Economy

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Inequality, Social Dysfunction and Misery

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from an article in CounterPunch by Graham Peebles entitled Inequality Social Dysfunction and Misery which explores the debilitating consequences of extreme wealth inequality on the well-being of society in general, not only on the poor and disenfranchised. ... Read more

Unprecedented Crime: Peter Carter and Climate Science Denial

Airs at: Tue, 06/12/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Dr. Peter Carter is founder of the Climate Emergency Institute.  He has served as an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change’s fifth climate change assessment in 2014. He has also presented on the implications of global climate change on food se... Read more

1% for Clean Energy

Airs at: Tue, 06/12/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
  Joe welcomes promoters of the Clean Energy Fund to KBOO to discuss the proposed 1% tax on large corporations.  Call in and join the conversation at (503) 231-8187. Read more

Capitalist Agriculture or Ecological Civilization

Airs at: Mon, 05/21/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks to Fred Magdoff, a soil scientist, on the multiple problems of capitalist agriculture and also the solutions, ecological agriculture and the sweeping changes necessary, sometimes called ecological civilization. Magdoff has written Building Soils for Be... Read more

Civilization and Our Discontents

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In a piece called "Civilization and Our Discontents," Clayton Morgareidge shows that the glories of Civilization have always required the coerced labor of forgotten masses, and the same is true of the comforts of modern life: they are manufactured by the poor for the enjoym... Read more

The Need to Work Less

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads from an article by David Spencer, entitled “The Need to Work Less is a Matter of Life and Death,” about the impossible demands on workers’ time extracted by the capitalist economy. David Spencer is a Professor of Economics and Political Economy at  Universi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 11, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts this episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour with segments on: From Asylum to Prison: Bill Resnick talks with Dr. Anne E. Parsons about her forthcoming work From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945. Inequ... Read more

Better, Smarter, Richer

Airs at: Fri, 06/08/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Business Principles and real talk for encore, creative and solo entrepreneurs with guest and author Jackie B Peterson. Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for May 28, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode  of the Old Mole: Building a Healthy Neighborhood in Cully: Bill Resnick interviews Carolina Iraheta and Tony DeFalco of the organization Verde. Civilization and Our Discontents: Clayton Morgareidge comments about how the comforts of modern li... Read more

Housing and Health Care Challenges in Linn and Benton Counties: What We Can Do About It (Part 2)

Airs at: Fri, 05/11/2018 at 10:00am - 10:15am
Produced for:  Valley Views
Join Host Dale Holiday in Part 2 of her conversation with Clarice Amorim-Freitas, Coordinator for the Linn-Benton Health Equity Alliance. In this segment Clarice talks about the unique obstacles that Latinos and Latinas face obtaining sexual and reproduc Clarice Amorim-Fre... Read more