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Dr. Earl Bracy,c "The Making of a Psychologist"

Airs at: Thu, 08/01/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Dr. Earl Bracy -- a Vietnam War era combat medic, practicing clinical psychologist, and author of Too Young to Die: Inner-City Adolescent Homicides and The Making of a Psychologist -- has endured prejudice and discrimination the likes of which many Americans, black and whit... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 8, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 07/08/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole dealing with several aspects of freedom and self-determination -- from the extreme unfreedom of solitary confinement in maximum security prisons to wage slavery and mass unemployment.  To hear this program in its entire... Read more

Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay Prison

Airs at: Mon, 07/08/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Left and the Law.  Thousands of prisoners California's Pelican Bay Prison and throughout the state have been on a hunger strike to protest arbitrary sentences to solitary confinement.  Attorney Mike Snedeker and psychologist Jan Haaken discuss the conditions and the rea... Read more

Husbans of Incarcerated Radical Attorney Lynne Stewart Holds Vigil

Airs at: Wed, 06/19/2013 at 12:00am
Normal 0   Seventy three year old people’s attorney Lynne Stewart is serving a ten year sentence for releasing a press release for her client Shiek Omar Abdel Rahman, and is also suffering from stage four cancer.  Stewart’s husband, fellow civil right’s activist Ralph ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour May 27, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker hosts and shares a reading on exporting fundamentalism; also we hear Gerald Markowitz with Bill Resnick on Biohazards; Iven Hale on the horror of the US incarceration system; and the movie moles Jan and Joe on The Great Gatsby.Resnick and Markowitz on Untested C... Read more

Iven Hale on jails and prisons: No Fantasy

Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Buffy the Vampire Slayer may ask a willing suspension of disbelief about the supernatural, but is simply in error on some real-world matters, including the difference between  jails (run by counties and holding those awaiting trial or serving short sentences for misdemeanor... Read more

Q Center's "Volunteer of the Year" Dismissed after Failed Background Check

Airs at: Thu, 04/18/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Portlander Natalie Marie, local LGBT advocacy and service non-profit Q Center's "Volunteer of the Year," has been dismissed after failing a state-mandated criminal background check.  In her past, Natalie's struggle with addiction landed her in prison for seven years, and th... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 15, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale hosts this edition of the Old Mole which discusses the political threats to Social Security, the Oregon prison system, a South African fighter against apartheid, and a new film about Jackie Robinson.  Below are links to individual segments of the show.  Or use the... Read more

Left & The Law: Prisons, Politics, Money

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
A recent article in Willamette Week praises the Oregon prison system, claiming the system is one of the best in the nation.  Attorney Mike Snedeker debunks this claim as part of the lobbying effort of the prison-industrial complex to keep prisons funded in the face of decli... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 11th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole and we hear about Hugo Chavez and Venuzuela, the new drug-war action film Snitch, wage-slavery and republican visions of liberty, and space warfare.Bill Resnick talks with Michael Fox about Hugo Chavez and what's next for Veneuzalans.Jan Haake... Read more