Housing/Homelessness

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Debt as Art

Airs at: Mon, 06/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Cassie Thornton about her use of debt for the last 7 years as a subject for her art-work. She describes how she's sought to concretize debt, explore debt through hypnotherapeutic visualization exercises with others, and in the end how she's gotten inv... Read more

Richard Rothstein Interview

Airs at: Wed, 05/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Richard Rothstein is a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute.  He has written extensively on the effect of inequitable education on black and minority children in the US.  His latest piece for the EPI, focuses on the complicity of the Federal government in c... Read more

Memorial for homeless man who burned to death in St. Johns

Airs at: Wed, 05/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
In Saint John’s today, around fifty people gathered for a memorial service for a houseless man who was burned to death in April.  Bruce McAdie was apparently trying to warm himself at a McMenamin’s outdoor fire pit late at night on April first when he fell in to the fire. ... Read more

Prof. Fred Alford on Robert Kraus and the Consequences of Whistleblowing

Airs at: Thu, 04/30/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A whistleblower who came forward in 2006 to report what he believed to be illegal activity of his coworkers is now fighting to save his home from the very financial institution that acquired his former employer. Robert Kraus worked as a controller for North Carolina based W... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 20

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Mole and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick talks with Portland city sustainable official Michael Armstrong about what Portland is doing about climate change. 2.  Tom Becker reads an article about the imminent dangers of serious water shortages. ... 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 he... Read more

Renters' Assemblies in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 03/30/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reports back on his attendance at the First Portland Renters Assembly(1), noting the interest among renters to both legally constrain landlord powers and challenge the political realities of housing under capitalism. His piece opens recalling Frann Michel's Well... Read more

Renters' Assemblies in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 03/30/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reports on the issues Portland renters face and the Renters' Assemblies that have been held recently to discuss how to deal with them. He also lets us know about the next Assemblies: Tuesday, April 21 at the Central Library at 5:45; and Sunday, April 26, at the ... Read more

Oregon Senate Hears Testimony on Right to Rest

Airs at: Thu, 03/12/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  News In Depth
Today, the Oregon Senate Committee on Human Services and Early Childhood held a public hearing on the Right to Rest bill, which would override local bans on camping, sleeping on sidewalks, and sleeping in cars by people experiencing homelessness. Read more

the contradictions of housing under capitalism (wrr)

For the Old Mole Variety Hour March 9, 2015   First, from a 1946 New International essay by Miriam Gould on "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate":   Way back in 1872, Frederick Engels made three generalizations about hou... Read more