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All About Portland Tenants United

Airs at: Mon, 01/25/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier talks with tenant union organizer and Old Mole Joe Clement about Portland Tenants United (PTU)  and tenant unionism as a response to the housing crisis. PTU is a tenant union that has grown out of a number of communities and have already helped stop one evict... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 4, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 01/04/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this edition of the Old Mole. On it we hear  1.  Part Two of Bill Resnick's interview with Mike Houck and Kaitlin Lovell about Portland's Climate Action Plan; 2.  Medea Benjamin's list of ten really good things that happened in 2015 (read by Tom Becker); ... Read more

Portland Rent Strike

Airs at: Mon, 01/04/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Lew Church about an opinion piece he wrote for the December 23rd Portland Observer on whether Portland needs a city-wide rent strike. Lew describes tenant organizing he was part of at PSU, where they went on a rent-strike, and points out hidden histor... Read more

Rent Strike in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 01/04/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Lew Church about an opinion piece he wrote for the December 23rd Portland Observer on whether Portland needs a city-wide rent strike. Lew describes tenant organizing he was part of at PSU, where they went on a rent-strike, and points out hidden histor... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 28, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel hosts the last Old Mole episode of 2015, which features segments on climate, economy, housing, insanity, and music by Helly Luv, Nina Simone, and the Pretenders, as well as poetry by Marge Piercy. This week the theme song is performed by Jerron Blind Boy Paxt... Read more

Portland Needs a Rent Strike

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads an opinion piece from December 23rd's Portland Observer  by Lew Church of Tenant Rights Project and Portland Tenants United, that suggests a city-wide rent strike is worth considering. [image from wikipedia] Read more

Salvation Army Story

Airs at: Fri, 11/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Paul Sowards is a bell ringer for the Salvation Army in Wilsonville, Oregon. He says the organization has saved his life as well as let him reach out to people in his own unique way. But for a secular community like Portland, the Salvation Army is viewed skeptically for ... Read more

KBOO Noon News 112715

Airs at: Fri, 11/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Tune in every weekday at five for more local, national and international news produced by volunteer reporters in our Portland studios. Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 21, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 09/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show featuring music about love and a better world by Michael Jackson. The segments of the show are these: Journalist Arun Gupta talks with Bill Resnick about gentrification and the role of teachers' unions in resisting it. Jan Haaken explain... Read more

Vic Remmers faces protesters as he attempts to cut ancient trees on two sites in Portland

Airs at: Tue, 09/15/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Portland residents in two separate neighborhoods engaged in civil disobedience today to stop ancient trees from being cut down by developer Vic Remmers. A neighborhood group in Southeast Portland has banded together to stop the cutting of two old-growth trees near 41st Ave... Read more