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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 14, 2025

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2025/07/14

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Marxism and Degrowth: Joe Clement talks with local activist and anarchist scholar, Paul Messersmith-Glavin about degrowth broadly and particularly in the work of Japanese Mar...

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Miriam Gershow returns with new novel Closer

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2025/07/10

On today's show, we welcome Miriam Gershow, author of the new novel Closer from Regal House Publishing. Miriam’s books include the novel The Local News and the story collection Survival Tips, which was a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book award in fiction, an Independent ...

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Sunlight, rainfall, and harvest at peak

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2025/07/09

Host Glen Andresen and co-pilot Jim Gilbert are back live in the studio this month. It's time for summer pruning; if you haven't tried it, you may want to switch. Plus, how does sunlight affect fruit production? And how does rainfall or drought affect nectar production? ...

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Support, Don't Punish

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2025/07/09

On this edition of Century of Lies: Support, Don’t Punish: A Public Health and Human Rights Based Approach to Drug Policy. The Fifty-Ninth Session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from June 16 to July 8. A number of side events were held in conjunction with the H...

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Criminal Injustice

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2025/07/08

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Criminal Injustice. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Troshawn McCoy. Mr. McCoy was one of the so-called “Marquette Park Four” who back in the 1990s were framed by Chicago Police for crimes they did not commit, for which he ...

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Lessons from Nature's Water Management

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2025/07/07

Nature has ingenious methods of managing and delivering water in all its phases: precipitation, evaporation, absorption by plants, wetlands, rivers and lakes, and infiltration that recharges groundwater and aquifers. Yet in most urban environments, stormwater is seen as ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for July 7, 2025

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2025/07/07

The Organizers: remembering activist Dan Handelman; sneak peek at documentary The Israeli. This episode is hosted by Jon Nelson and features these segments: Documentary The Israeli: Filmmaker Jordan Karr-Morse talks with Frann Michel about his feature documentary-i...

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Moving Beyond Punishment

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2025/06/18

On this edition of Century of Lies: Moving Beyond Punishment.The Global Commission on Drug Policy released a report recently entitled Beyond Punishment: From Criminal Justice Responses to Drug Policy Reform, which exposes how punitive drug policies have driven mass incar...

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Picking Games With Chaz Marler

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2025/06/17

James and Nate welcome Chaz Marler, creator of Game Night Picks, a website that helps you plan your game nights and eliminate that awkward time spent deciding what the heck to play.

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Justice for Jorge!

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2025/06/17

As the Trump administration seeks to dehumanize, terrorize and criminalize our immigrant communities, organizations are mobilizing in solidarity to protect and empower people targeted by ICE, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement. Host Karen James speaks with Karla Cast...

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Breaking the Iron Wall on the Lower Willamette River

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2025/06/16

The Willamette River is a confluence of social, ecological, economic and historical significance and yet we continue to struggle to protect the very place that sustains us. But we are beginning to see a crack in the iron wall that has ruled the lower Willamette, created ...

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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 16, 2025

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2025/06/16

In this week's episode, hosted by Desiree Hellegers: Laurie Mercier speaks to Ussama Makdisi, a professor of history and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley, whose research focuses on the cultural and political history of the modern Middle East. T...

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PEST

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2025/06/16

Desiree Hellegers speaks with Mike Horner, Harlan Shober, and Ted Dreier of PEST – the Peoples Equipment and Supply Team – about their wide-ranging organizing, from refurbishing a school bus into a mobile medical unit for Standing Rock, to projecting slogans on the sides...

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Makdisi Street: Podcasting for Palestine

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2025/06/16

Laurie Mercier speaks to Ussama Makdisi, a professor of history and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley, whose research focuses on the cultural and political history of the modern Middle East. They discuss Israel’s genocide and the Makdisi Street ...

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Ann Telnaes and Laura Nix

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2025/06/12

Ann Telnaes has won the Herblock Prize, the Reuben Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for her political cartoons. Recently, she left the Washington Post after 16 years when the paper spiked her cartoon depicting billionaires bowing down to Trump. Now Ann is at the center...

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Willamette Radio Workshop presents 3 radio plays

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2025/06/12

On today’s episode, we play three very timely radio dramas from our friends at Willamette Radio Workshop. The first, The Fall of the City, was written for radio by Archibald McLeish and first broadcast on the Columbia Workshop Radio Series, April 11, 1937. The cast featu...

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Save water with trickle irrigation!

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2025/06/11

Host Glen Andresen and co-pilot Jim Gilbert present a pre-recorded show, recorded a week before show time. We're getting the first fruits of the season; how many have you eaten? Plus, a primer on trickle irrigation, good for just about any situation, from acres to raised...

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By LA, For LA

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2025/06/11

On this edition of Century of Lies: By LA, For LA. On Saturday May 31, the Big Cities Health Coalition and Vital Strategies convened a panel of public health and harm reduction experts to present new national polling data and spotlight the latest stories from the front li...

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Meet the Incoming OEA President

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2025/06/10

Join us as we talk with incoming Oregon Education Association President Enrique Farrera about his humble beginnings and his thoughts about moving the state union forward.

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Zenith Gets Its Hearing

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2025/06/09

This program originally aired on May 26, 2025 On May 12, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality held a public hearing, where over 300 people testified against DEQ approving Zenith Energy’s draft Air Contaminant Discharge Permit. This is the last permit Zen...

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