students to take tests and why Oregon n... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour May 5 2014

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts (and Kate Welch engineers) this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour (foreshortened because of membership-drive). We hear about socialist feminism for revolutionary change in the 21st Century, organizing within what Arun Gupta calls "the Walmart working-cl... Read more

Remembering Paul Robeson Senior & Junior

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier remembers the life and work of Paul Robeson Junior, an activist and archivist, but also the son of world-famous black-listed radical singer Paul Robeson Senior. She looks at how Robeson Senior influenced Robeson Junior, but also how Robeson Junior. She reads ... Read more

Arun Gupta on The Walmart Working-Class

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Arun Gupta about an article Arun wrote for The Socialist Register about "the Walmart working-class". They discuss the difficulties that both workers face in the low-wage service economy face trying to organize and that unions face in trying to organi... Read more

Johanna Brenner on Revolutionary Socialist Feminism for the 21st Century

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reads from an article written by Johanna Brenner for the webzine of Solidarity-US. Brenner starts by arguing that "Socialist-feminists start where most feminists begin: the emancipation of women must come from women ourselves, but cannot be achieved by ourselve... Read more

Patti Milne Interview

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Patti Milne is a Repubican running for the Oregon Senate seat in the 11th Dist.  She talked with Don Merrill about why public safety with regards to marijuana use and undocumented immigrants are among her highest priorities, why it makes no sense to single out organizations... Read more

Ken Moore Interview

Airs at: Sun, 05/04/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Ken Moore is a Democrat running for the Oregon House in District 24 which serves Yamhill County. He talked with Don Merrill about how he feels people who have concealed carry licenses are the "good guys", why he thinks his enthusiasm is why people chose him to run against a... Read more

Mike Nearman Interview

Airs at: Fri, 05/02/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Mike Nearman is a Republican running for the Oregon House in District 23.  He talked with Don Merrill about how reduced timber revenues have affected Polk County and why he opposes the Sherrif's way of handling them, how his timetable for joining the race got speeded up and... Read more

May Day rally and march at 3:00 PM Thursday

Airs at: Wed, 04/30/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Plans for the annual May Day march and rally in Portland are taking form as a broad range of community organizations and labor advocacy groups, including local unions, prepare to celebrate International Workers' Day. For more, KBOO’s Susan Cecil spoke with Greg Margolis, who... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 28 April 2014

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode on Politics, Poetry, and Prisons. Bill Resnick interviews Mike Parker of the Richmond Progressive Alliance about Chevron and city government. Joe Clement talks with Tamara Lynne and Daisy Montague of Living Stages about their upcoming working-c... Read more