Laurie Mercier talks with Michael Brenes, Lecturer in History at Yale
University and author of the forthcoming For Might and Right: Cold War
Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy, on what we can
learn from the long history of efforts to defund the po...
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Bill Resnick and Sharon Grant present a dramatic reading of C L R James’
essay "Every Cook Can Govern"that discusses the lessons for today of
Athenian radical democracy, its glorious record according to James. To be
sure it had problems, as James acknowledges, but th...
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As protests against policing gain momentum, calls for change range from
police reforms, defunding police departments, to the entire abolition of
police departments and prisons. In their Left and the Law segment, Jan Haaken
and Mike Snedeker take up philosophical and p...
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This episode is hosted by Frann Michel, and includes these segments:
BLM Protests: Bill Resnick talks with Greg McKelvey and reflects on the
protests locally and nationally, which continue and as of this weekend show
no sign of diminishing.
Black Panthers and Public H...
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Bill Resnick talks with Greg McKelvey and reflects on policing and on the
protests locally and nationally.
Portland Black Lives Matter Events Calendar: https://www.pdx-blm-events.org
Some earlier Mole interviews about policing with Malik Miah, Alex Vitale, and
Kristi...
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Desiree Hellegers talks with activist Hyung Nam, who served on the
city-appointed citizens Police Budget Advisory Committee, and who organizes
with the Portland Metro People’s Coalition, which has been working with
Unite Oregon, Portland African American Leadership Fo...
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As part of their ongoing discussing about public health, Jan Haaken and
Patricia Kullberg take up the Black Panther’s vision and practice of
community-based health care, which the Panthers formulated in the wake of the
urban uprisings of the mid-1960’s. By organizing in ...
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Joe Clement talks with Shane Burley about the recent uprisings against police
brutality and white supremacy. They consider specifically the toxic narrative
about outside agitators, from both the left and right, that politicians and
the media are spreading to de-legitimiz...
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In this episode of Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond explores the
conditions under which people are open to new political perspectives, not
only to a sense of outrage but to a basic questioning of what exists.
image by Alan Denney / CC BY 2.0
(https://creativecomm...
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Mass mobilization against racism, fascism, and police violence, and for a
better world.
This episode of the Old Mole Variety Hour, hosted by Frann Michel, looks at
the recent uprisings against police violence and white supremacy.
Malik Miah on the Uprising: Bill Resnick ...
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