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Old Mole Variety Hour for November 2, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond hosts this episode of Old Mole which includes the following segments: How to Stop an Autocrat: Bill Resnick interviews Stephen Zunes about stopping ambitious or desperate autocrats and dictators from stealing elections. They discuss how civil resistance thr... Read more

Weather

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Finally, as winter looms, we have a reading by Claudia Rankine of her poem “Weather.” Rankine, a distinguished Black poet, has more in mind than meteorology when she addresses the “weather” around us. Creator: Sasiistock | Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Read more

Another World Is Possible

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
As an episode in our continuing series Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond is  joined by Luisa Herrera for a conversation about police reform. Taking off from the police accountability measure on the PDX ballot they talk about the real social change necessary to get ... Read more

Loot

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sharon Grant takes on the controversial subject of looting by reading excerpts from “What Kind of Society Values Property Over Black Lives?” by Dr. Robin D.G. Kelly, professor of American History;  In Defense of Looting, a new book by writer and agitator, Vicky Osterweil... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 26, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 10/26/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Defend Democracy: Bill Resnick interviews Jeremy Breacher, a co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability. Brecher is an activist and has written many books and articles, including the labor classic, Strike! Today they discuss how mass movements can defend democ... Read more

Promo

Airs at: Wed, 10/21/2020 at 7:00am - 7:15am
Produced for:  It Did Happen Here
Promo for It Did Happen Here First Episode Nov 13th Voices: Celina Flores Mic Crenshaw Editor: Icky A. Music Reagan Youth Read more

Black Political Prisoners Matter: Global Pandemics & Wrongful Incarcerations

Airs at: Mon, 10/26/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Aisha Mohammed and Jihad Abdulmumit from The Jericho Movement for Political Prisoner Amnesty, discussing the importance of supporting Black Political Prisoners during a time of global pandemic, national political uprisings in 2020 and recent ca... Read more

Defend Democracy

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers speaks with Lynn Spitaleri Handlin of Extinction Rebellion PDX and Maria Cahill of Pacific Northwest Family Circle about the federal power grab in the run up to the election, the implications of the federal deputizing of Oregon State troopers and Portla... Read more

It Did Happen Here

In the 1980s, before gentrification, before Portlandia, Portland, Oregon was a sleepy city that existed outside of the national spotlight.  Skinheads had always been part of the local punk scene. In the late 1980s, punks and skins started being recruited by national white... Read more

Election 2020: Washington County Commission District 1 Candidate Nafisa Fai

Airs at: Fri, 10/16/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  "I think people in Washington County are ready for change, they're ready for new perspectives. They're ready for communities who have been left behind to have a seat at the table ...  and to elect me, I'm honored to carry [that] forward." Nafisa Fai is running for of... Read more