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Dispatches Against Displacement: understanding and resisting gentrification

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with James Tracy, author of "Dispatches Against Displacement: field notes from San Francisco's housing war". They consider what gentrification is as an economic and by extension racialized form of domination, how different cities experience gentrification ... Read more

Well-read Red: Gentrification, Class Domination, and Racism

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reads from an essay by Gavin Mueller in Jacobin, as well as from other sources, to argue that gentrification is not simply a cultural change in a neighborhood, but instead is driven by economic forces and backed by state power.   But those forces can be collect... Read more

Public Health and Social Spending

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Dr. Walter Tsou about the importance of public health. They consider  how our social spending priorities, over determined by war and market competition, and in that vein the private medical insurance regime, undermine our public health and leave us v... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 13, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode about public health and our vulnerability to epidemics like Ebola, gentrification as colonialist legacy, and racial perceptions of crime. Musical selections from Hazel Dickens, Leon Rosselson, James Talley, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Bill... Read more

Gentrification and the Right to the City

  The well-read red has been reading about gentrification, as well as seeing plenty of it.    Despite what we often hear in mainstream media, gentrification is not simply a cultural change in a neighborhood, and not simply a matter of individual choices.  Rather, it involve... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 6, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 10/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts today's show featuring analysis of US military action in the Middle East as well as the music of, and a movie about, Portland based singer-songwriter Elliot Smith.   Thanks to those who generously called to support KBOO during this show.  If you were not amo... Read more

Endless War Unless We Make Them Stop

Airs at: Mon, 10/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
It's so obvious that the "War on Terror" cannot possibly accomplish what it claims to be its goals that either those who are running the war are utter fools, or else their goals are quite different from what they say they are.  David Mizner explores the most likey unstated ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 29, 2014

Airs at: Mon, 09/29/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick hosts this episode the focuses on War and Peace. We hear: Laurie Mercier interviews Stephen Zunes about the hypocrisy of the fight against the so-called Islamic State Bill Resnick interviews David Mandell about conflict in Ukraine Joe Clement re... Read more

Eric Holder's terrible tenure

Airs at: Mon, 09/29/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads Dave Lindorf's biting critique of Eric Holder's role in serving the ruling elite as Attorney General, a post which he is resigning from to go back to serving as a corporate lawyer. Read more

Francisco Aguirre - in sanctuary at Augustana Lutheran Church

Airs at: Fri, 09/26/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A Portland community leader facing deportation has spent the last seven days in sanctuary at a local church. Francisco Aguirre from the Voz worker rights center headed to the Augustana Lutheran church with a group of his supporters after ICE agents showed up at his door. He... Read more