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This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features these segments:
Chiquita Bananas and Climate Justice
On June 12 Democracy Now aired a segment on a legal victory for Colombian
agricultural workers against Chiquita. A...
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Frann Michel hosts this rebroadcast of Queer Communists: Hansberry and Hay,
from Against the Grain.
C.S. Soong interviews Bettina Aptheker about her book Communists in
Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s.
To be queer and communist at a time when the Communist ...
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Inconsistency, contradictions, hypocrisy, deceptions: This episode looks at
how right-wing movements are exploiting notions of antisemitism, how
ecosocialists and others have thought about capitalist growth on a finite
planet, and how climate legal cases against big o...
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Defending forests, obliterating dams, replanting watershed, and organizing
against genocide (that is also ecocide): Frann Michel hosts this Earth Day
episode, which includes these segments:
Forest Defense
In this Earth Day segment of "Field Notes,” Sophie Smith speaks...
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Library Labor, Literature, Lawsuits, and Lies about taxes: Frann Michel hosts
this episode which features these segments:
Fort Vancouver Regional Library Workers Struggle
Joe Clement shares news about the Fort Vancouver Regional Library workers
struggle for a living w...
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This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and includes these segments:
The Afro-Atlantic Origins of the Banjo
Joe Clement presents a collection of traditional banjo music and
documentaries shining light on the Afro-Atlantic origins of the banjo, and
some of its enduri...
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At the annual meetings of the American Historical Association in early
January, Dr. Carol Anderson joined a panel of scholars tasked with responding
to the question, “Is the United States Turning Toward Fascism”? Jan
Haaken talks with Anderson about her comments on th...
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On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court released its Roe v. Wade decision
legalizing abortion, now overturned by the 2022 Dobbs decision. This
episode of the Old Mole looks at the history of abortion access in Portland
and at the broader context of reproductiv...
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During the century that preceded Roe v Wade in 1973, abortion was illegal in
Oregon. Even so, women consistently sought and obtained abortions, including
from licensed physicians. But whether the practice was officially tolerated
or suppressed fluctuated significantly...
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A few months ago, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a challenge to a federal law
designed to keep indigenous children from being taken from their families and
put up for adoption outside of their tribes. Oregon writer and photographer
Matt Witt tells us about a riveting TV...
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