The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 20, 2018

Thom Becker hosts this edition of the Old Mole, and we hear the following:

1. Bill Resnick and Portland educator Maika Yeigh discuss the importance of literacy and some obstacles to teaching it well in public schools today.

2. Desiree Hellegers interviews fossil fuel activist Bonnie McKinley, and OPAL's Shawn Fleek about, respectively, the global climate implications of the governor's race, and links between climate change and Measure 105. 

3. Norm Diamond interviews Alex Diamond about how the peace agreement in Colombia is, and is not, being implemented.

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