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The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 22, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this show, largely about the struggle and culture of Africans and African Americans, and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Frank Ackerman on the costs of curbing climate change to manageable levels v. the costs of continuing on the current path. ... Read more

Michelle Alexander for Supreme Court Justice

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris considers the likelihood that Michelle Alexander could be our next Supreme Court Justice. Alexander is the author of the critically acclaimed "The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of color-blindness" (which Old Moles have covered HERE and HERE and H... Read more

Portland considers resolution to save lumber from old houses while USFS plans more logging on Hood

Airs at: Thu, 02/18/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Guest Preston Browning is founder and owner of Salvage Works, a North Portland-based company that sells reclaimed lumber from deconstructed buildings and also uses it to make furniture and fixtures. On Wednesday, February 17 during their afternoon session., the Portland Cit... Read more

Citizens Try to Stop Sale of Gladstone Nature Park

Airs at: Thu, 02/11/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
In the city of Gladstone, Oregon, south of Portland in Clackamas County, a group of citizens continues its frustrating attempts to keep the city from selling a popular park. The ten-and-a-half acre Gladstone Nature Park contains a hiking trail and is an example of the white... Read more

Stephen Johnson Interview

Airs at: Thu, 02/04/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Stephen Johnson is a home care specialist and a democrat who is running for Oregon Governor. He talked with Don Merrill about his support for guns in Oregon schools, why the state can't afford to pass up jobs that have been previously called a bad fit for the state's "chara... Read more

Steve Phillips Interview

Airs at: Wed, 02/03/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Steve Phillips is the author of the new book, "Brown is the New White", a critical discussion on changes that are coming to the American body politic in advance of the population shift from majority white to "other than white" by 2044. He talks with Don Merrill about Berni... Read more

Cliff Thomason Interview

Airs at: Thu, 01/14/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Cliff Thomason is a gubenatorial candidate from Oregon's Independent Party. He strongly believes in Oregon agriculture and agricultural based solutions for some of Oregon's financial problems. Among them, he thinks the hemp and marijuana industries need access to legitima... Read more

David Taylor Interview

Airs at: Tue, 01/12/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
NOTE:  On January 16, 2016, David Taylor sent out an email announcing the suspension of his campaign. David Taylor is an independent seeking the seat in House District 30. But his story is far from ordinary. He says he and his brother were kidnapped as a children. He is of... Read more

Occupy Malheur Psychology

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan discuss the occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. They consider the largely progressive history of occupation, often as a response to exhaustion of other attempts at redress, and usually entailing personal risk, as in occupations of se... Read more

China's Eco Apocalypse

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with China scholar Richard Smith regarding China's economic and environmental problems. Smith's writing is available on Truthout , including his article on China's Communist-Capitalist Ecological Apocalypse. They discuss the recent crisis in China's eco... Read more