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Jesse Myerson: Five Radical Reforms Millenials Should Be Fighting For

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with Jesse Myerson about an article he wrote a couple weeks ago for Rollingstone that proposes five radical reforms that millenials should be organizing around. These include a job guarantee, basic income, land value taxes, public banks, and soveriegn weal... Read more

Executive Branch Tries to Fast-Track TPP Through Congress

Airs at: Thu, 01/16/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Rachel Bennett spoke to Alisa Simmons, Field Director for Public Citizen's World Trade Watch, about President Obama's attempts to fast-track approval for the Trans-Pacific Partnership through Congress, despite the dearth of even sure Democratic support for the proced... Read more

ACLU Fights DEA's Attempt to Access Oregonians' Prescription Records

Airs at: Thu, 01/16/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The ACLU of Oregon has joined a suit brought before a federal judge by the state of Oregon in an attempt to prevent the DEA from accessing the data gathered by Oregon's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program without a warrant. The program holds millions of prescription record... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 6 January 2014

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The first Old Mole Variety Hour of 2014 looks back at histories of struggle and forward to the end of alienation. Joe Clement hosts, and we hear segments on class struggle in labor and party politics, anti-capitalist activism in Mexico and globally, the revolutionary reform... Read more

Yasmin Nair on the Trouble with Hate Crimes Law

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris talks with Yasmin Nair of Against Equality about the ten years since the murder of Brandon Teena, and about how hate crimes legislation can result in increased surveillance and punishment of the very marginlized communities it is ostensibly meant to protect. ... Read more

Zapatista Resistance to neoliberalism

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Well-Read Red Frann Michel considers the twenty years of NAFTA and of Zapatista resistance to NAFTA and neoliberalism. You can read a longer version of this piece, with links to sources, here on her blog. Read more

Water District Proposal

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Genevieve McDaniel speaks with Kent Craford, a water ratepayer advocate and one of the chief petitioners working towards establishing a Portland Water District separate from City Council control. Read more

Kitzhaber's Federal Forest Plan

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Yesterday evening, the Oregon Board of Forestry unanimously approved a federal forest plan personally presented by Governor John Kitzhaber. The plan aims to direct the Board's actions in order to create a more favorable context for both commercial and stewardship activity o... Read more

Drone Testing at Three Sites in Oregon

Airs at: Thu, 01/02/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The Federal Aviation Authority has named three sites in Oregon among the list of places to be used for testing drones. Robin Ryan speaks to Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, and Becky Strauss of the ACLU of Oregon... Read more

Oregon Heritage Plan

Airs at: Thu, 01/02/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
More than one thousand mostly small nonprofit groups work in local communities across Oregon to preserve their area's history. A new Oregon Heritage Plan, now up for public comment, is a way to prioritize and coordinate those effots statewide.  KBOO reporter Barbara Nelson ... Read more