Housing/Homelessness

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The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 24, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode with segments featuring Jeremy Brecher on Climate Insurgency, Denise & Joe on Housing Justice, and readings on the cost of low wages and the radical promise of Reconstruction. Bill talks with Jeremy Brecher about Climate Insurgency. Tom reads ... Read more

Housing Justice in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 08/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and Joe Clement discuss housing as a human right, the broad impact of rising housing costs, the Portland history of racism that has contributed to the current housing crunch, the struggle for sustainable solutions that go beyond isolated nuclear family homes, ... Read more

Houselessness Activism in Eugene

Airs at: Wed, 07/29/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
0729 OR HEDIN BRUGH SLEEPS ACTIVIST   WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2015   CDRW# __   RUNS   6:48   W/LOCKOUT        KILL DATE/TIME __________________   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   THE CITY OF EUGENE HAS... Read more

Live-Aboard Boaters Face Enforcement Under "Transient Laws"

Airs at: Thu, 08/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  News In Depth
Individuals and families who live on boats in the Willamette River, some of whom have done so for more than ten years, are facing new enforcement of existing transient laws.  KBOO reporter Henry Leasia filed this report about their struggle to have these laws changed. Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 3, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts and we hear music from Anne Feeney, variations on the Old Mole theme song, and these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Dan Handelman of Portland CopWatch about police violence and militarization. Frann Michel and Hyung Nam discuss democracy and its contra... Read more

Portland Renters Assemble and Agitate

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reminds us that the ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class, but the dispossessed can generate alternative ideas. He reads an article from the Portland Tribune about the Portland Renters' Assembly and the radical vision of some of its organizers. The next... Read more

Operation Homestead: liberating housing in 1990s Seattle

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers interviews Seattle housing justice activists Ginger Segel and Bob Kubiniec about their work in the 1980s and 1990s with  Operation Homestead, breaking into and liberating abandoned or unused buildings for people to live in. image by Dana Schuerholz via ... Read more

Brief Update on The Portland Renters Assembly

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris interviews Old Mole and organizer, Joe Clement, about the Portland Renters Assembly. They talk briefly about what the assemblies have been about, what issues have been coming up, and how people can get involved.  The Portland Renters Assembly has its planning ... Read more

Brief Update on The Portland Renters Assembly

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris interviews Old Mole and organizer, Joe Clement, about the Portland Renters Assembly. They talk briefly about what the assemblies have been about, what issues have been coming up, and how people can get involved.  The Portland Renters Assembly has its planning ... Read more

Tenants Union: Fight Your Landlord And Win!

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads a pamphlet produced by Buffalo Class Action (a Buffalo, New York area anarchist political organization) about the political situation of the for-profit housing system and the power that tenants have to challenge and ultimately transform it, if and when the... Read more