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Mae Rafferty Interview

Airs at: Sat, 04/05/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Mae Rafferty is a Republican running for Oregon's Governor.  She talked with Don Merrill about why she believes the 10th Amendment protects Oregon from federal decisions regarding gay marriage, how contract law as it relates to the retirement of public employees is tricky a... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 31 March 2014

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted as well as engineered by Joe Clement, this episode features discussions of Education, Labor, Aging, Reading, Psychiatry and Cinema:  Bill Resnick talks with Portland State University Professor Patricia Schechter about faculty labor struggles and neoliberal education;... Read more

Patricia Schechter on Possible PSU Faculty Strike

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with History Professor Patricia Schechter of Portland State University's faculty union, the American Association of University Professors, about why faculty are ready to strike after 10 months of bargaining. They discuss faculty stability, pay equity, and... Read more

Teddy Keizer Interview

Airs at: Wed, 03/26/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Teddy Keizer is a seventh generation progressive Oregonian who grew up in conservative Coos County and is running for Oregon's 42d House District seat which serves Southeast and Northeast Portland.  He talked with Don Merrill about the ongoing effort to reform the Portland ... Read more

KBOO Panel Discussion: The Inconvenient Truth Behind 'Waiting For Superman' - Part 1

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Listen to Part 1 of our March 13th event, KBOO at the Clinton: The Inconvenient Truth Behind "Waiting for Superman" of our panel discussion on Portland's troubled education landscape. Host: Bill Resnick, Old Mole Variety Hour Guest Speakers: Gwen Sullivan, Middle Schoo... Read more

KBOO Panel Discussion: The Inconvenient Truth Behind 'Waiting For Superman' - Part 2

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Listen to Part 2 of our March 13th event, KBOO at the Clinton: The Inconvenient Truth Behind "Waiting for Superman" of our panel discussion on Portland's troubled education landscape. Host: Bill Resnick, Old Mole Variety Hour Guest Speakers: Gwen Sullivan, Middle Schoo... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 24 2014

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show and we hear: Bill talks with Bob Peterson of Rethinking Schools about the corporate agenda against public education, and how advocates for real education are and must continue to resist it. Joe Clement talks with Anna Coote of the New ... Read more

Bob Peterson on rethinking schools, debunking the privatizing agenda, and fighting for education

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson of Rethinking Schools. They discuss the capitalist agenda to remake education into a business and why it isn't working. They consider ways that teaching has to connect to children's real lives, which standardized testing makes impossible... Read more

Money, Property and Schools

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Occupy Portland Radio
Last week on the Old Mole, Bill Resnick and Hyung Nam discussed corporate power and education.  Reporting on her experience in Mountain View, California, Ren Green recalls how Google's tax exempt status led to the closing of schools for lower income, mostly Latino people.   Read more

High Stakes Testing As Class War Strategy

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with local education activist Hyung Nam about high stakes testing in US schools. Hyung talks about how he was threatened with firing from Wilson High School for asking critical questions about high stakes testing, but also for raising other critical quest... Read more