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Climate Change and the Law

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On December 18th, Montana’s Supreme Court upheld a landmark ruling from a lower court last year. In the Held v Montana case, the Montana justices agreed that the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal pr... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 30, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts the final Old Mole broadcast of 2024, which includes the following segments: War and Climate Crisis in the Middle East: Laurie Mercier  speaks with Dr. Zeinab Shuker, who is an assistant professor of sociology at Sam Houston State University a... Read more

Global Warming and the Crisis of Imagination

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In his 2016 collection of three essays, novelist Amitav Ghosh takes up a question of immense importance: what explains humanity’s collective failure to avert the existential threat posed by climate change? Capitalism and colonialism are the great structural forces that k... Read more

"We Are the Union" with Eric Blanc

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
"We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" is Eric Blanc's latest book.  In this interview, he talks about how recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable power by... Read more

OPEN FORUM: KBOO Membership Drive Special Listener Call-In

Airs at: Thu, 12/19/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 16, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Climate and Justice: Just three weeks after the disappointing outcome at the United Nations COP 29 (Conference of Parties) meetings in Azerbaijan, the largest case in the his... Read more

1/6 - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 12/12/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In the runup to the second presidential term of Donald Trump, we revisit our June 2023 conversation with the creative team behind 1/6: The Graphic Novel, a speculative spin on the real events of January 6, 2021. Writers Gan Golan (The Adventures of Unemployed Man) and ... Read more

Nukes for Needless Energy

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As we transition to a truly renewable world two of the things we need less of are more and larger server farms and nuclear power reactors to feed them electricity. Yet that is the plan being hatched by Microsoft, Amazon and other tech giants. Amazon is eyeing Eastern Ore... Read more

Making Solidarity and Making Community

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
With the looming prospect of a new Trump administration, left activists face a perilous political moment. Today we look back at the Central America solidarity movement of the 1980’s to discover what lessons can be learned from a movement that succeeded in blunting US mil... Read more

KBOO's Kate Chase on the State of the Station

Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
KBOO's Engagement Coordinator Kate Chase shares current work and ideas about promoting KBOO and growing the station into the future -- with listener calls. Read more