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Congress sneaks amendment to criminalize boycotts of Israel into TPP Fast Track bill

Airs at: Fri, 04/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Legislation penalizing organizations for participating in the B-D-S movement against Israel, has been quietly attached to the Fast-Track Legislation that is winding its way through Congress. The B-D-S movement, which stands for boycott, divest, and sanction, is a growing... Read more

Hawthorne Bridge protest against planned Nestle bottling plant

Airs at: Thu, 04/16/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Around a hundred protesters gathered this morning at the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland to call on state officials to stop Nestle from opening a bottling plant in the Columbia River Gorge.  This past week, The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife applied ... Read more

US Congress Introduces Legislation to Fast-Track TPP

Airs at: Thu, 04/16/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Top Congressional legislators reached a deal earlier today to introduce fast-track legislation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to Congress. As the ranking Democrat on the Finance Panel, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden was crucial in reaching an agreement between Republicans and ... Read more

Alleged Killer of Chilean Folksinger Victor Jara to be Tried in USA

Airs at: Thu, 04/16/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The former Chilean army officer who allegedly murdered folksinger Victor Jara in the aftermath of the 1973 military coup is the subject of a civil lawsuit in the United States. Pedro Barrientes Nunez currently lives in Deltona, Florida, despite an extradition request mad... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Stephen Zunes about the Iran Negotiations

Airs at: Mon, 04/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Stephen Zunes about the Iran Negotiations, the history of western involvemnt in Iran since the 1953 CIA coup, the current political conflicts in the middle east as about resources and power rather than religious ideology, the strange bedfellows of... Read more

Oregon activists succeed in getting Sodastream labeling changed

Airs at: Thu, 04/02/2015 at 12:00am
A group of Oregon activists have succeeded in forcing an Israeli company to change the labeling on its products. The company is called Sodastream, and it sells a soda-making machine that is popular among do-it-yourselfers. But the Sodastream factory is located on Palestini... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 30, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 03/30/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this episode of the Mole and features suppressed radical versions of songs that have been turned into patriotic hymns by the mainstream: Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA," "America the Beautiful," and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."   To... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 23, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 03/23/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts and we hear:   Bill Resnick and Robert Naimon talk about Israel and Palestine Desiree Hellegers talks with Dan Serres about the environmental and safety risks of oil-by-train facilities Joe Clement reads a tongue-in-cheeck commentary about the P... Read more

Dan Serres on oil-by-train dangers

Airs at: Mon, 03/23/2015 at 12:00am
Desiree Hellegers interviews Dan Serres, Conservation Director of the Columbia River Keeper, about the potential environmental and safety impacts of a proposal to site the largest oil-by-rail storage facility in the United States right here in our own backyard in Vancouv... Read more

Well-read Red: the contradictions of housing under capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-read Red, Frann Michel, offers a set of short readings* on housing as a human right, the contradictions of human need vs. profit, and the success of direct collective action by tenants in establishing housing as a truly public good. In addition to these readings, sh... Read more