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GMO-Labeling Initiative Approved by State Supreme Court

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
After receiving the approval of the Oregon Supreme Court today, a group trying to get a GMO-labeling initiative on the November ballot is poised to begin gathering signatures. For more on the initiative, KBOO’s Sam Bouman spoke to Sandeep Kaushik, a spokesman with Oregon ... Read more

sunlight is the best disinfectant (on Measure 26-156)

The Well-Read red has been reading the voter's pamphlet for Portland, and has done some additional reading about Measure 26-156, which (in the words of the voters's pamphlet) "Amends Charter: Creates Water and Sewer District with Elected Board." The arguments in favor of th... Read more

Andrew Geller interviews Ralph Nader on his latest book, Unstoppable

Airs at: Fri, 05/09/2014 at 12:00am
Andrew Geller speaks with long-time political activist, lecturer and author Ralph Nader about his latest book, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. 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

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

Bill Resnick talks with Mike Parker of the Richmond (CA) Progressive Alliance

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Mike Parker, Progressive Alliance candidate for Mayor of Richmond, California. They discuss Richmond's battles with Chevron over its Richmond refinery, the corporation's failure to pay taxes, the pollution the refinery causes, and the company's attem... Read more

Living Stages Presents Working-Class Poetry Open Mike

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Tamara Lynne and Daisy Montague of Living Stages, a branch of the Theatre of the Oppressed, which will be hosting a Working-Class Poets Open Mike on May 2nd. Theater of the Oppressed was founded by Augusto Boal in Brazil during the dictatorship there ... Read more