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Portland Renters Assemble and Agitate

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reminds us that the ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class, but the dispossessed can generate alternative ideas. He reads an article from the Portland Tribune about the Portland Renters' Assembly and the radical vision of some of its organizers. The next... Read more

Operation Homestead: liberating housing in 1990s Seattle

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers interviews Seattle housing justice activists Ginger Segel and Bob Kubiniec about their work in the 1980s and 1990s with  Operation Homestead, breaking into and liberating abandoned or unused buildings for people to live in. image by Dana Schuerholz via ... Read more

Democracy Rising against Capitalism in Greece

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Recently back from the "Democracy Rising" conference in Athens, Frann Michel and Hyung Nam discuss democracy and its contradictions in Greece. (scroll down for the audio link) (Image via GCAS) Here are links to sources for some of the points they mention: Democracy Rising... Read more

Kayaktivists and rope-sitters block Shell's icebreaker rig

Airs at: Wed, 07/29/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  News In Depth
Thirteen activists are suspended from ropes hanging from the Saint John’s bridge, more than fourteen hours after they rappelled down from the bridge early this morning.  They are supported by around 150 ‘kayaktivists’, who gathered Tuesday night in Saint Johns’ Cathedral Pa... Read more

Economist Richard Wolff on Greece, Europe, Austerity, and Neoliberalism

Airs at: Fri, 07/31/2015 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Host Per Fagereng speaks with economist Richard Wolff about Greece, Europe, austerity, and neoliberalism. Richard Wolff teaches at the New School in New York. The New York Times called him “America’s most prominent Marxist economist.” He is the author of numerous books inc... Read more

Abayomi Azikiwe speaks on President Obama's trip to Kenya

Airs at: Fri, 07/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
President Obama took off today on his first trip as President to Kenya and Ethiopia. The Los Angeles Times reports the U.S. has stepped up use of drone strikes in neighboring Somalia ahead of Obama’s trip. For more on U.S. drones strikes and covert operations in Somalia, KB... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for July 20, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Gwen Sullivan of the Portland Association of Teachers about how things have been going since they won their latest contract Joe Clement reads a pamphlet about organizing a citywide tenants union ... Read more

Brief Update on The Portland Renters Assembly

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris interviews Old Mole and organizer, Joe Clement, about the Portland Renters Assembly. They talk briefly about what the assemblies have been about, what issues have been coming up, and how people can get involved.  The Portland Renters Assembly has its planning ... Read more

Brief Update on The Portland Renters Assembly

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris interviews Old Mole and organizer, Joe Clement, about the Portland Renters Assembly. They talk briefly about what the assemblies have been about, what issues have been coming up, and how people can get involved.  The Portland Renters Assembly has its planning ... Read more

Tenants Union: Fight Your Landlord And Win!

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads a pamphlet produced by Buffalo Class Action (a Buffalo, New York area anarchist political organization) about the political situation of the for-profit housing system and the power that tenants have to challenge and ultimately transform it, if and when the... Read more