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Sex Ed

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Jan Haaken interviews Mole Sharon Grant and her former colleague Judy McFarland. As retired sex educators in Multnomah County middle and high schools for 20 years, they reflect on what it was like, the continued need for comprehensive sex ed in school, particularly given... Read more

Inflation Reduction Act

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act— it should be called the Climate Action Act— has been characterized by reputable folks as transformative, which is not an exaggeration. But transformative to what? Will it be corporate America’s vison of the clean energy future, with conti... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 29, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following segments: The New Pink Tide in Latin America: What is it? What can it hope to accomplish? For Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond interviews Alex Diamond, a sociology grad student at UT, wh... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 22, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 08/22/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following interview from Against the Grain: Preparing for doomsday is a mindset as well as a set of activities that have been encouraged by the political elites ever since the Cold War. According to Emi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 15, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Stop Ecocide: Last month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrated 20 years since it opened its doors in July 2002. The court recognized this anniversary date by dis... Read more

Stop Ecocide:

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Last month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrated 20 years since it opened its doors in July 2002. The court recognized this anniversary date by discussing ecocide as a possible fifth crime in its statutes. In their Left & the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike... Read more

The Community Pulse

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Isis Harris is a skilled union electrician. Norm Diamond talks with her about an August 20 family event, one of three that are planned to promote BIPOC entry into construction jobs. With all the talk about promoting diversity in construction, and all the supposed initiat... Read more

Labor and Environment, Part 1

Airs at: Mon, 08/15/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Bill Resnick talks to Wendy Thompson, who after college took a job in the Detroit auto industry in the 1970s with the intention to help build radical caucuses within the United Autoworkers Union. Wendy reflects on how the challenges and opportunities to organize workers ... Read more

City Charter

Airs at: Mon, 08/08/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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The Portland Charter Commission — responsible to evaluate and make recommendations for changes in the structures and operations of Portland city government — has developed ambitious, wide ranging, and sometimes radical proposals that will be approved or disapproved in th... Read more

Nukes, Energy and War

Airs at: Mon, 08/08/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Hiroshima Day commemorates August 6 1945, the day when the US dropped an atomic bomb  on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed a few days later by dropping another atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. Jan Haaken talks with long-time anti-nuclear activist Norman Solomo... Read more