Economy

Yong Zhao on Neoliberal Education in the Chinese and American Contexts

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Yong Zhao about high-stakes testing and related neoliberal education paradigms in China, and why there is resistance to it. They consider the danger of narrowing education with definitions of success tied to tests and quantifiable methods. Yong Zhao... Read more

Communist Party of Cascadia

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement speaks with two communist organizers, Stephanie Martin and Daniel Frontino Elash, about their plans to hold a meeting at Central Library 801 SW 10th (and Yamhill) on Monday June 23rd from 6-7pm in the US Bank Room. They are calling for local independent communis... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 16 June 2014

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick hosts this show about the tensions between possible futures--either ruled by military and corporate power or else organized as cooperative community. We hear these segments: Joseph DeFilipppis: Beyond Marriage Equality Checking in on Border Checkpoints Bill R... Read more

Joseph DeFilippis: Beyond Marriage Equality

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joseph DeFilippis, a founder of Queers for Economic Justice and drafter of the Beyond Same-Sex Marriage Statement, talks with Bill Resnick about the limits of the marriage-equality movement and what comes next. He notes the inadequacy of marriage as a legal frame for diver... Read more

"Infill" and Gentrification

Airs at: Wed, 06/11/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Wednesday Talk Radio

There's increasing discussion and controversy over urban "infill" in Portland: the construction of usually block-like apartment complexes in residential neighborhoods, sometimes replacing existing houses, which are torn down. This often displaces existing renters, increases... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 9 June 2014

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel hosts this episode, with music from The Clash, and discussions of military violence, economic stagnation, racism and classism in housing, and the struggle for the rights of the incarcerated. Bill Resnick talks with Col. Ann Wright about Bowe Bergdahl and U.S. ... Read more

Housing Segregation in Portland: Karen Gibson

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement talks with Karen Gibson of PSU's Urban Studies program about the history of housing discrimination against African-Americans in Portland; they touch on segregation, ghettoization, disinvestment, gentrification, redlining, and community formation. Read more

Stagnant Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge offers a commentary on the "left" and the limits and failures of Capitalism, drawing on work by Marta Harnecker, Thomas Piketty, Slavoj Zizek, and John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff in Monthly Review. Read more

Ann Wright on Bowe Bergdahl

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with Col. Ann Wright about Bowe Bergdahl and related issues: the pressures on soldiers, charges of desertion, treatment of soldiers and veterans, political spins. They also discuss Wright's activism, Obama's drone program, and the new site for whistleblo... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour June 2 2014

Airs at: Mon, 06/02/2014 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Joe Clement hosts and we hear: Bill Resnick talk with Phyllis Bennis about US Foreign Policy, both criticizing the Obama administration's two-faced approach and offering a Do No Harm alternative. Iven Hale offers a commentary by way of personal story about communit... Read more